There are just ten days left until the reference samples are released. A quick reminder that you need to register and allow us the option to email you. (If we can’t do that, we can’t tell you where the samples are!)

On Wed 01st Jul, you’ll receive an email with a link and a password to access the reference samples. From there you can download them and get to work.

Prizes update

In case you’ve missed it, we now have a prize haul worth over £4,000. This includes Amazon vouchers, challenge coins, prize bags, and certificates.

There are two Scoreboards: Highest Ranked Prizes will be awarded to the top twenty submissions that achieve the highest overall score. Meanwhile, there will be five Special Category Prizes. The first Special Category Prize will awarded to the highest ranked submission from a school. (For our purposes, a school is defined in accordance with the Education Act 1997. The individual submitting must use their school email address and be aged 18 or over.) That makes it entirely plausible for a school to win both a Highest Ranked Prize and a Special Category Prize! The remaining Special Category Prizes will be awarded to four notable submissions that did not score highly enough overall to receive a Highest Ranked Prize, but that are otherwise worthy of recognition in some way. As this suggests, these four prizes are not set, but will emerge during judging.

If you want to know how we will score submissions, see The Criteria for more.