50 Spellers representing schools from the 9 participating States who successfully scaled through at the state finals will be competing at the Grand Finale of the Spelling Bee Nigeria scheduled for April 22 , 2016 at THE NECA Hall, Plot A2, Akin Balogun Street, CBD Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos.
1st Prize winner gets an all-expense paid trip to the 89th Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington DC, USA as a guest, plus a scholarship Fund, whilst the 2nd Prize is an all-expense paid trip to Pearson Publishing House, Harlow UK and a scholarship fund.
Pearson Education was recently unveiled as the official dictionary of the Spelling Bee Nigeria.
According to the Project Director, Mr Akin Olu-Philips "The Spelling Bee Nigeria is targeted at students between ages 8 – 13. The year's edition began with the training the trainers’ sessions at 2 venues: Abuja and Lagos, where Scripps Certified Linguistic professionals took teachers through an intensive 3-day training. "
" We will be having participation from 8 states and the FCT, Abuja namely Lagos, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Kwara, Oyo, Osun, Ogun, Nasarrawa.
They will arrive Lagos for the 3-day camp with their Chaperones on April 20, 2016.
Schedule of Event at the National Camp April 20 -23, 2016"
He went further "The Spelling Bee is a competition designed to inculcate the basic imperative of effective communication, ultimately impacting improved spelling skills, development of poise, increase students’ vocabulary, pronunciation and accurate word usage and it is organized by Young Educators Foundation; an NGO that promotes literacy and education, and franchise holders of Scripps National Spelling Bee, USA."
"We are committed to the development of education and reading culture in Nigeria.
The Spelling Bee Nigeria is ably sponsored by BETAMALT and supported by Pearson Education, Virgin Atlantic, Villa Picasso, Skye Bank, De Meros Hotel & Suites. " Olu-Philips concluded.
Activities in the camp will also
include Celebrities & Literary
Icons mentorship session
as well as Round One of the competition (Vocabulary Test).
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