Nana Ekua Mensah Bonsu recalled that last year, Mfanstipm School in Cape Coast which won the contest was given GHC 50,000.<\/p>\n
She was thus hopeful that the 20th edition will have a bigger price package because according to her, they are still in talks with companies and organizations to support the contest.<\/p>\n
\u201cSponsorship is a big issue; it\u2019s a very, very big issue. There were two years in which we didn\u2019t do it at all because we didn\u2019t get sponsorship for it. In 2009, we did it with our own funds so we couldn\u2019t do it until CHASS [Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools] with approval from GES [Ghana Education Service] stepped in to sponsorship.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEven with their sponsorship, there is still a big gap when it comes to the prices because organizing something like this takes a lot of logistics. We have 135 schools and we cater for five people per school so you can imagine what the logistics support must be like if you are camping them for about a month and feeding them as well,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
Nana Ekua Mensah Bonsu appealed to corporate organizations and individuals who would like to sponsor the quiz to concentrate is the prize packages such as scholarships, cash prizes, equipment to the schools \u201cbecause some schools here don\u2019t even have labs. There are science students who write practicals as theory because there are no labs. There is so much people can do to help.\u201d<\/p>\n
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