Fort Wayne middle schooler competes in national spelling bee

WASHINGTON (WANE) - A Fort Wayne student made it all the way to the semifinals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Exclusive secrets of the National Spelling Bee: Picking the words to identify a championAchyut Ethiraj is in seventh grade at Maple Creek Middle School. The 13-year-old breezed through the preliminaries and quarterfinals to qualify as a semifinalist."I've been learning words from dictionaries by searching them and finding why and how they are spelled, and the way they are, and lea