The Year 7&8 STFC Science Essay Prize 2024
To enter this competition, you need to write a 500-word essay on "Why I love Science". The winner will receive an Amazon Fire 7 Tablet. Entries open on 1st September and close on 8th November.
The STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory will again be running its School Science Prize for students in Years 7 and 8. Entries will open on 1 September and everyone who enters will receive an e-certificate, and the overall winner will receive an Amazon Fire 7 tablet.
- To enter the competition, you need to write a 500-word essay titled “Why I love science”. The score sheet is attached below, to help you adapt your writing to the judges' criteria.
- There will be a hybrid celebration of all the entries on Friday 13 December, at 17:30. Finalists will be asked to record a 3-minute video about / of their entry to share at the celebration. All finalists and their families joining in person will be in for a special experience.
- Entries will open on 1 September and we will close at midnight on Wednesday 6 November. Entries can be submitted either in class sets by teachers, or individual entries by parents, and all students will be informed whether or not they are finalists by the end of Friday 22 November.
- To enter, please upload entries (in .doc, .docx, .pdf, .odt or .txt format) on the official entry form: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/SSP-2024/ Please make sure that the name and school of the entrant is in the text of the entry, and that the file name is in the format "LastName-FirstName". For example, if the student's name is Sam Smith, and their entry is a pdf, the file should be named "SmithSam.pdf".