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Sony Future Filmmaker Awards

Sony Pictures

A short-film competition across genre categories including a dedicated student track, with a funded workshop trip to Sony Pictures Studios for finalists.

📍 Global (online); workshop in Los Angeles, USAPaidMedium
#competition#film#student
Apply → sonyfuturefilmmakerawards.com
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American Meteorological Society Photo Contest

American Meteorological Society

A photography competition capturing weather, water, and climate phenomena, judged by atmospheric scientists, with modest cash prizes for winners.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidEasy
#competition#photography#weather
Apply → ametsoc.org
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General

Standard Chartered Weather Photographer of the Year

Royal Meteorological Society

A weather and climate photography competition across multiple categories including a youth award, celebrating images of meteorological phenomena worldwide.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidEasy
#competition#photography#weather
Apply → rmets.org
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500px Global Photography Awards

500px

An annual photography competition across six genre categories, judged by industry photographers, with cash prizes for category winners.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidMedium
#competition#photography#global
Apply → 500px.com
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General

Current World Archaeology (CWA) Photo Competition

Current World Archaeology magazine

A photography competition celebrating archaeological sites and heritage worldwide, with winners receiving conference passes and a magazine feature.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidEasy
#competition#photography#archaeology
Apply → the-past.com
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Environmental Photographer of the Year

Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM)

A photography award recognizing images that capture the human relationship with the environment, spanning categories from climate change to conservation.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidMedium
#competition#photography#environment
Apply → eposeyeoftheday.com
Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest at Smithsonian Magazine
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Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest

Smithsonian Magazine

An annual photography contest across categories like natural world, travel, and people, with a notable grand prize and category winners featured in the magazine.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidMedium
#competition#photography#global
Apply → smithsonianmag.com
Sony World Photography Awards at World Photography Organisation / Sony
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Sony World Photography Awards

World Photography Organisation / Sony

One of the largest global photography competitions, spanning professional, open, student, and youth categories, with winners announced at a London ceremony and gear prizes.

📍 Global (online); ceremony in LondonPaidMedium
#competition#photography#global
Apply → worldphoto.org
Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition at Nikon
General

Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition

Nikon

The world's leading photomicrography competition, recognizing the best images and videos captured through a light microscope, with a substantial grand prize.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidHard
#competition#photography#science
Apply → nikonsmallworld.com
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World Trade Organization Essay Award for Young Economists

World Trade Organization

An essay award encouraging original economic research on international trade policy, open to PhD students and young researchers, with a cash prize and possible publication.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidHard
#competition#essay#economics
Apply → wto.org
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Student

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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Student

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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Student

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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Student

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
Student

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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Student

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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Student

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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UNESCO-UNEVOC Skills in Action Photo Competition

UNESCO-UNEVOC

A photography competition documenting technical and vocational skills development around the world, intended to highlight the human side of workforce training.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidEasy
#competition#photography#vocational-education
Apply → unevoc.unesco.org
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Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Youth Business Challenge

APEC

A regional pitch competition for young entrepreneurs from APEC member economies, connecting early-stage founders with cross-border mentorship and investor exposure.

📍 Asia-Pacific regionUnpaidMedium
#competition#startup#asia-pacific
Apply → apec.org
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Student

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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Student

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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Student

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
Student

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
Student

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
Student

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
Student

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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NASA CineSpace Short Film Competition

NASA / Houston Cinema Arts Society

A short film competition requiring entrants to incorporate real NASA footage or imagery into an original narrative, screened at a Houston film festival.

📍 Global (submission); festival in Houston, USAPaidMedium
#competition#film#nasa
Apply → hcasociety.org
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NASA Deep Space Food Challenge

NASA / Canadian Space Agency

A challenge inviting teams to design novel food-production technologies capable of feeding astronauts on years-long deep space missions with minimal resource input.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidHard
#competition#space#food-science
Apply → deepspacefoodchallenge.org
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Student

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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Student

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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