Battle line has been drawn between 108 schools as the 2018 National Science & Maths Quiz enters the preliminary stage of competition at the University of Ghana.
The prelims which will take place from Monday, June 11 to Saturday, June 16, 2018, will simultaneously take place at the R.S Amegashie Auditorium and the New ‘N’ Block at the University of Ghana, Legon.
Mr. Samuel Narte Adjor, NSMQ2018 Coordinator, conducted the balloting for the regional winners. The representative of the competing schools took turns to pick up a shuffle for one of the 36 separate competitions.
The six days of preliminary contests will have a total of six competitions conducted in a day; three each at the respective venues.
The first contest will start at 10 am immediately after the mentorship session at 9 a.m. The second and final contests will take place at 1 p.m and 4 p.m respectively.
The 36 winners and 18 highest-scoring losing schools will advance to the one-eighth stage of the competition to join the 27 seeded schools from last year’s competition.
The Quiz mistresses for the prelims are Dr. Angela Lamptey of the Department of Marine and Fisheries Sciences and Mrs. Gladys Schwinger of the Department of Plant and Environmental Biology; both of the University of Ghana, Legon.
The National Science & Maths Quiz and Science Festival is sponsored by the Ghana Education Service through the Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS), with support from GCB Bank, GTP, Lancaster University Ghana, Academic City College, Medifem Multi-Specialist Hospital, Accra College of Medicine, Hawtie Makeup, West African Centre for Cell Biology for Infectious Pathogens and Awake Purified Drinking water.
Goil, Prudential Life Insurance Ghana, and Tullow are sponsoring the Sci-Tech Fair while BOND Savings & Loans and RMG Ghana are sponsoring the Mentorship Sessions. Media partners are Joy News, Citi FM, and Pulse Ghana.
Below are the 36 contests for the preliminaries of the NSMQ2018. Contests 1-18 would take place at the R.S. Amegashie Auditorium while 19-36 would be at the New N Block all at the University of Ghana, Legon.
