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Every year, Immerse Education run two Essay Competitions to inspire a sense of motivation in young people around the world, as well as open up doors to our outstanding summer courses taking place in world-renowned locations. Participants choose from a range of questions from a variety of subject categories and enter by the deadline to be in with a chance of winning a full or partial scholarship to study on one of our programmes. Here you’ll find past winning entries from previous rounds.

For further information about our essay competition, visit our dedicated essay competition page where you’ll get answers to our most frequently asked questions, access to a full essay competition guide and free tips to boost your chances of winning straight to your inbox every week!

2019 Essay Competition Winners

• Indigo Henning’s Winning Essay (Engineering)
• 16-18 Category Winning Essay (Earth Sciences)
• 13-15 Category Winning Essay

Other 2019 Competitions held by Immerse Education

• App Competition Winner (Léo Wújì Yangkai Procházka)
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2020 Essay Competition Winners

• 2020 Essay Competition Winners – Winning Essay
• 2020 Essay Competition Winners – 16-18 – Winning Essay

2021 Essay Competition Winners

• 2021 Essay Competition Winner – Law
• 2021 Essay Competition Winner – Medicine

2022 Essay Competition Winners

• 2022 Essay Competition Winner – Business Management
• 2022 Essay Competition Winner – Chemistry
• 2022 Essay Competition Winner – 16-18 – Earth Sciences
• 2022 Essay Competition Winner – 16-18 – Physics
• 2022 Essay Competition Winner – 16-18 – Creative Writing

2023 Essay Competition Winners

• 2023 Essay Competition Winner – 16-18 – Business Management
• 2023 Essay Competition Winner – 13-15 – Medicine
• 2023 Essay Competition Winner – 16-18 – Coding
• 2023 Essay Competition Winner – 16-18 – Female Future Leaders
• 2023 Essay Competition Winner – 16-18 – Biology

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Immerse Education essay competition winners were awarded 100% scholarships to summer schools in Cambridge, Oxford, London and Sydney. The next round of free competition is open until 4th January 2023.

Back in 2021, 14-year-old Kornelia’s school in Poland invited her to take part in a competition hosted by Immerse Education. The rules were simple - write a 500 word essay, answering a subject-specific question set by the educational summer school company Immerse Education.

“I was so taken aback, I could not believe what I was seeing! On my way back from school I decided to open my emails, not expecting much in all honesty. Immerse’s name popped up and I stopped.”

Kornelia, quoted above, was one of ten students per year awarded a 100% fully-funded scholarship, and joined the Immerse Education programme in 2022.

When students are invited to take part in an essay competition, it can often feel as though they are putting a lot of effort in for something that may never happen. For scholarship winners like Kornelia, Pedro, Riya and Noor, this thought had also crossed their minds. It’s a lot of work, on top of school assignments, to make time to go through the process of writing a university-style essay.

Noor also won a 100% scholarship, attending the Law Academic Insights programme in 2022.

The essay that Noor wrote was in response to the question ‘What is an example of modern slavery?’. A sensitive and nuanced topic such as this one made Noor stop to think - making sure to create a carefully considered answer.

“I found out about the essay competition through my school in Pakistan. When I read about the prizes that participants could win I was surprised. The essay prompts for all the subjects were genuinely fascinating and thought provoking, which made me want to write an essay even if I didn’t win.”

Essay writing is a skill which, like any other skill, needs to be practiced and developed over time. Critical thinking and constructing persuasive arguments which are also backed up with water-tight research is a skill that many students struggle to master, making this free-to-enter competition a fantastic way to develop essay writing skills outside of school.

We spoke to a member of the Immerse Education essay competition team about how they choose the winning essays.

“We receive thousands of competition entries every year from students all over the world. Marked anonymously by our panel of expert tutors, each essay is given careful consideration, and a score based on impact and clarity amongst a variety of other aspects that make an excellent essay. We’re thrilled to be able to give this opportunity to everyone, and it’s great to meet the scholarship winners when they attend the programme of their choice in the summer”

The essay competition is running again in 2022 and 2023, and is open to all students, from anywhere in the world. The competition offers the opportunity for students to practice their essay-writing skills, with essay questions on over 25 topics. Although the 100% scholarship prize is only awarded to 10 winners, Immerse Education also awards runners-up with partial scholarships of up to 50% off their summer school.

You can read both Noor’s and Kornelia’s story and a selection of other 100% scholarship winners here .

Learn more about the Immerse Education Essay Competition here . The current competition closes on the 4th of January 2023.

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Immerse Education opened their Essay Competition round for 2023 programmes. With this competition, participants like you get the chance to showcase your subject knowledge and essay writing skills, with the opportunity to win a full scholarship to one of their 2023 programmes in Oxford, Cambridge, London or Sydney.

The immerse education essay competition provides the opportunity for students aged 13-18 to submit essay responses to a pre-set question relating to their chosen subject. 10 winners will receive a 100% scholarship, with runner-up prizes also awarded.

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There is a specific list of topics for 13-15 years students and 16-18 years students. Check their website for the topics you can write about.

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2021 Immerse Education Essay Competition

We recently received the news that two Chengelo students won awards in the January round of the 2021 Immerse Education Essay Competition . The competition offers applicants the opportunity to win full or partial scholarships to participate on the Immerse summer programme at Cambridge or Oxford Universities. For more information visit their website: https://www.immerse.education/essay-competition/

Students Sesame Moetse and Mulambo Mwambu Haimbe were both awarded 10% scholarships for their essays! Our congratulations to both students for their hard work! You can read their award-winning essays below:

Justice, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, is the vigorous administration of what is considered just; fair. The above definition is the standard definition of justice; however, the question being posed is what does justice mean. The answer is justice means to uphold what others think is fair, justice is a dependent ideal. An excellent example to further iterate my point is the application of Jedburgh justice in early Scotland. Clearly those aware of the basic principles of Jedburgh justice compare it to lynch law, the persecution and execution of suspects without a free and fair trial, however residents of Scotland who may have lived under Jedburgh law see it as just, simply because their principles agree with the application of Jedburgh law. Another example would be popular justice, the application of justice according to popular beliefs and popular assumptions of guilt. To say that justice is not based on personal principles and is simply a dependent form of ethics, dependent on the views of a specific society or group of peoples, is inappropriate considering that popular justice and Jedburgh justice are still considered forms of justice. For the sake of this publication a survey was conducted amongst a group of year nine pupils and the vast majority all agreed that justice is the fair and impartial treatment of someone.

However, those statements can be brought to question by recent events in the year two-thousand-twenty. The violent murder of George Floyd, which sparked widespread protest across various states in The United States of America, would be considered justice by the police officers on the scene in accordance with Floyd’s alleged resist of arrest and possession of counterfeit money. Obviously what happened to Mr. Floyd was not justice especially in the eyes of the public but it was considered just action by the officers and the police department who only dismissed the officers after great outrage in the city of Minneapolis. Breonna Taylor, another African-American, was killed in the comfort of her home by police officers. Another tragic example as to why justice is a dependent ideal.

Police simply barged into Miss Taylor’s home and shot her. The police used their powers that were vested in them to withhold justice, to withhold their own form of justice because they saw Breonna Taylor as a suspect.

Even in the legal system justice is completely dependent on the judgement of a judge, the attractiveness of an attorney’s arguments when faced with a trial requiring a jury, the personal biases of a jury and the decisions they will make determining someone else’s future. Does it sound fair and impartial to have a privileged, comfortable jury sit and judge an underprivileged and misunderstood black teenager with a history of thuggery?

In conclusion justice may have a root definition but it is dependent on several factors such as biases and personal views. Justice is simply an ideal that has standards that cannot be upheld stringently as a result of differing opinions and mind-sets.

References: Black’s law dictionary. Dictionary.cambridge.org Independent.co.uk Merriam-webster.com

I have heard many explanations of what justice means by many different people. For me as a 15 year old girl truly justice is the search for peace by making sure that everyone’s individual rights matter and everyone is treated fairly. The world will be a better place to grow in when the color of your skin, your sexuality or where you come from are not the reason why you are treated differently. It is not justice to judge people on the basis of things over which they have no control such as place of birth, skin color, sexuality or even religious beliefs.

Nevertheless, all over the world today many people are denied equality and justice for such reasons. One case is that Elijah McClain in the United States. He was a 23-year-old black male walking home from a convenience store when someone called the police, claiming that Elijah “looked sketchy’’. When they arrived the police placed him under arrest. Elijah tried to assert his rights by resisting arrest, but the police forced him to the ground and restrained him with a chokehold (which is banned). Later when they realized that Elijah had stopped breathing, they called the Paramedics to the scene who rushed him to hospital. He died four days later.

Cases like that of Elijah McClain is an example of the kind of injustice that should be stopped all over the world. He was accused, judged and condemned on the basis of his skin colour. It could as easily have been on the basis of his gender, place of origin or religious beliefs. Placing somebody under arrest and restraining him with a chokehold that results in his death just for appearing “sketchy,” is in my view justice betrayed by the officers who should protect it. The fact that the police officers don’t go on to face any charges is not justice either.

There are some general ideas about justice that I learn from the case. Firstly, every human being has a right to a fair trial. He got none. Secondly, no person should walk home fearful of being arrested just because someone does not like the way he or she looks. Thirdly, everybody is equal before the law and must be treated the same way. Lastly, human beings feel a sense of pride, peaceful closure

and secure when justice is served. The satisfaction we get is not from the pleasure of seeing the culprit suffer, but the assurance that we live in a society in which human life, peace and harmony are sacred, as Rachel Dawes says, “Justice is about harmony, revenge is about making yourself feel better”.

To me justice means creating a world where people live in peace with each other, knowing that wrong will be punished or corrected and that you don’t have to be rich or in a position of power to be treated fairly. Justice makes our world a better a place for children to grow in.

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I can see an upcoming lawyer and a human activist in these two essays.

Exceptional writing. Can’t wait to read your first books.

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Results of The Immerse Education Essay Competition 2021

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The results of the below competition are in and available HERE . Congrats and mabrouk to so many of our students on their success. Well done to all students who participated and thank you to their teachers who willingly and very ably supported. Bravo! 

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The Immerse Education Essay Competition offers students the opportunity to win a 100% scholarship to participate on an Immerse academic programme. 

Academic enrichment programmes in Cambridge University and Oxford University colleges provide unique study abroad experiences designed for motivated young learners from around the world. Online academic programmes deliver the highlights of these programmes in a dynamic virtual environment. 

In order to enter, students aged 13-18 were required to submit essay responses to a pre-set question relating to their chosen subject and age group. From Medicine ,  Computer Science ,  Physics ,  Engineering ,  Creative   Writing ,  English   Literature , and  many more subjects , there was a category for every area of interest. Students from all nationalities were welcome to enter the competition.

Further details of the competition can be found here: https://www.immerse.education/essay-competition/ .

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Immerse Education Essay Competition 2021: What makes a good Doctor?

Four highly motivated Grade 10 students spent a portion of their Christmas holiday writing submissions for the Immerse Education Essay Competition in the hope of winning a 100% scholarship to attend a summer course at Cambridge University in the UK.  The competition is a challenging one: entrants must pick one question from a list of eighteen controversial topics and have only 500 words to defend their answer.  Essays must be fully referenced with footnotes and bibliography.  While we all have our fingers crossed for their success, we are quite simply hugely proud of them for taking the initiative to enter this competition – well done!

Below are two entrants’ essays on this topic ordered alphabetically by name of author:

What makes a good doctor.

Being a medical professional is considered one of the noble and ancient vocations in society. However, considering the plurality of people who become doctors, there must be a plethora of ways to go about being a doctor. This raises the question – what makes a good doctor?

It appears to be universally agreed upon and that medical professionals must put the patients well-being before all else in a quest to minimise suffering. The Hippocratic oath is, despite its age, considered an ethical benchmark even today. It seems so ingrained in all our understanding that it is barely questioned by patients and doctors alike. So when people, be it doctors or patients, talk about ‘good doctors’, what do they actually expect to see from them? More often than not, one will hear the words ‘competence’ and ‘empathy’ being muttered. Although this may seem a bit simplistic, come to think of it, those concepts may well be more intertwined than meets the eye. A competent doctor arrives at a correct and timely diagnosis, initiates an adequate and effective treatment. Key to what patients and their relatives consider great consultations is that their respective concerns, ideas and expectations are addressed, respected and incorporated into the decision making. Empathy forms the missing link. It can allow for a more profound rapport to be established between doctors and patients, helping to obtain a more detailed medical history and aid diagnostics. Obedience to a certain treatment can be improved by tailoring it to a patient’s needs, which, in turn, will improve outcomes. Maintaining a patient centered approach will help decide upon an adequate treatment in the first place. It is safe to say that throughout all stages of the patient’s journey, the idea of empathy has the potential to make the difference between a doctor and a good doctor. Having said all this, it seems by no means easy to display empathy at all times. Increasing specialisation and ever more detailed knowledge and understanding of subspecialities causes ever steeper knowledge gradients to make communication between doctors and patients difficult. This in turn prevents medical professionals from being able to fully dedicate themselves to patients. The increasing availability of in part questionable information and data can both empower patients or destroy the doctor-patient relationship. Similarly, the uncontested status of doctors as ‘demigods in a white coat’ appears to slowly decrease, rendering them to be seen as service providers rather than allies at times. These are changes that affect multiple aspects of society. Therefore, I would conclude that a doctor, as a person and profession, is a reflection of society as a whole. Hence, apart from detailed knowledge and profound understanding of their scientific field, traits that make a good doctor are the same that make a good person and empathy is found at the very core of it. A good doctor is someone who goes above and beyond the call of duty to put the well-being of his or her peers above their own. Someone who, regardless of their own cultural background, political ideology and ethnic heritage, goes out of their way to understand their patients. Finally, someone who, when needed, even forgoes the very science they dedicate their lives to, in order to make a patient feel well. After all, doctors treat patients, not conditions.

Bibliography:

• Dr. med. B. Hibbeler, “Was ist ein ‘guter’ Arzt”, Ärzteblatt 51-52 (2011) 28th December 2020
• Saint George University. Unknown Author, “What makes a good doctor?”, 04.02.2018 [ https://www.sgu.edu/blog/medical/what-makes-a-good-doctor/ last accessed: 3rd January 2021]
• Harvard Blogs. Unknown Author, “What makes a good doctor? Can we measure it?”, 20.03.2014 [ https://blogs.sph.harvard.edu/ashish-jha/2014/03/20/what-makes-a-good-doctor-and-can-we-mea sure-it/ last accessed: 3rd january 2021]
• The Lancet. Unknown Author, “What makes a good doctor?”, 28.08.2010 [ https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(10)61317-7/fulltext#articleInfo rmation last accessed: 29th December 2020]
• Physicians Practice. M. Byington, “What are patients looking for in a doctor?”, 10.05.2017 [ https://www.physicianspractice.com/view/what-are-patients-looking-physician last accessed: 2nd January 2021]

A doctor is defined as a person who has been trained in medical science, whose job is to treat people who are ill or injured. According to this definition, what makes you a doctor is clear: the licences and certificates. However, the question of what makes a good doctor is much broader, and for this reason this essay will focus on the comparison between empathy, objectivity and technical competence in relation to the patients recovery and well-being. Firstly, objectivity helps doctors, to a certain extent, to be professionally distant from their patients and apply skills and knowledge rather than emotions to make judgements about treatment for an effective recovery. For example, a heart surgeon uses high amounts of skill during a surgery. When getting emotionally engaged with a patient, the physician can make a biased decision that might not be helpful towards recovery. Emotional detachment is helpful for the doctor too, as the involvement can be difficult to handle mentally. Nevertheless, professionals have stated that complete objectivity is not even possible to achieve and that physicians will always make decisions slightly based upon emotions, experiences and their view of right and wrong. However, people have argued that empathy should be desired rather than objectivity anyways. This consists of listening to a patient but also communicating in a way that can be understood. Medicine should be about treating a person rather than simply curing an illness, and should be taken with a more holistic approach, as our emotional side is what makes us differ from a computer. Whilst a machine might have the technical competence to recognize symptoms and cure the illness, we as humans should ensure that we cure the patient. Many patients want an understanding physician, as this gives them a sense of security. Studies have shown that when this is achieved, the recovery process has a higher chance of being effective. This is partially because up to 30% of all illnesses are somatization, where the mind is involved in the physical condition and only when we relieve the mind we can treat the illness. Moreover, when we look at the patients as people we can prevent further illnesses in the long term by treating more than just the symptoms. A doctor can be differentiated from a good doctor by the balanced coexistence of objectivity and empathy. Whilst the objective side of a person is needed in making effective decisions, the empathic side is what distinguishes between treating a condition and curing a person. However, this must be carefully balanced, for too much objectivity leads to being very distant and too much empathy leads to faulty decision making, both ultimately being harmful to a patient. How this is balanced, however, ranges based on which field you are in, as a cardiologist performs a different job than a family doctor. With this in mind, we should evaluate the contents of studying medicine and consider teaching the students how to reach their own balance, by letting them deal with patients at an early stage, as there is no blueprint to becoming a good doctor. Each individual must find a balance of their own, to make a positive impact on the field and to become the best doctor they can possibly be.

Maren S. Bibliography: “Doctor_1 Noun – Definition, Pictures, Pronunciation And Usage Notes | Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary At Oxfordlearnersdictionaries.Com”, Oxfordlearnersdictionaries.Com , 2021 https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/doctor_1 [accessed 21 December 2020] Hirsch, Elliot, “The Role Of Empathy In Medicine: A Medical Student’s Perspective”, Journal Of Ethics | American Medical Association , 2021 [accessed 20 December 2020] Ross, Donald, “The Objectivity Illusion In Medical Practice”, Association For Psychological Science – APS , 2021 https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/the-objectivity-illusion-in-medical-practice (accessed 22 December 2020)

“What Makes A Good Doctor, And Can We Measure It?”, An Ounce Of Evidence | Health Policy , 2021 <https://blogs.sph.harvard.edu/ashish-jha/2014/03/20/what-makes-a-good-doctor-and-can-we-measure-it/ (accessed 20 December 2020)

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Provides The Opportunity For Students Aged 13-18 To Submit Essay Responses To A Pre-Set Question Relating To your Chosen Subject.

Immerse Education Essay Winner

February 1, 2022.

Praanjal Singh Sinver, a student of Grade 9, brought laurels to our school by winning a 20% scholarship for summer programs at Oxford, Cambridge and LSE through the Immerse Education Essay Competition.

The Immerse Education Essay Competition provides students aged between 13 and 18 with the opportunity to submit essays related to their chosen subject. Praanjal presented her essay on ‘Female Future Leaders’ where she expressed her thoughts on the challenges faced by today’s women in leadership roles.

Praanjal’s essay stood out amongst the other entries by bringing forward well formulated and clearly expressed thoughts on her chosen subject. We are proud of your achievement, Praanjal. Best of luck for all future endeavours!

SUBJECT: Female Future Leaders

TOPIC: What are the challenges faced by  today’s women in leadership roles?

For centuries, the woman has been relegated to posts such as being a ‘housewife’, a ‘caretaker’ of the  family and she has never been treated as somebody in the field of action in the real world, where she  does the same laborious jobs as males and gets the due credit. But, over the years evolution happened,  societies became broad-minded and today women are gaining prominence in the world of leadership,  such as entrepreneurship, political leadership, sports team leader etc.

When we move forward with the times, gender discrimination has not left the society, which prevails  to be one of the most pressing challenges faced by women today in leadership roles, women have been  in leadership positions for a long time but they are yet to get their due credit, male employees believe  that women lack the “authority” or the “assertiveness” to take on an extremely important responsibility;  certain studies show that the people from all countries are still not quite comfortable with women  leading and they choose to spread hate and defame them, with the simple reason being that sexism and  male chauvinism brought this out of them. These reasons are at the basis of the issues that have arisen  for female leaders, and while many are aware that they are biased, they refuse to acknowledge  it. Another problem that arises for women leaders is the management of many roles. Women are more  likely than men to leave their jobs to raise families; It shouldn’t be a choice between a child and a career; it is difficult for a woman to reclaim power and influence as a leader once she has been out of the  workforce for a spell.

According to a recent study, even in countries with lengthy histories of female leadership much of the  public remains adamantly opposed to the idea of women in power. The Reykjavik Index 1 measures female leadership views of the G7 countries and others during 2020 to 2021, the survey had Its recent  poll consisting of over 20,000 adults and yielded some unexpected and disappointing results; the survey  revealed that only 38% of the people were open to the idea of having a woman as the head of a  government or the CEO of a company. Despite Angela Merkel’s long tenure as a chancellor, only 41%  of Germans indicated they felt comfortable having a woman at the helm of government. Maia Sandu  made history by becoming Moldova’s first female president, Kamala Harris became the first woman  Vice President of USA; though they reached their dream positions they were no exception and had gone  through the immense struggle.

Despite the reality that these circumstances will persist and torment, women must be applauded for their  indomitable spirit to prove themselves in different roles, our past culture has a significant impact on our  present societal values, there is a gradual change in men’s perception of women and I am sure gender  disparity will fade away soon and many more miracles can be experienced by women.

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• Catalyst. Workplaces that work for women, 10 Big Issues Women Face at Work and What Leaders Can Do to Help (Blog Post). 2017. 19 Jan 2017.

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