Values Tree and ethical decision challenge: know your values, recognise conflict, consider consequences, decide, reflect, defend.
Registration closes 10/11/2026
Register for EthosQuestEthosQuest is a one-day live individual competition built around a personal Values Tree and an unseen ethical dilemma.
It does not test whether a student can name "good values." It tests whether the student can identify values that genuinely guide them, translate those values into observable choices, recognise when values conflict, evaluate consequences, make a responsible decision, and reconsider that decision when conditions change.
Values Tree → Ethical Dilemma → Value Conflict & Consequence Analysis → Decision & Reflection → Brief Oral Defense. A 65-minute controlled written session produces the evidence pack, followed by a 5–7 minute oral defense before a verification panel.
EthosQuest must never require a student to disclose private family, religious, medical, mental-health, political, financial or other sensitive personal information. Values may be explained through general, school-safe examples. Students are judged on reasoning and ownership, not on which values they choose — no mark is awarded for selecting a particular value.
The Values Tree is a thinking map, not an art contest — artistic drawing skill, handwriting style and decoration earn no marks beyond basic legibility. The ethical dilemma is the main application test: the student must use the tree to reason through a difficult choice, not merely describe values.
A Values Bank is published in advance as an official preparation resource, and the same bank is supplied on event day. The competition is not a memory test. Students may select values from the bank and may add up to two additional values if they write a short neutral definition for each.
Domain: Character, Personal Growth & Global Citizenship
