Registrations are open and invited from school students aged 15 to 18 for the OxBright Essay Competition 2024. The last date for submission of the entries is March 31, 2024.
About the Competition
The OxBright Essay Competition gives you the chance to think about the future, challenge yourself beyond the school curriculum, and consider your subject through a wider lens.
Topics
At OxBright, they’re passionate about inspiring students to come together as a community and their essay topics for this year are:
How does collaboration in [your subject] support social impact and innovation? Discuss how working together is essential when addressing global challenges and creating meaningful change.
Subjects
Architecture, Biology, Business, Computer Science & Coding, Writing & Journalism, Economics, Engineering, History, Law, Mathematics, Medicine, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology.
Eligibility Criteria
The only eligibility criteria is that you must be aged between 15-18.
Prizes
Free Conference Place: The first 1000 students who are successfully shortlisted will be invited to attend one of OxBright Conferences (Worth £95) in the autumn. Alternatively, you can put this credit towards an Online Course or Online Internship.
Awards Ceremony: All shortlisted entrants and their parents and teachers will be invited to attend the online Awards Ceremony in April 2024, where the winners will be announced.
Award Winners: Awards include:
- Most Outstanding Essay (prize: a place in their sister organization, the Oxford Scholastica Academy’s residential Oxford Summer School in 2025, worth £6,995).
- Best Essay for each subject category (prize: a place on an OxBright Online Course or Online Internship, worth £995).
- Highly Commended (for the top 20% of entries, who will receive a Certificate of Achievement).
How to Submit?
Interested students can submit their entries via this link.
Note: The essay competition is completely free to enter.
Submission Deadline
The last date of submission is March 31, 2024.
Submission Guidelines
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 would 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. Please 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 please list all the sources you used.
Contact Information
For any queries or doubts, write an email to: hello@oxbright.org
