Registration for the InterswitchSPAK 3.0 National
Science competition has been
extended till Saturday, June 5. This
announcement was made in a statement by Interswitch Group, the foremost
pan-African digital payment and commerce company. Parents, guardians and
secondary school administrators are hereby advised to utilise the extended
registration window to get their best science students in Grade 11 or Senior
Secondary 2 (SS2) for the competition to register on the InterswitchSPAK portal.
InterswitchSPAK
is an annual pan-African competition aimed at re-igniting and incentivizing the
study of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) subjects
among secondary school students.
For
registration, each school is required to present its best science students in
SS2. Each school can register a minimum
of six (6) and a maximum of ten (10) students. However, for mixed schools, at
least two female students must be among the selected students. Every registered
student will participate in the qualifying examination online, from their schools, homes or any convenient
space. The top 81 students
will proceed to the finale to battle for the crown of Nigeria’s Best Science
Student.
Schools that want to register their best science students are required to visit https://www.interswitchspak.com/ to commence registration.
Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the qualifying examination for this edition will be conducted online, there are options to pick from between Sunday, June 6 till Tuesday, June 8, 2021 any time between 8am to 6pm. Demo materials are also available on the examination portal link which will be shared with qualified candidates only.
Cherry
Eromosele, Group Chief
Marketing and Communication Officer, Interswitch, stated that the competition
is returning after the one-year
hiatus and it was only logical to extend the registration period to give
another opportunity to students and schools who would love to participate in
the competition however couldn’t meet up with the initial timeline. Despite the
disruption caused by the global pandemic, she encouraged more girls to
participate in this third edition of the on-going registration.
Eromosele
said: “This year, we are quite excited about this edition. Following the long
hiatus caused by COVID-19, we trust that there will be increased participation
in this competition. There has been an increase in the number of girls
participating in the competition. Our commitment at Interswitch is to
continually inculcate knowledge, aptitude
and confidence, with a focus on improving the standard of education in
Nigeria.”
She
encouraged teachers, school administrators, parents and guardians to ensure
their students are registered. She also
encouraged the students to take hold of this opportunity to pursue their
dreams.
The
coveted prize is N12.5 million worth of university scholarship for the top
three winners. The first prize winner gets N7.5 million tertiary scholarship
spread over 5 years, a laptop and monthly stipends. The second prize is N4
million spread over 3 years and a laptop and the third prize is N1 million for
1 year.
The last
edition saw Oyindamola Aje, a
16-year-old student of Jesuit Memorial College, Port Harcourt, Rivers State,
emerging as winner, while the duo of 15-year-old Oluwatobi Ojo and Onyekachi
Madumere (both of Apt Scholar Universal College, Ogun State) came second
and third, respectively.
With the
extension, the InterswitchSPAK 3.0 registration portal will close on Saturday,
June 5, 2021.
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