Education Bulgaria Project #21627

Bulgarian National English Spelling Bee

by CORPluS Foundation

Project Report | Sep 10, 2020
Spelling Bee 2020 summer challenge and fun

By Dimitar Tsekov | Executive Director

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic CORPLUS Foundation cancelled the regional and the national rounds of the Spelling Bee 2020 competition, as well as the summer camp.

In order to give a chance to all the school winners and runners-up to show what they have learned we decided to organize Spelling Bee 700+ Challenge 2020 - an unofficial online competition for those who are still motivated and willing to compete. At the end of June 140 students from all over the country registered and participated in the challenge. They had to go through 10 rounds with words from the list and those who successfully passed them continued with 5 rounds with unknown words. 13 students managed to go through all 15 rounds without mistake and received a Spelling Bee PRO award. 15 students passed successfully the first 10 rounds and were announced as Spelling Rising Star.

Due to the cancellation of the Spelling Bee summer camp an on-line camp American Funshop was offered to all the Spelling Bee participants, as well as to all interested students. These were 3 exciting and enjoyable weeks, when they enjoyed assignments and challenges related to American traditions, history, biodiversity, music, sports, arts and crafts, cuisine, etc. Former Peace Corps Volunteers from Bulgaria and Fulbright ETAs recorded videos with concrete assignments and the students had 2 days to complete the assignments and to send us a video, pictures or presentations. The most active participants received special awards. All the assignments and submisions could be seen on the Spelling Bee you tube chanel: bg national english spelling bee

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