First-Year Writing Competition

The Most Authentic Student Voices: A First-Year Writing Competition

In 2023, CEC launched the "Most Authentic Student Voices" competition to celebrate the best student writing about issues that matter the most to our youths.

The competition aims to encourage students to explore and articulate their concerns more critically and passionately so they can be the authentic voices for the change they want to see happening in their world.

Winner are selected from a shortlist of entries submitted by the instructors of the Writing & Reasoning module.

These are the winners of AY2024-25 Term 1, who impressed us with their originality, creativity, and clarity of expression:

● First Prize: Seann Khoo Jian En for "Shorted: How Short-Form Videos Affect Young People"

● Second Prize: Aaron Joseph Low Zeting for "Loot or Lose: Putting the Lock on Loot-Boxes"

● Third Prize: Quek Yi Hang Thomas for "Why Singapore’s Driving Schools Suck"

● Merit award: Getzel Ng Jinkai for "A silent epidemic: male loneliness and what can be done about it"

● Merit award: Randall Yeo Naidu for "A Lofty Solution to the Pigeon Problem, Lofts"

Here are the winning essays.