Competitions

Create a STEM innovation and business plan with a student team, then receive expert judging and feedback.

• Grades not published
• Fee: $499 USD

Hanoi's city innovation contest: upper-secondary students (Division A) submit ideas, models or prototypes that solve real problems of the capital, across four fields.

• Grades 10–12
• Cost not published

Write 800–2,000 words of historical fiction set before you were born for the UK's only youth prize for historical fiction.

• Grades not published
• No fee

Write and record an original English audio essay on What a Veteran Taught Me About America.

• Grades 9–12
• Cost not published

A free University of Oxford Oxplore competition: write a 500-word biography of a Black historical figure whose story deserves to be better known.

• Grades not published
• No fee

Submit original poetry, fiction or nonfiction to a worldwide high-school writing competition.

• Grades 9–12
• No fee

Florida's statewide high-school mock trial competition, run by the Justice Teaching Center at Florida Southern College: school teams argue an original case as attorneys and witnesses, advancing from local rounds to the state finals; the state champion represents Florida at the National High School Mock Trial Championship.

• Grades 9–12
• Cost not published

A student-run in-person math tournament at UC Berkeley with Power, Individual and Guts rounds for high-school teams of up to six.

• Up to grade 12
• Fee: $25 USD

A NASA project-based program where high school classes and clubs design and build real products for NASA and astronauts on the International Space Station.

• Grades 9–12
• Cost not published

Propose a school-team experiment for a NASA-sponsored high-altitude balloon flight.

• Grades 9–12
• No fee

Work in a student team to model a real-world problem mathematically and write an English solution report.

• Grades not published
• Fee: $100 USD

The 25th annual high-school Model UN conference hosted at the University of Alberta.

• Grades 9–12
• Cost not published