Name of competition:

Peterhouse Kelvin Science Prize.

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Peterhouse Kelvin Science Prize

 

 

Age restrictions of participants:

 

Participants must be aged between 16 and 18 - in college or in sixth form.

 

 

Aim of competition:

 

This is an essay writing competition. The questions are released in November time and the participants must choose one of the selected questions and complete an essay on this question. The essay are then submitted and are judged by professors at Cambridge University.

 

This competition has a top prize of £500 and a second prize of £250; several further essays will be highly commended. All three prizes have the following aims:

• To give students in Year 12 or Lower Sixth who are considering applying to university an opportunity to write about a subject in which they are personally interested, developing and experiencing the independent study skills which they will need in order to do well at A-level and university.

• To support teachers by providing challenging extension work for talented students and by giving those students their first contact with Higher Education.

• To encourage high-flying students to consider applying to Cambridge by giving them a taste of the type of work they would experience here.

• To recognise the achievement and effort of the best of these students through prizes and commendations and to give them the opportunity of receiving feed-back from leading scientists, historians and English specialists.