Believe - Episode 1
Prologue
For over seven years, Olympic Foods Inc. and Ace TV has been involved in the sponsorship of mathematics competition between secondary schools in Heart city. Their objectives have remained the same over these years, as they believe in total development of the children of Heart city. In coming years, they are planning to make the competition a nationwide affair in which all secondary schools in the country can participate.
Mathematics Olympiad TV Quiz show is a state mathematics competition that is aired on major TV stations in Heart city. It is geared towards nourishing the dreams of children by providing a platform that recognizes and rewards excellence in mathematics . The competition is open to students between the ages of 10 and 18 years, attending full-time secondary schools in Heart city. Entry into this competition has always been free and is still free. The competition is in two stages – The qualifying written examination and the TV Quiz show.
The qualifying written examination holds at The Ultimate Examination Centre (TUEC) in the Heart City. Only students in JSS 3 and SSS 2 are allowed to take part in the examination for the junior and senior category respectively. After the written Examination, only the best 54 students in each category are chosen to participate in second stage.
The second stage, which is in a quiz format will take the candidates through the preliminary stage, semifinal and final stage
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. The TV Quiz show is serialized into 13 weekly episodes and broadcasted in major TV stations. It sees six students, each representing their school, compete in an episode where two qualifies and four of them are eliminated in two different rounds. The preliminary stage takes 9 episodes of the show, the semifinal takes 3 episodes and the final, an episode.
There are prizes for winners in this competition. The first, second and third position in each category receives a cash prize of different amounts, laptops, trophies and medals.
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. The fourth to sixth position in each category also receives cash prizes of same amount. All eliminated semifinalists and students eliminated in the preliminaries are also not left out in the receiving of cash prizes but theirs is lesser depending on when they were disqualified. Aside this, every participating students get a tablet each; text books and computer systems are given to winner’s school. Some special recognitions awards are also given: The famous Olympiad (student who answered highest number of questions during the Olympiad 60 seconds of fame), the unbeatable Olympiad (student who had the highest combined score from the prelims to the finals), and the relentless Olympiad (students who went through 2 tiebreaks and still qualified for the finals amongst others.)
“Wow! It’s here again. It’s the 8th edition of Olympiad, your favourite mathematics TV quiz show, where you get to watch amazingly brilliant secondary school students solve mathematics on their feet. It begins on Saturday, 4th of August and ends on the 3rd of November. To get live updates on the competition, stay tuned with us on Monday evenings, from 6 PM to 7PM. Do not miss it.” – This was the advertisement Ayo heard and saw as she turned on the television on Friday morning, a day before the competition. She collapsed on a chair as she saw the stage setting, the quiz master and the audience, the light on stage; the student’s excitement, disappointment and tears. She wished she could just back out but there’s no turning back now.
‘I have to see this till the end’ – she sat up – ‘I must win the gold medal in this mathematics Olympiad. I must be the shining star of my school.’
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My esteemed readers. What do you think of these?
Nice start
Thanks ? confy
Interesting
well determined