LAHORE: The Lahore pool rounds of the 14th Dawn In Education Spelling Bee Competition begin on Tuesday (today) in the city with 153 schools from Lahore, Sialkot, Gujrat, Gujranwala, Okara, Sahiwal, Sargodha, Kasur, Mianwali, Muridke, Daska, Narowal, Kharian, Chunian, Wazirabad and Sheikhupura participating.

The competition is going to be conducted in three age groups. The pool rounds for age groups nine to 11, 12 to 14 and 15 to 17 years will be held from Oct 16 to 19, a press release stated.

Winners from Lahore will compete with the Multan and Faisalabad pool winners in the regional championship that will be held on Oct 20 in Lahore. Three students per age group from Multan and Faisalabad pool rounds have already qualified for the regional contest.

Thirty six schools participated in the Multan pool round held on Oct 3 and 4 and 35 schools participated in the Faisalabad pool round on Sept 27.

This competition is being held by The Dawn Media Group. Judges are provided by the Oxford University Press. The national championship is scheduled to be held on Nov 1 in Karachi where the regional champions in the three age groups from Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad will compete amongst each other.

Over 7,000 children of ages nine to 17 years from across Pakistan are participating in the 14th Dawn In Education National Spelling Bee Competition 2018.

Published in Dawn, October 16th, 2018