Competitions

2025 Prompt

D E S I G N  A  W E A R A B L E

Produce a 2-page PDF (If you have a bibliography, this can be a third page) with the sections detailing its purpose, target customer, aesthetics & design, functions & technologies. Your submission should demonstrate your quality of research, and clearly explain the need for the product and how your solution will deliver that need. There will be a winner and runners up chosen in the following award categories of our international engineering competition:

• Best inventive idea

• Most realistic idea

• Most visual submission

Every year, we invite students across the UK to tackle one of our academics’ ‘big’ questions. These are designed to challenge you beyond the school curriculum and get you thinking ‘big’ about your subject and what it might be like to study it at university. Simply record a video of 5 minutes or less presenting your arguments, research, evidence and opinions. 

To enter you must: live in the UK, attend a state school, be in Year 11, 12, or 13. Winners will be invited to visit Oxford where they will have the opportunity to discuss their entries with subject tutors, take a tour of the college, and enjoy lunch in the dining hall.

First Prize: £100   -   Second Prize: £50    -   Subject Awards: £35

How to enter:

• Send us a video of no more than 5 minutes in length.

• There’s no need for any fancy equipment, you can film on your phone if you like – we will be judging entries based on your engagement with the question.

• Your video doesn’t have to include your face - feel free to get creative! You could narrate a PowerPoint, record yourself drawing or even apply your TikTok-making skills…

• Submit your video as an unlisted YouTube video or via WeTransfer.

This was the question for 2025 - entries are now closed but visit the website to get updates for the next competition!