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Thursday, 11 March 2021, 3:49 pm
New Zealand’s national spelling bee competition
is back this year after being cancelled last year due to
COVID-19.
The aim of Spelling Bee Aotearoa New Zealand
is to encourage students to learn new words and gain a love
of language.
Students in Years 9 and 10 will start
learning the 2021 spelling list from March, sit a test
mid-year, and the top 200 spellers from throughout the
country will work their way through the semi-finals to
culminate in the national final later in the year.
The
winner will receive the spelling bee trophy, $5000 towards
their academic pursuits, and the coveted title of Spelling
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Bay of Plenty Times
A freshly inked scientific partnership is developing AI computing power and technology to meet demand from Bay of Plenty-based scientists for faster processing of complex research data. The initiative, a marriage between the needs of PlantTech Research Institute in Tauranga and the expertise of New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI), is accelerating innovative research, starting in the agritech sector.
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