For the second year in a row 8 th grader Aditya Badlani won the 2017 DuPage County Spelling Bee and will head to the national bee in May. Also, Mira Dedhia of McClure Junior High repeated her win as regional spelling bee champions and will also head to the national bee. Aditya was one of 27 participants in the regional competition that included students from DuPage area public and private schools. In Round 7, he spelled “yawmeter,” an instrument for measuring the angular motion about the normal axis of an airplane. He will win a trip to the Scripps National Spelling Bee May 28 to June 2 in National Harbor, Maryland.