
Ten Years From Now Essay Competition
Online · Ages 14–18
Why it matches: Science · Competition · Europe
Entry cost: Free
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Online · Ages 14–18
Why it matches: Science · Competition · Europe
Entry cost: Free

Online · Ages 13–18
Why it matches: Science · Competition · Europe
Entry cost: Free

Online · Ages 13–18
Why it matches: Science · Competition · Europe
Entry cost: Free
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Succeed is built by people with experience in education, academic enrichment and technology, with input from university guidance and careers counsellors around the world.

Sean founded Immerse Education and has spent more than a decade working in academic enrichment and pre-university education. At Succeed, he focuses on program quality and reviews opportunities to help students understand what they actually offer and who they may suit.

Ben is a former high school educator with experience supporting students and working in education. He holds a master’s degree in AI from UCL and focuses on how Succeed can use technology to make discovering and understanding opportunities easier for students.
University guidance and careers counsellors help us identify worthwhile opportunities, spot missing information and improve the questions we ask when assessing programs.
How Succeed works
On program pages, we separate provider-published facts from our own assessment, estimates and information we could not confirm. We also disclose commercial relationships, so you can understand both the information you are reading and Succeed’s role.
We review the information published by each provider and distinguish it from our own analysis.
Where useful, we may estimate things such as total costs or explain what the available information means in practice. If something important cannot be confirmed, we say so rather than guessing.
We make it clear whether information is a provider-published fact, Succeed’s assessment, a Succeed estimate, or information we could not confirm. On program pages those labels look like this:
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Our job is to help you decide whether an opportunity is right for you, not to persuade you to apply.
We approach programs like an independent adviser. We look at what you will actually do, what it is likely to cost, who it may suit, important trade-offs and anything that remains uncertain.
We avoid provider marketing language and do not simply label programs as “good” or “bad”. The aim is to give you enough useful information to make your own decision.
Succeed may receive a commission or referral fee from some providers. Where we have a commercial relationship with a provider, we disclose it.
That relationship does not change how we assess the opportunity. We apply the same editorial standards whether or not a provider pays Succeed, including highlighting limitations or explaining when another option may suit you better.
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