Competitions
We hold a range of competitions for students throughout the year, including our flagship annual TEXPO where students from local schools showcase their work and compete for prizes, and other projects and online activities. Find out more and enter here.
Results of our inaugural Imagine! STEM @ Home competition
Thank you to everyone who took part in our Imagine! STEM @ Home Bridge Building Competition. We were bowled over by the number, quality and diversity of entries received!
Deadline extended until 31 October!
For our centenary year, 2020, we have worked with Essex County Council and Chelmsford City Council to celebrate Essex 2020 – a year of Science and Creativity – with hundreds of events being organised by a range of organisations and people.
This county-wide STEAM festival is putting the creative arts into STEM, and as part of this CSES is running a Centenary Photographic Competition open to primary and secondary students in Essex.
A visual celebration of Science and Engineering in Essex
We want you to take and submit photographs which capture what is unique or special about science and technology from across our amazing county. From the longest pier in the world and the birthplace of radio, to Nobel prize winners, companies that put image sensors into space and much, much more...
Due to the COVID-19 situation we will unfortunately be unable to hold the CSES Schools' Competition this year.
If you were thinking of entering, we will gladly allow entries from this year to be presented next year. We'll announce the details once confirmed.
Thank you for your understanding, and the very best wishes for the coming months. Stay safe!
Congratulations to everyone who won an award at the 2019 Schools' Competition, which took place on Friday 28 June 2019 at Anglia Ruskin University.
Schools' Competition: Fri 28 June 2019, Marconi Building, Anglia Ruskin University
We are very pleased to announce that this year's CSES Schools' Engineering and Technology Competition is open for entries.
A reminder of the dates (both events at Anglia Ruskin University):
- The competition will take place on Friday 28 June 2019
- The awards evening will take place on Wednesday 17 July 2019
Please click here for full details and to enter the competition.
The deadline for entries will be Friday 21 June 2019, although please don’t wait for your project to be finished before entering. Spaces are available on a first-come-first-served basis.
If you have any questions, please contact us. We are happy to come into school and discuss or present if this would help.
We look forward to seeing you in June.
Schools' Engineering and Technology Competition: Fri 28 June 2019, Marconi Building, Anglia Ruskin University
We are pleased to announce the dates for our 2019 Schools' Competition:
- The competition will take place on Friday 28 June 2019
- The awards evening will take place on Wednesday 17 July 2019
Please note that the competition reverts to a Friday this year.
Find out more about the competition, and how to enter, here.
We will announce when the competition is open for entries (early 2019), and look forward to seeing you in June!
- 2018 Competition results
- The Schools' Competition 2018 is now open
- Schools' Competition 2018: save the date...
- 2017 Competition results
- Now open: 2017 Schools' Competition and Big Bang Eastern
- Save the date for the 2017 Schools' Competition and Big Bang Eastern
- 2016 Competition results
- Schools' Competition 2016: enter now
- 2015 Competition results
- Enter the 2015 CSES Schools' Competition