The Questions


Dr Jad Marrouche:

Explain a scientific concept of your choice in a 3-minute video

Professor Sir Brian Hoskins:

Is public debate a good forum for discussing science issues such as climate change?

Professor Sir Roy Anderson:

What are the scientific challenges facing the development of effective vaccines against pathogens with hyper variable genome sequences?

Professor Lord Robert Winston:

Why are so many students being put off studying science at school?

Entry Guidelines

Essay Competition

Video Competition


How the marking works

Every year we recieve far too many entries for one person to mark, and so, in the spirit of fairness, a mark scheme is adhered to by our PhD Markers. Our PhD Markers, are Doctoral students at Imperial College London who very generously give up their time to read the entries. Once marked, the top five entries in the Imperial students category, and the top five entries in the school & college category are sent to our panel of judges, who, then pick a winner and runners up for their respective questions. Our Lead Judge, Professor Lord Robert Winston will then decide on an overall winner out of the four winners. The runner up of the question category from which the overall winner was selected becomes the winner for that question.



  


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