Here are two award competitions where you can submit great papers from this past school year:

Undergraduate Awards

http://www.undergraduateawards.com/submission-2/

The Undergraduate Awards deadline of June 14th is one week away. Juniors and Seniors can submit up to three A papers from any discipline! There is no cost to enter, and Global Winners of the award will be brought over to Dublin for the 2016 Global UA Summit (November 2016) – all expenses paid. Please remember that submissions need to be anonymous and within the word count or else they’ll be disqualified.

Read about one UT student’s experience going to the conference in Ireland, and find out how easy it is to submit your paper: http://www.utexas.edu/ugs/news/undergrad-awards-16. 

Inman Award

http://intelligencestudies.utexas.edu/inman-award

The Inman Award competition is designed to recognize outstanding research and writing by students at the undergraduate or graduate levels on topics related to intelligence and national security. There is no prescribed topic, format or length for papers submitted. The deadline to submit is June 30th. The grand prize is $5000.