South Windsor Community Foundation Spelling Bee 2012 Let’s Ready Time to Create a Buzz The Goals of the South Windsor Community Foundation Spelling Bee • Conduct a Fun.

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South Windsor Community

Let’s

Foundation Spelling Bee 2012

Ready

Time to Create a

Buzz

The Goals of the South Windsor Community Foundation Spelling Bee

• Conduct a Fun Competitive Spelling Bee • Involve Parents and Children Together • Send a Student and a Parent to the Scripps National Spelling Bee • Raise Money for the South Windsor Community Foundation and South Windsor Public Education Fund

Why a Spelling Bee?

• Spelling Bees Have Been Around Since the 1800’s • Spelling Bees Have Been Popular Recently – Several Movies – A Broadway Play – National Competition

How the Bee Works

Each School Oct –Nov 2010 Orchard Hill Eli Terry Pleasant Valley Wapping P.R.

Smith Timothy Edwards 2 Bees in Each Elementary Schools 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Place Grades 3 and 4 Combined Bee produces three winners. From Each TE Grade Second Bee includes 5 th graders and 3 winners from the (9 finalists) Grade 3 and 4 Bee. This produces 3 school winners in each Elementary School (15 Finalists) Winner goes to National Spelling Bee Finals are among the 15 Elementary and 9 Middle School Students in March 2012 District Finals Washington DC National Spelling Bee May 2012

Who is Eligible?

• Any South Windsor Student in Grades 3-8 • South Windsor Elementary Schools and Timothy Edwards Middle Schools • South Windsor Students in Grade 3-8 in Private, Parochial, Magnet, or Charter Schools are Eligible • Home Schooled Children are also Eligible • Age Restrictions to compete in National Bee Students Must Compete in the School they are Districted for No Exceptions!!

How Many Will Compete?

• Local school competitions in 2010-2011 had 10-30 children per grade • Total of 300 children competed last year Grade 3 4 5 6 7 8

Expected Enrollment 2011-2012

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What Does it Cost?

• FREE

for Students to Enter. • $109 /school • $1,000 for South Windsor to Participate • $2,500 (sponsored) to send the winner to the the National Spelling Bee in Washington DC Money will be Raised Through Corporate and Personal Donations and Some Fun Raising

What are the Prizes

• A Medal for Each Participant • A Bee-Yootiful Trophy for Winners 1 st , 2 nd , and 3 rd in Each School • Plaques for 3 Finalists • An All Expense Paid Trip to the National Spelling Bee in May 2012 in Washington DC for the winner and one parent/guardian

The Competitors Dinners

• Thursday Night – October 6 th – 5:30pm • Held for Competitors and Families at TE • Great Affordable Dinner for Families • Breadsticks, and Pasta from the Pulled Chicken and Pork from • $10/adults $5 children 5-16 Free under 5 • Entertainment : A Spelling Bee Families Can Participate and Win $50

Fun-Raising Ideas

• $10 Official Spelling Bee T-Shirt • $5 Official Stress Bee • Bee the Bee Headgear • $2/ea $10/6-pack Spelling Bee B-u-z-z Soda • $ 10 ea. 3/ $25 Family Sponsored Words Before a randomly chosen word is read, the judge will say: The next word is sponsored by the Jones Family.

Important Dates

• June 2011 – Planned Press Releases – Meeting with Schools and PTO’s – Soliciting Corporate Sponsors • June 2011 – August 2011 – Attend Summer Events with Booth for Publicity • September 2011 – Publicity and Registration • October 6, 2011 Dinner and a Family Feud Bee • October - November 2011 School Competitions • March 2012 – Finals • May 2012 – National Spelling Bee

– Register

How Do Competitors

• Register On-Line

Register?

• www.swspellingbee.org

– Purchase T-Shirt, Stress Bees, Spelling Bee B-u-z-z Soda, – Family Sponsored Words – Download Samples Word List • Register through Brochure

How We Will Publicize the Bee

• Tents at Major South Windsor Events, Concerts , Public Events, Sports • Signs, Banners, Posters, Sponsors • Schools - Backpack Express Open House, Gatherings • E-mailings, Web Site, Facebook

How Can You Help ?

• We Need Volunteers / Teams for Each Competition – Registration, Line Control, Readers, Judges • Help with Planned Special Events – Dinner and a Practice Bee • Publicity to Parents and Children • Collecting Fun-Raising Money and Distributing Incentive Prizes

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