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Real competitions and hackathons worth your time — hand-checked before they go up. 69 real opportunities right now.

IBM Call for Code Global Challenge at IBM
General

IBM Call for Code Global Challenge

IBM

A global hackathon-style challenge inviting developers to build open-source technology solutions to pressing humanitarian and climate problems, with a substantial prize pool.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidMedium
#hackathon#open-source#social-impact
Apply → developer.ibm.com
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Founder

ClimateLaunchpad Green Business Idea Competition

Climate-KIC

The world's largest green business ideas competition, taking climate-tech founders from national heats through regional and global finals with pitch training along the way.

📍 Global (national heats, global final in Europe)UnpaidMedium
#competition#climate-tech#startup
Apply → climatelaunchpad.org
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Founder

MIT Solve Global Challenges

MIT Solve

An open innovation platform that runs annual challenges (health, climate, economic prosperity, learning) and connects selected Solver teams with funding, mentorship, and MIT's network.

📍 Global (online application)PaidMedium
#competition#social-impact#funding
Apply → solve.mit.edu
Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge at Hello Tomorrow
Founder

Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge

Hello Tomorrow

A global deep-tech startup competition connecting founders working on hard-science solutions (energy, biotech, materials, etc.) with investors, corporates, and a large cash prize pool.

📍 Global (finals in Paris)PaidHard
#competition#deep-tech#startup
Apply → hello-tomorrow.org
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Student

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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Student

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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Student

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
Student

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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Student

Breakthrough Junior Challenge

Breakthrough Prize Foundation

A global video competition inviting teens to explain a challenging concept in life sciences, physics, or mathematics in an engaging short film, with a major scholarship as the top prize.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidMedium
#competition#science-communication#scholarship
Apply → breakthroughjuniorchallenge.org
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