Arizona Represented In National Vocabulary Championship

GSN, the leading interactive game television network, announced that Rebecca Lee, a Scottsdale-area teen will represent Arizona in the NATIONAL VOCABULARY CHAMPIONSHIP (NVC). She'll be a contestant in the live game show-style competition to be held in Manhattan at the New York Public Library on Mon., March 5th. The event will also be broadcast on GSN as a 1-hour special Sunday, April 15th, at 8 pm.

Rebecca Lee, a 17 year-old junior from Desert Mountain High School in Scottsdale will go head-to-head with 49 other vocabulary-voracious high school students from across the country in 3 rounds of game play that will test their knowledge of definitions, roots, antonyms & synonyms. All will be vying for the grand prize of $40,000 to be deposited in a 529 higher education savings plan & the title of National Vocabulary Champion 2007.

The NVC, which launched in Sept. 2006, is a pro-social educational initiative conceived by GSN to emphasize the importance of language arts skills & encourage high school students to enhance their vocabularies. The NVC does not have a spelling element, but rather, rewards contestants for comprehension ability. In total, over 30,000 students nationwide participated in this inaugural year of the program.

Lee qualified for the NVC through online & regional exams that were offered at the program’s website, winwithwords.com, & administered at The Princeton Review testing sites around the country.