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AICC Student Packaging Design Competition

Association of Independent Corrugated Converters (AICC)

A US packaging design competition with structural and graphic design categories, including an all-expenses-paid industry trip for winners.

📍 United StatesPaidMedium
#competition#packaging-design#team
Apply → aiccbox.org
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Starpack Students Competition

Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining (IOM3)

A UK-based real-world metal packaging design challenge for design students, with a sponsored brief specific to metal packaging.

📍 United KingdomPaidMedium
#competition#packaging-design#student
Apply → mpma.org.uk
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LAMP International Lighting Design Competition

LAMP

An independent juried competition championing emerging lighting designers across professional, student, and manufactured-product categories.

📍 Vancouver, Canada (international entries)PaidMedium
#competition#lighting-design#student
Apply → lampthecompetition.com
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ANU Science Case Study Competition

Australian National University

A case-study competition for undergraduate teams analyzing a real scientific or policy problem (such as critical minerals or mental health), judged on rigor and communication.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidMedium
#competition#case-study#science
Apply → anu.edu.au
IFC Impact Investing Challenge at International Finance Corporation
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IFC Impact Investing Challenge

International Finance Corporation

A team-based challenge for graduate students to develop investment strategies addressing climate, gender equity, or financial inclusion, culminating in a pitch to IFC leadership.

📍 Global (online); finals presentationUnpaidHard
#competition#finance#impact-investing
Apply → ifc.org
UNIDIR Global Disarmament Essay Competition at UN Institute for Disarmament Research
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UNIDIR Global Disarmament Essay Competition

UN Institute for Disarmament Research

An essay competition inviting young people to write on disarmament, arms control, and international security, with a funded trip to Geneva for the winner.

📍 Global (online); winner trip to GenevaPaidMedium
#competition#essay#disarmament
Apply → unidir.org
Stanford Center on Longevity Design Challenge at Stanford Center on Longevity
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Stanford Center on Longevity Design Challenge

Stanford Center on Longevity

A design competition for student teams proposing products or services that improve healthy aging and human longevity, judged in a final pitch round.

📍 Global (online); finals at Stanford, USAPaidHard
#competition#design#healthcare
Apply → longevity.stanford.edu
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Global Canvas Children's Art Competition

Global Canvas

A children's art competition spanning painting, sculpture, textile, and collage on an annual theme, with cash or supply-voucher prizes for winners.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidEasy
#competition#art#children
Apply → globalcanvas.org
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Toyota Logistic Design Competition

Toyota

A design competition inviting student teams to propose 2D or 3D circular-economy object designs addressing transportation and material-use challenges.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidMedium
#competition#design#sustainability
Apply → toyota-mobility.com
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HG Wells Short Story Competition

H.G. Wells Society / literary festival

An annual themed short-story competition for young writers under 21, with a notable cash grand prize and publication opportunity.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidMedium
#competition#writing#fiction
Apply → hgwellscompetition.com
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Jane Austen Society of North America Essay Contest

Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA)

A literary-analysis essay contest on Jane Austen's novels across three academic levels (high school, college, graduate), with cash prizes for each category.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidMedium
#competition#essay#literature
Apply → jasna.org
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Cambridge Re:think Essay Competition

University of Cambridge (Hughes Hall)

An essay competition spanning moral, political, scientific, and philosophical prompts for secondary school students, with a substantial combined cash prize pool.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidMedium
#competition#essay#cambridge
Apply → rethinkessaycompetition.wordpress.com
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St Hugh's College Sixth Form Essay Competitions

University of Oxford (St Hugh's College)

A set of multi-subject essay competitions for secondary school students on Oxford-style set questions, offering cash prizes and academic feedback.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidMedium
#competition#essay#oxford
Apply → st-hughs.ox.ac.uk
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Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award

The Poetry Society (UK)

One of the world's largest poetry competitions for young writers, open on any theme, with roughly 100 winners receiving prizes, mentoring, and publication in an anthology.

📍 Global (online submission)UnpaidEasy
#competition#poetry#writing
Apply → foyleyoungpoets.org
The Queen's Commonwealth Essay Competition at Royal Commonwealth Society
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The Queen's Commonwealth Essay Competition

Royal Commonwealth Society

The world's oldest international schools' writing competition, inviting essays on Commonwealth-related themes across junior and senior age categories, with winners honored at a London ceremony.

📍 Global (online); ceremony in LondonPaidMedium
#competition#essay#commonwealth
Apply → thercs.org
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Ayn Rand Institute Essay Contests (Anthem, Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged)

Ayn Rand Institute

A set of annual essay contests open to students on Ayn Rand's novels Anthem, The Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged, each with a tiered cash prize pool and separate age brackets.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidMedium
#competition#essay#literature
Apply → aynrand.org
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UNESCO Clubs Worldwide Multimedia Contest

UNESCO Clubs

A multimedia (video, essay, or art) competition inviting youth to propose ways their community can advance a specific UN Sustainable Development Goal, with a US-based youth camp invitation for top entries.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidEasy
#competition#sdgs#multimedia
Apply → unescocentre.org.uk
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Smart India Hackathon

Government of India (Ministry of Education)

India's largest national hackathon, where student teams build working solutions to real problem statements submitted by government ministries and industry partners over a 36-hour build.

📍 IndiaPaidHard
#hackathon#india#team
Apply → sih.gov.in
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The New York Times Learning Network Student Contests

The New York Times

An ongoing series of free writing, video, and multimedia contests for teenagers — including personal narrative, editorial, review, podcast, and STEM-explainer formats — with winning entries published by the Times.

📍 Global (online submission)UnpaidEasy
#competition#writing#journalism
Apply → nytimes.com
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Microsoft Imagine Cup

Microsoft

A global student technology competition where teams build a working product using Microsoft's cloud and AI tools, with mentorship and a path to Microsoft's startup programs.

📍 Global (online, world finals in-person)PaidHard
#competition#technology#startup
Apply → imaginecup.microsoft.com
Samsung Solve for Tomorrow at Samsung
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Samsung Solve for Tomorrow

Samsung

A competition challenging students to design a product, app, or service idea that solves a real-world community problem, with incubation support for finalist teams.

📍 Multiple countriesPaidMedium
#competition#innovation#product-design
Apply → samsung.com
IBM Master the Mainframe Challenge at IBM
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IBM Master the Mainframe Challenge

IBM

A three-level self-paced learning competition teaching mainframe computing fundamentals, with travel stipends and scholarships awarded to top performers.

📍 Global (online)PaidMedium
#competition#mainframe#coding
Apply → ibm.com
International Online Physics Competition (Physics Brawl) at Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Czech Republic
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International Online Physics Competition (Physics Brawl)

Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Czech Republic

A team-based online physics problem-solving competition run over several hours, testing both depth of physics knowledge and teamwork under time pressure.

📍 Global (online)UnpaidHard
#competition#physics#team
Apply → online.physicsbrawl.org
International Youth Math Challenge (IYMC) at International Youth Math Challenge
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International Youth Math Challenge (IYMC)

International Youth Math Challenge

A multi-round online mathematics competition open to school and college students worldwide, progressing from qualifiers through pre-finals to a final round.

📍 Global (online)PaidMedium
#competition#mathematics#online
Apply → iymc.info
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The Geneva Challenge

Geneva Graduate Institute

An annual team competition inviting graduate students worldwide to propose pragmatic, evidence-based solutions to a pressing global development problem, judged by an expert panel in Geneva.

📍 Geneva, SwitzerlandPaidHard
#competition#policy#graduate
Apply → thegenevachallenge.ch
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CERN Beamline for Schools Competition

CERN

An international competition where teams of high schoolers design a real particle-physics experiment, with winning teams traveling to run their experiment on an actual CERN beamline.

📍 Geneva, Switzerland (winning trip)PaidHard
#competition#physics#team
Apply → beamlineforschools.cern
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Solar Decathlon Design Challenge

U.S. Department of Energy

A collegiate competition where student teams design high-performance, energy-efficient buildings, judged across categories from architecture to market potential.

📍 United StatesUnpaidHard
#competition#architecture#sustainability
Apply → solardecathlon.gov
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Conrad Challenge

Conrad Foundation

A team-based STEM innovation challenge that takes student ventures from concept through a business pitch, culminating in an in-person Innovation Summit.

📍 Global (online submission)UnpaidMedium
#competition#stem#team
Apply → conradchallenge.org
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James Dyson Award

James Dyson Foundation

An international student design-engineering award recognizing inventions that solve real problems, judged first nationally and then by James Dyson himself at the international stage.

📍 Global (submission by country)PaidMedium
#competition#design#engineering
Apply → jamesdysonaward.org
The Earth Prize at The Earth Prize Foundation
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The Earth Prize

The Earth Prize Foundation

A global environmental innovation competition for teenage teams to design solutions to real sustainability problems, with a large combined prize pool for students, mentors, and schools.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidMedium
#competition#sustainability#team
Apply → theearthprize.org
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