Gallery: 2016 CBS Bay Area Spelling Bee Contestants

1 - Aniketh Yatam, Donlon Elementary School

02 - Angela Jiao, Joaquin Miller Middle School

3 - Anika Wadhera, William Hopkins Junior High School

4 - Arjav Rawal, Eleanor Murray Fallon School

5 - Rishi Dange, Cupertino Middle School

6 - Abigail Walsh, Redeemer Lutheran School

7 - Sakshi Shrivastava, Stratford School, SCP Middle School

8 - Daniel Zhang Qu, Terman Middle School

9 - Leila DeSchepper, Albany Middle School

10 - Pranav Nandakumar, Stratford School, Fremont

11 - Amith Vasantha, Challenger School, Almaden

12 - Rohit Duggaraju, Stratford School

13 - Shweta Arun, Challenger School

14 - Annabella Lucente, Hamlin School

15 - Aaryan Shah, Warm Springs Elementary School

16 - Rohan Gupta, Thomas S Hart Middle School

17 - William Xu, Campbell Middle School

18 - Anisha Rao, Kolb Elementary School

19 - Madeline Cheng, Oak Avenue Elementary School

Rutvik Gandhasri, from Chaboya Middle School in San Jose won the 2016 CBS Bay Area Spelling Bee. (CBS)

21 - Samika Swamy, Challenger School, Sunnyvale

22 - Ivan Karpov, West Valley Middle School

23 - Lila Chen, Chinese American International

24 - Amelia Salamacha, Bullis Charter School

25 - Isabella Yu, Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle School

26 - Meera Suresh, Warren E Hyde Middle School

27 - Rebecca Howard, Live Oak Academy

28 - Adelyn Chen, Crocker Middle School

29 - Lauren Hall, Hillview Middle School

30 - Sasha Mishkin, Gate Academy

31 - Nidhi Vadlamudi, Don Callejon School

32 - Blake Williams, Bayside S.T.E.M. Academy

33 - Roya Rashidchi, Leo R Croce Elementary

34 - Annie Cheng, Piedmont Middle School

35 - Tahseen Hasan, Millbrook Elementary School

36 - Pallavi Saksena, Stratford Middle School, San Jose

37 - Carina Velasco, Burlingame Intermediate School

38 - Jiho Lee, Claire Lilienthal Elementary School

39 - Aidan Ferriera, Easterbrook Discovery School

40 - Frank Wercinski, Convent & Stuart Hall

41 - Kevin Li, Pleasanton Middle School

42 - Cory Chung, Stratford Middle School, Fremont

43 - Rishik Gandhasri, Silver Oak Elementary School

44 - Enya Walker, Rolling Hills Middle School

45 - Julie Tran. Thomas Russell Middle School

46 - Siddharth Srinivasan, Basis Independent Silicon Valley

47 - Sartaj Rajpal, St. Gabriel School

48 - Joe Sablosky, James Lick Middle School

49 - Vincent Wang, Harvest Park Middle School