Competition

1. Shprt description: This annual essay contest is organized in an effort to harness the energy, creativity and initiative of the world's youth in promoting a culture of peace and sustainable development. It also aims to inspire society to learn from the young minds and to think about how each of us can make a difference in the world. *This program is an activity within the framework of UNESCO's Education for Sustainable Development: Towards achieving the SDGs (ESD for 2030)

2. Organizer: Goi Peace Foundation

3. Sub-type: Essay writing

4. Eligibility: Children (ages up to 14) and youth (ages 15 - 25) from all countries

5. Benefits of participating:

• 1st Prize: Certificate, prize of 100,000 Yen (approx. US$900 as of March 2021) and gift ............ 1 entrant

• 2nd Prize: Certificate, prize of 50,000 Yen (approx. US$450 as of March 2021) and gift ............. 3 entrants

• 3rd Prize: Certificate and gift ......................................................................................................... 5 entrants

• Honorable Mention: Certificate and gift ........................................................................................ 25entrants

• 1st to 3rd prize winners will be invited to the Winners Gathering to be held online.

• Additional awards (Best School Award, School Incentive Award) will be given if applicable

6. Cost of participation: None

7. Place: Online

8. Application cycle: February - June

9. Contacts: nakayama@goipeace.or.jp

10. Website: https://www.goipeace.or.jp/en/work/essay-contest/

1. Short description: to bridge the gap between African Youth and the Union

2. Organizer: African Union ECO SOCC

3. Sub-type: Essay writing

4. Eligibility: Registered student in an education institution at secondary (high school) level in an African Union Member State

Citizen and resident of an AU Member State

5. Benefits of participating:

• Grand Prize:

o Fully sponsored Educational Trip to the African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and a Guided Tour of the AU Complex and Meetings with Senior Officials of the AU Commission

o Laptop Core i7

o Official African Union Winner’s Plaque

o Official African Union Gift Bag

• 2nd Prize:

o Laptop Core i7

o Official African Union Plaque

o Official African Union Gift Bag

• 3rd Prize:

o Laptop Core i5

o Official African Union Plaque

o Official African Union Gift Bag

• Consolation Prizes: 4th to 10th ranked participants will receive an official African Union Plaque

• All participants meeting the submission criteria will receive a digital certificate of participation from AU ECOSOCC

• The Top 10 essays will be published in a special booklet

6. Cost of participation: None

7. Place: Online

8. Application cycle: May - July

9. Contacts: ecosocc@africa-union.org

10. Website: https://www.auecosocc.org/yawc

1. Short description: it provides student teams from the participating campuses with the opportunity to enter a project proposal that aims to tackle a humanitarian issue affecting a community in the schools’ vicinity

2. Organizer: Aurora Humanitarian Initiative in partnership with the United World Colleges (UWC), Scholae Mundi and Teach For All

3. Sub-type: Social Impact project

4. Eligibility: All IB students

5. Benefits of participating: Win $4000 to implement a social impact project

6. Cost of participation: None

7. Place: Online

8. Application cycle: March - July

9. Contacts: communityservice@waterford.sz

10. Website: https://www.uwc.org/ahp

1. Short description: a grant scheme available to UWC students only. Apply today for an opportunity to be awarded a grant of up to $1000* to help you put your mission into action

2. Organizer: GoMakeDifference and UWC

3. Sub-type: Social impact project

4. Eligibility: IB students

5. Benefits of participating: a grant of up to $1000 to help you put your mission into action

6. Cost of participation: None

7. Place: Online

8. Application cycle: October - January

9. Contacts: communityservice@waterford.sz

10. Website: https://www.gomakeadifference.global/

1. Short description: a movement of young people taking action to improve their lives now and in a post-COVID-19 world

2. Organizer: Global Youth Mobilization and Word Health Organization

3. Sub-type: Social project

4. Eligibility: Youth from all over the world

5. Benefits of participating: Funding will be available in four tiers, from $500 through to $5000

6. Cost of participation: None

7. Place: Online

8. Application cycle: Each 3 months

9. Contacts: info@globalyouthmobilization.org

10. Website: https://globalyouthmobilization.org/local-solutions/

1. Short description: The biggest olympiad in the country. Almost 100 000 learners participated in the 2017 olympiad

2. Organizer: South Africa Math Foundation

3. Sub-type: Mathematics

4. Eligibility: Grades 8 and 9 and grades 10 to 12

5. Benefits of participating: Creative problem solving skills are very necessary and very marketable in today's technically oriented market place. This market place is now global and South Africa needs to be very competitive. Hence we need expert problem solvers. Practice in problem solving will help to train our future leaders of technological development

6. Cost of participation: Not disclosed

7. How is the ccost covered: School

8. Place: School

9. Application cycle: March

10. Contacts: richard.alexander@waterford.sz

11. Website: https://www.samf.ac.a/en/

1. Short description: The wording of the think piece and content should aim at addressing the topic and at the same time promoting the SADC’s Objectives and Common Agenda

2. Organizer: SADC

3. Sub-type: Essay

4. Eligibility: All secondary school going students from all 16 Southern African Development Community (SADC) Member States are welcome to participate in the Competition

5. Benefits of participating:

• The prizes at regional level are as follows;

1st prize = USD1500

2rd Prize = USD1000

3rd Prize = USD750

the top 10 winners will all receive certificates signed by the SADC Executive Secretary.

The top three (3) winners travel to the Member States hosting the SADC Summit to receive their prizes during the official opening ceremony.

• The prizes at national level are as follows;

1st prize = USD500

2rd Prize = USD300

3rd Prize = USD200

the top 3 winners will all receive certificates signed by the Minister of Education and the SADC Executive Secretary

6. Cost of participation: None

7. Place: Online

8. Application cycle: October - April

9. Contacts: sue.bradshaw@waterford.sz

10. Website: https://www.sadc.int/news-events/news/launch-sadc-secondary-school-essay-competition-2022/

1. Short description: One of the biggest online math competition for students from all around the world

2. Organizer: International Youth Math Challenge

3. Sub-type: Mathematics

4. Eligibility: high-school or university student. Depending on your age (over 18 years or under 18 years) you will have to solve more problems to qualify for the next round. Students from all grades and all countries are invited to participate

5. Benefits of participating: Unleash your creativity, knowledge, and math skills to win awards and cash prizes worth over $700

6. Cost of participation: € 8

7. How is the cost covered: Individuals

8. Place: Online

9. Application cycle: October - December

10. Contacts: pribashangezi@amb.iymc.info

11. Website: https://iymc.info/en/

1. Short description: Designed to spark a sense of agency in young people aged 24 and under, encouraging, inspiring, and supporting them to become problem-solvers in their communities and the world

2. Organizer: MIT Solve

3. Sub-type: Technology

4. Eligibility: 24 years of age or younger

5. Benefits of participating: The 10 most promising solutions will be selected by our judges as Solv[ED] Innovators. Over $200,000 is available in prize funding to share among selected Solv[ED] Innovators. In addition to prize funding, selected Solv[ED] Innovators will receive mentorship and coaching from members of the MIT and MIT Solve community

6. Cost of participation: None

7. Place: Online

8. Application cycle: September - January

9. Contacts: membership@solve.mit.edu

10. Website: https://solve.mit.edu/challenges/solv-ed-youth-innovation-challenge

1. Short description: The global student competition to find solutions to climate change

2. Organizer: Climate Science

3. Sub-type: Environmental

4. Eligibility: Three age brackets: under 16s, 17 - 19, and 20 - 25 years old, from all over the world

5. Benefits of participating:

Prize money:

• First place wins $5000

• Second place wins $3000

• Thrid place wins $2000

• Participants ranked 4th through 7th win $1000 each and 8th through 10th take home $500

• Winners will also get a chance to speak at the award ceremony, hopefully to be conducted at COP27, just like in 2021

6. Cost of participation: None

7. Place: Online

8. Application cycle: January - August

9. Contacts: None

10. Website: https://climatescience.org/olympiad

1. Short description: Showcase your passion for coding by creating an incredible Swift playground on the topic of your choice

2. Organizer: Apple Developer

3. Sub-type: Coding

4. Eligibility: Be 13 years of age or older, from all over the world

5. Benefits of participating: Winners will receive exclusive WWDC21 outerwear, a customized pin set, and one year of membership in the Apple Developer Program

6. Cost of participation: None

7. Place: Online

8. Application cycle: March - April

9. Contacts: swiftstudentchallenge@apple.com

10. Website: https://developer.apple.com/wwdc21/swift-student-challenge/

1. Short description: One of the largest and most prestigious high school competitions in the world. Each tournament draws close to 1000 students from around the globe, including top scorers at national and international olympiads. HMMT is entirely student-organized, by students at Harvard, MIT, and nearby schools, many of whom are HMMT alumni themselves

2. Organizer: Havard - MIT

3. Sub-type: Mathematics

4. Eligibility: High school students from all around the world

5. Benefits of participating: International and prestigious recognition

6. Cost of participation: None

7. Place: Online

8. Application cycle: September - October

9. Contacts: requst@hmmt.org

10. Website: https://www.hmmt.org

1. Short description:

• ATABI is a teens writing program partnered with Kwazithina Publishers - KTP to publish anthology of stories. It is created to promote writing and reading of African stories by teens.

• Our primary purpose is to let Africa tell her own stories.

What We Do?

• To strive and provide a credible storytelling platform for teens throughout the African continent to help ensure Africa tell her stories.

• To give teens an opportunity to pen down stories that forms part of the edited published anthology of short stories.

• To implement and oversee the program

• Some books will be donated in their schools and libraries. Some will be sold to fund proofreading, editing, printing, administration and advancement of the program throughout Africa.

• To promote Pan Africanism through story telling.

• To facilitate corporation among African Teen Authors Book Initiative affiliates and other Africans formations.

• Vision: To be a catalyst to let Africa to tell her own stories

2. Organizer: African Teen Authors Book Initiative

3. Sub-Type: Writing

4. Eligibility: 13 to 19, African and African Diaspora Teens

5. Benefits of participating: ATABI is looking for 25 outstanding short stories written by African Teens. They will form part of the Anthology of 25 short stories and 13 outstanding stories will later be published in a global anthology of short stories. The aim is to promote writing and reading of African stories, promote Pan-African systems, knowledge, understanding and social cohesion and to avoid the danger of a single narrative.

6. Cost of participation: None

7. Place: Online Submission

8. Application Cycle: N/A

9. Contacts:Email: info@kwazithina.co.za Call/Whatsapp: +26879798813

10. Website:https://advantagesa.wishpondpages.com/atabi-teen-writing-program-2/