Applications for the OxBright Essay Competition 2024 are now being accepted. Take the OxBright Essay Competition to see how smart you are academically. The competition, which is intended for intelligent teenagers aged 15 to 18, will push you to go beyond the classroom and consider the direction your field is taking.
OxBright’s essay topic for this year highlights their commitment for encouraging students to form strong community bonds. Students are being asked, “How can cooperation foster social impact and innovation in [your subject]? Talk about how cooperation is necessary to address global issues and bring about significant change.
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.
