NSMQ17 Live update: Aburi Girls, Potter Girls, National College eye semi-final spot

Myjoyonline.com's Edwin Appiah is here to bring you a live update from the science competition which throws up serious, severe social bragging rights for a population generaly not in tune with science and maths.

There is a free distribution of GOIL branded polo shirt and exercise books. And while this is a science and maths quiz, there is an honesty contest going on here as lovers of the freebies appear to be trying to get more than the alloted one shirt, one book.

Contestants from all three schools are seated and ready. The boys from Ghana National College sandwiched between two sets of female rivals.None of the schools here have ever won the NSMQ since it began in 1994. But that's why they are here - to win.

So yes, this is the quarter-final stage of the National Science and Maths Quiz.. Aburi Girls' SHS from the Eastern region, Archbishop Potter Girls' and Ghana National College from the Central region will eye a pricey spot in the semi-final stage.

These schools are three out of 27 schools left here in the University of Ghana. Two regions Ashanti and Central region have the most schools left here with 7 schools from each region.

The Western, Volta and Eastern Regions have three schools each. There is only one school from the Northern region. There is no school from the Brong Ahafo, Upper East, and Upper West Regions of the country.

Some big names have fallen with Opoku Ware school, the last casualty after they were kicked out by these KETASCO boys.

Pope Johns SHS, St.Peters have been dumped from the competition. Will this year be the year of the underdog?

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