Competitions in United States of America

The 3M Young Scientist Challenge gives students in grades 5–8 the chance to change their world for the better with a single innovative idea.

The future rests in the hands of entrepreneurs. Antler provides an ecosystem for launching world-changing ventures.

The Competition is a unique trilingual (English, Portuguese, and Spanish) event established to train law students on how to use the Inter-American human rights legal system as a legitimate forum for redressing human rights violations. Since its inception in 1995, it has trained over 4900 students and faculty participants from over 365 universities from the Americas and beyond.

Y Combinator provides seed funding for startups. Seed funding is the earliest stage of venture funding. It pays your expenses while you’re getting started.  Y Combinator is accepting applications for the Spring 2025 Batch funding cycle.

MarvelOptics.com, a leading prescription eyeglass company is pleased to announce they will be holding a “MarvelOptics.com National Scholarship Contest”. The essay winner selected will receive a $1500 scholarship.

DC Shorts International Film Festival is 22! Named the “Coolest Short Film Festival” by Moviemaker Magazine, the 22nd DC Shorts Film Festival is the largest short film event on the East Coast of the United States. A highly competitive festival, DC Shorts receives 1,300+ submissions from over 100 countries around the globe, projected to an audience of 80,000 both in-person and online, internationally, making it a perfect platform to share your art.

The WE Empower Challenge is a global business competition for women entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs who are advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and inspiring entire communities to create the world we want by 2030.

The CFA Institute Research Challenge is an annual global competition that provides university students with hands-on mentoring and intensive training in financial analysis and professional ethics.

Enter the most prestigious competition for creativity in advertising, the Communication Arts Advertising Competition.

Are you a change-maker, rain-maker, ground-breaker? Do you see opportunity, where others see crisis? Do you want to change the world? Young Champions of the Earth aims to celebrate and support individuals aged between 18 and 30 who have outstanding potential to create a positive environmental impact.

Enter one of the most prestigious competitions for creativity in photography, the Communication Arts Photography Competition. Any photograph first published or produced from March 2024 through March 2025 is eligible.

The 2025 Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship, proudly sponsored by Microsoft, will be held on July 27 - 30, 2025, in Orlando, Florida. Interested in competing? Connect with your country's representative today!