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Spelling Bee

Two Barisal schools in div round

MOYUKH MAHTAB
Baptist Mission Girls' High School and Barisal Model School and College of Barisal yesterday proceeded to the divisional round of this year's The Daily Star Spelling Bee competition.
Following the huge turnout of participants in last year's Spelling Bee, this year's event, powered by Horlicks and organised by Champs21.com, officially launched on
Tuesday but activities of the event began yesterday with the School Activation and online round in Barisal.
Baptist Mission Girls' High School and Barisal Model School and College were the firsts to move to the divisional round this year.
Israt Jahan Mim, of class-VIII, Alen Biswas Tumpa, of class-IX, and Teresa Scholastica Gomes, of class-X, moved to the divisional round from Baptist Mission Girls' High School while Anika Tabassum, of class-VI, Zunayeed Asaf, of class-VIII, and Mehrab Hossen Siam, of class-X, progressed to the round from Barisal Model School and
College.
Both schools witnessed a decent turnout of participants and spectators, who said their number would have been even better had it not been for the hartal yesterday.
The School Activation round follows the standard model for the competition in which rounds continue until there are three best spellers left.
The event is planned to go on until June, when the finals are to be held.
Alongside the competition being held at schools, the online round has started with the Spelling Bee game on champs21.com website where players can play as many times as they want.
The top scorers from the
online round will be selected to go to the divisional round to compete with the winners from schools.
The number of scorers to be chosen from the online rounds has not been determined and students are encouraged to play the game as many times as they like.
Last year, the event was a huge success with over one lakh participants. This year champs21.com expects the number to double.
The school round for Dhaka is to begin today with four schools taking part.
Detailed information about the competition is available on www.champs21.com, the first e-learning portal of Bangladesh.