OxBright Essay Competition 2024 (science prize worth £100,000): Test your academic ability with the OxBright Essay Contest. The competition is aimed at bright 15- to 18-year-olds who are asked to look beyond the school curriculum and think about the future of their subject.
At OxBright, we are passionate about inspiring students to come together as a community, and this year’s essay themes reflect this. Ask students, “How does collaboration in [your field] support social impact and innovation?” and explore the importance of collaboration in addressing global challenges and creating meaningful change.
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Subjects
- Architecture
- Biology
- Business
- Computer Science & Coding
- Writing & Journalism
- Economics
- Engineering
- History
- Law
- Mathematics
- Medicine
- Philosophy
- Politics
- Psychology
Benefits
- £100,000 worth of academic prizes available, including a place at their sister organisation’s residential Oxford summer school.
Eligibility
- Anyone can enter – the only eligibility criteria is that you must be aged between 15-18. You don’t need to have previously joined an OxBright programme in order to take part.
- They only accept one essay per student in each Essay Competition.
- They can only accept entries from individuals, and it’s important to make sure that your work is entirely your own.
- Responses should be written in English.
Evaluation Criteria
They will be assessing essays on the following criteria:
- Fluency of written English
- Relevance to the question
- Coherence
- Creativity and originality of ideas
- Use of evidence or examples
- Relevance to the OxBright Worldview
Application
There are three parts to the essay:
- Essay title: the title of your essay can be up to 100 characters long, including spaces
- Essay: your essay can have up to 3,800 characters, including spaces (this is about 500 words). This includes everything you write, like the main text and in-text citations. In-text citations are little notes you put in your essay to show where your information came from. For example, if you quote something from a book by John Smith, you will add (Smith, 2010, p. 50) right after the quote. These citations are part of your word count, so make sure to include them.
- References: as for references, there’s no word limit – you can include as many as you need! These are important for showing where your information came from.Use the Harvard Referencing Style for your references (you can find how to do this in the guidelines provided here). This won’t count towards your essay character limit, so list all the sources you used.
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Application Deadline: 31st March, 2024
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