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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 28, 2024
Application Deadline: October 24, 2024
Program Dates: The competition will launch in late Spring 2025.
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 2024
Application Deadline:
Early Decision: January 17, 2025
Regular Decision: April 15, 2025
Program Dates: June 25, 2025 – July 12, 2025
Program Costs: $4500; financial aid available
NYU Collegiate Seminar Program
Program Grades: Juniors
The NYU Collegiate Seminar Program offers high school juniors the opportunity to experience college-level classes at a top-tier research university. Selected students will participate in one or more two-hour seminar-style classes taught by leading NYU faculty in a variety of academic subjects.
Application Opens: September 16, 2024
Application Deadline:
Deadline for Nomination: October 28, 2024
Final Application Deadline: November 8, 2024
Program Dates: Varies by program
Program Costs: Free
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, 2025
Registration Deadline: March 14, 2025
Program Dates: March 7-17, 2025
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, 2025
Application Deadline: October 2, 2025
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: March 1, 2025
Program Dates: April 3-5, 2025
Program Costs: $85 per team/school plus $15 per robot