Pivotal High School Scholarship

Pivotal is an essay competition for high school students with world-class judges and no entry fee.

Eligibility

Pre-university students

Countries

Worldwide

Entry fee

No fees

Essay questions that get you closer to changing the world.

Our questions are inspired by research conducted at Oxford University's Global Priorities Institute. We are excited to be partnering with them to judge your essays.

Ethics

Should people who care about the long-term future focus on reducing the risk of human extinction, or instead on trying to make the world go better in futures where humanity survives a long time?

Policy

What is a policy that today’s governments can implement to greater consider the interests of future generations?

Artificial Intelligence

Suggest and explain one function that a national or international agency could perform to mitigate the existential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.