Programs

Work experience placements at Museum in the Park in Stroud for Year 10 and Year 12 students, with 2027 applications expected in autumn 2026.

• Year 10–12
• Cost not published

Selective 3- or 6-week engineering and computer-science courses taught at college level at The Cooper Union in Manhattan, for students who have completed grades 9–11.

• Grades 9–11
• Fee charged, amount not published

Team research contest on space medicine; the top 3 teams travel to NASA and US space companies, fully funded.

• Grades 9–12
• No fee

Japan's national mathematics olympiad, which selects the six-member team for the International Mathematical Olympiad. The 2026 entry window has closed; the foundation plans to publish the 38th JMO guidelines in early May 2027 and hold the preliminary in November 2027.

• Grades 9–12
• Fee: ¥5,000

A free in-person physics taster day in Oxford for Year 10 girls and students from under-represented genders in physics, run by the British Physics Olympiad with Oxford Physics. The 2027 date is not yet announced.

• Year 10 / S3
• No fee

Nationwide Ministry of National Education contests in which lise students enter short films, choirs, posters and slogans, photographs, poems and 'unity stories' on democracy and national unity, with a final ceremony in Bursa.

• Grades 9–12
• Cost not published

Free Saturday clubs for 13-16-year-olds across the UK, hosted by universities, colleges and cultural organisations, with expert tuition in subjects such as art and design, film and screen, performance and theatre, writing and science and engineering.

• Year 10–12 / S3–S5
• No fee

An Odisha Government one-time incentive of Rs 5,000 paid to Scheduled Tribe students on admission to Class IX and again on admission to Class XI, applied for on the State Scholarship Portal.

• Grades 9–11
• No fee

The Ministry of National Education's long-running national robotics competition, where school teams build robots in 16 categories from line followers and mini sumo to drones, underwater robots and cyber security.

• Grades 9–12
• Cost not published

A DSO-run YDSP enrichment module introducing advanced physical sciences and infocomm technologies critical to Singapore's defence, through workshops, experiments and field trips.

• Sec 3, JC1, JC2
• Cost not published

IIT Hyderabad runs free guided campus visits every Saturday as part of its Open Day programme, and a full-day immersion visit for schools, with tours of research laboratories and innovation hubs for students from Class 8 upwards.

• Grades 9–12
• No fee

A long-running national essay contest run by J-FLEC in which junior high school students write 1,200-2,000 characters on any topic related to money.

• Grade 9
• Cost not published