Bee-Swarmed Bhavan marks the spellbinding day in style
‘Spell-tacular gladiators’ armed with letters and words fought vigorously in the colosseum of knowledge, and in times, like mystical beings, transforming into bees and butterflies collected nectar of letters to store in their arc-’hives’ of achievements as the grand finale of the fourth edition of Bharatiya Vidhya Bhavan’s GCC Spell Bee, a spell-the-word contest, culminated at Indian Educational School Kuwait in the most majestic manner on 20th January 2018.
The school auditorium took the shape of an amphitheatre where spectators fidgeted and grimaced in anticipation for the fight of the year. The chief guest, Ms. Ann Newman, Department of English Language and literature, Gulf University of Science and Technology, Kuwait, along with the guest of honour Dr. Shashiranjan Yadav, Vice-Chancellor, Indian Institute of Teacher Education Gujarat, India graced the day of grandeur. Mr. Suresh.V. Balakrishnan Vice Principal Middle and senior wing IES and Ms. Jaemi Byju Head of the Department of English, Middle and Senior wings IES were the chief pronouncers of the day along with Mr. E.P Prasad, senior faculty, the Department of English being the assistant pronouncer. Contestants from different schools in Kuwait were categorized and seated on the dais with their counterparts sitting and churning their brain cells at different locations in the Middle East in real time.
The spellers were taken for a roller coaster ride of words of extreme complexity and simplicity, and they all gleefully rode along artfully dodging the cleverly laid traps of letters. The audience in the auditorium and the many thousands glued to the live streaming were fallen through the void of a whirlpool of words into a virtual world of letters which eventually entrapped them all for a few hours to let them watch in awe one of the most adrenalin-rushing arcade games of the alphabet. After 3 hours of brain racking, the regal ride came to an end with a bee dance by the charismatic students of IES breaking the spell and setting some fire work of elegant steps in the auditorium. Mrs. Meenakshi Nayyar , Vice Principal Co-Curricular Activities declared the final result of the Bhavans GCC Spell Bee Championship.
The winners are: Category 1: Parth Gupta , Bahrain Indian School Bahrain (1st place), Jemi Eldho, Private International English School, Abu Dhabi, UAE (2nd place), Malavika Vinod, Indian Community School Khaitan, Kuwait (3rd place) and Abhinav Ashokan, Al Saad Indian School Al Ain, UAE (3rd place). Category 2: Rahul Wavare, British School of Kuwait (1st place), Aarush, Private International English School, Abu Dhabi, UAE (2nd place), Manini Laslit Desai, Bahrain Indian School Bahrain (3rd place). Category 3: Nevin Noji Vaidyan, Indian Educational School Kuwait (1st place), Arjun N Anooj, Private International English School Abu Dhabi, UAE (2nd place), Steve Chalil Biju, Bahrain Indian School Bahrain (3rd place). Category 4: Shad Ahmed Shahul, Fahaheel Al-Watanieh Indian Private School (DPS), Kuwait (1st place), Nivedha Mayiluanan, Private International English School Abu Dhabi, UAE (2nd place) and Parthiv Varma, Al Saad Indian School Al Ain, UAE (3rd place).