Mahesha Boodhoo won a recent online spelling bee contest when she spelt the word `pessimistic’ in the final round.
She won herself an HP laptop computer among other prizes.
The Rotary Club of Stabroek is collaborating with ExxonMobil Guyana to provide students with stimulating ways of continuing their education while at home and one such approach was the holding of the online spelling bee.
According to a joint release by ExxonMobil and the Rotary Club of Stabroek, the spelling competition was one phase of the collaboration, which included Brainstreet, and the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI), that also provided online tutorials and quizzes free of charge to students during the shutdown. After 15 rounds of intense action, Boodhoo emerged as the winner in the fifth round. For her efforts she received the HP laptop computer, printer, headset, flash drive, a book voucher, and a GBTI Early Savers Account. All the other finalists also received prizes.
The fifteen finalists were: Mahesha Boodhoo – winner, Shaunessy Simon – second place, Kamiah Williams- third place, Aliya Deonarine, Kyle Gilgieous, Rihanna Bishop, Maliha Rajkumar, Juanita Armstrong, Nyran Sooklall, Yeshua Hutson, Sabrina Ramrattan, Renee Whittaker, Erania Daniels, Chelsea Persaud, and Tiana Hodge.
Rotarian Sharon Sue-Hang-Baksh, President of the Rotary Club of Stabroek in extending congratulations to the 15 finalists said that the Club has been advocating and promoting education and literacy in young people across Guyana since its inception and feel strongly that youths are the future of Guyana and education and literacy are paramount to achieving their potential.
And ExxonMobil’s Senior Director of Public and Government Affairs Deedra Moe stated: “The global pandemic has been challenging for all of us, including students who are unable to attend school in person. Partnering with the Rotary Club of Stabroek to provide Guyana’s young people with fun and engaging ways to learn outside the classroom is very important to ExxonMobil Guyana.”
The Rotary Club of Stabroek expressed its pleasure at having partnered with ExxonMobil Guyana, BrainStreet and GBTI on this initiative and is looking forward to more collaboration of a similar nature in the future.
Other phases of the project include providing online tutorials for Grades 4, 5 and 6 students through the BrainCentral Learning Platform, using tools such as live classrooms, quizzes, assignments, discussion forums, chat rooms, interactive lessons, wikis, competency assessments and online workshops.
Students will soon have the opportunity to participate in online Olympiads and other similar online contests which will be available on computers and a wide range of mobile devices and is expected to foster the spirit of competition in the overall pursuit of excellence, the release added.
