Opinion:NSMQ Should Transcend Mere Competition

 The National Science And Maths Quiz has over the past few years become very popular mainly because of social media and the interest and coverage of certain traditional media houses like Citi FM,TV Africa,Joy FM,Joy News and Joy Prime.

  The quiz I dare say has become the measure of how good or otherwise a school is aside WASSCE with all its flaws nevertheless.It is what especially old students of schools use as bragging rights over their bitterest rivals and the emotions involved aren't a child's play.
 
Competition is good but we shouldn't allow the National Science And Maths Quiz to just be a competition involving schools having contests and declaring a winner and everyone going to sleep.We as individuals be it old students of participating or mere observers will definitely go to bed until the next competition because majority of us are interested in the quiz because of the bragging rights and social media trolls if the hard truth is to be told but that shouldn't be the case.

 Nevertheless,one of the high points of this year's quiz was when more practical questions were asked.It was very refreshing to note that organisers tried to ask relatable questions this year that the "layman" could easily understand.
This is very commendable to make the quiz real-life problem-solving  and not just textbook stuffs contestants may not readily comprehend but need to learn for obvious reasons.

 The Government and corporate Ghana should be very much interested in the Quiz to ensure that after the Quiz it doesn't end there but the students of participating schools are invested in be it scholarship schemes to help them further their education to help our nation grow better after all,science is the basis for any sort of development whatsoever.

 This huge interest in this year's NSMQ should be harnessed well from just mere social media trolls and the opportunity to have bragging rights over one another to the level of increasing the interest in science education at all levels to help us churn out more technical hands the country needs to change its economy from a more service-based one to a production-based one thereby reducing significantly the imports of our dear country since that is a major factor adversely affecting our nation's economy.

A word to the wise they say is enough.I end here by congratulating St.Augustines College on its stellar performance in this year's competition by crowning it all with the trophy and to all the sponsors of this year's competition.Thank You.