Galena Park ISD held a student spelling bee at Galena Park High School that featured multiple rounds and concluded with the pronouncer announcing a champion, event audio shows.

Organizers opened by reading the contest rules in Spanish, telling contestants they could ask the pronouncer to repeat a word up to two times, request a definition or use in a sentence, and that judges’ decisions are final except in the case of a serious error. The pronouncer said, “Buena suerte a todos los concursantes ahora deletrear,” before the contest proceeded through several rounds.

The rules read on the recording specified that a contestant may stop and restart spelling a word but may not change letters or their order when doing so; changing letters upon restarting could lead to elimination. The recording also states that objections must be made immediately, before the next contestant receives a word, and that when two finalists remain the elimination procedure changes: if one finalist misspells a word, the other is given the same word and must spell it correctly to win.

Throughout the recording competitors spelled words in Spanish such as gravilla, prospección, impávido, prolífico, apófisis, aterrizaje and hemistiquio, and the pronouncer provided pronunciations, accent clarifications and example sentences. At one point the audio notes the contest paused briefly and then resumed for later rounds.

Near the end of the audio the pronouncer declared the contest outcome: “Tenemos un campeón. Felicidades.” Following that announcement the recording lists a number of student names called forward and notes family members were invited to join for photographs. A speaker thanked parents: “Padres de familia, simplemente queremos darles las gracias por acompañarnos, por estar aquí apoyando a sus hijos.”

Names that appear in the recording include Daniela Coto; Jair Esteban Rodríguez; Rosi Hernández; Azael Altamirano; Holguín; Andrea Cantero; Iris García; Daniela Chávez; Nicolás Álvarez; Sheila Roque Pérez; Rafael Rodríguez; Ismael; Ana Ilette; Ashley Ortegón; Angelina Bonilla; Zuleima Valdez; Carlos Ramírez García; Miguel González; Angelina Franco; Camil Cabrera; and Joselyn Rodríguez. The audio does not specify which student spelled the final winning word; it records only the pronouncer’s declaration that a champion had been named and the subsequent celebratory remarks.

The transcript contains a likely transcription error rendering the host school name as “Gallina Park High School.” The school and district identified for this event are GALENA PARK ISD and Galena Park High School (corrected spelling).