Programs

An essay competition from Lincoln College, Oxford: answer a creative life sciences question in up to 1,500 words, judged on scientific thinking rather than knowledge.

• Year 12 / S5
• No fee

SDU University's two-stage admissions olympiad for grade 11(12) and final-year college students, awarding 4-year internal grants and tuition discounts.

• Grades 11–12
• Cost not published

Grade 10–12 students work with mentors on educational events, marketing analysis, video and social content during five-week local cohorts. The program is explicitly free and includes required offline meetings.

• Grades 10–12
• No fee

BAFTA's annual competition for 10-18 year-olds to design and make original video games, with separate Game Concept and Game Making awards. Entries for 2026 have closed and the 2027 round has not been announced.

• Year 10–13 / S3–S6
• Cost not published

A national haiku contest for high school students run by Kanagawa University, judged by leading haiku poets; each entry is a set of three original haiku.

• Grades 10–12
• Cost not published

A free-to-register webinar series from St John's College, Cambridge for high-achieving Year 11 and Year 12 students: an Introduction to Cambridge and Q&A on 9 November and Going to University and Subject Choices on 24 November 2026.

• Year 11–12 / S4–S5
• Cost not published

Nazarbayev University's residential pre-college summer camp: 11 days of lab work, portfolio projects and campus life.

• Grades not published
• Cost not published

KADOKAWA's online fiction contest exclusively for high school students, held on the novel-posting site Kakuyomu with a long division (5,000-20,000 characters) and a short division (400-4,999 characters).

• Grades 10–12
• Cost not published

Toyota Vietnam's national round of the Toyota Dream Car Art Contest: draw the car or vehicle of your dreams; top national entries go on to the world contest in Japan.

• Grades not published
• Cost not published

A national olympiad in maths, physics, chemistry and biology for grade 11(12) students who have never competed at republican level; winners gain priority in the state university-grant competition.

• Grades 11–12
• Cost not published

Singapore's premier creative writing competition in English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil, established by the National Arts Council in 1993 to discover new writers. There is no age limit, so secondary and JC students can enter.

• Grades not published
• Cost not published

An international school project and innovation competition in IT, science, robotics, digital art and startups, held in Astana.

• Grades not published
• Cost not published