India’s Largest Spelling Competition 12th Season Starts

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Chandigarh 19^th November:- India's largest spelling competition 'Classmate Spell Bee' 12^th season will start from tomorrow. Classmate, India's No.1 notebook brand by ITC and Radio Mirchi are back with India's largest school spelling competition, Classmate Spell Bee season 12.

The competition by Classmate top notebook brand by ITC and Radio Mirchi provides  the largest platform for the country's best spellers to identify their strengths and achieve recognition for their unique spelling skills. The spelling extravaganza promises to deliver a bigger and better experience than it did in its previous season. It will travel to 1000 schools across 30 cities and will reach out to more than 5,00,000 students from standards 5 to 9.

Students from across India can also participate online at www.classmatespellbee.in Only the top 16 participants battle it out in the televised national finals, which will be simulcast this year on Nickelodeon, Sonic, Nickelodeon HD+.

Shailendra Tyagi, Chief Executive, ITC's Education and Stationery Products Business said that Classmate promises to support a child's dream with an equally unique and world class set of stationery products like notebooks, writing, art and math instruments.

Yatish Mehrishi, COO, Entertainment Network (India) Limited said that our aim is to bring together some of the brightest children from across the country to the most credible edutainment-based platforms.

Meanwhile national champion of season 12 will win a grand prize of Rs. 2,00,000 , a trip to the White House  and a chance to feature on national television, apart from witnessing the prestigious Scripps National Spelling Bee 2020 with a parent in Washington D.C., USA. in an all-expenses paid trip. The 4 semi-finalists will win a cash prize of Rs. 50,000 each.

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 & Online applicants will battle it out in the gruelling city finale round and the best performing students will make it to the semi-finals from there. The top 10 students from each city will then appear for an online test which will choose the best 16 spellers from across India. These students will then battle it out in the grand finale to win the title of Classmate Spell Bee Champion.