2021 NSMQ Finalists, Where They Are Now Full Details

Impressing the brightness in the NSMQ2021 Grand Finale, let’s checkout where the 2021 NSMQ Finalist are including their educational progress.

2021 NSMQ Finalists, Where They Are Now Full Details

Each year, the brilliant and best Science & Maths students from public senior high schools across the nation combat it out for the prestigious honour of existing condemned the best at the National Science & Maths Quiz. Beyond the quiz, many of these opponents persist to attain great accomplishments, earning entry into highly competitive universities across the globe.

The nine (9) Finalists from the 2021 edition of the NSMQ proceeded with this legacy, with a number of them continuing their impressive accomplishments in the spotlight. As they gear up for life after high school and the NSMQ, we round up what your favourite NSMQ 2021 stars are presently up to.

Prempeh College

After leading their school to their Fifth NSMQ Trophy, Eden Nana Kyei Obeng, Abdul Majeed Abdullah and Evans Oppong successfully gained admission to their first choice Universities and programmes.

Eden is in the California Institute of Technology, which holds a reputation as one of the most difficult schools to gain admission into. He is the first student from a public Ghanaian high school to gain admission into this highly selective university in years.
Evans is presently studying Electrical Engineering at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology (KNUST), while Majeed is in his first year at the University of Ghana Medical School.

PRESEC-Legon

Although the PRESEC-Legon team missed out on winning the NSMQ2021 trophy, Henry Mawunya Otumfuo, Prince Debrah Appiah Jnr and Joel Aboagye are continuing greatness and success.

Prince stands apart for being the only student from a public Ghanaian high school to make it into not one or two, but fourteen U.S. universities in one application cycle, including Columbia University, Cornell University, and the University of Pennsylvania, as well as the notable Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the best technological university in the world (as one of the 1,365 admitted out of 33,240), and the equally prestigious Stanford University. Come Fall 2022, Prince will be calling one of these stellar institutions his home.
The Otumfuo joins his team-mate Joel and Prempeh College’s Majeed at the University of Ghana Medical School.

Keta SHTS

Making record as the first school from the Volta Region to make it to the NSMQ Final, Keta SHTS’s Francisca Lamini, James Lutterodt and Bright Senyo Godzo continue to engrave with the next step in their life path after high school.

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Francisca Lamini is in Harvard College, where she will read a Biological Science program with the purpose to continue to Medical School. Meanwhile Bright has enrolled in the Electrical Engineering programme at KNUST, with James pursuing a degree in Computer Science at the University of Ghana, Legon.