Competitions & Programs

The programs listed take high school students through checkpoints and provide a guide to complete a project.
Some have their own curriculum to ensure the project's success. Some lead to further competitions and awards.
All are encouraged to explore and become aware of these opportunities.

Find a Science or Engineering Competition:

- Adopt-A-Stream Field Monitoring - American Rocketry Challenge
- Cienna Solutions Challenge - Congressional App Challenge
- Congressional Art Challenge - Conrad Challenge
- Earth Prize Competition - Georgia Tech K-12 InVenture Prize
- LEARNSat: UGA Satellite Launch - Microsoft’s Imagine Cup
- MIT THINK Scholars Program - Modeling the Future Challenge
- National STEM Challenge - STEMup sponsored by the United Way

Join an existing research team:
- Citizen Science Projects - Zooniverse - Citizen Scientists Info

Start a business
- Blue Ocean Competition - Conrad Challenge - Diamond Challenge
- Global Youth Challenge - SAGE USA Competition - Young Founders Lab

Create Art and Design:
- Congressional Art Competition - National Design Competition
- Breakthrough Junior Challenge - YoungArts Challenge

Want to make a social impact in your community?
- Institute for Citizens & Scholars - YouthMADE Festival

Once your project is complete, submit a paper to present at UGA. GJSHS (Can be a past project)

There are many online resources to help students along their project journey. Here are a few more.
- Look at advice for high school research MIT’s Guide to Get Started & GLOBE Program Guide
- Find cool builds to modify Instructables
- Search other High School projects ISEF Abstract Search
- Look at databases and how data is presented DataNuggets