local lad Mukund Choudhary brought laurels to the State by securing runner-up position in India’s Spelling Champ competition which concluded recently in Mumbai.
Mukund is class 9th student of Krishna Public School. His father Dilip Choudhary, posted as AGM with Jindal Company, expressed sheer happiness on Mukund’s achievement. “All credit goes to Mukund’s hard work. He was finalist in the last year’s Spell Bee competition but could not secure any position. He took it as a challenge and studied hard to do well this year” said the proud father, adding that Mukund has decided to pursue engineering from IIT before going for MBA or MA in Economics as his future goals.
The theme for contest this year was ‘Every child is unique and so is every word’. The competition this year was conducted across India and engaged with more than 2.75 lac students across 800 schools in 30 cities by testing their mettle in English spellings. Malavika Deepak of Kerala was adjudged the national champion and won a grand prize of Rs2 lakh apart from the opportunity to witness the prestigious Scripps National Spelling Bee 2014 with a parent in Washington DC, (USA) in an all expenses paid trip.
The four semi finalists won a cash prize of Rs50000 each.