Rotary Sunrise celebrated literacy once again this year with a twist to an old game. They played Scrabble with dozens of participants of all ages.
Scrabble Scrum began eight years ago as a fundraiser in the corporate world. It progressed the next year to Cayman’s High Schools where the goal was to increase literacy awareness, and has been a very popular annual event for both the young and the not-so-young ever since.
The school challenge at the end of November saw seven teams from five high schools competing for the coveted trophy. The CIS team, The Boodhams, won, followed by their school mates The Scrabble Crushers. Third was Cayman Prep and High School, the #CPHS Advantage.
Rotary Sunrise thanked Foster’s, the snack break sponsor for this event.
In October, the corporate challenge included 10 teams from nine companies in a hard-fought battle. Top team was PWC’s team with the rather auspicious name Last Year’s Winners. Second was Carey Olsen followed by KPMG. KPMG hosted the corporate event at its rooftop terrace.
Scrabble Scrum is, quite simply, competition scrabble. It involves teams of participants playing their boards while being timed. There are usually three rounds played, with each team given a starting word that must be placed in the middle of the board. When the bell sounds, the race is on to try to fill the board with every letter. The winning team has the most points awarded once all game points are tallied.
Organiser Su Mander said, “We had a great turn-out this year for both our High School Scrabble Scrum Competition and our Corporate Scrabble Scrum fundraiser. Our club loves hosting these events, and we’re excited to be expanding the program to the primary schools in the new year.”
Scrabble Scrum has been such a popular event that one of Rotary Sunrise’s past presidents, Robert Powell, developed a bespoke online scoring app which will enable Rotary Sunrise to extend the reach of this fun literacy game to school classrooms over the coming months.
- Submitted by Faye Lippitt
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