Another student of Keta Senior High Technical School who participated in the National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ) has secured straight 8As in the 2022 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
Cynthia Makafui Abla Baragbor has once again proven that Francisca Lamini’s achievement was not by luck but by hardwork and perseverance.
Ketasco has once again provided a female student who has completed her secondary education with flying colours.
Speaking with GhanaWeb through her brother Jerome Chris Mawuli, the 18-year-old who was born on November 2, 2004, said that beyond her love for science and mathematics, she loves to dance and sing.
She told the media that with little effort by just doing what she loves and putting her mind into everything she does, she started experiencing a life of many firsts.
She started her education at the Holy Star International Academy in Aflao and later moved to the Aflao Border Basic School in 2015.
“I was admitted into class six and I assumed the first position in my first year in the school which was so overwhelming because we were over 100 students then.
“In my second-year exams, I came up second and was appointed by the head of the school to be the Office Girl,” she said.
Cynthia also explained that she became interested in a number of activities while in school, one of which was a literary competition she took part in.
She spoke about how well the competition organised by the current Member of Parliament for Ketu South, Abla Dzifa Gomashie, went for her.
“I took part in numberless competitions and the renowned one was the Write Away Contest which was organized by Hon. Dzifa Gomashie. I specifically took part in the 2nd edition of the competition which was in 3 stages. Amazingly, I qualified for all three stages, however, the final results were not released due to an undisclosed reason.
“With my final year exams into JHS 3, I fabulously assumed the first position with over 150 students in the class and I was presented with the Certificate of Excellence by the headmaster, Mr Attipoe Emmanuel Yao, for displaying excellent performance in academics,” she added.
She left the school as Girls Prefect, a position she occupied due to what she described as her “impressive results and hard work.”
Cynthia went on from there to excel in her BECE and then gained admission to the Keta Senior High School where hard work and determination got her to be selected to join the school’s National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ) team.
She, however, was unable to join the team on the stage although her contributions greatly added to the success of the school.
“I was selected into the Ketasco NSMQ team through hard work and diligence. Unfortunately, I was not on stage.
“…I won the overall best female science student at the 69th-anniversary celebration of the school,” she added.
Determined to pursue medicine, Cynthia’s dreams seem to be hanging in the balance due to financial constraints although she has been able to score a perfect result in her WASSCE. She is the last child and only girl among three siblings born to a father who is a farmer and a mother who is a trader.
In the words of Jerome, her elder brother, the family needs support to help her get a scholarship to study medicine at a university abroad, but that notwithstanding, they have taken initial steps to purchase admission forms for the University of Ghana (UG) and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST).
Cynthia stated that without the help of her teachers and her other mates, she could not have achieved this much.