Overview
Scholarship type
Merit based
Number of scholarships to award
Multiple
Grant
Up to $15,000
Scholarship coverage
- tuition fee reduction
- other
Description
Eon Essay Contest is open to all students (high school, undergraduate, and graduate) between 13 and 24. To enter, you must read the book The Precipice by Toby Ord and write an essay on one of the essay prompts provided on the contest website. The Precipice explores the science behind existential risks, which are risks that threaten the destruction of humanity’s longterm potential. Ending these risks is among the most pressing moral issues of our time.
Applicable programmes
Benefits
The $15,000 first place winner will be selected from all entrants.
The three $5,000 second place winners will be selected one from each age bracket.
The six $2,000 third place winners will be selected two from each age bracket.
Eligibility
- You are eligible to enter if you are a legal resident of the fifty (50) United States or the District of Columbia (but not Puerto Rico), Canada (excluding the province of Quebec), or the United Kingdom.
- To enter, you must be a student (grade-school, undergraduate, or graduate) aged 13 to 24, read The Precipice, and submit an essay.
Scholarship requirements
Disciplines
Any
Locations
3 countries
Nationality
Any
Study experience required
High school
Age
13 to 24 years old
Application
Application deadline
15 Jun 2025
Submit an essay of up to 1,500 words on one of the prompts below by midnight Pacific Time on June 15, 2024.
13-18 Age Bracket
Pick a transformative technology you think will be created someday. Imagine that you are in a position of responsibility for it.
19-21 Age Bracket
If the ideas in this book are correct, what does that imply about what a group you are familiar with should be doing differently? What could incentivize them to do that? You may talk about a group like a research lab, a government body, a nonprofit, a media company, a corporation, or an international organization.
22-24 Age Bracket
What, according to you, is missing from this book? This missing piece can be data, analysis, or an argument. The missing piece can either strengthen or weaken a conclusion from the book.