One hundred and forty brilliant students will be competing each other in the national finals of the Spelling Bee competition next month.
These students, tagged “speller-brities”, were selected from primary schools across the country following competitive testing of their vocabulary.
They received training in topics such as spelling rules and word origins that prepared them for the regional competitions.
The first edition of the Spelling Bee was in 2007 with only 6 schools but has evolved to encompass students across the nation with the most recent Bee train making stopovers in Tema, Accra, Cape Coast, Takoradi, Akosombo, Ho, Tamale and Kumasi between October and November last year.
The participant to emerge as the National Champion will represent Ghana for the ninth time at the world finals in Washington DC, USA.
Ghana remains the only African country to participate in The Scripps National Spelling Bee in the USA.
The Spelling Bee is a literacy programme that teaches primary children between ages 8 and 13, how to improve their spelling, increase their vocabularies, learn and understand word concepts and develop English usage which will help them all their lives.
The competition is a local extension of the internationally acclaimed Scripps Spelling Bee, USA.
Indomie Instant Noodles is the title sponsor of The Spelling Bee, with support from DStv, Voltic & Club Muscatella, Ecobank Junior Saver Account, Rufus Green Parks and our media partners Citi FM and Joy FM
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By Delali Adogla-Bessa/citifmonline.com/Ghana