Victoria Holdsworth, 2007 severe flooding on the road to Kampala, Uganda / © Commonwealth Photographic Awards

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Commonwealth Essay Competition 2010: Science, Technology and Society Topics

Online entries are preferred but it's not the only way to take part!

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Island Prizes

The RCS loves to read work from the islands all around the Commonwealth…


We will raise up to £150 worth of prize money for the very BEST essays from each of these island regions:

Caribbean Islands

  • Anguilla, Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, St Kitts, St Lucia, St Vincent & the Grenadines, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos.

Mediterranean Islands

  • Cyprus, Gibraltar, Malta.

Atlantic Islands

  • Falklands, St Helena

Pacific Islands

  • Fiji, Kiribati, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu.

Indian Ocean Islands

  • Maldives, Mauritius, Seychelles, Sri Lanka.

Entries to the Essay Competition are now open!

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