As if GCIHS didn’t have enough awards already!!
Out of 101 students who registered for the Olympiad, Christian High won 85 AWARDS!!
And that’s not all!!
Check out the pictures below to see the various awards GCIHS swept up at the International Junior Honours Society Ghana as well as the winners…
Forever making God, our Families, and our Country proud…
300 Students.
70 Countries.
2 bronze medalists from the soil of our motherland.
Ghana, yet again, leaves the International Junior Science Olympiad (IJSO) with more medals under her belt. Represented by a team of 6 phenomenal students, with not one but two of these students being Christian High students. Ivan Elolo Apedo and Princess Adjei Mensah have made our school and our country proud.
Both worked extremely hard under the supervision of our very own Mr Bennette Osae Addo, with such hard work eventually paying off. Ivan Elolo Apedo returned to Ghana with a bronze medal draped around his neck and a wide grin across his face.
It is possible to come out on top, no matter who you are up against. Ivan and Princess have shown the world that Ghana, and Christian High for that matter, is not shy to fight in an intellectual battlefield. They have shown the world that no matter what, we can, and definitely will, emerge as victors.
And yes, this will not be the last time the World of Science will hear of the name Ghana. Christian High will churn out many, many more winners.
Congratulations!!!. This is just the beginning. 🙌
| S/N | NAME | CLASS |
| 1 | APPIA LAURENE SIMONE | 10H3 |
| 2 | IVAN ELOLO APEDO | 10S1 |
| 3 | PAA KOBINA AIDOO | 10S1 |
| 4 | NANA KWAKU ADU-ASOMANING | 10H1 |
| 5 | JOAN YACOBA AMUASI | 10H1 |
| 6 | ADRIEL HEWLETT | 10H3 |
| 7 | JOSHUA ANTHONY ANGLAMENGA | 10S3 |
| 8 | OSEI-OKRAH ALLISON | 10G1 |
| 9 | ASHLEY EMMANUEL NII KORSAH | 10G2 |
| 10 | BREMPONG PAA KWASI NHYIRA ANIAPA | 10G2 |
| 11 | NSIAH BOADU NANA YAA ESAA | 10H1 |
| 12 | OWUSU-AFRIYIE MAAME BOATEMAA | 10H1 |
| 13 | ASUMADU YAW AMOAH | 10H3 |
| 14 | OTOO TYRONE NHYIRABA AMPONSAH | 10H3 |
| 15 | ATAWURA HARRIETTE ATUDILAM | 10S3 |
| 16 | MANTE NHYIRA NANA YAW | 10S2 |
| 17 | OSEI MAAME AKYAA | 10H3 |
| 18 | ACHEAMPONG JASON | 10H1 |
| 19 | KOFI ANYIMADU | 10C2 |
| 20 | NANA APPIAGYEI POKU | 10S3 |
| 21 | CLIVE-PLANGE JORMI | 10H3 |
| 22 | AYESU EWURADWOA AKYEREH – (MATH) | 11G1 |
| 23 | AKPALU JEANETTE MARIE YAWA – (G.K) | 11H1 |
| 24 | AGBOZO KELVIN KWAKU – (SCIENCE & MATH) | 11H2 |
| 25 | OBITSRE DANIEL AGUDEY KOFI – (MATH) | 11H2 |
| 26 | SENANU NANA AKUA EMEFA ELINAM – (SCIENCE & ENGLISH) | 11H3 |
| 27 | GAVUA ENAAM KUKLUI – (SCIENCE & G.K) | 11H3 |
| 28 | TETTEH IAN BRIAN SEYRAM YAO – (SCIENCE) | 11H3 |
| 29 | KANOR ISRAEL TETTEH – (SCIENCE & MATH) | 12S |
| 30 | LINA FIALELE ZAKARIAH – (SCIENCE & MATH) | 11H3 |
| 31 | MORGAN TAWIAH – (SCIENCE & MATH) | 11H3 |
| 32 | RACHEAL ACQUAYE – (SCIENCE) | 11H3 |
| 33 | EYRAM GAZE – (MATH) | 11H2 |
| 34 | ASANTE DAVID OFORI | 11G2 |
| 35 | TIMOTHY TAMATEY – (SCIENCE & MATH) | 11H3 |
| 36 | DROMI NANA ABA CLIVE-PLANGE | 7 |
| 37 | SAMANTHA LARYEA | 7 |
| 38 | DAVID GYEDU – TETTEH | 7 |
| 39 | ERNEST AKWASI APPIAH | 7 |
| 40 | MATHIAS ACKAH ESHUN | 7 |
| 41 | NANA AKOSUA DANSOA OSEI | 7 |
| 42 | MUNISA KAMARA | 7 |
| 43 | BRENTUM ANITA NDELEBA | 7 |
| 44 | IANNA NHYIRA DJAN | 7 |
| 45 | NANA YAW KONNIE-MENSAH | 7 |
| 46 | NANA ADWOA OWUSU ACHAW | 7 |
| 47 | MERCY MAWUENA AKUSIKA ATTA-MOTTE | 7 |
| 48 | AKIM AKINLABI TIJANI | 7 |
| 49 | PRISCILLA MAKAFUI AWUNYO | 7 |
| 50 | MICHELLE ADZO ANKRAH | 8 |
| 51 | NANA ADWOA AWUA KYEREMATEN | 8 |
| 52 | ADELAIDE ABENA AHADJIE | 8 |
| 53 | KWESI ARMAH ACHEAMPONG | 8 |
| 54 | ELAINE ARHIN | 8 |
| 55 | NANA AKUA SERWAA AKOMANYI | 8 |
| 56 | EL-ISHA MAAME EFUA SAM | 8 |
| 57 | ANNIE-LOIS SERWAA ACHEAMPONG | 8 |
| 58 | MIKAYLA KAKRABAH-QUARSHIE | 8 |
| 59 | BRIELLE KROFAH | 8 |
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Congratulations on qualifying to the next stage. The Online test is time bound and students must apply speed, accuracy and strategy during the test.
There will be no form of monitoring and supervision. You have 24hrs to submit this test. This Session will test you on all sharks related subjects. Well deserving students will be invited for an In-person audition and Interview.
Please do well not to look up answers from the internet or other sources. Cheating your way through this competition process is against our rules. You can skip questions you can’t answer and please don’t do guess work. All the best.
You will receive a certificate of recognition immediately after your test.
Percentage Criteria = Above 70% – Auditions , 60 – 69% – Interview , less that 60% – Waiting list.
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Congratulations to all shortlisted students. You have qualified to the next stage. Please take note of the following schedules. All shortlisted students will take an online test on Tuesday, 6th July 2021.
The Online test is time bound and students must apply speed, accuracy and strategy during the test. The timer starts when you start, and you must submit your answers before the timer ends. You will solve a lot of questions within a limited time(Multiple Choice questions). Students with impressive scores will be contacted for an in person audition when school resumes. This is highly competitive and students must prepare for such intriguing academic encounter.
Students can practice The Sharks questions on https://bit.ly/SharksMTNHottseat or subscribe to the SHARKS QUIZ YouTube channel for past questions: https://youtu.be/DNsqTMnLAvg.
| Name | Year Group | Your specialized Strength ( Academics). |
| Aaron Asante -Addai | 8 | General Knowledge, Science |
| Aaron Winwae-Benyah | 8 | Math |
| Abraham Kow Tawiah | 7 | Science |
| Adelaide Abena Ahadjie | 8 | Math, Science |
| Adzo Kuklui Gavua | 7 | English, General Knowledge |
| AGGREY-FYNN EWURAKUA | 11 | General Knowledge, Economics |
| Akim TIjani | 7 | Math |
| Albert Adom Ackon | 8 | Math, English |
| Alberta kwofie | 7 | Math, Science, french |
| Alberta Kwofie | 7 | Math |
| Alexander Gyebi-Ababio | 7 | Math, English, Science |
| Alvin Kobby Ayisi | 8 | English, General Knowledge, Science, every subject |
| Ama Owusu Akyaw | 10 | Math, Science |
| Anita Brentum Ndeleba | 7 | English, General Knowledge |
| Anita Brentum Ndeleba | 7 | English, General Knowledge |
| Annie-Lois Acheampong | 8 | English, General Knowledge, Science |
| Awo Brenya-Otchere | 7 | English |
| Benedict Kwasi Boateng | 10 | Math |
| Benytta Yaa Asare | 7 | English, General Knowledge, Science |
| Brempomaa Nana Akua Amofa Osei-boakye | 7 | science and arts |
| Briana Osei | 7 | English |
| Brielle Nana Afriyie Krofah | 8 | Math, English, Science |
| Carlos Appoe | 8 | Math |
| Chantelle Esi Makafui Wenyonu | 11 | General Knowledge, Science |
| Charles | 12 | Math, English, General Knowledge, Science |
| Chief Asare-kyei | 9 | English, Science, Computer science |
| Danielle N.J. Mingle. | 8 | Math, Quite some general knowledge though. |
| David Ofori Asante | 11 | Math, Economics. |
| David Paapa Kwadwo Gyedu – Tetteh | 7 | Math, English, General Knowledge, Science |
| David Sesi Tsikata | 9 | Math, Science |
| Djimatey Abadji | 7 | Math, General Knowledge, Science |
| Dromi Clive-Plange | 7 | English, Science |
| Dzidula Christian Kweku Ofori | 7 | Math, English, Science |
| El-isha Maame Efua Sam | 8 | English, Science |
| Elaine Arhin | 8 | English, Science |
| Ernest Akwasi Appiah | 7 | Math, Science |
| Ewuradwoa Abaduwa Amoah | 7 | Math, English |
| Eyiram Gaze | 11 | Math |
| Gifty malik | 7 | Math |
| Helena Korpo Ngafua Kamara | 8 | General Knowledge, Science |
| Hillary Amoakoaa Aboagye | 9 | English |
| Ianna Djan | 7 | English, Science, French |
| Ivan Elolo Apedo | 10 | Math, Science, IC3 |
| Ivan Paa kwesi Dukeson Ackah | 7 | Math, General Knowledge |
| Jason William Boateng Acheampong | 10 | English, General Knowledge, Science |
| Jesse owusu | 7 | English |
| Jirell Egyankor Ekow Aseda | 7 | Math |
| Joan Yacoba Amuasi | 10 | Math, English, General Knowledge, Science |
| John jayson kermah | 7 | Math |
| Jormi Clive-Plange | 10 | English, General Knowledge, Science |
| Joshua Agbey | 8 | Math, Science |
| Joshua Anthony Anglamenga | 10 | Math, Science |
| Julius Awini | 8 | Math, Science |
| Kirsty Agyen-Frempong | 7 | Math, English |
| Kirsty Agyen-Frempong | 7 | Math, English |
| Kobina Annobil | 7 | Math, English, General Knowledge, Science |
| Kofi Appiah | 10 | ICT |
| Kwesi Armah Acheampong | 8 | Math, Science, Sports |
| Kyla Asantewa Asante | 7 | English, Home science |
| Laurene Simone Appia | 10 | English, French |
| Leticia Mawuena Attifu | 7 | Math |
| Lina Fialele Zakariah | 11 | Math, Science |
| Luther Blake Ebo Safo | 9 | English, Science |
| Maame Afua Obiribea Anorbaah | 8 | General Knowledge, Science |
| Maame Akyaa Osei | 10 | English, Maybe a little of all the others too |
| Macleod Yawson | 7 | Math, English |
| Mathias Ackah Eshun | 7 | Math |
| Maxine Mensah | 8 | Math, Science, Ghanaian Language |
| Michelle Adzo Ankrah | 8 | Math, English |
| Mikayla Kakrabah-Quarshie | 8 | English, General Knowledge, Science |
| Mikhel Nii Okai Attoh | 7 | Math, Science |
| MORGAN NTAADU TAWIAH | 11 | Math, Science |
| Munisa Dawale Kamara | 7 | Science |
| Nana adwoa awua kyerematen | 8 | Math, General Knowledge, Science |
| Nana Akosua Dansoa Osei | 7 | Math, English, Science |
| Nana Akua Serwaa Akomanyi | 8 | Math, Science |
| Nana Akua Serwaa Akomanyi | 8 | Math, Science |
| Nana kofi Nhyira Owusu mensah | 7 | English |
| Nana Kwaku Adu-Asomaning | 10 | Math, English, Science |
| Nana Kwame Quartsin | 7 | Math |
| Nana Yaa Afriyie Amoako -Prempeh | 7 | English, General Knowledge, Science |
| Nana Yaa Amfo-Asamoah | 7 | Math, Science |
| Nana Yaw Konnie-Mensah | 7 | Math, Science |
| Paa Kobina Aidoo | 10 | Math, Science |
| Papa Kojo Owusu-Ntow | 7 | General Knowledge, Science |
| Papa Kow Asifuah Mensah | 8 | Math, Science |
| Precious Michelle Akasigede | 7 | Math, English, General Knowledge |
| Primus OSCAR_-WELBECK | 7 | General Knowledge, Science |
| RACHEAL OBENEWAA ACQUAYE | 11 | Science |
| Samantha Laryea | 7 | Math, English |
| Timothy Tamatey | 11 | Math, Science |
| Yaw Oteng Osei Apppiah | 8 | Math, Science |
| Zysel Olayemi | 10 | Science |
NB : The Online test will be available on the student’s blog. Keep your eye on the blog. The Online test will expire on Friday, 9th July 2021.
Join the Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics non-residential camp with weekly modules to help students:
– Gain meaningful, hands-on introduction to STEAM activities;- Challenge & collaborate to create solutions to real-world problems- Unearth creative abilities in the Creative Arts and Design fields- Become the next generation academic Olympians, Thinkers and Inventors.
Open to (7 – 17years) Date: You can choose from these modules – Week 1 ( 5th to 9th July 2021) – Math Mindset Training 1
Week 2 (12th to 16th July 2021) – STEAM 1 Workshop
Week 3 (19th to 23rd July 2021) – STEAM 2 Workshop
Week 4 (26th to 30th July 2021) – Math Mindset Training 2
Week 5 (2nd to 6th August 2021) – Creative Arts and Design 1
Week 6 (9th to 13th August 2021) – Creative Arts and Design 2
Online (only Saturdays)Time: 9am to 2pm from Monday to Friday Venue: Educase Learning Center, ARS Roundabout, East Legon- Accra.
For registration and inquiries, Visit bit.ly/STEAMCampGhanaInfo or reach out to team on WhatsApp number 0201856818
**All Covid Protocols will be observed.
Thank you.
The Sharks Quiz Challenge, endorsed by the Ghana Education Service tests the speed and accuracy of students as well as their appreciation of the practicability of what they study in class. Designed to target students’ higher-order thinking and problem-solving skills in English, Math, Science and Social Studies, standardized questions from the quiz often demand one-worded answers from the team.
If you wish to be part of Team GCIHS please register by clicking here
There will be an online quiz (JHS & SHS) for short listed contestants. Top 20 students from both schools will go through an audition online/physical for the final core 5 contestants.
Students can practice The Sharks questions on https://bit.ly/SharksMTNHottseat or subscribe to the SHARKS QUIZ YouTube channel for past questions: https://youtu.be/DNsqTMnLAvg.
GCIHS SHARKS TEAM – SCHEDULE
Registration – 9th June – 25th June 2021
Official release of Shortlisted Students – 30th June 2021
Online Quiz for Shortlisted Students – 5th July( JHS) , 6th July (SHS)
Official Launch of Team GCIHS 2022 – 9th July 2021, 4:00pm.
P/S : Top students will be contacted via email and official release of list of qualified contestants will be on the students blog. Please subscribe and follow this blog for quick updates and newsletters about the Sharks Competition and other related competitions. Please use the comment session if you have any question concerning the registration.
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GHANA PRAYS.. United in prayer, social distancing and fastidious personal hygiene we will win this war against corona… God save our world! #osbornewrites #whennationspray #Ghanaprays #Godhears #keeppraying #osbornewrites
INTERCESSORY PRAYER POINTS FOR THE NATION
6am-8am……spend 15minutes thanksgiving for the peace of the nation
8am-10am…..15 minutes, forgiveness of sins as a nation.
10am-12noon….. 15minutes, God’s intervention to stop the pandemic
12noon-2pm…… 15minutes, protection of the healthcare team
2pm-3pm…..15minutes, wisdom and knowledge for the medical team
3pm-4pm…… 15minutes, healing for infected persons
4pm-5pm…… 15minutes, God drawing people to himself through this pandemic
5pm-6pm…… 15minutes, destroy the works of the enemy
ThANK the LORD for HIS salvation on the nation and the world at large .
What is your prayer for Ghana? Let us know in the comment session…
Source : COVID – 19_ facts and figures
Source: https://africaschoolsonline.com/season-3-of-the-sharks-quiz-launched-in-accra/
In yet another quest for high school students looking to brandish their brain power among peers for the glory of winning a championship title, education consulting firm – Africa Schools Online launches The Sharks 3.0, a team-based single-elimination competition among qualifying junior and senior high schools in Ghana.
The third season of The Sharks Quiz invites academic excellence and collegial competition in pursuit of scholastic achievement and recognition. All public and private high schools in Ghana are eligible to participate. Each school assembles at each level one team of four student members and one alternate.
“This year’s competition promises to be even more exciting. Winners of the competition will have the opportunity to participate in International Olympiads across the globe. Last season, selected students participated in the International Economics Olympiad in Russia, and in December will partake in the International Junior Science Olympiad in Qatar. The International Geography Olympiad and the Singapore International Math Olympiad have been included in this season’s line-up.” Mr. Abel Ohene Acquaye, Executive Producer of Africa Schools Online, said.
Speaking at the launch, Author and Renowned educationist, Anis Haffar spoke on the relevance of embracing applied critical thinking in solving everyday problems. He cited that in today’s world where information is rife, what’s important is what one does with the information received – a move away from the rote memorization approach to learning.
Qualifying guidelines, dates for competition and other relevant information about The Sharks 3.0 for school administrators and academic coaches, as well as information about corporate sponsorship opportunities, is available on the Africa Schools Online website.
Schools are invited to register their team for the Season 3 edition. Once selected, the sixteen school teams will face off in sixteen single-elimination rounds, taped in Accra.
Opoku Ware School won the previous edition of The Sharks Quiz. Pope John Senior High took second place, while Christian High and Adisadel College were joint third place winners. In the Juniors Division, Christian High and DPS International took first and second place respectively while Manna International School from Kumasi were third place finishers.
This year’s competition is currently being supported by Family Health Medical University College, Ashesi University, Academic City College, Webster University, B5 plus and Old Mutual Insurance.
Opoku Ware School are Champions of The Sharks; edges Pope John Senior High in a topsy-turvy final.
Author: Abel Acquaye
It’s easy to take time’s arrow for granted – but the gears of physics actually work just as smoothly in reverse. Maybe that time machine is possible after all?
An experiment earlier this year shows just how much wiggle room we can expect when it comes to distinguishing the past from the future, at least on a quantum scale. It might not allow us to relive the 1960s, but it could help us better understand why not.
Researchers from Russia and the US teamed up to find a way to break, or at least bend, one of physics’ most fundamental laws on energy.
The second law of thermodynamics is less a hard rule and more of a guiding principle for the Universe. It says hot things get colder over time as energy transforms and spreads out from areas where it’s most intense.
It’s a principle that explains why your coffee won’t stay hot in a cold room, why it’s easier to scramble an egg than unscramble it, and why nobody will ever let you patent a perpetual motion machine.
It’s also the closest we can get to a rule that tells us why we can remember what we had for dinner last night, but have no memory of next Christmas.
“That law is closely related to the notion of the arrow of time that posits the one-way direction of time from the past to the future,” says quantum physicist Gordey Lesovik from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
Virtually every other rule in physics can be flipped and still make sense. For example, you could zoom in on a game of pool, and a single collision between any two balls won’t look weird if you happened to see it in reverse.
On the other hand, if you watched balls roll out of pockets and reform the starting pyramid, it would be a sobering experience. That’s the second law at work for you.
On the macro scale of omelettes and games of pool, we shouldn’t expect a lot of give in the laws of thermodynamics. But as we focus in on the tiny gears of reality – in this case, solitary electrons – loopholes appear.
Electrons aren’t like tiny billiard balls, they’re more akin to information that occupies a space. Their details are defined by something called the Schrödinger equation, which represents the possibilities of an electron’s characteristics as a wave of chance.
If this is a bit confusing, let’s go back to imagining a game of pool, but this time the lights are off. You start with the information – a cue ball – in your hand, and then send it rolling across the table.
The Schrödinger equation tells you that ball is somewhere on the pool table moving around at a certain speed. In quantum terms, the ball is everywhere at a bunch of speeds … some just more likely than others.
By tweaking certain conditions in the computer’s setup, those possibilities were confined in a way that effectively rewound the Schrödinger equation deliberately.
To test this, the team launched the set-up again, as if kicking a pool table and watching the scattered balls rearrange into the initial pyramid shape. In about 85 percent of trials based on just two qubits, this is exactly what happened.
On a practical level, the algorithms they used to manipulate the Schrödinger equation into rewinding in this way could help improve the accuracy of quantum computers.
It’s not the first time this team has given the second law of thermodynamics a good shake. A couple of years ago they entangled some particles and managed to heat and cool them in such a way they effectively behaved like a perpetual motion machine.
Finding ways to push the limits of such physical laws on the quantum scale just might help us better understand why the Universe ‘flows’ like it does.
This research was published in Scientific Reports.
A version of this article was first published in March 2019.
MIKE MCRAE 20 JUL 2019
Carol Mabinty Khanu, a 26-year-old chef representing Sierra Leone won the 2019 Jollof Competition in Washington, District of Columbia (DC).
Liberia came second, Nigeria was third and Ghana took the fourth position in the competition which is in its third year.
The programme which took place on July 6, 2019, at the Pupils Heart at the College of the District of Columbia (UDC) saw hundreds of persons in attendance.
In an interview with TheAfricanDream.net, Ishmael Osekre, the founder of Afropolitan Insights, creators of the festival said: “We are incredibly joyful for Carol and we desire her and all other winners and individuals the greatest on their individual journeys, they all immensely contributed to the achievements tale that this festival has developed into given that we began in 2017.“
Nigeria won the first-ever Jollof competition in Washington DC in 2017.
In recent times, social media has also become a popular tool for people to share pictures, and opinions over who serves the dish the best.
Different Jollof Competitions have been held across the world, with famous critics from all over the world coming together to taste, examine the differences, and give their overall judgments on either form of the dish.
Jollof rice is one of the most common dishes in Western Africa, consumed throughout the regions of Nigeria, Senegal, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Togo, Liberia, Niger, Mali, Ivory Coast and Cameroon.
In 2017, the Ghana Tourism Authority launched the maiden edition of the Jollof Rice Festival as part of the ‘See Ghana, Eat Ghana, Wear Ghana, Feel Ghana’ campaign.
This was to promote domestic Tourism, Ghanaian culture and heritage.
Atlanta (CNN Business)Competitive video game playing, also known as esports, is now a high school varsity sport in eight states. It began with Connecticut, Georgia, Kentucky, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island in the fall of 2018. A few months later, the National Federation of State High School Associations said Alabama, Mississippi and Texas Charter schools have joined the mix. CNN was recently invited to see to a competition in Georgia between North Atlanta High School and Grady High School, also in Atlanta, at the city’s newest esports arena. The venue opened in February as part of the Johnson STEM Activity Center.The global esports market is expected to generate more than $1 billion in 2019, according to research firm Newzoo. It also estimates the esports audience will reach 454 million this year.Two teams of students with six players each faced off in a video game game called “Smite,” one of the three high-school-sanctioned esport games, in which they battle each other as gods and other mythological characters.According to Brian Prokes, the center’s executive director, the facility’s goal is to level the playing field and give anybody an opportunity to compete.”If there are two schools that don’t have the facilities to host a five-on-five tournament, we are here for them,” he said.The regular esports season runs through the end of April, with playoffs and finals starting in May.
In 2018, Fortnite became an international video game sensation, and at one point, it added 125 million players in a matter of months.”I got very lucky to get to where I am,” Lupo said. “A lot of people now are trying to make what I do and what other big names do. Fortnite had a big part to play in that really blowing the scene up.”
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By Omar Jimenez, CNN
Updated 0100 GMT (0900 HKT) March 19, 2019
GCIHS Students Blog 