Kaggle: Spaceship Titanic
Free beginner-friendly ongoing ML competition on a public dataset.
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Bridge Design Contest (Engineering Encounters)
Free online contest designing a virtual steel truss bridge, local to national rounds.
GAMA Aviation Design Challenge
A national high school competition run by the General Aviation Manufacturers Association in which teams of at least three students use free X-Plane-powered flight simulation curricula to learn flight science, then modify an aircraft design and compete in a virtual fly-off scored on aerodynamic and performance metrics.
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1-2 week camp (incl. Stanford) building/training ML models in small groups.
SSCS Arduino Contest (IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society)
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Algoverse AI Research Program
A 12-week online AI research program pairing high school and college students in small teams with mentors from institutions like Stanford, OpenAI, Meta FAIR, and Google DeepMind to develop LLM-reasoning research submitted to venues such as NeurIPS and ICLR; requires Python experience and a $3,325 fee with need-based and merit scholarships.