Welcome to The Science Challenge 2012!

• Check out pictures and listen to the lectures from our launch event
• Read up on this year's Questions
• Find out more information on our prizes and Final in the House of Lords
• Read the winning essays from this year's competition

What is The Science Challenge?

The RCSU Science Challenge is an annual competition run by the Royal College of Science Faculty Union, and generously sponsored by Accenture Management Consultants & the Faculty of Natural Sciences here at Imperial College London. The challenge is an essay competition that aims to encourage scientific debate, reasoning and the communication of science in a public-friendly context.

Entries in this two-category competition are open to all students of Imperial College (not Faculty specific) and (in a separately judged category) students at secondary-school or colleges in the United Kingdom.

I want to get involved!

The Launch event was held in the Sir Alexander Fleming Building at Imperial College London's South Kensington Campus on Tuesday 17th January 2012. At this event we revealed the Questions, the Prizes and more information about the venue for this year's exclusive Final: The House of Lords.

The competition has now closed for this year. Participants have already been notified of their success in the competition. The results (and their respective essays) are available online here.


Paul Beaumont
Science Challenge Chair
science.challenge@imperial.ac.uk