Philemon Awan, 11 year-old student of Holy Spirit Catholic School in Ho won himself a whooping GHC 1,500, $500 spending money, a gold medal, Mtn modem with GHC 300, return ticket from Delta airline, certificate of participation, indomie, muscatella and Milo products.
He has won several awards for French competition in his school and loves to read in his leisure time.
Mrs. Rosemon Awan, Philemon’s mother said, this is the second attempt at the spelling Bee and she appealed to parents to give their wards a helping hand when they want to do something meaningful with their lives.
The second winner Adwoa Onomah, 11 year-old student from Martyrs of Uganda in the Ashanti Region got GHC 1,200, Certificate of participation, MTN modem with GHC 200 airtime, silver medal ,Indomie, Muscatella and Milo products while Christine Afonu,12 year-old student of Kapore School Complex in Ho received GHC 1,000,Certificate of participation, MTN modem with GHC 100 airtime, bronze medal,indomie, muscatella and Milo products.
The 5th edition of the Indomie Spelling Bee took place at the College of Physicians and Surgeons last Saturday, in Accra with over thousand schools, teachers, coaches, parents and friends in attendance to support the spellers.
Spellers amazed parents, teachers and even the judges with their style of calculating the words before spelling them.
Some of the words were even hard for teachers and parents to pronounce and spell yet to their surprise, the amazing spellers got them correct.
At each round, spellers consistently reduced in number till they remained five in number.
The five namely Christine Afonu, Adwoa Onomah ,Vennesa Ohemeng,Ophelia Afful and Philemon Awan went for the next round but unfortunately for Vennesa Ohemeng and Ophelia Afful, there was no chance for the next round.
The top three spellers, Adwoa,Christine and Philemon battled for the Bee champion with lot of struggling and stress till round 15 where Philemon was saved with the word MERICULTURE and was declared the champion while Adwoa was second and Christine third.
At this year’s edition of the Indomie Spelling Bee, there were 89 spellers from various schools and regions in Ghana with one aim of getting a winner.
Parents of the top spellers expressed their gratitude to the organizers and urged parents and teachers to encourage and help children to pronounce and spell words correctly.
According to the organizers, the 4th to 89th position will receive certificates of participation, indomie, muscatella and Milo products and the top three spellers’ coaches gets GHC 500 as reward.
The Spelling Bee at 5 was sponsored by Indomie and Mtn Foundation Ghana.
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