By Tricitynews Reporter
Chandigarh
17th November:- Sunaina
Bakshi of DPS Sector 40 Chandigarh bagged the first prize in the first
Rotary Spell Bee Competition held at Rotary House here today. Vani Adlakha of Aurobindo High School, and
Saumya Rathore of Bhavan Vidyalaya Chandigarh,
bagged the second and third prize followed by Rohan of St Johns’ in the fourth
position.
Five schools of the city participated
in the first Rotary Spell Bee competition including Aurobindo High School,
Bhavan Vidyalaya, DPS Sector 40C, Sri Guru Harkrishan Senior Secondary Public
School, Sector 40 and St John’s High School.
A team of two students each
participated in the competition which had first round of writing down
spellings, with final elimination rounds in oral.
Past District Governor Kawal Bedi presented the gifts
and prizes to the winners.
Rtn
Jatinder Kapur, Chairman of the Interact Committee,
informed that all these schools have Interact Club in
their respective Schools, which is the children’s wing of Rotary imparting
leadership skills, and the Rotary Spell Bee was a part of the world-wide
Interact Week celebrations.
Rtn Vinod Kapoor, who
was the Spell Master at Spell Bee, said that this is a popular international
event that helps in improving the vocabulary of the children as well as correct
usage of the language. Besides this it helps in building confidence, developing
inquisitiveness and positivity and also develops presence of mind of the
children.
Rotary Spell Bee shall be an annual
feature and shall be held at a much bigger scale, informed Secy Rtn Sartaj
Lamba who was one of the judges with past president C.J. Singh of the Club.
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