Science centres and museums often resort to competitions as a way to engage young people, using prizes as incentives and finding original ways to get kids involved with the museum. In European projects, they can also be a go-to solution for the much sought-after European added value. But do competitions motivate young people for all the wrong reasons? Are we celebrating creativity or reinforcing a culture of winners and losers? In this session the two speakers will bring forward their best arguments in order to object or support the use of competitions as a tool to engage young people. The audience will be forming an active “jury”, supporting, rejecting or adding to the arguments. Whether you are against or in favour of using competitions, join and decide whether competitions are indeed guilty or not…