Student Competitions
STEM
F1 Challenge in Schools or Australian site
The International Mathematical Modeling Challenge (IM²C) is a new team-based mathematical competition for Australian secondary students. Runs 12 Mar - 5 Apr, registrations open now.
STEM Video Game Challenge 2023 theme is ‘Construction and Destruction’ for grades 5-12, registrations open from 1 Feb - 17 Jul 2023
Young ICT Explorers Competition (YICTE) is a non-profit competition to encourage primary and high school students in years 3-12 in Australia and New Zealand to solve real-world problems or showcase their passions using technology.
NCCS Coding Challenge FREE is a programming competition open to all school students and teachers. We’ll teach you how to program as we go along, rather than expecting you to be an expert already. If you’re a seasoned coder, we have something for you too – the problems range from relatively simple to mind-bendingly hard. Starts Mon 13 Feb 2023.
Web.Comp is a FREE web design competition for school students. We’ll teach you how to build a website as we go along, rather than expecting you to be an expert already. Beginner starts 8 May 2023. Advanced starts 5 June 2023.
Cyber.Comp Is your school cyber secure? Test your students cyber security skills' in this FREE online competition. Cyber Comp is an online competition to test your students' cyber security skills. Open for 2 weeks from 19 June 2023.
CSIRO Bebras Challenge is FREE and designed to help students explore their talents and passion for informatics and computational thinking with engaging challenges. Students from 6 to 18 years old (6 age categories) work through a set of tasks that focus on different topics and skills within informatics and computational thinking.
Logic/Problem Solving
OzCLO (The Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad)
Mathematics
OzCLO (The Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad)
Special Interest
National Virtual Debating Competition (four age divisions from Grade 5 to 12)
Writing
Storyathon (100 word story, x4 per year)
Scribblers Festival (writing and podcast competitions)