India’s largest spelling competition for school students, Classmate Spell Bee is back with Season 11. The competition provides a platform for the country’s best spellers to identify their strengths & achieve recognition for their unique spelling skills.
The competition will travel to more than 1,000 schools across 30 cities and will reach out to more than 6,50,000 students from standards five to nine. Students from around India can also participate online at www.classmatespellbee.in. The top 16 participants of the competition also get to showcase their skills on national TV on The Discovery Channel, Discovery Kids and Discovery Tamil.
Specialised content was created for students through learning modules, tests, interactive blogs and contests. The focus this year is to create a holistic educative experience for participants using versatile mobile app & web based learning & practice solutions.
The National Champion of Classmate Spell Bee Season 11 will win a grand prize of Rs 2 lakh, apart from the opportunity to witness the prestigious Scripps National Spelling Bee in 2019 with a parent in Washington DC, USA in an all-expenses paid trip. The four semi-finalists will win a cash prize of Rs 50,000 each. The grand prize for the winner and semi-finalists have been specifically designed by Classmate to help encourage and enable students to follow their heart’s true calling.
The initial phase of the competition will comprise of an on-ground exercise where children will be given spelling tests in schools. Top scorers from the school level will battle it out in the gruelling city finale round and the best performing students will make it to the semi-finals. The top 10 students from each city will then appear for an online test which will choose the best 16 spellers. These students will then battle it out in the grand finale to win the title of Classmate Spell Bee Champion.