Programs

Competitive 100% or 50% tuition scholarships for public-school students entering grade 10, 11 or the IB Diploma Programme at Miras Astana.

• Grades 9–10
• Cost not published

A multilingual poetry competition for students aged 8-18 run by Leeds City of Languages at the University of Leeds, with Mother Tongue and Other Tongue strands.

• Year 10–13
• Cost not published

Translate any poem from any language into English for an annual creative translation prize for young people across the UK and Ireland.

• Grades not published
• Cost not published

A free online lecture series from Newcastle University Faculty of Medical Sciences on medical science topics, open to anyone aged 15 and over, with an extra Applying to Medicine and Dentistry session.

• Year 10–13 / S3–S6
• No fee

A supervised 45-minute coding challenge for students who took part in UK Bebras, with block-based and text-based (Python, C#, Java, VB) tasks. The 2027 date is not yet published; the UKCT schedule says it opens in mid-March for a fortnight.

• Year 10–13 / S3–S6
• No fee

A national invention contest co-hosted by MEXT, the Japan Patent Office, the Japan Patent Attorneys Association and INPIT, where high school, KOSEN and university students submit their own unpublished inventions. Winners file a real patent application with a patent attorney's support, with filing fees paid by the organizers.

• Grades 10–12
• Cost not published

CBC Books national writing challenge for Canadian students in Grades 7 to 12: write the first page of a novel set 150 years in the future.

• Grades 9–12
• No fee

Nationwide data-driven science inquiry contest: teacher-student teams collect and analyse real data on issues such as fine dust, carbon emissions, climate, heat islands, solar power and sound using the 'Intelligent Science Lab ON' platform.

• Grades 9–12
• Cost not published

Free online bootcamps run by CBSE for students of Classes 9 and 10 who study the Artificial Intelligence skill subject (code 417), held in two-hour afternoon sessions over about two weeks per batch.

• Grades 9–10
• No fee

A monthly flash-fiction competition with a category for young writers aged 12-18. Each month Scottish Book Trust sets a prompt and winners are published on its website.

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

An annual award for young composers resident in the UK, with a category for under-18s, to write a new piece for a leading early music ensemble. Winning pieces are premiered and broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

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

Turan University's three-stage grant competition for university applicants (essay, online logic test, interview), with grants of one, two or four years of free study.

• Grades 11–12
• Cost not published