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It's the tournament's 18th year and first place winner Dayne Guy made history -becoming the first Spelling Bee Champ reigning from the Toledo District. Here's his crowning moment....

Monica Bodden
"How do you feel to be the Spelling B champ for this year?"

Dayne Guy, 1st winner
"I feel splendid."

Monica Bodden
"Tell me about all the hard work that you had to put in today?"

Dayne Guy, 1st winner
"I had to study late nights and sometimes I studied in the day and at school. I did a lot of studying."

Monica Bodden
"How many words you think you actually went through?"

Dayne Guy, 1st winner
"That's about over 5,000."

Monica Bodden
"What would you say to other students who want to take on the challenge?"

Dayne Guy, 1st winner
"Just study hard and keep your head up high."

Monica Bodden
"Tell me about your prizes. What did you won?"

Dayne Guy, 1st winner
"I won a computer; I won free tuition to any school and some accessories for the computer."

Glendora Guy, mother of Dayne
"I feel like a champion because this is the first time Toledo will be getting first place, so I feel very proud of that."

Monica Bodden
"Now tell me about all the studying that Dayne had to put in and the support that you and your husband gave to him."

Glendora Guy, mother of Dayne
"Dayne had to give up his games. He had to spend most of his time studying and during the Easter break he did not have any time to relax; he studied. He actually got intense training during that time. Basically he would research for the origin of the words. He would go on the internet. We tried to find words from all areas; from all books, the dictionaries, from Encarta, and he would study them, he would get the pronunciation and that's what he did."

Guy is from St Benedict RC School in Indianville.

Second place finisher was Karyn Cornejo of Kids First Child Development from the Stann Creek District and the 3rd place went to Samuel Koop of Shepherd's Academy in the Cayo District.