Important Dates & Deadlines
Competition Opens: Jan 15, 2024
Essay Submission Deadline: 10th May, 2024
Result Announcement: 20th June, 2024
Award Ceremony and Dinner* at the University of Cambridge: 30th July, 2024
*Only shortlisted students (awarded Honourable Mention or above) and their companies are invited to the ceremony and dinner.
Read the 2024 Essay Prompts
This year, the essays are contributed by distinguished professors from Harvard, Brown, UC Berkeley, Cambridge, Oxford, and MIT.
The judging panel of the competition comprises leading researchers and professors from Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Cambridge, and Oxford, engaging in a strictly double blind review process.
Awards and Award Ceremony
Award winners will be invited to attend the Award Ceremony and Dinner hosted at the King’s College, University of Cambridge on 30th July, 2024. The Dinner is free of charge for select award recipients.
Jan 15 2024 12:00 am (gmt), may 10 2024 11:59 pm (gmt).
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Magdalene College Arts and Humanities Essay Competition 2024 🔗 🌟 Any student in their penultimate year at a state school can enter this competition, which will open in early 2024. Last year, there were 12 questions covering a variety of topics within the arms and humanities - you can read the winning entries here 🔗. To register your interest in this competition for 2024, fill in this form 🔗.
Fitzwilliam College Essay Competitions: various subjects 🔗 🌟 Fitzwilliam College runs a variety of competitions in Ancient World and Classics, Archaeology, History, Land Economy, Medieval World, Architecture, and Economics (this last one is for state-school UK students only). All competitions are open to Year 12 students and are designed to encourage students to pursue their interests in subjects they might not be able to study in depth at school. Last year, the deadline for all competition entries was the 1st of March, so make sure to check back in early 2024 for updates.
Newnham College Woolf Essay Prize 🔗 🌟 The Woolf Essay Competition is focussed on women in literature, history, society and culture. There are also competitions for other subjects - more information these will be coming soon. Webinars to help support your entry can be found here 🔗 . The deadline for the Woolf Prize last year was the 14th of July.
Girton College Humanities Writing Competition 🔗 An opportunity for students interested in pursuing any humanities subject to write creatively! Year 12 students may enter with an essay or piece of creative writing using an object from Girton College’s small antiquities museum, the Lawrence Room, as their prompt.
Robinson College Essay Prize: various subjects 🔗 Year 12 students may submit an essay of up to 2,000 words in response to one of the set questions, which cover a wide variety of academic subjects. The prize did not run in 2023, but may in 2024.
Trinity College Essay Prizes 🔗 These competitions give entrants the opportunity to write an essay of up to 2,000 words in response to the set question/(s). Last year there were competitions for English Literature, Launguages, Linguistics, Philosophy, Politics, Law, and History.
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The competition invited Year 12 students from UK state-maintained schools to submit a response to one of twelve essay questions, which encompassed a variety of Arts and Humanities subjects available to study at undergraduate level at the University of Cambridge. In its first year, the competition attracted over 110 excellent entries.
First Prize was awarded to Edward Morgan from King James’s School in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire. Edward’s fantastic essay addressed the question ‘Can artificial intelligence create art, and what issues does this raise?’.
Two entries were deemed deserving of Second Prize, which was awarded jointly to Ansruta Ayyalasomayajula from Rugby High School in Warwickshire, and Evie Neppl from Brentwood Ursuline Convent High School in Essex. Ansruta’s essay discussed the merits of English as an ‘international language’, whilst Evie’s reflected on the concept of evil and its implications for studies of philosophy and religion.
Third Prize was awarded to Isaac Sallé from Aylesbury Grammar School for his essay on reading literature for escapism.
Honourable Mentions were also awarded to Ayman Hussain (Archbishop Blanch School, Liverpool), Erin O’Hare (Upton Hall FCJ, Wirral), and Lucy Smith (Beverley Joint Sixth Form, East Yorkshire).
All winners and their guests have been invited to a prize-giving celebration at Magdalene College.
The judging panel, composed of Magdalene Fellows from across the Arts and Humanities, provided the following feedback to entrants:
The judges were extremely impressed with the overall quality of the essays that they read, and in particular with the range of responses given to the different set questions. These showed ingenuity, independence of mind, critical thinking, and creativity, as well as a great deal of research and effort. The essays were characterful, interesting, and enjoyable to read, and it was very difficult to pick winners. We recognise that many excellent essays have unfortunately gone unrewarded, but congratulate everyone on their efforts.
You can read the prize-winning essays below.
First Prize
Joint Second Prize
Third Prize
Honourable Mention
Each year, Fitzwilliam College runs essay competitions in a variety of subjects, allowing talented pupils to explore their interests beyond the school curriculum.
The University of Cambridge seeks out students with a passion for their subject and who have investigated it outside the classroom. Our essay competitions provide students with an opportunity to engage with their interests in this way, allowing them to demonstrate their enthusiasm for their subject.
This year we will be running essay competitions in Ancient World and Classics, Archaeology, Economics, History, Land Economy, Medieval World and Slavonic Studies. We will additionally be running an Architecture design competition. Further particulars and this year's questions can be found at the links below. Please read the competition rules and submission guidelines carefully before entering a competition.
Ancient World and Classics
Archaeology
Economics (for state-school UK students only - please see link for details on eligibility)
Land Economy
Medieval World
Slavonic Studies
Architecture – students wishing to enter the Architecture Design Competition may find this plan of Fitzwilliam College and information on the history of Fitzwilliam’s buildings useful
The deadline for all competitions is 6pm on Friday 1st March 2024 .
Competition rules
These essay competitions are exclusively for students in their penultimate year of education (Year 12 in England and Wales, S5 in Scotland, Year 13 in Northern Ireland). They are open to students in any country but submissions must be written in English.
Submissions should strictly adhere to the word limit set out in the subject brief (2500 words for Archaeology, Classics & Ancient World, History, Land Economy, Slavonic Studies and Medieval World; 1500 words for Economics; 500 words for the Architecture narrative), and contain a bibliography at the end. The word count should exclude the bibliography, but include any footnotes. Each page should be numbered and contain the applicant's full name.
We understand that not all students will have previous experience of writing a bibliography, and may not have equal access to advice on doing so. We therefore include this link to guidance on how to correctly use the Harvard referencing system. Anyone who wishes to use a different referencing system is free to do so.
Students are only permitted to enter one competition and may only submit one entry to that competition. There is a strict limit of five submissions per school for each competition. If more than five students from the same school enter the same competition, a teacher from that school will be contacted and asked to select the five entries; failure to do so will result in all submissions from the school to that competition being disqualified. Please note that this limit does not apply to Sixth Form Colleges where year groups are over 1000 students in size. When submitting an essay, the student will be asked to provide the name and email address of a teacher who may be contacted in order to verify the submission.
The submission must be entirely the individual student's work and must not be submitted or have been submitted to an exam board as part of any coursework or extended essay, either in part or in full.
Anyone who wishes to enter an essay competition must complete the online form .
Submissions can be uploaded to the online form in a PDF format. If the file size is too big to upload to the form, please email your submission to [email protected] . We can also accept entries by post. Please address postal submissions to: Schools Liaison Officer, Fitzwilliam College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DG.
You should receive an email confirmation after submitting the form. If you do not receive confirmation within 24 hours, please contact us at the email address below. Any technical difficulties will be dealt with on the next day, and students affected may be allowed to submit late in some circumstances.
Students preparing submissions who would like advice on essay writing may wish to seek advice from our two essay writing webinars:
**Please note, due to an issue with recording, this is last years webinar. All the information is the same bar these two changes**:
The webinars are delivered by the Schools Liaison Officer - the first webinar focuses on initial planning, research, and structuring of an academic essay, while the second provides advice on how to finalise arguments, edit, and reference your essays. Please email [email protected] with any questions about this event.
If you have any questions relating to the competitions please contact us on [email protected]
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Participate in the Immerse Education Essay Competition for a chance to win a full or partial scholarship to our university and career preparation programs. Since 2020 the competition has offered ambitious students the opportunity to win a full or partial scholarship on our award-winning programmes.
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The Immerse Education Essay Competition provides the opportunity for students aged 13-18 to submit essay responses to a question of their choice relating to a subject of interest. Immerse annually updates its questions to inspire students to delve deeper into their favourite subjects. There are over twenty questions to choose from which can be found in our full Essay Competition Guide. 10 winners will receive a 100% scholarship to study with us at a world-leading university of their choosing. Outstanding runners-up also receive partial scholarships.
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Any student who submits a full-length essay , but doesn’t receive a scholarship, will be eligible for the option of a £1000 voucher for our residential programmes, a £500 voucher for our Online Research Programmes, or a £250 voucher for our Group Online Research Programme.
Enhance your academic profile for university applications. Partial winners receive completion certificates – and those who write outstanding essays also receive comments from our remarkable guest judges.
University interviewers want you to discuss the subject you’re applying for with genuine enthusiasm. They look for depth of understanding and the ability to articulate your thoughts clearly. Writing an essay deepens your knowledge and improves your ability to present complex ideas.
Our essays are assessed against a mark scheme designed by academic experts. Completing an essay allows you to experience academic writing, promoting related skills like research, critical thinking and editing. Immerse provides support every step of the way.
You’re not on your own. To help your essay shine, Immerse Eduction provides guides, tips and support.
Students can submit an essay if they will be 13-18 years old when the programmes for which the scholarships are valid begin.
Register interest to access the Essay Competition Guide with all the questions, tips and guidance on plagiarism, AI & referencing. You can also attend one of our regular essay writing webinars to level-up your writing.
Expert judges assess the essays based on their content, quality of research and critical analysis. Elements like word choice and structure, evidence and inference, as well as vocabulary spelling, grammar and punctuation are also assessed. Student age groups are also taken into consideration.
If you win a scholarship, you can use it toward one of our renowned online programmes or one of our award-winning residential courses in any of our locations including Oxford Cambridge, London, Sydney and New York to name a few.
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This online programme sees students work in a 1-1 or a group session with tutors from renowned institutions like Cambridge, Oxford, and Ivy League schools. Each student undertakes advanced research in a topic of their interest, culminating in a full-length academic research paper.
Our guest judges and markers are chosen for their exceptional subject matter knowledge and the prominence of their organisation in industries aligned with our essay topics. Many of them come from a teaching or academic background with advanced degrees in political science, English, business, physics, medicine, creative writing and more. This diverse expertise ensures that our judging process is both rigorous and insightful.
The essay competition assessment criteria look at academic writing qualities like research and evidence, word choice and critical analysis, in addition to spelling, grammar & punctuation. Student age groups and are also considered in this assessment.
Hear from our previous winners, register interest for these essay-writing resources, how to enter, essay questions, writing tips, referencing guide, submission guidelines, judging criteria, winning essays.
The Immerse Education Essay Competition is open to entries from young people aged 13-18 interested in all subjects, from Architecture to Medicine, Creative Writing to Film Studies. However, students aged 18 should only submit an essay if they will still be 18 when the programmes the scholarships are valid for begin.
Any scholarships or vouchers awarded during the current round of the essay competition will only be valid for 2025 Immerse Education Programmes
Immerse provides a full essay-writing guide which is sent to your email address once you register your interest in the competition. This guide includes a full list of essay questions, our essay specification, top tips for writing an academic essay, referencing guidance, our terms and conditions and guidance on plagiarism! Registering interest also ensures that you’re on track to submitting your essay on time, through a series of helpful reminder prompts. To support further you can register for our webinars , which offer top tips and guidance with essay writing from our experts. You are also welcome to explore our creative writing resources .
Funded scholarship to study abroad: Our essay competition offers students like you the chance to win a full or partial scholarship to one of our Online Programmes or residential programmes in locations such as Oxford, Cambridge, Sydney, London and more.
Ongoing support from Immerse while you write: Full support from our team as you write your essay, with free guides and top tips to help you along the way. Sign up to receive our full Essay competition Guide and free tips and tricks as you write. You can also follow us on Instagram and Tik Tok to get more useful essay writing tips.
Demonstrate what you know: The competition is a chance for you to demonstrate your content knowledge by answering advanced university-style questions.
Build your skills and knowledge: The opportunity to apply and advance your essay writing skills. You will likely learn something new in the process!
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Essays are graded by expert markers and guest judges who assess the essays across the following criteria:
Scholarship offers depend on the grades that students achieve. The higher the grade a student receives, the higher the likelihood of achieving a 100% or high partial scholarship.
The essay competition receives thousands of entries each year, and with the vast number of high-standard entries, we acknowledge the efforts of all participants who have dedicated their time to completing an essay. As such, beyond our full and high-partial scholarships we provide further offers to entrants to facilitate access to our transformative programmes.
If you win a scholarship via the Essay Competition 2024/2025 you can use it toward any residential course in any of our locations. Use your scholarship to enrol on one of our renowned online programmes* or enriching in-person/residential summer school programmes in cultural melting pots such as Cambridge, Oxford, London, New York, Toronto, Sydney and more.
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No, there is no entry fee and you do not need to have already enrolled onto any of our programmes to take part in the essay competition.
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GEORGE BRIDGETOWER essay competition hosted by the Alexander Crummell Fund.
George Bridgetower essay competition for students
Departments, Faculties and Colleges are asked to pass this information to their students.
Current Cambridge undergraduate and postgraduate students are invited to enter the George Bridgetower Essay Prize Competition. This annual competition was previously hosted in partnership with the Legacies of Enslavement Inquiry and the Alexander Crummell Fund, and is currently coordinated by the Black Advisory Hub .
With a prize of £1,000, essays must be a maximum of 2500 words, and creative interpretation of the traditional supervision essay is welcome. The due date is 1 September 2024, with further information about this year's essay question, the submission process, student eligibility and the judging criteria all available here .
Read the 2023 winning essay here
‘From 1849 to 1853, the abolitionist and pan-Africanist Alexander Crummell studied at Queens’ College, Cambridge. His graduation ceremony was an historic occasion for Cambridge, as Crummell is the first recorded Black graduate of the University*. At the ceremony, an individual from the gallery reportedly called out, “Three groans for the Queens’ n*****” … A pale slim undergraduate … shouted in a voice which re-echoed through the building, “Shame, shame! Three groans for you, Sir!” and immediately afterwards, “Three cheers for Crummell!” This was taken up in all directions … and the original offender had to stoop down to hide himself from the storm of groans and hisses that broke out all around him.’
C. Benson, Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, The Life of Edward White Benson, vol. 1 (1899), p. 109.
*Recent research concludes that Alexander Crummell was the first Black individual to fully matriculate, study with residence and graduate from Cambridge. However, the records do show that George Bridgetower (or sometimes Bridgtower) received a BMus in 1811 and can indeed be considered a graduate by the definitions of the time. The requirements for a Bachelor of Music were quite unlike those for other Bachelor’s degrees, as follows:
He must enter his name in some College. His exercise is a solemn piece of Music of his own composing (to be examined by the Professor before the performance) to be performed at the appointment of the Vice-Chancellor before the University. It is usually performed at St Mary's Church on the Commencement Sunday.
The Trinity Hall alumnus has a room in the College named after him and you can read more about him on the Trinity Hall website .
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The R.A. Butler Prize for essays in Politics and International Studies is a competition that can be entered by students in Year 12 or the Lower 6th. Candidates are invited to submit an essay on a topic to be chosen from a list of general questions announced in March each year, and to be submitted in August.
The Prize is jointly organised by Trinity College Cambridge and Cambridge University’s Department of Politics and International Studies. The Prize was established in memory of the former Master of Trinity College, Lord Butler, who most famously served as Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer, and who was responsible for the introduction of free secondary education for all students in the UK.
The objectives of the R.A. Butler Prize are twofold. Firstly, it aims to encourage students with an interest in modern politics and world affairs to think about undertaking university studies in Politics, International Studies or a related discipline; it is not limited to those already studying these subjects or indeed other social sciences. Secondly, its intention is to recognise the achievements both of high-calibre students and of those who teach them.
The 2024 competition has closed.
Format: Essays can be up to 3,000 words, including all footnotes and references but excluding the bibliography. It’s worth considering the use of examples in your essays: the best essays often use a diverse selection of contemporary, historical or literary examples. We encourage you to provide references to your sources of information, and to include a bibliography at the end of the essay. There is no recommended referencing or bibliographic style – use whatever format you think works best. Please include your name on the document and save the file as “Surname, First name”.
Eligibility: The Prize is for students in Year 12 or Lower 6th at the time the questions are released in March. Students based abroad are most welcome to participate. To be eligible, you must be in your penultimate year of school. That is, to be eligible for the 2024 competition, you should be expecting to receive your final school results in the year from September 2024 to August 2025. This condition is held to strictly and, to be fair to the participants, no exceptions are made. Each entrant to the competition is allowed to submit only one essay.
Submissions: Essays must be submitted by 12 noon (UK time) on Thursday 1 August 2024. Please submit essays using the form below.
Prize: The competition carries a First Prize of £600, to be split equally between the candidate and his or her school or college (the school or college’s portion of the prize to be issued in the form of book tokens), and a Second Prize of £400, which again is to be shared equally between the candidate and his or her school or college. We award on average 8 special commendations each year and 40 additional commendations. Winners and recipients of special commendations will be announced in September, and will be invited to visit the College to meet some of the teaching staff.
Contact: Any queries from students who may be interested in submitting work for the prize, or their teachers, should be directed to Dr Glen Rangwala by email to: [email protected] .
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1st Prize: John Paul Cheng (Winchester College, Winchester) 2nd Prize: Fela Callahan (Harris Westminster Sixth Form, London)
1st Prize: Eunju Seo (North London Collegiate School Jeju, Republic of Korea) 2nd Prize: Luke Grierson (High Storrs School, Sheffield)
1st Prize: Saumya Nair (Cheltenham Ladies’ College, Gloucestershire) 2nd Prize (joint): Liyana Eliza Glenn (Home-schooled, UK) 2nd Prize (joint): Amr Hamid (St Paul’s School, London)
1st Prize: Lydia Allenby (Gosforth Academy, Newcastle upon Tyne) 2nd Prize: Louis Danker (City of London School, London)
1st Prize: Matthew Gursky (Hall Cross, Academy, Doncaster) 2nd Prize: Evie Morgan (Ipswich School, Ipswich)
1st Prize: Gergely Bérces (Milestone Institute, Budapest, Hungary) 2nd Prize (joint): Tatyana Goodwin (Varndean College, Brighton) 2nd Prize (joint): Eloise George (Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge)
1st Prize: Folu Ogunyeye (Aylesbury High School) 2nd Prize: Eve McMullen (Minster School, Southwell)
1st Prize: Silas Edwards (St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School, Bristol) 2nd Prize: Eliza Harry (Greene’s Tutorial College, Oxford)
1st Prize: Stephen Horvath (Westminster School, London) 2nd Prize: Grace Elshafei (Sevenoaks School, Kent)
1st Prize: Oscar Alexander-Jones (St Paul’s School, London) 2nd Prize: Sam Maybee (King Edward VI Five Ways School, Birmingham)
1st Prize: Eleanor Shearer (Westminster School) 2nd Prize (joint): Stephanie Clarke (Lancaster Girls’ Grammar School) 2nd Prize (joint): Will Barnes (Manchester Grammar School)
1st Prize: Kiah Ashford-Stow (King Edward VI School, Southampton) 2nd Prize: Jamie Sproul (Stamford School)
1st Prize: Aman Rizvi (Winchester College) 2nd Prize: Frans Robyns (Kings College School, Wimbledon)
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Fourth circuit announces winners of 2024 essay contest.
Has the decision in Brown , viewed through the lens of 2024, achieved its purpose of ensuring equal opportunity in public education?
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit is pleased to announce the winners of its 2024 Essay Contest. The contest, which ran from February 20, 2024, to May 31, 2024, was open to current students in grades 9-12 in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina.
High School
First Place--$2,000 Award: Kennedy Grams, a rising senior, Pikesville High School, Baltimore, Maryland. Read the First Place Essay
Second Place--$1,500 Award: Elaine Deng, a rising senior, HCS Scholars Academy, Conway, South Carolina. Read the Second Place Essay
Third Place--$1,000 Award: Asher Ermentrout, a rising sophomore, Grimsley High School, Greensboro, North Carolina. Read the Third Place Essay
Middle School
First Place--$500 Award: Makayla Macklin, a rising freshman, Union Day School, Weddington, North Carolina Read the First Place Essay
Second Place--$350 Award: Isabelle Yam, a rising 7th grader, The Langley School, McLean, Virginia. Read the Second Place Essay
Third Place--$200 Award: Aydin Soner, a rising 7th grader, homeschooled, Columbia, South Carolina. Read the Third Place Essay
Students were invited to consider and share their thoughts on the question: " Has the decision in Brown , viewed through the lens of 2024, achieved its purpose of ensuring equal opportunity in public education? " The court received excellent essays from students in all five states.
Awards will be presented at the Constitution Day program scheduled for September 26, 2024, at 3:00 p.m. at the Lewis F. Powell, Jr. U.S. Courthouse in Richmond, Virginia.
The court extends its appreciation to its distinguished panels of judges for their work in reviewing the essays and selecting the top three submissions:
For more information about the contest, visit Courts4Civics .
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Students who engage with, or lead and organise a special interest group during their time at Cambridge, often experience numerous benefits. These experiences allow them to further develop and apply their leadership and communication skills, which are essential components of the Cambridge MBA programme.
In November, at the start of the MBA year, the Energy and Environment SIG hosted an inaugural series of talks with external speakers from Roland Berger’s market report team.
“Initiating the academic year’s agenda, SIG members engaged in discussions and a democratic selection process to determine the primary learning focus, culminating in the choice of Carbon Capture Usage and Storage (CCUS) as the inaugural topic,” explains SIG leader and current student Kenji Niwa.
Kenji continues, “The event comprised not only a wealth of industry insights through a comprehensive presentation but also an interactive segment that encouraged active participation and robust discussions.”
In 2023 the newly formed AI special interest group was established, reflecting the future of business intelligence.
Romit Kapoor, became the Chair – “AI was just starting to take off when my MBA year began. Across Cambridge and the wider eco-system, the MBA cohort has had a lot of interaction with founders, with investors and with thought leaders in very exciting spaces like AI. There are so many interesting people across the entire value chain to speak to in Cambridge. Alongside the founders and investors, you also have the technical skill in Cambridge, from researchers to engineers.”
He continues, “Becoming the Chair of the AI SIG, really helped me to connect with this wider eco-system.”
The AI SIG organised a series of events across the industry, which was really helpful for me to understand what the market wants, what I can do to get those skills, and how the Business School can help me to get those skills.”
For Deeksha Wadhwa (MBA 2022), leading the Fintech SIG was an opportunity to, “Explore and understand the expectations and backgrounds of the SIG members. I was amazed at the diversity of experiences within the MBA and MFin cohort at the Business School.”
“Our sessions across my MBA year offered SIG members a glimpse into the everyday of the fintech industry, as well as the opportunity to network with fintech alumni, which resulted in a strong connection going forward.”
For current student Orobosa Isokpan, from Nigeria, being part of the recent Cambridge Africa Business Network annual conference was ‘an incredibly fulfilling experience’.
“As part of my MBA year I wanted to be part of this conference. The Africa Network at Cambridge Judge is already a SIG but there used to be an annual conference held each year at the Business School. This hadn’t taken place in person and on site since 2019 and I felt that it was important to bring it back, as a way to support the African students on the MBA.
“The 2024 Africa Conference provided a link between those students from African descent and outside businesses and business leaders in the financial space, those in the entrepreneurial space, as well as other spaces like music and entertainment, across Africa.
“Overall being part of the organising committee was incredibly challenging,” Orobosa explains, “I know that in my career I’ll be able to wear many hats. I helped set up many aspects of the event and the overall strategy. So having those skills that I was able to hone during the conference will definitely help me in my future career after my MBA.”
Doing an MBA offers unique opportunities to join in and take part in global competitions run by businesses, often only for MBA teams from top business schools. From venture competitions to win funding for business ideas to private equity and investment showcases, competitions offer more opportunities to network with fellow MBA students and industry experts in a given sector and in many cases overseas.
Ting Zhang (MBA 2021) entered the 21st Wharton Buyout Competition with an MBA team. He explains, “I had private equity experience in real estate but wanted to expand to look at deals in other sectors. The best way to gain this experience was through participating in competitions during my MBA.”
He continues, “It was a good way to gain valuable feedback on our investment logic and see how teams from other schools approached deals.”
Part of the same MBA team, Michelle Goh said, “We are happy to be one of the finalist teams in the competition. We got to apply our MBA learnings to a case study, get feedback from the professional judges, and gain insights into how teams in other schools approach the case. The learnings can be readily applied to future competitions and in our future careers.”
The collaborative nature of the Cambridge MBA provides students with many opportunities to work together in teams. Students interested in specific sectors and with complimentary skills, can easily apply this to competitions that offer opportunities to test out their MBA skills on a global stage.
Competitions are also a great way to get some practical experience and more in-depth exposure to a sector of interest you wish to pursue in your career.
“During the first term I did a couple of competitions, and the experience was invaluable. So, I decided to leverage these opportunities throughout the year to broaden networks and explore different fields. The experience contributed to my career exploration,” explains Mayuko Yamaguchi (MBA 2021).
From day visits to businesses to short trips beyond the UK, treks are firmly back on the menu for our Cambridge MBA students.
Run by the student body themselves, previous treks have been from Dubai to Japan, from Dublin to Berlin.
“As has become a Cambridge MBA tradition, this year some of the students from Japan organised a business trek in which they would host a few students to spend a week travelling around their home country.
“The goals of the trek were to learn more about the culture, as well as visit some businesses to see how Japanese business is done,” explains current student and Cambridge Japan Business Club leader, Kenichiro Kaneko (MBA 2023).
Highlights include some of the meals taken together and experiencing local cuisines and cultures together as a group. Overall, the experience was one that ‘none of them would forget’.
Kenichiro concludes, “The hospitality shown by not only the businesses we visited, but from the locals, made us feel truly at home and we were excited to explore everything the country had to offer.”
Beyond the Business School community there is also a massive network of clubs and societies and events held across the University of Cambridge community.
There are more than 400 societies across the wider University of Cambridge eco-system. They range from sports clubs and arts groups to consulting networks and entrepreneurial societies, providing a chance to network with ambitious, likeminded people from across Cambridge.
Current student, Joanne Tan, from Singapore explains, “I wanted to broaden my perspectives and learn not just from the business curriculum and network at Cambridge Judge, but also from the wider Cambridge community made of many bright minds.
“Where else would you get all the world’s leading minds easily gathered in one place for you to gain new perspectives, and where the only likely hurdle here is the distance from your home to the lecture theatre?”
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On a backstreet near Central Square is one of the most secretive research and development labs in New England. The front door is behind a chain link fence. No name or logo is on it. Just a bell.
But if you’ve ever used an iPhone, you’ve likely encountered the work of Applied Invention , born in 2014. One cofounder, Danny Hillis, ran one of the highest-profile supercomputing companies of the late 1980s, Thinking Machines, before joining Disney and working on projects such as the Animal Kingdom theme park.
These days, Hillis and his team are working on mind-boggling initiatives, such as a mechanical clock designed to last 10,000 years, or small, torpedo-like underwater drones to gather data from beneath the surface of the ocean. In the center of the room is an elephant — well, an elephant-sized, four-legged robot — that they do not want to talk about.
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No one I knew had ever been inside Applied Invention. When I met a senior executive for lunch five years ago, the disappointing denouement to our meal was that it was unlikely anyone would talk to me on the record, let alone invite me for a visit. But I kept at it, because it seemed worth noting that Hillis — whose name is on more than 300 patents — was back in Cambridge after effectively vanishing in the mid-1990s.
In terms of public profile, Applied Invention is the opposite of Hillis’s high-flying Thinking Machines, which he cofounded in 1983 while earning a doctorate in math and computer science from MIT. That company built some of the world’s most powerful computers — used by American Express and the Pentagon and referenced in Tom Clancy novels and the first “Jurassic Park” film.
The renowned physicist Richard Feynman worked for the company, and its management dramas were covered regularly by this newspaper. Its computer, the Connection Machine, was displayed at the Museum of Modern Art. Thinking Machines aimed to advance the then-new field of artificial intelligence. Its motto: “Building a machine that will be proud of us.”
Thinking Machines grew to more than 500 employees and became an anchor company in what was briefly called “AI Alley” in Kendall Square. But it faced tough competition from bigger rivals and depended too much on government contracts. The company filed for bankruptcy in 1994.
Hillis went to Los Angeles to work for Disney’s famed Imagineering research division, where he was part of a team of technologists charged with keeping Disney ahead of other theme parks. “It was a world of artists and storytellers — a second education for me,” Hillis said.
After departing Disney in 2000, Hillis formed a consultancy called Applied Minds with Bran Ferren, a colleague in the Imagineering division. Many of the consulting firm’s clients were defense contractors such as Northrop Grumman and government agencies such as NASA. After a decade, Hillis said, he decided he wanted to work with mainstream companies as clients, and develop some of his ideas into startups.
Hillis spun off Applied Invention with a goal to “reengage with the intellectual community of Cambridge,” planting the company between MIT and Harvard. The company, which employs about 50, also has an office in Burbank, Calif.
Applied Invention has taken at least three different approaches to developing new technologies: working with clients who have a specific problem to solve; starting a company and then bringing in executives to lead it; and investing in products that were initially built by someone else.
Some examples of those approaches: Applied Invention is using artificial intelligence to help Sensei Farms, a California company cofounded by Oracle chief technology officer Larry Ellison, grow and distribute food. Applied Invention helped form Apeiron Labs, which is using underwater drones to lower the cost of gathering data from the ocean and make weather forecasting more accurate.
And if you’ve ever looked at the weather app on an iPhone, much of the forecasts and precipitation maps for your location were developed by a startup called Dark Sky. Applied Invention invested in Dark Sky and then helped its founders to improve the app. Apple acquired the app in 2020.
Another project, ZPR , which stands for “zero-trust packet routing,” wants to reshape the internet to provide more control over data security and identity. Imagine if each fragment of data carried a digital passport that proved who sent it. A ZPR network, Hillis explained , could prevent digital impersonation and discourage disinformation and deep fakes that depend on anonymity.
Applied Invention is collaborating with Oracle to promote ZPR as an open standard that other technology companies can adopt.
Perhaps the oddest — and most inspiring — Applied Invention project is called The Clock of the Long Now . Hillis first proposed the idea of a mechanical clock that could last for 10,000 years in a 1995 essay . The author and entrepreneur Stewart Brand helped create a nonprofit, The Long Now Foundation, to advance the idea, and the musician Brian Eno designed a way for 10 bells inside the clock to ring in a different combination every day for those 10 millennia. The project’s goal is to help people think about humanity’s impact over a longer timeline.
The clock is being built inside a mountain in west Texas, on land owned by Jeff Bezos. Applied Invention is doing much of the work on the design and components of the clock, which, according to Brand, could start ticking by the end of the decade.
The clock “is quintessential Danny,” said Lew Tucker, a colleague from the Thinking Machines era who has continued to collaborate with Hillis. “He has always been an inventor, a tinkerer, and a builder, and this was a really big thing that he was going to build.”
If it works, it could become one of those enduring artifacts that humanity creates, such as Stonehenge or the Egyptian pyramids — both only about 5,000 years old.
After I visited Applied Invention earlier this month, Hillis called to say that he and his cofounder, Daniel Abruytyn, were worried I would say too much about the company. They also decided they didn’t want the Cambridge employees to be photographed in the office. So Applied Invention, as it enters its second decade, retains at least some of its mystery.
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“The world of late antiquity” as a field of study since the 1970s is, perhaps, too often associated with a few specific Anglophone sites of elaboration and primarily with the intersections of early Christian studies (or, in another register, “patristics”) and post-Roman history (or, in another register, “classics”). The present volume, a Festschrift for Hebrew University professor Oded Irshai, is a salutary reminder that creative and generative thinking about late antiquity emerges from other, polyglot sites and can just as easily center Jews and Judaism alongside their Christian and “pagan” neighbors. Every contributor to the present volume (apart from co-editor and introduction author Martin Goodman) is a student, recent student, or faculty member in Israel and their offerings here traverse the same complicated grounds as the many works of Irshai himself: the social histories of religious contact, conflict, competition, and conquest in late antiquity, particularly among Jews and Christians, most notably in the fraught spaces of the “holy land.”
In an “ode to Oded” that opens the volume, Paula Fredriksen (who has co-written and co-taught with Irshai) explores Irshai’s “intellectual versatility,” engendered, in part, by a “late antiquicizing” postdoctorate year at Cambridge where he studied with, among others, Arnaldo Momigliano. Fredrisken then surveys three primary areas of Irshai’s vast publications (sacred violence, eschatology, and local real estate and power politics) before dwelling with real warmth on Irshai’s “intellectual generosity” (which I, too, have experienced during my career).
Following a brief introduction by Martin Goodman, who co-edited the volume with one of Irshai’s current doctoral students, the compact and uniformly smart set of essays unfolds in four uneven sections.
Three essays comprise the first section on “Religion and the Visual.” Yonatan Moss proposes a new solution to the riddle of the Helios mosaic found in Hammat Tiberias and other late ancient synagogues. Moss argues that the era of this mosaic’s construction was also one in which imperial imagery was uncoupled from its “pagan” associations with Sol Invictus and instead was seen as a secular echo of imperial imagery. On the one hand (a “minimalist” argument), this desacralization of the sun image made astrological representation more readily available to anti-idolatry mosaicists and synagogue heads. On the other hand (a “maximalist” argument) the de-divinized association between Constantinian emperors and sun imagery (as on coins) provided Jewish communities an opportunity to signal their affiliation with the imperial household, an opportunity that would become less available in the increasingly anti-Jewish fifth and sixth centuries.
Next, Noa Yuval-Hacham explores the brief emergence of a “hand of God” motif in Jewish art (a motif that would remain much more plentiful in Christian imagery of Late Antiquity). Beginning with the fulsome use of God’s hand in the paintings of the Dura Europos synagogue, Yuval-Hacham posits a Syrian origin for the motif, adopted by Jewish artists as it allowed them to find a representational “middle path between the hidden, formless God, and the God who is represented in human scale.” Yuval-Hacham then follows the path of the dual hands of God in the Dura scene of the parting of the Red Sea down various imagistic and interpretive byways of the fifth and sixth century.
In the final essay of this section, Zeev Weiss takes readers on a tour of late ancient Sepphoris, particularly its religious buildings (“a temple, two churches, and several synagogues”), with particular attention to how the Jews of Sepphoris might have lived in a typically multicultural urban space. While Moss’s essay in this section lacks any Helios images, Yuval-Hacham’s and Weiss’s essay each have several black-and-white images and reconstructions to help readers.
The longest section, on “Christian Perspectives,” comprises six essays. Yonatan Livneh revisits Cyril of Jerusalem’s promotion of his city’s interests; contra Jan Willem Drijvers’ argument that Cyril leveraged both the sacred sites of the city and its episcopal tradition stretching back to James, Livneh finds distinct reticence on the latter count, owing perhaps to rising anti-Judaism in the fourth century: “Jerusalem’s early history… remained a minefield.” Jacob Ashkenazi triangulates the efforts to establish a Christian capital between Juvenal, bishop of Jerusalem, and the empresses Eudocia and Pulcheria in the fifth century. Eudocia’s and Juvenal’s rival efforts in Jerusalem are placed in tension with Pulcheria’s efforts in Constantinople.
We move from episcopal politics to reinterpretations of sacred history. Osnat Rance (co-editor of the volume) gives a concise and persuasive summary of her argument to reassign the authorship and origins of an Encomium for the Martyrs found with other texts of Eusebius of Caesarea in a fifth-century Syriac manuscript. Per Rance, the particular sweep of martyrial history, from Old Testament martyrs to the third century CE, puts the text somewhere around Antioch after Eusebius’s death. In one of the more ambitious short offerings, Aryeh Kofsky and Serge Ruzer survey texts in Greek, Latin, and Syriac from Acts of the Apostles to the Cave of Treasures to trace diverse ideas about “Eschatological Ingathering of Israel in Early Christianity.” Oscillating between literal anticipation and spiritualized hesitation, this variety of texts from church orders to apocalypses to hagiographies index attitudes to Jews and Judaism among Christian thinkers.
Ora Limor brings her considerable expertise on relics and pilgrimage to the question of Jesus’s footprints at the Church of the Ascension, which began appearing in texts in Late Antiquity before being viewed by pilgrims, etched in stone, in the Middle Ages. Limor follows this trail from “text to texture”; what began as a marvel—footprints imprinted in sand that could never be wiped away—reported secondhand in literary texts in Rome and Gaul materialized as a stone monument centuries later witnessed by the pilgrims themselves. At issue, Limor suggests in her conclusion, may be internal Christian anxieties about divine embodiment as well as external competition, especially with Muslims, for proof of God’s ongoing presence in the holy land.
This section concludes with the most precise and focused of the essays: Daniel Schwartz’s correction of much modern interpretation of the verb ἐπηγάγετο in the Testimonium Flavianum as a pejorative reference to Jesus that might bolster the authenticity of the passage in question. Schwartz tracks this modern misinterpretation to a misreading of a parenthetical note in the nineteenth-century version of a sixteenth-century Greek lexicon. Nonetheless, Schwartz does not find in this correction an argument against the Testimonium ’s authenticity.
We turn to two essays from “Jewish Perspectives,” both of which assess Jewish (in both cases, rabbinic) views of Rome. Joshua Levinson plumbs the complexities of imperialized identity—through mimicry, magic, and diaspora refraction—in narratives of Palestinian rabbis sojourning in the Eternal City: “The journey to the heart of the other culture reveals that the very distinctions that enable identity are more unstable and porous than they may wish to acknowledge. Each side wears the other’s mask.” Levinson attempts a complex, even postcolonial read of rabbis considering Rome; Eyal Ben-Eliyahu’s aim is more concrete: to identify the two huts mentioned in rabbinic literature built by Romulus at the founding of the city in the actual landscape of late ancient Rome. Triangulating rabbinic and non-rabbinic evidence, Ben-Eliyahu lands on the “Casa Romuli” on the Palatine and Capitoline Hills.
The collection concludes with two essays on “Influence and Competition.” Hillel Newman brings us into the world of late ancient Jewish apocalypticism by placing the Sefer Eliyahu in literal dialogue (through juxtaposition of pertinent passages) with the Latin poet Commodian, particularly his apocalyptic Carmen de duo populis (which scholars date anywhere from the third through fifth centuries). Newman’s larger goal is to show that certain references to the apocalyptic “king from the East” may draw on common apocalyptic motifs dating long before the sixth century (he also adduces Lactantius to a lesser extent) and should not be taken as instances of vaticinia ex eventu that place the Sefer Eliyahu in a seventh-century context (Newman prefers the sixth century). The final essay, on “rest” in competitive Christian and Jewish contexts by Israel Jacob Yuval, comprises a vast sweep, both philosophical (“How did the idea of rest evolve?”) and historical, from Enūma Eliš to the Middle Ages, from Christian attempts to wrest rest from Saturday to Sunday to the deep—and perhaps very subtly anti-Christian—meditations of the Havdala liturgy.
Most of the essays are tightly focused on individual texts or images (or even on a single Greek word, in the case of Schwartz’s essay); only a few essays (by Kofsky and Ruzer, Limor, and Yuval) take a longer view of their subjects. They are all carefully argued and written (mistakes are few: a bishop’s death off by a decade, a passage ascribed to Genesis instead of Exodus) and they are refreshingly accessible, if not necessarily of immediate relevance, to all manner of students of late antiquity, no matter our particular specialization.
Readers will find that the essays cover a tremendous amount of ground, from divine imagery to ecclesiastical competition to pilgrimage to Jewish responses to empire. Should such a vast array of offerings seem too broad to those readers, it should be noted that these are topics all covered by Irshai himself, as the footnotes amply attest: as good Festschrifters , the authors here build on their honoree’s intellectual versatility and generosity.
Authors and Titles
PAULA FREDRIKSEN, with OSNAT RANCE — Ode to Oded
MARTIN GOODMAN — Introduction
Religion and the Visual
YONATAN MOSS — The Emperor’s New Clothes: the ‘Jewish Helios’ Enigma in its Christian Imperial Context
NOA YUVAL-HACHAM — Between Heaven and Earth: The Hand of God in Ancient Jewish Visuality
ZEEV WEISS — Shaping Religious Space: Pagans, Jews and Christians in Ancient Sepphoris
Christian Perspectives
YONATAN LIVNEH — Cyril’s New Jerusalem and His Omission of Local Church History
JACOB ASHKENAZI — Eudocia, Pulcheria, and Juvenal: Competition in the Field of Religion and the Built Environment of Jerusalem in the Fifth Century CE
OSNAT RANCE — ‘Although Their Names Escaped Me’: Local Patriotism and Saints Commemoration in Late Antique Syria
ARYEH KOFSKY and SERGE RUZER — Rethinking the Eschatological Ingathering of Israel in Early Christianity
ORA LIMOR — Divina Vestigia : Tracking the Early History of Jesus’ Footprints at the Mount of Olives
DANIEL R. SCHWARTZ — Reinach and Stephanus, Philo and Josephus: A Note on the Testimonium Flavianum
Jewish Perspectives
JOSHUA LEVINSON — When in Rome
EYAL BEN-ELIYAHU — Where were the Two Huts of Remus and Romulus in Rome?
Influence and Competition
HILLEL NEWMAN — The Hebrew Book of Elijah and Commodian’s Carmen de duobus populis
ISRAEL JACOB YUVAL — And the Rest is History: Sabbath versus Sunday
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