Programs

An online geography competition for ages 16–19 that selects the four-member Team Canada for the International Geography Olympiad.

• Grades not published
• Cost not published

A provincial contest for New Brunswick students to celebrate an inspiring woman through a video, poster or story.

• Grades 9–12
• No fee

Take a 60-minute online olympiad in Self-Knowledge (Samopoznanie), a Kazakhstan school subject, in Kazakh or Russian at any time within a four-week window.

• Grades 9–11
• Fee: 500 ₸

Write an evidence-based international-affairs article and, if selected, defend it online before HIR judges.

• Grades 9–12
• Fee charged, amount not published

Enter up to three standout photographs from 2026 for international youth photography recognition.

• Grades not published
• No fee

Break a story told in weekly coded messages, solo or as a team, in the University of Southampton's national codebreaking contest.

• Year 10–13 / S3–S6
• No fee

Design, test and pitch a solution to an environmental problem, alone or in a team of up to five, in a free global competition with USD 10,000 regional prizes.

• Grades not published
• No fee

Research one act of political courage and build an original, well-supported historical argument.

• Grades 9–12
• Cost not published

Compete remotely in a high-school ocean-science quiz tournament for schools without a nearby regional bowl.

• Grades 9–12
• Fee: $75 USD

A live, hospital-based virtual medical work experience programme for UK Year 12 students, delivered over Microsoft Teams by the University of Southampton.

• Year 12
• Cost not published

Create a short documentary about the issue you would address in your first congressional floor speech.

• Grades 9–12
• Cost not published

A national team science competition in which teams of 2–4 students imagine a technology that could exist in 20 years, research it and present it in a written project; national winners receive savings bonds and a trip to Washington, DC.

• Grades 10–12
• No fee