We are the nation's 1st spelling competition platform that offers students to compete in a national level and be the spelling champion. The Daily Star Spelling Bee powered by Horlicks is brought to you by Champs21.com, country's first E-learning service. We believe this platform will give every participant an opportunity to prove the best out of him/her. We, with a mission of empowering the youth of today believe this to be a small step in addressing to the challenges of the 21st century.

Our purpose is to help students improve their English spelling, increase their vocabularies, learn concepts, and develop correct English usage that will help them all throughout their lives.

Champs21.com is an initiative of the Leading English Newspaper, The Daily Star. After its launching in October 2010, Champs 21.com has been catering to both Bangla and English medium students, primarily offering a self-assessment test service to assess students' own strengths and weaknesses in Mathematics and Science towards stronger academic foundation. Since then, Champs21.com have ventured into a lot of other exciting features on education like math games, Video Math Lectures, Animated Science Videos, Applications on out of the book math problems to name a few. It also enables students to brush up their 'beyond-textbook' learning in both Bangla and English languages. Another area of scholastic focus of this approach covers General Knowledge, IQ, and Current Affairs in its extra curriculum section. The inception of Champs21 took place keeping in mind the following targets:

• Bringing about fun, excitement and enjoyment in learning.
• Opening up the world of Internet as a 'huge free knowledge bank' to the students.
• Bridging the resource-divide, with providing same quality of learning throughout the nation.

With realization to all the factor that are there in the system which demands an immediate action for a better educational method, Champs21.com is determined to provide the best standard education in every corner of the country.

The national Spelling Bee 2012 is brought to you, organized & managed by Champs21 which is an initiative of The Daily Star. The competition has The Daily Star as its Title sponsor , Horlicks as its Power sponsor and British Council as its Knowledge partner.

The Daily Star established its place in the media scene of Bangladesh on January 14, 1991. It started its journey with a sense of challenge and a feeling of humility to serve this nation as a truly independent newspaper. The newspaper made its debut at a historic time when, with the fall of an autocratic regime, the country was well set to begin a new era towards establishing a democratic system of government which eluded Bangladesh for too long. The Daily Star carries on with the long-term responsibility is to strengthen public opinion on how the democratic system should work and how to sustain and nurture democratic norms effectively.

It was a privilege for The Daily Star to be part of a changing scene after the fall of military autocrat in early 1990s. With that privilege, came an enormous responsibility of upholding the duties of a free press. The newspaper is proud to pursue that policy without relenting for the past years.

The uniqueness of The Daily Star lies in its non-partisan position, in the freedom it enjoys from any influence of political parties or vested groups. Its strength is in taking position of neutrality in conflicts between good and evil, justice and injustice, right and wrong, regardless of positions held by any group or alliance. The paper believes to report events objectively, as it is, and without any fear and favour. It is committed to serve the people. That's why people -- whether in power or in opposition -- respect The Daily Star.

The Daily Star advocates rule of law, human rights, gender issues, national interests, press freedom, transparency and accountability of people in the administration and in the world of trade and industry on which the newspaper has never compromised whatever the costs. No political powers can take it for granted and no-one is given cause to doubt its fairness.

GlaxoSmithKline(GSK) Bangladesh Limited carries with it an enviable image and reputation for the past 6 decades. A subsidiary of GlaxoSmithKline plc- one of the world's leading research-based pharmaceutical and health care companies GSK Bangladesh, continues to be committed to improving the quality of human life by enabling people to do more, feel better and live longer. The Company's principle activities include secondary manufacture of pharmaceutical products and marketing of vaccines, pharmaceutical health care products and health food drinks

In 1949 the Company commenced its journey in Bangladesh with its' corporate identity as Glaxo in Chittagong as an importer of products from the Glaxo Group Companies. It started spreading its spectrum from being an importer to a manufacturer by establishing its own manufacturing unit at Chittagong in 1967. The facility till date is considered as one of the Centers of Excellence in Global Manufacturing & Supply Network of the Group.

Champs21.com is an E-learning service for the students from Classes III to X. This helps students to assess their strengths and weaknesses in Mathematics and Science towards strengthening their academic foundation. And eventually prepare them for 21st Century challenges. Champs21.com (www.champs21.com) is a unique opportunity to educate the future generation of Bangladesh in a different but effective way for the first time. Our Goal is to add the taste of learning in a unique way that leads the learners to engage themselves with education more than ever. A portal that comes with the features like On Demand availability, multiple choice questions, applications on out of the book math problems with friendly interface, math games, video math lectures, and a lot more. Champs21 is an initiative on The Daily Star, the leading English Daily of the country. The Daily Star has been working for long in the education segment of Bangladesh, acknowledging extra ordinary scholars by awarding them along with other activities. The education sector of Bangladesh faces different challenges including limitations of resources, lack of quality teachers in the rural and a lot more. Having realized all that, Champs21 came to operation with a promise to provide the best quality education throughout the nation to empower the leaders of tomorrow.

Channel i is the first digital Bangla channel. It runs 24 hours a day since launching in October 1, 1999. Channel i with the slogan "Hridoya Bangladesh" (means Bangladesh in it's heart) has been acclaimed as one of the leading educational and entertainment Bangla channels. The channel is using C band space segment from Telstar 10 at 76.5° E geo-stationary orbital location. More than 84 countries including part of Australia, Asia and Pacific Islands, Middle East, Africa and part of Europe are covered by the global C-band beam Telstar 10, where Channel i is available. The target viewers of Channel i are all over Bangla speaking people and it is a general entertainment exclusive Bangla channel, suitable for all members of a family.

The British Council is a United Kingdom-based organization specializing in international educational and cultural opportunities. It is registered as a charity both in England and Wales, and in Scotland.The British Council's remit is "to build mutually beneficial cultural and educational relationships between the United Kingdom and other countries, and increase appreciation of the United Kingdom's creative ideas and achievements." Its overseas network extends to 233 locations in over 100 countries and territories. There are 70 British Council Teaching Centers in 53 countries. It taught 1,189,000 class hours to 300,000 learners in 2006/07. The British Council claims to be 'the world's largest English language teaching organization.

The biggest reward in this competition is “The Learning” itself. However, it all comes with exciting rewards for the winners of The Daily Star Spelling Bee powered by Horlicks. Let’s have a look at them.

During the planning stage of The Daily Star Spelling Bee- Powered by Horlicks , our team has gone outdoors and met up with a handful amount of teachers whose valuable feedbacks and endless support has been a motivation for us to carry out The Daily Star Spelling Bee- Powered by Horlicks in Bangladesh. Through this section we thank all the teachers nationwide who have dedicated their lives in educating the youth for a better tomorrow.

We would request the teachers to support your students and groom them accordingly for the competition. Dedicate a class hour to coach your students for The Daily Star Spelling Bee- Powered by Horlicks . Our aim is to create a platform for all the young talents of Bangladesh to prove them internationally.

We would humbly request the school authorities to form a spelling club with students from class III-X. The in- school spelling club will act as a practice platform for students for the competition for this year and upcoming years. Furthermore, in the upcoming months we will conduct inter school spelling competitions. We would assist and support your club students in every way possible to prepare them for the Spelling Bee.

If you are a school student studying in any class from VI – X regardless of the school medium or curriculum you are eligible to participate in the competition (The candidates of SSC examination 2012 are NOT eligible to participate in The Daily Star Spelling Bee-  Powered by Horlicks ). Here are a few good tips from Spelling bee experts for you:

Spellato: To improve your efficiency in spelling, play spelling games using your Spellato cards. There are different interactive games that you can play using the cards, and you will be amazed to see the improvement in your spelling skills through different card games! To know more details click here

Scour Spellato cards in search of words to stump your parents and teachers. Always remember “practice makes perfect”. The more you practice the more you’ll learn and be more confident eventually. Increase your English reading habits; this could from English Newspapers i.e. The Daily Star (www.thedailystar.net), Novels or elsewhere. Try understanding the meaning of each word and their application to sentences. Be inquisitive and confident.

Keep a "great words" journal for every new and interesting word that you find.

• Designate a spelling wall in your home. Post new words to the wall each day.
• Ask friends and neighbors to challenge you with great spelling words.
• Read great books. You'll be entertained while you effortlessly learn new spellings
• Improve your spelling and increase your vocabulary.

Parents :

We would like to draw the attention of respected parents and say that we welcome you to be a part of our initiative and would request you to support your child to the fullest. Spelling Bee is a not only a students' event but it is rather a family event throughout the world. To make your child do better, you can have Spelling Bee within your family. This will not only motivate your child but also prepare him/her for the competition. We believe every child is talented and with proper guidance can be the best of the very best. We hope your child makes you and the entire nation proud!

Online Round

The first round consists of an online competition where students will have to register at Champs21.com as per the division of their school is situated and play the "Spell Bangladesh" game. As per game rule, with one mistake, you're out of the game….see how far you can go. Good news is, you can play the game as many time as you can until the 1st Round ends. Your best score will be considered and only top spellers of your division will be selected for the 2nd Round.

Divisional Round

With the top 3000 spellers from the country the Divisional Round will kick off. The Spelling Bee team will go to all the divisions of Bangladesh and conduct screening sessions from where the best spellers of the country will be filtered out for the TV Round.

All spellers of this round will have to appear at a written test followed by an oral test. Detail test composition of this round will be shared among the Online Round winners on time.

TV Round

With the top 72 spellers from the country the TV Round will kick off. The TV round will be broadcasted on Channel i. The contest format & the dates of the TV Round will be shared with the contestants in due time.

The Grand Finale

The country’s top 6 spellers will fight among themselves in the Grand Finale. The contest format & the date of the Grand Finale will be shared with the contestants in due time

• A letter from his/her school confirming your student status, detailing the class and curriculum of education.


• A letter from the local Bangladeshi high commission stating your residency status and confirming the status of citizenship.

*Please note that upon qualifying to the divisional round, you will have to travel to Bangladesh to participate in the divisional round.

Are you already a registered user of www.champs21.com ? If yes, just log in to your account and start playing Spell Bangladesh to participate in the Online round. If you are not registered yet, just click here to register and start playing.

With your user credentials, all you need to do is play "Spell Bangladesh". As per game rule, with one mistake, you're out of the game….see how far you can go. Good news is, you can play the game as many time as you can until the 1st Round ends on March 10, 2012. Your best score will be considered and only top spellers of your division will be selected for the 2nd Round.