Guide· 7 Oct 2026
Student Robotics: six months to make autonomy reliable
A practical guide to the UK's free, kit-supported autonomous robotics competition for 16–19 year-olds.
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Guide· 7 Oct 2026
STEM Racing Ireland: the car is only one part of the team
How engineering, manufacturing, branding and project management come together in the former F1 in Schools pathway.
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Guide· 6 Oct 2026
Conrad Challenge: build the venture, not just the prototype
How to turn a student invention into a tested solution, a credible business case, and a pitch that can survive scrutiny.
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Guide· 6 Oct 2026
PERC: make responsibility arguable
A practical guide to choosing an ethical problem, building a team argument, and preparing for the Oxford debate stage.
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Guide· 6 Oct 2026
iGEM High School: research, responsibility and documentation
Why the project is much larger than a laboratory experiment—and what a school needs before entering.
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Guide· 5 Oct 2026
Greenpower Electric Car Challenge: build for endurance, not speed alone
A guide to the Goblin, F24 and F24+ engineering pathway and the work behind race day.
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Guide· 5 Oct 2026
YRE Ireland: Report the Story, Change the Outcome
How to turn a local environmental issue into journalism that reaches an audience.
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Guide· 5 Oct 2026
TeenTech Awards: Make the Idea Work in the Real World
A guide to choosing evidence, testing assumptions and keeping student decisions visible.
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Guide· 3 Oct 2026
National STEM Festival UK: Build It, Test It, Share It
How to turn a working project into evidence that survives national review.
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Guide· 3 Oct 2026
National STEM Festival U.S.: Future Rising Starts with a Working Idea
Who can enter the 2027 U.S. edition, what the application requires, and how the two-stage selection works.
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Guide· 3 Oct 2026
FLL Explore Ireland: a showcase before a tournament
Why Explore is a complete first STEM project rather than a smaller version of Challenge.
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Guide· 3 Oct 2026
FLL Challenge Ireland: the robot game is not the whole score
How Irish teams can balance robot performance, innovation, design explanation and Core Values.
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Guide· 3 Oct 2026
FIRST LEGO League UK: robotics is only one part of the challenge
A parent- and teacher-friendly guide to the UK's Explore and Challenge programmes.
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Guide· 2 Oct 2026
FIRST LEGO League Ireland: choose the right programme first
An overview of Explore and Challenge, and how Irish families and schools can choose between them.
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Guide· 2 Oct 2026
Conrad Challenge: innovation needs a business case
Why a technically interesting idea is only the beginning of this global student innovation competition.
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Guide· 2 Oct 2026
AILO: Think Like a Language Detective
A practical guide to the logic, language patterns and preparation habits behind the All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad.
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Guide· 1 Oct 2026
Raspberry Pi Foundation Coding Challenge: from puzzles to code
How the UK Bebras follow-on turns computational thinking into a supervised programmed solution.
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Guide· 1 Oct 2026
Technovation: the app is only half the project
Community research, product decisions and the pitch work behind a credible technology solution.
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Guide· 1 Oct 2026
Perse Coding Team Challenge: think as a team
Problem allocation, shared debugging and the difference between several coders and one functioning team.
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Guide· 30 Sept 2026
Mission Zero: a first Python program with a real destination
How one browser session can turn beginner code into an image displayed aboard the International Space Station.
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