Competitions
Browse verified academic, arts, service, and STEM competitions for high-school students.
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371 verified published opportunities
Language Honor Society is a named high-school participation pathway published by National Federation of State High School Associations; current availability and local rules must be checked.
Language Learning Showcase is a named high-school participation pathway published by American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, with details that vary by current cycle and local organizer.
Language Service is a named high-school participation pathway published by National Federation of State High School Associations; current availability and local rules must be checked.
Leadership Award is a named high-school participation pathway published by Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation, with details that vary by current cycle and local organizer.
Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams is an organizer-run high-school competition or award program in invention, engineering.
LifeSmarts is the National Consumers League's free consumer-literacy competition. Five-student teams study personal finance, consumer rights and responsibilities, technology, health and safety, and the environment, then compete through online quizzes and state pathways. National finalists complete individual and team contests, buzzer matches, and applied projects; the 2026 championship required an educational over-the-counter medicine-safety video and an Intuit personal-finance activity before the event. The annual season launches in early September and national competition occurs in spring.
Lin Arison Excellence in Writing Award is a named high-school recognition published by YoungArts; students should record only the result they actually received.
Literature is a named high-school participation pathway published by National PTA Reflections, with details that vary by current cycle and local organizer.
Lunabotics Award is a named high-school recognition published by NASA; students should record only the result they actually received.
Marine Debris Program is a named high-school participation pathway published by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, with details that vary by current cycle and local organizer.
DECA's Marketing Communications Series challenges one high-school member to solve marketing-communications problems designed to inform, persuade, or remind a target audience about ideas, experiences, goods, or services. The event combines a 100-question Marketing exam with two judged role-plays and a third role-play for finalists. For each role-play, the participant receives 10 minutes to prepare and 10 minutes to present and respond to the judge. Competition normally advances through association events to the spring International Career Development Conference.
The MATE ROV Competition asks student teams to engineer remotely operated underwater vehicles for workplace-modeled missions. Students design and build the ROV, test it on underwater tasks, maintain an engineering notebook or technical report, create a marketing display, and explain design rationale, safety, systems, budgeting, and lessons learned to industry judges. Five levels—EXPLORER, PIONEER, RANGER, NAVIGATOR, and SCOUT—serve learners from K–12 through university. The global program currently has 48 regional events feeding an early-summer World Championship.
