In 2008, two Trinity College Dublin graduates, Oisin Hanrahan and Paddy Cosgrave, started The Undergraduate Awards as an initiative to celebrate students with fresh arguments and approaches to academics. The organization aims to help students get their innovative ideas onto the global platform.
The Undergraduate Awards is open to students in their final undergraduate year in the USA, Canada and the UK. Winners of the program head to Dublin, Ireland for the UA Summit, a three day program that acts as a way to unite young, intelligent world leaders. Winners also have their papers published in an Undergraduate Journal and placed in academic libraries all over the world, and the organization makes an effort to help their winners with acquiring great internships and jobs.
Think this sounds like something you’d be interested in? Yep, me too! Luckily, registration for this year’s program is open until July 2, 2012. According to the UA Programme Director, Louise Hodgson, “This year’s programme has already received an overwhelming response. 2,460 students from as far afield as CalTech, McGill and St. Andrews as well as from our own third level institutions registered their intent to submit.”
To apply, you must register for your intent to submit an academic paper. Your paper must be submitted on the Undergraduate Awards site by July 2nd, 2012. Check out last year’s winners at the UA Summit in this YouTube video.