Ivy Craft
The Ivy Craft Essay Competition 2025-2026
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Imagination.
Innovation.
Impact.
The Ivy Craft Essay Competition 2025 invites young thinkers from around the world to explore ideas that challenge convention and inspire change.
This competition celebrates curiosity, creativity, and the courage to question.
Open to students aged 13–18, it’s an opportunity to engage with complex questions shaping our future, across philosophy, science, society, and beyond.
Essay topics
Topic 1
Philosophy & Ethics
Topic:
Do we owe future generations more than we owe the present?
Topic 2
Science & Technology
Topic: Could curiosity ever become dangerous?
Topic 3
Economics & Business
Topic:
Would a world without money still have ambition?
Topic 4
Politics & Global Affairs
Topic: Can peace exist without justice?
Topic 5
Creative Writing & Literature
Topic:
Write about a lie that saves the world.
Topic 6
Education & Society
Topic: Do schools prepare students for the world, or do they protect them from it?
