St John's Poster Competition 2022

St John's is delighted to be launching the third year of our Poster Competition. The competition is open to participants currently attending one of our outreach programmes. Please see eligibility criteria below.

• What is it?

We’d like you to complete a small research project on a topic that interests you, from any subject, and create an academic poster about it. We’d also like you to create a three minute video presenting your poster. 

The theme of this year's competition is CYCLE, and so your submission should relate to this theme. We encourage creative interpretations of this theme.

For examples of previous submissions, as well as resources and videos to help, please see below.

Your submission will include 3 elements:

1. An academic research poster, either digital or a photo of a physical poster
2. A three minute video in which you present your poster and your findings
3. A separate bibliography (or references included on your poster)

• Who's eligible?
  • UK students in Year 12 (England/Wales) / S5 (Scotland) / Y13 (Northern Ireland), or those applying for 2023 entry, who have participated in one of the following programmes:
    • St John's College Masterclasses
    • St John's College Admissions Clinics
    • St John's College Webinar Programme
    • Cambridge University Open Days
    • Generating Genius STEM @ Cambridge
    • HE+ (Preston consortium)
    • The Linacre Institute's Reach Higher Programme
    • The Elephant Group
       
• When is the deadline?
  • You need to submit your entry before Monday 15th August 2022.
  • Submissions are now closed.

• How will submissions be judged?
  • The project will be judged by academics from St John's College, and there will be prizes in the form of National Book Tokens for:
    • Best Poster
    • Best Presentation
    • Best Research
    • Overall winner
      • There will also be a gallery of the best submissions on our website. 

Please get in touch with AccessOfficer@joh.cam.ac.uk if you have any questions.

Example poster and accompanying presentation

Example poster and accompanying presentation

Project Title: RNA Rosetta Stone: RNA origami codes for exploring RNA diversity

Poster 

Video presentation

Helpful links and resources

Super-curricular resource hubs from Cambridge and Oxford:

University of Cambridge Super-curricular Suggestions

Super-curricular Resource Hub from University College, Oxford

Open Access research from Cambridge University:

Cambridge Digital Library – a database of digitised research and material from Cambridge

Cambridge University Research – latest news

Apollo - University of Cambridge Open Access Repository

Open access journals and search engines

Bio Med Central - open access journals in biomedicine, physical sciences, mathematics and engineering

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - open access, peer-reviewed journals in all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and humanities

JSTOR - an open access platform for scholarship, primary sources, and research collections

NPJ Climate and Atmospheric Science - an open access journal covering the relevant physical, chemical and biological components of atmospheric and climate science

Open Library of the Humanities - an open access platform supporting academic journals from across the humanities subjects

Open Book Publishers - open access e-books