Benton County Spelling Bee - 2025
Join us next year on May 10th for the Spelling Bee!
Open to youth in Grades 1-12 (or equivalent), this competition promotes one of Rotary International’s Areas of Focus - Basic Education and Literacy.
Registration opens February 2025
In 2016 the Rotary of Corvallis After Five discovered that there had not been a school and county level coordinator for Benton County in the Oregon Spellers Association for many years. This meant that Benton County's youth did not have an opportunity to qualify to compete in spelling at the state level. Rotary After Five decided to take on the coordination of the spelling competition for our region as a literacy project and, in May of 2017, held our first Benton County Spelling Bee, qualifying 3 young local scholars to represent us at the Oregon State Bee.