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Alumni using 10th Anniversary to raise funds

The Ghana Secondary Technical School (GSTS) Alumni Association of North America celebrates its 10th Anniversary and Annual Convention with a Fundraising Dinner Dance on Saturday, July 22, 2017, starting at 6:30 pm at the Marriott Fairview Park in Falls Church, Virginia, United States (US). Click here to read the full story

GSTS – National Robotics Champions

CAPE COAST–On Saturday October 7th2017, Ghana Secondary Technical School (GSTS) has emerged winners of the Autonomous Rescue Challenge (ARC) Robotics Champions in an action packed robotics competition held at Wesley Girls High School in Cape Coast

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2012 National Science and Maths Quiz Winners Ghana Secondary Technical School (GSTS) – Takoradi

Determined to give meaning to their Golden Jubilee celebration which is due in 2013, the boys from the Wa-based St. Francis Xavier Junior Seminary, made minced meat of the usual league of Ghana’s elite schools during the just ended 2012 edition of the National Science and Maths quiz held at University of Ghana, Legon. Represented by the awe inspiring trio of Richard Taabazuing, Lucio Dery and Stephen Boosuro.

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Mfantsipim School wins Science Maths Quiz 2014

Ghana’s premier senior high school (SHS), Mfantsipim School in Cape Coast, last Friday won the 2014 National Science and Maths Quiz in style, 15 years after it won the trophy. That was after Mfantsipim, represented by Archibald Henry Enniful and Isaac Kontomah, had defeated the Ghana Secondary Technical School (GSTS) in Takoradi and St Francis Xavier Junior Seminary in Wa to lift the giant trophy at stake.

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Best WASSCE candidates honoured

Members of the Parent-Teacher Association of the Ghana Secondary Technical School (GSTS) in Takoradi have honoured a 17-year-old immediate past student of the school, Mickail Hassan. Hassan was honoured for being the 2014 best candidate of the West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE), both in Ghana and West Africa. Master Hassan who resides in the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis, made the entire nation and his alma mater proud by emerging as the best 2014 WASSCE student in West Africa.

He also emerged as the best General Science student together with his younger brother Hassan Nurulhaq, and one other student in the same school, Prince Edmund Ainoo. For their prizes, the three former GSTS students were given undisclosed amount of money and a certificate by the PTA at a brief ceremony. The three had already received several awards, including scholarships to further their respective tertiary education.

Later in an interview, Mickail Hassan attributed his achievement to being God-fearing, discipline and hard work and encouraged all students to be guided by those three in all their endeavours. Chairman of the PTA, Timothy Ebo Essandoh, called on parents to be responsible in the provision of the basic needs of their wards in the school.

He also appealed to past students of GSTS, home and abroad to come to the aid of their alma-mater with the needed support. Regional News of Wednesday, 24 June 2015

Ghana tops in WAEC International Examination

Accra, March 12, GNA – Ghana has for the past five years toped the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) Competition for the international excellence award, WAEC announced on Thursday. For the year 2014, all three Ghanaian candidates who participated in the award with other WAEC students, swept all the three top awards offered at that level once again.The overall top candidate, Hasan Mickail, a former student of Ghana Secondary Technical School (GSTS) in the Western Region, who was the best candidate in the General Science programme, both at the national and international level, also won the Bandele Award for the best performing candidate in the whole of West Africa.Ghana, Nigeria, and the Gambia participated in the 2014 WAEC examination, while Liberia and Sierra Leone, the two other WAEC countries, did not participate in the examinations due to the Ebola pandemic and a change in those countries educational system.

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GSTS wins 2015 Edition of Osagyefo Cup

The Ghana Secondary Technical School (GSTS) in Takoradi was crowned winners of the fifth edition of the Annual Osagyefo Cup Competition held to mark the birthday of Ghana’s first President, Dr Kwame Nkrumah. The competition, organised on every Founders Day, at the Half Assini Senior High School (HASCO) in the Jomoro District of the Western Region, saw GSTS, popularly known as the ‘Giants of the West’ beat their counterparts Kikam Technical Institute (KIMTECH), from the Ellembele District 4-2 on penalties after sixty minutes of goalless draw.

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