For three consecutive years, winners of the Central Regional Championship have bowed out of the National Championship before the Quarter-final stage, a jinx that has so far affected two different schools.

Herbert Abugbilla Adelwin, a contestant from Mankranso Senior High School at the 2025 National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ), has been awarded a full six-year medical school scholarship by the Accra College of Medicine, emerging top among 28 applicants. Herbert, alongside his teammates Blessed Oforiwaa Nsiah and Augustine Manu Neyare, led Mankranso SHS on a remarkable journey to the semi-final stage of NSMQ 2025, defeating two Category A schools, Ghana National College and St