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The Muslim Spelling Bee is an annual spelling bee held in the United States and India. The Muslim Spelling Bee is established as a Social Enterprise basis by TMA Worldwide and is held at community faith-based schools across the United States - Chicago, New York, Detroit, New Jersey, Maryland, Atlanta, Tampa, Orlando, Dallas, Houston, Orange County, California, Sacramento and San Francisco. Two National Finals were held at Des Plaines Theatre, Des Plaines, Illinois. TMA Worldwide has developed a proprietary format, where children from kindergarten through middle school compete in the competition in various age groups. The competition is divided between four age groups. The event is recorded and broadcast on TV One Global, Times TV USA and ETV Urdu. ==History== Tausif Malik founder, Muslim Spelling Bee competition developed the idea of connecting communities through education and increasing Muslim students participation at the mainstream competition in order to create a future pool of leadership. This idea was developed as Muslim Students were excelling in education but were lacking participation in the mainstream competitions. It is observed competition gives a platform to challenge individuals and this helps in enhancing competitive qualities amongst students. To increase the competitive edge amongst Muslim Students, Malik launched and established Muslim Spelling Bee, Muslim Science Bee, Muslim Math Bee, Muslim Geography Bee & Muslim History Bee competitions. Generally the Muslim Community in American would establish a not for profit to conduct community and religious events, but the success rate was poor. Malik established these competition based on the knowledge that Muhammed encouraged ‘Tijarat’ (business) to elevate the community and secondly the fundraising from the community is conducted to only help the needy in the neighborhood. Hence, Tausif wanted to establish a social enterprise based on Islamic values and address the following issues: 1.Increase Muslim students participation 2.Create a platform to connect communities 3.Create a national competition for Muslim Students 4.Events which Muslim Students can associate themselves with. 5.Regional competitions to offer vendors to sell their products 6.Revenue sharing model, where community schools earn additional revenue through vendor space, food sales, fundraising etc 7.Events where all the stakeholders of the community participate for betterment of the Muslim Students and community. 8.Create a platform for marketeers to market their products and services to $170 billion Muslim American Market 9.Unified ethnic media to promote the events and increase their shelf life and readership, when Muslim Students names and pictures are published. 10.Students of different faiths also can participate and 2013 competition saw two Hindu students compete and win. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Muslim Spelling Bee」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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