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Real remote competitions & hackathons opportunities — verified, not scraped junk. 54 real opportunities right now.

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Loewe Foundation Craft Prize

Loewe Foundation

An international craft prize recognizing exceptional handmade work across disciplines like ceramics, textiles, and woodworking, with exhibition and a substantial cash prize.

📍 Global (online submission); exhibition varies by yearPaidHard
#competition#craft#art
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Kokuyo Design Award

Kokuyo (Japan)

An annual stationery, furniture, and everyday-tool design competition open globally, judged on originality and practical usability, with a substantial cash grand prize.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidMedium
#competition#design#product-design
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ANU Science Case Study Competition

Australian National University

A case-study competition for undergraduate teams analyzing a real scientific or policy problem (such as critical minerals or mental health), judged on rigor and communication.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidMedium
#competition#case-study#science
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Reply Cyber Security Challenge

Reply

A 24-hour team cybersecurity competition spanning categories like cryptography, web security, and reverse engineering, judged on a capture-the-flag scoring system.

📍 Global (online)PaidHard
#hackathon#cybersecurity#team
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MIT Solve Financial Inclusion Challenge

MIT Solve

A challenge for solutions expanding financial access to excluded individuals and small enterprises, with winners receiving funding and MIT Solve's mentorship network.

📍 Global (online application)PaidMedium
#competition#fintech#financial-inclusion
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Visa Everywhere Initiative

Visa

A global startup competition supporting founders building innovative payment and commerce technologies, with cash prizes and mentorship from Visa's innovation team.

📍 Global (regional heats)PaidMedium
#competition#fintech#startup
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IFC Impact Investing Challenge

International Finance Corporation

A team-based challenge for graduate students to develop investment strategies addressing climate, gender equity, or financial inclusion, culminating in a pitch to IFC leadership.

📍 Global (online); finals presentationUnpaidHard
#competition#finance#impact-investing
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Non-Violent Communication Video Contest

Center for Nonviolent Communication

A video contest inviting entrants to demonstrate nonviolent communication practices in everyday scenarios, with recognition and certificates for standout entries.

📍 Global (online submission)UnpaidEasy
#competition#video#communication
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MIT Solve The Care Economy Challenge

MIT Solve

A challenge specifically for technology-enabled solutions to childcare, eldercare, and disability-support gaps, funded through MIT Solve's broader innovation network.

📍 Global (online application)PaidMedium
#competition#social-impact#care-economy
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Global Canvas Children's Art Competition

Global Canvas

A children's art competition spanning painting, sculpture, textile, and collage on an annual theme, with cash or supply-voucher prizes for winners.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidEasy
#competition#art#children
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Toyota Logistic Design Competition

Toyota

A design competition inviting student teams to propose 2D or 3D circular-economy object designs addressing transportation and material-use challenges.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidMedium
#competition#design#sustainability
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HG Wells Short Story Competition

H.G. Wells Society / literary festival

An annual themed short-story competition for young writers under 21, with a notable cash grand prize and publication opportunity.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidMedium
#competition#writing#fiction
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Depict! Short Film Competition

Depict! (UK film festival)

A short film competition capping entries at 90 seconds across any genre, screened at UK festivals, with a modest cash prize pool.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidMedium
#competition#film#short-form
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Yale Drama Series Playwriting Competition

Yale University Press

A playwriting competition for early-career writers judged by a working playwright, with the winning full-length play published by Yale University Press and given a professional staged reading.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidHard
#competition#playwriting#literature
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Astronomy Photographer of the Year

Royal Observatory Greenwich

One of the world's leading astrophotography competitions, spanning categories from deep sky to people-and-space, with substantial cash prizes and a London exhibition.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidHard
#competition#photography#astronomy
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American Meteorological Society Photo Contest

American Meteorological Society

A photography competition capturing weather, water, and climate phenomena, judged by atmospheric scientists, with modest cash prizes for winners.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidEasy
#competition#photography#weather
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Standard Chartered Weather Photographer of the Year

Royal Meteorological Society

A weather and climate photography competition across multiple categories including a youth award, celebrating images of meteorological phenomena worldwide.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidEasy
#competition#photography#weather
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500px Global Photography Awards

500px

An annual photography competition across six genre categories, judged by industry photographers, with cash prizes for category winners.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidMedium
#competition#photography#global
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Early Career

Andrei Stenin International Press Photo Contest

Rossiya Segodnya (Sputnik)

A photojournalism competition for young photographers documenting current events, spanning news, sports, and portrait categories, with a substantial cash grand prize.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidHard
#competition#photography#journalism
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Current World Archaeology (CWA) Photo Competition

Current World Archaeology magazine

A photography competition celebrating archaeological sites and heritage worldwide, with winners receiving conference passes and a magazine feature.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidEasy
#competition#photography#archaeology
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Environmental Photographer of the Year

Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM)

A photography award recognizing images that capture the human relationship with the environment, spanning categories from climate change to conservation.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidMedium
#competition#photography#environment
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Royal Society of Biology Photography Competition

Royal Society of Biology

An annual biology-themed photography competition with junior and open categories, celebrating images that capture the diversity of life sciences.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidEasy
#competition#photography#biology
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Banff Mountain Photo Essay Contest

Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival

A photo-essay competition (3-5 images with narrative) capturing mountain culture, adventure sport, or wildlife, judged as part of Canada's renowned mountain festival.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidMedium
#competition#photography#outdoors
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Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest

Smithsonian Magazine

An annual photography contest across categories like natural world, travel, and people, with a notable grand prize and category winners featured in the magazine.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidMedium
#competition#photography#global
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Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition

Nikon

The world's leading photomicrography competition, recognizing the best images and videos captured through a light microscope, with a substantial grand prize.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidHard
#competition#photography#science
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World History Association Student Essay Contest

World History Association

An essay contest inviting secondary students to reflect on the value of studying world history, with a cash prize for the top entry.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidEasy
#competition#essay#history
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Early Career

World Trade Organization Essay Award for Young Economists

World Trade Organization

An essay award encouraging original economic research on international trade policy, open to PhD students and young researchers, with a cash prize and possible publication.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidHard
#competition#essay#economics
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American Society of Human Genetics DNA Day Essay Contest

American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG)

An essay contest for high schoolers on a genetics-related prompt tied to National DNA Day, judged by genetics professionals with cash prizes for top entries.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidMedium
#competition#essay#genetics
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Jane Austen Society of North America Essay Contest

Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA)

A literary-analysis essay contest on Jane Austen's novels across three academic levels (high school, college, graduate), with cash prizes for each category.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidMedium
#competition#essay#literature
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Cambridge Re:think Essay Competition

University of Cambridge (Hughes Hall)

An essay competition spanning moral, political, scientific, and philosophical prompts for secondary school students, with a substantial combined cash prize pool.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidMedium
#competition#essay#cambridge
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Woolf Essay Prize

Newnham College, University of Cambridge

An essay prize for female secondary school students responding to an annually set prompt, named for Virginia Woolf, with book-token prizes for top entries.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidMedium
#competition#essay#women
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Oxford Practical Ethics Competition

University of Oxford (Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics)

A team video-submission competition for secondary students on a contemporary ethics question, culminating in a live debate day hosted by Oxford's Practical Ethics team.

📍 Global (online submission)UnpaidMedium
#competition#ethics#philosophy
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St Hugh's College Sixth Form Essay Competitions

University of Oxford (St Hugh's College)

A set of multi-subject essay competitions for secondary school students on Oxford-style set questions, offering cash prizes and academic feedback.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidMedium
#competition#essay#oxford
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Trinity College Cambridge Essay Prizes

Trinity College, University of Cambridge

A series of subject essay prizes (law, history, literature, linguistics) for secondary school students, judged by Trinity College fellows, with the prize split between student and school.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidMedium
#competition#essay#cambridge
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Fitzwilliam College Essay Competitions

Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge

A set of subject-specific essay competitions (across humanities and social sciences) for pre-university students, with cash prizes and feedback from Cambridge academics.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidMedium
#competition#essay#cambridge
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Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award

The Poetry Society (UK)

One of the world's largest poetry competitions for young writers, open on any theme, with roughly 100 winners receiving prizes, mentoring, and publication in an anthology.

📍 Global (online submission)UnpaidEasy
#competition#poetry#writing
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Ayn Rand Institute Essay Contests (Anthem, Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged)

Ayn Rand Institute

A set of annual essay contests open to students on Ayn Rand's novels Anthem, The Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged, each with a tiered cash prize pool and separate age brackets.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidMedium
#competition#essay#literature
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UNESCO Clubs Worldwide Multimedia Contest

UNESCO Clubs

A multimedia (video, essay, or art) competition inviting youth to propose ways their community can advance a specific UN Sustainable Development Goal, with a US-based youth camp invitation for top entries.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidEasy
#competition#sdgs#multimedia
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UNESCO-UNEVOC Skills in Action Photo Competition

UNESCO-UNEVOC

A photography competition documenting technical and vocational skills development around the world, intended to highlight the human side of workforce training.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidEasy
#competition#photography#vocational-education
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Harvard International Review Writing Contest

Harvard International Review

A short-form (roughly 800-1200 word) writing contest for high schoolers on international-affairs topics, with finalists invited to a virtual defense of their argument.

📍 Global (online submission)UnpaidMedium
#competition#writing#international-affairs
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The New York Times Learning Network Student Contests

The New York Times

An ongoing series of free writing, video, and multimedia contests for teenagers — including personal narrative, editorial, review, podcast, and STEM-explainer formats — with winning entries published by the Times.

📍 Global (online submission)UnpaidEasy
#competition#writing#journalism
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Microsoft Imagine Cup

Microsoft

A global student technology competition where teams build a working product using Microsoft's cloud and AI tools, with mentorship and a path to Microsoft's startup programs.

📍 Global (online, world finals in-person)PaidHard
#competition#technology#startup
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IBM Master the Mainframe Challenge

IBM

A three-level self-paced learning competition teaching mainframe computing fundamentals, with travel stipends and scholarships awarded to top performers.

📍 Global (online)PaidMedium
#competition#mainframe#coding
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International Online Physics Competition (Physics Brawl)

Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Czech Republic

A team-based online physics problem-solving competition run over several hours, testing both depth of physics knowledge and teamwork under time pressure.

📍 Global (online)UnpaidHard
#competition#physics#team
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International Youth Math Challenge (IYMC)

International Youth Math Challenge

A multi-round online mathematics competition open to school and college students worldwide, progressing from qualifiers through pre-finals to a final round.

📍 Global (online)PaidMedium
#competition#mathematics#online
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NASA Deep Space Food Challenge

NASA / Canadian Space Agency

A challenge inviting teams to design novel food-production technologies capable of feeding astronauts on years-long deep space missions with minimal resource input.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidHard
#competition#space#food-science
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Google Kick Start Coding Competition

Google

A global online algorithmic programming competition run in timed rounds, open to coders of all levels and used by Google as a talent pipeline for interviews.

📍 Global (online)UnpaidMedium
#competition#coding#algorithms
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Google Code Jam

Google

Google's long-running international algorithmic programming competition, run in timed online rounds that narrow down to an in-person world championship.

📍 Global (online, finals in-person)PaidHard
#competition#coding#algorithms
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IBM Call for Code Global Challenge

IBM

A global hackathon-style challenge inviting developers to build open-source technology solutions to pressing humanitarian and climate problems, with a substantial prize pool.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidMedium
#hackathon#open-source#social-impact
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MIT Solve Global Challenges

MIT Solve

An open innovation platform that runs annual challenges (health, climate, economic prosperity, learning) and connects selected Solver teams with funding, mentorship, and MIT's network.

📍 Global (online application)PaidMedium
#competition#social-impact#funding
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Conrad Challenge

Conrad Foundation

A team-based STEM innovation challenge that takes student ventures from concept through a business pitch, culminating in an in-person Innovation Summit.

📍 Global (online submission)UnpaidMedium
#competition#stem#team
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James Dyson Award

James Dyson Foundation

An international student design-engineering award recognizing inventions that solve real problems, judged first nationally and then by James Dyson himself at the international stage.

📍 Global (submission by country)PaidMedium
#competition#design#engineering
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The Earth Prize

The Earth Prize Foundation

A global environmental innovation competition for teenage teams to design solutions to real sustainability problems, with a large combined prize pool for students, mentors, and schools.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidMedium
#competition#sustainability#team
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Breakthrough Junior Challenge

Breakthrough Prize Foundation

A global video competition inviting teens to explain a challenging concept in life sciences, physics, or mathematics in an engaging short film, with a major scholarship as the top prize.

📍 Global (online submission)PaidMedium
#competition#science-communication#scholarship
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