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Real design opportunities for students — verified, not scraped junk. 14 real opportunities right now.

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Steph Hack Day

Steph Community

Themes: Design, Machine Learning/AI, Web. Submission window: Jul 27 - 29, 2026.

📍 University of EldoretMedium
#design#machine learning/ai#web
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305 SummerCodex Edition July 2026

CAHSI at FIU

Themes: Beginner Friendly, Design, Education. Submission window: Jul 24, 2026.

📍 OnlineEasy
#beginner friendly#design#education
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Hackiwha3.0

Micro Club

Themes: Beginner Friendly, Design, Web. Cash prizes available. Submission window: Jul 11, 2026.

📍 USTHBEasy
#beginner friendly#design#web
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M&TSI 2026

university of pennsylvania

Themes: Design, Education, IoT. Submission window: Jul 06 - 24, 2026. Eligibility: M&TSI Students only .

📍 OnlineMedium
#design#education#iot
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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
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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
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Pro Carton Young Designers Award

Pro Carton

A free-to-enter packaging design award focused exclusively on cartonboard, for European design students.

📍 Europe (gala in Rome)UnpaidEasy
#award#packaging-design#student
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Singapore Jewellery Design Award (SJDA)

Singapore Jewellery Design Award

An international jewelry design award with a dedicated category for students and entrants with under five years of industry experience.

📍 Singapore (international entries)PaidMedium
#award#jewelry-design#student
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Dorothy Waxman International Textile Design Prize

New York Textile Month

An annual prize honoring sustainable, innovative textile design by current students or recent graduates, sponsored by the Mohawk Group.

📍 United States (international student eligibility)PaidMedium
#prize#textile-design#sustainability
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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