{"id":331755,"date":"2017-06-27T09:30:22","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T09:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=331755"},"modified":"2017-06-27T09:30:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T09:30:22","slug":"nsmq2017-grand-finale-comes-off-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=331755","title":{"rendered":"#NSMQ2017: Grand finale comes off on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The grand finale of the 2017 National Science and Math Quiz will be held on Thursday at the National Theatre in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>The event will see three schools; <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/26\/nsmq2017-aquinas-beats-presec-kumasi-high-to-enter-grand-finale\/\"><strong>St. Thomas Aquinas<\/strong><\/a><\/span>, <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/26\/nsmq2017-ghana-national-pushes-adisadel-to-grande-finale\/\"><strong>Adisadel College<\/strong><\/a><\/span> and <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/26\/nsmq2017-mfantsipim-mawuli-surrender-to-prempeh-college\/\"><strong>Prempeh College<\/strong><\/a><\/span>, battle for supremacy and bragging rights.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;AYtgdjUnqut5LKpX8G5D2J1GJBjgDeJD&#8221;]The three competitors successfully triumphed over other schools throughout the contest to make it to this stage.<\/p>\n<p>The preliminary stages of the competition began on June 5, 2017 at the University of Ghana, Legon, with 108 Senior High School taking part in 38 contests.<\/p>\n<p>The preliminary stages occurred simultaneously at the R.S Amegashie Auditorium and the New N Block at the University of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>In each of the 36 contests, three schools competed. Winners of the 36 preliminary contests later joined the 27 seeded schools from the 2016 edition of the competition at the one-eighth stage.<\/p>\n<p>Other 18 schools that had highest losing scores at the previous stage also progressed to this stage.<\/p>\n<p>The 2017 edition of the National Science &amp; Maths Quiz has <strong>Citi FM<\/strong> as the official media partner.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Citi FM<\/strong> aired live the semi-final contests on Monday, and will also do same for the grand finale on Thursday, June 29, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Godwin Akweiteh Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlloteyGodwin\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @AlloteyGodwin<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The grand finale of the 2017 National Science and Math Quiz will be held on Thursday at the National Theatre in Accra. The event will see three schools; St. Thomas Aquinas, Adisadel College and Prempeh College, battle for supremacy and bragging rights. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;AYtgdjUnqut5LKpX8G5D2J1GJBjgDeJD&#8221;]The three competitors successfully triumphed over other schools throughout the contest to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11],"tags":[7969,1605,3],"class_list":["post-331755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-top-stories","tag-nsmq2017","tag-finals","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}