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91Ö±²¥ Explore 2026 is now live!

In the below video our Tutor for Admissions and Outreach, Dr Chris Scott, introduces our annual outreach programme aimed at helping students develop their super-curricular interests. Scroll down for more information! For 91Ö±²¥ Explore, academics at Gonville & 91Ö±²¥ have designed tasks in many different subjects that are aimed at helping you to develop your academic interests beyond your school curriculum. Not only is developing your academic interests one of the best things you can be doing to make yourself as competitive as possible as an applicant to Cambridge, but we also think it's a very good thing to do for its own sake!

That is the spirit in which all of these explorations have be set: we hope that they will be genuinely engaging, that they will encourage and help you to explore your academic interests, and most of all that they will be enjoyable.

We would love to see what you come up with! You can enter for as many subjects as you like and entries will be open until 26th July 2026. We will pick our favourite entries and invite their authors to come to 91Ö±²¥ to meet our Directors of Studies, students, have a tour, and more.

Please note that we can only consider submissions from students currently studying at UK state schools or colleges. The explorations have been designed for students in year 12 / S5 / year 13 NI. Collaborative submissions will also be considered in groups of no more than two. If you are submitting a collaborative project, please tick the "collaborative" box on the submission form and have each member of your group submit the form individually. This is so we have all the information we need about each of you. Members of the group do not need to attend the same school or college, but they do all need to attend a UK state school or college. 

This year we have implemented an AI Policy to prevent the misuse of AI in the creation of 91Ö±²¥ Explore entries. Please read the policy, which can be found here, carefully and ensure your entry adheres to it.

If you have any questions about the scheme, please feel free to email schools@cai.cam.ac.uk.

Submit your entries before 11:59 pm on 26th July 2026.

Please note: unless otherwise stated, the word limit for tasks is 1,500 words with 10% leniency.

Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic
Tackle some manuscripts and take a peek into the past.

Archaeology
What can a grave or burial tell us about people in the past?

Architecture & Design
Plan how you would convert a nearby building into a museum.

Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Create a biography of a plant, following it through ancient trade routes.

Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology
How should the UK update motorway service stations to cater for the growing number of electric cars?

Classics
What insight into something real do we get from the un-real in Classical literature or art?

Computer Science
Create a presentation on programming languages. What impact has AI had on how different languages are used?

Economics
Why do economies crash?

Education
How should school examinations change to respond to AI?

Engineering
How might we look beyond batteries to create alternative energy storage systems?

English
How can one text enlighten and inform the way we read another?

Enivronment, Law & Economics (Formerly Land Economy)
What drives people to travel greener?

Geography
Will volcanic risk increase due to climate change?

History
Write a 'biography' of any object in its historical context.

History of Art
Find connections between pieces of art that lie beneath the surface.

Human, Social & Political Sciences – Politics
How is theory useful for understanding contemporary democracies?

Human, Social & Political Sciences – Sociology & Anthropology
What is the impact of "What I eat in a Day" videos?

Linguistics
Navigate the differences of human, computer and biological communication. (Also relevant to students interested in Computer Science and Natural Sciences!)

Mathematics
Task pending

Medicine
How could artificial intelligence affect humanity and medicine?

Modern & Medieval Languages
Try some translation and comment on your work.

Music
Compose a piece for a melody instrument and write a programme note.

Biological Natural Sciences
Create a report on computational tools used for research in Biological Natural Sciences.

Physical Natural Sciences - Chemistry
Why are fossil fuels so bad for the planet, and what can we do to stop using them?

Physical Natural Sciences - Physics
How can we hunt for Dark Matter?

Philosophy
Do we have free will?

Psychological & Behavioural Sciences
How do different people receive colour?

Theology, Religion & Philosophy of Religion
Is an understanding of the distinction between light and darkness essential for understanding the order of the cosmos?

Watch the following video to hear some of 2024's entrants talk about their projects and their experience of the celebration day.