🐝 Top Spellers in Uzbekistan Compete in English-Language Spelling Bee! 🏆

On Friday, October 21st, 2022, 50 participants from every region of Uzbekistan and Karakalpakstan competed in the 2022 Uzbekistan National Spelling Bee funded by the U.S. Embassy Tashkent and implemented by American Councils Uzbekistan in partnership with Ministry of Higher and Secondary Special Education. The competition saw the top spellers from each region demonstrate their excellent knowledge of American English. Over 8 rounds, students faced off over increasingly challenging vocabulary.

🎉Congratulations to all of our participants and our runner up, first, second, and third place winners!

🥇Sojida Murodova - Qarshi
🥈Nafisa Sirojeva - Bukhara
🥉Nodira Fariddinova - Tashkent
🏃Fatima Saidkarimova - Tashkent

📌Next month, the first, second, third, and fourth place winners will return to Tashkent to face off against the top spellers from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan!

Great work, and keep building that vocabulary!

Uzbekistan Open World Delegation Visits Seattle Agriculture-Focused Exchange

Last week, an open-world delegation from Uzbekistan visited Seattle, Washington for a ten day exchange program focused on agriculture. The exchange is aimed to build mutually beneficial ties between Uzbekistan and the United States. 🇺🇿 🌱 🇺🇸

The delegation will soon be travelling back to Uzbekistan, and we wish them safe travels! We hope that this visit serves as a cornerstone for future collaboration between two countries in the sphere of agriculture!

#OpenWorld #AmericanCouncils #AgricultureinModernMarket

Enhancing Partnerships among Central Asian Universities for Sustainability

✅On November 4-5, 40 senior university administrators and heads of international relations departments from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan were invited to take part in an interactive Sustainability & Grant Writing Workshop in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

📌 Focus on grant writing, international donor relationship building, and financing various types of internationalization projects provided for a robust conversation around further engagement with U.S. university partners.

📝More information on the event can be found here

🤝Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success! UniCEN team members will continue working with Central Asian partners to facilitate further engagement with the U.S. university representatives.

The U.S.-Central Asia University Partnerships Program (UniCEN) is funded by the U.S. Embassy Tashkent and administered by American Councils.

🎉🎉🎊Congratulations to Samir Babajanov from Turkmenistan on becoming The Central Asian Spelling Bee 2022 Winner by spelling the word “C-O-U-R-T-E-O-U-S”🏆
🥇🏆 Samir Babajanov is a student of Turkmen State Medical University named after Myrat Garryyev.

🥈The second runner-up is Perman Kyyasov, from Turkmenistan, a student of Magtymguly Turkmen State University.
🥉The third runner-up is Fatima Saidkarimova from Uzbekistan, a student of Tashkent State Dental Institute.
Many thanks to ALL the participants for making this tournament a great s-u-c-c-e-s-s!

With @ACCELS #CentralAsianSpellingBee

🤩🤩🤩It was a great day in Samarkand with the Central Asian Spelling Bee participants! We all enjoyed the day learning about the ancient city and making new friends!🇰🇬🇹🇯🇹🇲🇺🇿😍😍😍
#CentralAsianSpellingBee

🇺🇸American Spaces in Uzbekistan with @ACCELS