Asantehene II donates trophy for next year’s Science & Maths Quiz
Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has donated a new National Science and Mathematics Quiz (NSMQ) trophy to be given to the winner of the 2024 edition of the competition, Primetime Limited, the organizer for the NSMQ has disclosed.
The Managing Director of Primetime Limited, Nana Akua Aboagyewaa Mensa-Bonsu, announced the presentation of the new Science and Mathematics Quiz trophy at the grand finale of the 2023 edition of the contest held in National Theater, Accra.
“We would be remiss of us not to say thank you also to Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene, for his support of the programme, having received us on three different occasions, warmly welcoming us to Kumasi on the occasions that we’ve been there, and even donating a cup to the programme starting next year. So next year there would be a more prestigious cup to fight for,” she said
In a related development, the producer for the National Science and Mathematics Quiz (NSMQ), Primetime Limited has seeded more than twenty (20) Senior High Schools to participate in the 2024 edition of the Science and Maths Quiz.
The 27 automatically seeded Senior High Schools according to the NSMQ organizer will skip the preliminary stage of the 2024 edition of the competition and join qualifying schools at the one-eighth stage of the 2024 contest.
Among other schools seeded for the 2024 NSMQ are Keta SHTS, Tamale SHS, Kumasi Anglican SHS, Prempeh College, Presbyterian Boys’ Secondary School (PRESEC) Legon, Opoku Ware School and St Augustine’s College.
27 SHSs seeded for 2024 NSMQ
1. Wesley Girls’ High School
2. Opoku Ware School
3. Tamale SHS
4. Mpraeso SHS
5. Osel Tutu SHS
6. St. Augustine’s College
7. Bishop Herman College
8. St. John’s School
9. Keta SHTS
10. Osei Kyeretwie SHS
11. Pope John Sem. & SHS
12. Kumasi Sec. Tech. Sch.
13. Kumasi High School
14. St. James Sem. SHS
16. Achimota School
17. Aburi Presby SHTS
18. Mfantsipim School
19. Wesley Grammar School
20. Abetitl Presby SHS
21. GSTS
22. Anglican SHS, Kumas)
23. Mawuli School
24. Accra Academy
25. St. Louis SHS
26. Prempeh College
27. Presbyterian Boys Secondary School
The National Science & Maths Quiz (NSMQ) is produced by Primetime Limited and sponsored by the Ghana Education Service (GES) in partnership with Absa Ghana and supported by GOIL, Prudential Life Insurance
Other sponsors of the national competition are AirtelTigo, Dano Milk, Newmont, Ghana National Petroleum Corporation, Accra College of Medicine, Academic City University College and YFM.