Free Competitions for High School Students
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29 published catalog entries match this page; 14 can be done online.
Catalog entries
Browse 29 catalog programs:
- Wharton Global High School Investment Competition — Catalog organization: Wharton Global Youth Program, University of Pennsylvania — Cost: Free
- BEST Robotics Competition — Catalog organization: BEST Robotics, Inc. — Cost: Free
- Write the World — Catalog organization: Write the World — Cost: Free
- UCLA Olga Radko Endowed Math Circle (ORMC) — Catalog organization: UCLA Department of Mathematics — Cost: Free
- Indy Shorts High School Film Competition — Catalog organization: Heartland Film — Cost: Free
- The Blank Young Playwrights Festival — Catalog organization: The Blank Theatre — Cost: Free · Deadline: March 14, 2027
- USA Bebras Computing Challenge — Catalog organization: Bebras Challenge USA — Cost: Free · Deadline: Rolling applications
- TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200 — Catalog organization: TechCrunch — Cost: Free
- Interactive Fiction Competition (IFComp) — Catalog organization: Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation — Cost: Free
- Science Picnic of Polish Radio and Copernicus Science Centre — Catalog organization: Polish Radio and Copernicus Science Centre — Cost: Free
- Tournament of the Towns Math Competition — Catalog organization: Tournament of the Towns Coordinating Council — Cost: Free
- MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition — Catalog organization: MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition — Cost: Free · Deadline: October 27, 2026
- Doodle for Google — Catalog organization: Google LLC — Cost: Free
- USA Mathematical Talent Search (USAMTS) — Catalog organization: Art of Problem Solving Initiative — Cost: Free
- Topcoder Algorithm Competitions — Catalog organization: Topcoder — Cost: Free · Deadline: Rolling applications
- Major League Hacking Member Event Hackathons — Catalog organization: Major League Hacking (MLH) and independent member-event organizers — Cost: Free · Deadline: Rolling applications
- Microsoft Imagine Cup Junior — Catalog organization: Microsoft — Cost: Free
- Samsung Solve for Tomorrow (U.S.) — Catalog organization: Samsung Electronics America — Cost: Free · Deadline: November 23, 2026
- Purple Comet! Math Meet — Catalog organization: Purple Comet! Math Meet — Cost: Free
- The Fairchild Challenge — Catalog organization: Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden — Cost: Free · Deadline: Rolling applications
- Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers — Catalog organization: The Kenyon Review — Cost: Free
- NASA Astrobiology Education Resources — Not a Current Competition — Catalog organization: NASA Astrobiology Program — Cost: Free
- San Diego Math Circle — Catalog organization: San Diego Math Circle — Cost: Free
- Women in Business Case Competition — Catalog organization: Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder — Cost: Free · Deadline: March 7, 2027
- eCYBERMISSION STEM Competition — Catalog organization: U.S. Army Educational Outreach Program and National Science Teaching Association — Cost: Free
- UCT Mathematics Competition — Catalog organization: University of Cape Town, Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics — Cost: Free · Deadline: February 25, 2027
- Rocket City Math League — Catalog organization: Rocket City Math League — Cost: Free
- River of Words Environmental Poetry and Art Contest — Catalog organization: ROW — Cost: Free
- Codeforces Rounds — Catalog organization: Codeforces — Cost: Free · Deadline: Rolling applications
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