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Please use this information as a planning guide of various programs and tentative application dates. If you are aware of any additional programs we can add to our list to maximize student possibilities please forward to conleya@asmsa.org.
** The deadlines for red highlights have already passed and will be updated after they publish their 2025 dates/costs. Please familiarize yourself with available programs so you can identify your interest, know the requirements, and be ready to apply when the application is published and/or comes back around the following year.
** The deadlines for red highlights have already passed and will be updated after they publish their 2025 dates/costs. Please familiarize yourself with available programs so you can identify your interest, know the requirements, and be ready to apply when the application is published and/or comes back around the following year.
Program Grades: High school students
The Congressional App Challenge is the most prestigious prize in student computer science. Students use any programming language to design a new app. Students may register as individuals or as teams of up to four.
Application Opens: August 24, 2026
Application Deadline: October 20, 2026
Program Dates: The competition will launch in late Spring 2027.
See Mr. Seward for more information.
Wolfram Summer Research Program
Program Grades: Ages 14-17
A project-based research opportunity for motivated high-school students to move beyond the cutting edge of computational thinking and artificial intelligence.
Application Opens: November 2025
Application Deadline:
Early Decision: January 18, 2026
Regular Decision: March 22, 2026
Program Dates: June 24, 2026 – July 11, 2026
Program Costs: $4500; financial aid available
Program Grades: High school students
The BEST Robotics Competition is a national six-week robotics competition held in the fall. Teams design and build a machine that can perform certain, specific tasks in three minutes.
See Mr. Seward for more information.
Program Grades: High school students
Teams build, design, program, and compete with their robots at tournaments held year-round at the regional, state, and national levels.
See Mr. Seward for more information.
Program Grades: High school students
This is a two-week long CTF competition. Competitors have to reverse-engineer, break, hack, decrypt, and think creatively and critically to solve the challenges and capture digital flags. Challenges increase in difficulty as players progress. Programming knowledge is recommended.
Registration Opens: February 1, 2026
Registration Deadline: March 16, 2026
Program Dates: March 9-19, 2026
Program Costs: None
Air Force Association Cyber Patriot
Program Grades: High school students
Teams of high school and middle school students take on the role of newly hired IT professionals tasked with managing the network of a small company. Teams are given a set of virtual operating systems and must find and fix cybersecurity vulnerabilities while maintaining critical services.
Application Opens: April 1, 2026
Application Deadline: October 1, 2026
Program Costs: $205
See Mr. Seward for more information.
Program Grades: High school students
The National Robotics Challenge is composed of twelve contest categories. A robot may only be entered in one contest category per year, unless otherwise noted in a contest category section of this manual.
Application Opens: Unknown
Application Deadline: February 27, 2026
Program Dates: April 16-18, 2026
Program Costs: $85 per team/school plus $15 per robot
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