Spelling their way to glory
A.B SUDHINDRA
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They aren’t witches or wizards but they sure know how to spell!
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Spell well: Weaving the right magic.
The ‘Bangalore bees’ have usurped success at the national level spelling bee competition organised by Brain Button part of MaRRS (Market Reach and Research Services) in Goa recently. Karthik Shyam, a Class XII student of National Public School, Rajajinagar, was the proud recipient of Cambridge University Press Best Performer Trophy.
He correctly and continuously wrote the spellings and the meanings of 42 words and secured 82 points to lift the trophy. A beaming Karthik acknowledged the support and encouragement of teachers and parents for his success. Though he was overawed by the magnanimity of the competition, it never made him nervous as he had prepared well for the challenges, he said.
Proud winners
Four other “bees” too made the city proud. Yash Chaturvedi of National Academy for Learning won the third prize in category I, while Shrishti Chandana of Vidyashilp Academy came third in the second category. Namitha Narasimha of NAFL won the first prize in category, while Karthik’s teammate Siddarth Iyengar won the third prize in category VI.
There were over 80,000 students at the school level across the country and 450 students qualified to partake in the national level championship after all the elimination at the school, district and state level events. Students from Class 1 to 12 participated in the competition in six different categories. “The participants were screened through seven rounds of the competition, which measured the vocabulary and spelling strength of the participants,” said Dinesh Kumar Boswan, Manager (Karnataka Operations) MaRRS. All the winners received TATA trophies and commemorative gold coins and a letter of commendation and a copy of the Cambridge Advanced Learners’ Dictionary.
All those who qualified into the final round of the competition received silver medallions, while all the participants received a copy of Encyclopedia Britannica. Mr. Dinesh claimed that MaRRS International Spelling Bee is the first English spelling competition in Asia and is also the largest of its kind in the world by way of participation.
“The objective of this competition is to impel and create curiosity in the students to explore the beauty of the English language and use the power of the same for a better life. The words are categorized by the absorbing level of the students, so that there is very little stress on these young minds,” Mr. Dinesh said. Karthik added that the competition was neither easy nor tough and it was a good learning experience for him and the other competitors.
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