National Science & Maths Quiz 2006
National Quiz set for June
The National Science & Maths Quiz competition will be held in June this year, instead of
the usual April because of the changes in the SSS exam schedule.
The SSSCE has been replaced by the WASCE, which is scheduled to be written in May,
which means that the national quiz competition
had to be held at a different time slot.
Originally it was supposed to have been held in February/March, but a majority
of the schools protested that they were not ready and needed more time.
It also became impossible to hold it in the usual April/May period because contestants
couldn't have camped in Accra for weeks while writing their WASCE exams on their respective
campuses at the same time.
The organizers have since set a June date for the prestigious national compeition.
Obviously, because contestants would have already written their final year
exams (including all the Sciences) by then, the excuse
of "we were not ready" will be invalidated.
The only problem that this change of schedule brings is that all the universities and schools in the
capital city will be closed by then, which means not many people will patronise it as live
audience members. Though this is good in a way (because the host school Achimota will not
have a home-advantage), it is also important schools be able to bring their own fans
to cheer them on.
Prempeh.org has a great plan to help motivate our contestants during the competition. But we will not reveal it
here because of our opponents' penchant for taking our ideas from this website
and implementing them in their alma maters. A good example of that is the money we sent to our
contestants to enable them camp at Sofoline in early January. Somebody from an Accra school read that here and sent
the school money with the instructions that, "the Prempeh people just went to prepare on their campus; Take this money
and bring in our contestants to campus for them to match the Kumasi school boot-for-boot."
Here are the members of our Big 12, 8 of whom are are shown in the photos below:
Okyere Prince Sebastian (Butler) |
Asare Baah Andrews (OT)
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Osei-Wusu Joel N. (Freeman) |
Aning Daniel Gyawu (Aggrey)
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Ayi-Bisah Leonard Lennox (Aggrey) |
Osei Prempeh F. Kofi (Pearson)
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Tannoh Lewis Yeboah (Serwah) |
Bartels Osei Yaw (Gberg)
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The following four contestants do not have
any photos available at this time:
Adom Baafi Gideon
Adu-Darko K.Nyantakyi
Agyeman Harry Kwaku
Aryeh Derrick Prince
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