Two Indian Americans won US Spelling Bee 2016

The Scripps National Spelling Bee ended in a tie for the third consecutive year on Thursday night, with Jairam Hathwar and Nihar Janga declared co-champions. 
•    Thirteen-year-old Jairam is the younger brother of the 2014 co-champion, Sriram Hathwar. 
•    Nihar, at age 11, is the youngest winner of the bee on record.
•    Each will receive a trophy and $45,000 in cash and prizes.
•    Because the best spellers become fluent in Latin and Greek roots, the bee went to words derived from trickier or more obscure languages, including Afrikaans, Danish, Irish Gaelic, Maori and Mayan.
•    Jairam’s winning word was Feldenkrais, which is derived from a trademark and means a system of body movements intended to ease tension. 
•    Niram won with gesellschaft, which means a mechanistic type of social relationship.
Snehaa Kumar of Folsom, California, finished third, and Sylvie Lamontagne of Lakewood, Colorado, was fourth.