Introduction to American Writing Contest with High Gold Content (1) Academic Art & Academic and Artistic Writing Award
The Academic and Artistic Writing Award is the largest, oldest and most prestigious art and literature competition in the United States. Founded in 1923, it provides a platform for young people to display their creativity and talents, mainly for students in grade 7- 12.
Every year, teenagers from all over the United States submit more than 330,000 entries and compete in 28 art and writing categories. Tops said that the contest was judged by outstanding figures in various fields, and regional and national awards were selected. The winner can get a maximum of $65,438+0,000.
Start time: September every year.
Qualifications: Grade 7-12 students.
Award announcement time: 65438+ the following year 10 month.
John Locke essay contest John Locke essay contest
John Locke essay contest is organized by John Lockel nstitute, an independent educational institution in Oxford, England. In memory of the famous philosopher John Locke of Oxford University, every year, high school students from all over the world are invited to show their views in a certain field within 2,000 words.
As one of the international essay awards with the highest gold content in the field of humanities and social sciences, the John Locke essay competition aims to cultivate the argumentative writing ability of participants from interesting and challenging topics. The contest hopes to cultivate participants' independent and profound insights, extensive cognition, clear reasoning ability, critical thinking ability and persuasion.
Deadline: June 30th.
Qualifications: All students from all over the world, regardless of grade, can participate in the competition. Completion time:
July 2022 14: notify the short-listed candidates.
August 27th, 2022-September 30th, 2022: Awards Dinner.
(3) Youth Art Competition Young Artists Competition
The Youth Art Competition is organized by the National Youth Art Foundation, and its mission is to discover the next generation of artists in the fields of vision, design, literature and performing arts.
In order to encourage young artists from 15- 18 to create, YoungArts has opened up as many entries as 10, and favorite applications will be strictly examined by artists in this field. Winners will receive lifelong artistic support and keep in touch with their peers' mentors.
Writing can be subdivided into non-fiction, novels, drama scripts, poems, short stories and so on. Applicants must find ways to show their creativity and writing ability, and at the same time have clear, unique and original views.
Deadline: 65438+1October 65438+May.
Qualification: 15- 18 years old, 10- 12 grade students.
A summary of the most valuable subject competition in American universities
0 1 computer and robot competition
1.？ Informatics International Olympic Competition? Entry threshold ★★★★★★★★★★★ Gold content ★★★★★★★★
International Informatics Olympiad (IOI)
The highest level of computer information technology competition, together with mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology, constitutes the five disciplines competition of the Olympic Games.
2.？ International Robot Olympiad? Entry threshold ★★★★★★★★★★★ Gold content ★★★★★★★★
international robot olympiad
International robot contest (IRO) is an international robot competition jointly organized by the International Olympic Robotics Committee (IROC) and the Danish Lego Education Company. Competition is divided into two categories: competition and creativity. In the competition category, each group must build robots and write programs to solve specific problems. In the creative category, each group is free to design robot models and show them on specific topics.
3.？ FRC robot contest? Entry threshold ★★★★★★☆☆ Gold content ★★★★★★☆☆
The first robot competition
The FIRST robot contest is an industrial robot contest sponsored by the American non-profit organization FIRST, which is aimed at high school students and junior college students. It combines the excitement of sports with the precision of science and technology, and is called "Intellectual University Games". The competition has been recognized by more than 500 universities around the world, and all contestants can get the opportunity to apply for scholarships totaling about 30 million US dollars every year, such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia University, University of Toronto in Canada and Macquarie University in Australia. Every year, more and more new universities join the list of the first scholarships.
4.？ VEX robotics Challenge? Entry threshold ★★★★★★☆☆ Gold content ★★★★★★☆☆
VEX robotics competition
VEX robotics competition is divided into three levels: junior high school, senior high school and university. Teams are required to design, manufacture and program their own robots. Robots can compete in a specific venue according to certain rules through automatic programs and remote control.
5.？ Botball International robot contest? Entry threshold ★★★★★★☆☆ Gold content ★★★★★★☆☆
Zombie ball program
BotBall International robot contest is an educational robot activity that originated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It first appeared as an undergraduate course and competition, and was widely recognized and welcomed by MIT students. Because the activity has obvious educational characteristics, it is highly consistent with the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) educational concept promoted in the United States. Since 1997, BotBall has been pushed to the stage of junior and senior high school education, becoming an international robot contest with middle school students' education as its main theme. The design of Botball is based on American national science education standards, and closely focuses on cultivating scientific literacy and inquiry spirit. After 18 years of development, it has now grown into a juvenile education robot activity with extraordinary influence in the United States and even in the world.
02 humanities and social sciences competition
1.？ International Olympic Linguistics Competition? Entry threshold ★★★★★★★☆ Gold content ★★★★★★☆.
International Linguistics Olympic Competition
IOL is the abbreviation of International Linguistics Olympic Competition. The annual IOL competition is one of the global 13 Olympic science competitions, and it is the highest-level discipline competition for senior high school students in the world. It is famous for training and cultivating contestants' thinking ability, teamwork ability and problem-solving ability.
Each topic of IOL competition is based on the language fragments of a language that have been investigated all over the world, showing the differences of coding methods in different languages to the contestants, and giving enough known information to ask the contestants to explore the laws behind it. IOL competition does not require players to have profound linguistic knowledge, but requires players to use comprehensive abilities such as logical thinking, divergent thinking and problem solving to crack the laws and secrets behind language phenomena. In this competition, young people from all over the world with different skin colors and cultural backgrounds will also exercise their abilities and enhance mutual understanding through various intense and interesting competitions and exchange activities.
2.？ China High School Students American English Debate League? Entry threshold ★★★★☆☆☆☆ Gold content ★★★★★☆☆
China National High School Debate Competition Alliance
At present, NHSDLC is the largest foreign language debate alliance in China, and is committed to providing a high-quality extracurricular activity platform for more domestic high school students. Through the American debating competition, they can improve their language expression ability and critical thinking ability, broaden their horizons and build a bridge between them and foreign high school students.
At present, the league has formed a debate system of inter-school competition, urban regional competition, national invitational tournament, national championship and international invitational tournament. Every year, NHSDLC holds more than 40 regional competitions in more than 30 cities. By the end of 20 17, NHSDLC had provided free training guidance to 100000 students in more than 500 schools in Chinese mainland.
3.？ National Union of Speech and Debate? Entry threshold ★★★★★★★☆ Gold content ★★★★★★☆.
National Speech and Debate Association (NSDA)
The full name of American Debate League is National Speech and Debate Association (NSDA), which is the oldest and largest honorary organization of speech and debate in middle schools in the United States and the largest member organization of professional coaches in the field of speech and debate in the world. NSDA provides NSDA points and ranking services for member schools and students. Through its unique scoring and ranking system, NSDA has established an objective academic evaluation system nationwide. Schools and students participating in the debate can compare the level of debate with each other and stimulate the sense of competition. As one of the indicators of students' academic performance, the system is widely used in the enrollment process of American universities.
4.？ National Linguistics Olympic Competition? Entry threshold ★★★★☆☆☆☆ Gold content ★★★★★☆☆
National Linguistics Olympic Competition
This competition undertakes the task of selecting and transporting qualified athletes for the International Language Olympics (IOL) in China. The purpose of NOL competition is not to examine the linguistic knowledge of the contestants, but to hope that the contestants can use their logical and divergent thinking ability to solve linguistic problems that they have never been exposed to and get the correct answers through reasoning. In the process of answering these interesting questions, participants will personally feel the broadness and interest of linguistics, and then have a strong interest in it.
03 commercial competition
1.？ National High School Business Challenge? Entry threshold ★★★★★★☆☆☆ Gold content ★★★★★★★★☆☆
American distributed education club
International Career Development Conference (ICDC) is the highest standard business challenge held by DECA every year, and it is known as "Business Olympics". DECA is the American Distributed Education Club, which was founded in 1946. It is one of the largest business leadership education institutions for middle school students in the United States, and is committed to training future business leaders for marketing, finance, business administration and tourism management. DECA values ability, innovation, integrity and teamwork. Dika ICDC is a national business challenge for high school students. It is the highest standard business challenge held by DECA in the United States every year, and is known as "Business Olympics". The ICDC competition has been supported by many famous universities and enterprises in the United States. There are more than 50 projects in the contest, and the judges are 1000 entrepreneurs and managers of well-known American enterprises.
The awards and achievements of ICDC activities have been highly recognized, including the unanimous recommendation and recognition of the US Congress, the US Department of Education, the American Students' Vocational and Skills Organization, the American Association of Middle School Principals and the American College Board. It is considered as one of the activities that American students must participate in before entering the university.
2.？ Future business leaders in America? Entry threshold ★★★★★★☆☆ Gold content ★★★★★★☆☆
American Future Business Leaders (FBLA)
FBLA Future American Business Leaders was founded on 1937. It is the largest non-profit student organization in the world and an educational institution under the US Department of Education. At present, it has 2 15000 members in the United States. The mission of FBLA is to turn business education into a practical activity and career development project through innovative forms, and provide business education and business career planning for outstanding teenagers. FBLA holds various business elite activities and competitions every year, and the entry certificate and award certificate are recognized by American universities.
3.？ Saizhi? Entry threshold ★★★★☆☆☆☆ Gold content ★★★★★☆☆
sensible
The social innovation competition for middle school students in Saizhi is divided into two groups: SRB/SEB, which takes innovation as the same starting point to solve social problems, among which SRB (socially responsible business) emphasizes that middle school students' projects indirectly realize social responsibility through products and other forms; SEB Group (social enterprise business) emphasizes the direct realization of social responsibility through services and other forms.
4.？ Diamond challenge? Entry threshold ★★★★☆☆☆☆ Gold content ★★★★★☆☆
Diamond challenge
The Diamond Challenge was founded on 20 12 and sponsored by the University of Delaware Entrepreneurship Program. It is committed to cultivating the next generation of enterprise competitions, showing middle school students the career development path of entrepreneurship, and providing them with opportunities to understand the entrepreneurial process and put their ideas into practice. Today, more than 4000 students from 35 countries took part in the competition.
5.？ Penn Wharton Investment and Trading Competition? Entry threshold ★★★★ ☆ ☆ Gold content ★★★ ★ ☆ ☆.
Knowledge @ Wharton High School (KWHS)
Rules of the Competition: Using Wharton Otis online simulation trading system to manage the assets of $654.38 million+,students need to establish their own trading strategies and show their arguments for choosing strategies to the judges:
Parameter qualification: 9- 12 middle school students.
Entry form: teams are not supported, each team has 4-9 people (independent students can form teams).
Transaction category: stock. The competition chooses stock categories, mainly US stocks. Each team member is responsible for investment analysis and strategy report writing of at least one stock category.
Complete the competition: submit the interim report and final strategy. All teams that submit these two documents, regardless of whether they are shortlisted or not, can get the entry certificate issued by Wharton Knowledge Online.
Competition judges: The judges are composed of professors from Wharton Business School, experts from asset management companies and KWHS.
6.？ Simulated entrepreneur challenge? Entry threshold ★★★★☆☆☆☆ Gold content ★★★★★☆☆
Model entrepreneur (me)
In 20 15, Venture For All and IEG Universal Picture jointly established Model Entrepreneur(ME), aiming at enabling entrepreneurs of all ages to successfully start businesses and recruit talents through the teaching philosophy and guidance of Columbia Business School. The competition assembly number integrates the academic resources of offline activities, not limited to offline competitions, but also relies on the powerful online platform of the school selection bridge to carry out competitions. Committed to building me into an international community and a brand of extracurricular activities for students. Through different stages of guidance and optional courses, ME participants can really learn how to use business forms to brainstorm and design all links.
7.？ National Economics Challenge? Entry threshold ★★★★☆☆☆☆ Gold content ★★★★★☆☆
National economic challenges
NEC (National Economics Challenge) is the most influential economics competition for senior high school students in the United States. After 17 years of development and accumulation, 10500 students are invited to participate every year. The contest and contestants have been widely supported and recognized by well-known financial institutions on Wall Street and top universities in the United States.
04 comprehensive science and technology competition
1.？ Google Science Challenge? Entry threshold ★★★★★★☆ Gold content ★★★★★☆.
Google Science Fair (GSF)
GSF is a global online science and technology competition, open to students and teams (up to 3 people) between the ages of 13 and 18. The competition is divided into two groups: experimental group and engineering group. GSF usually takes 6-7 months to collect public entries and hold the final global finals.
2.？ Intel genius award? Entry threshold ★★★★★☆ Gold content ★★★★★★★
Intel Scientific Talent Search (STS)
Intel Science Talent Search, formerly known as Westinghouse Science Talent Search, was originally founded by Westinghouse, and is known as the Little Nobel Prize. It is recognized as the most demanding and elite high school scientific research competition in the United States. Its predecessor was the Westinghouse Science Award, which began at 1942. 1998 was changed to Intel Science Award, which is the oldest and most authoritative science competition award for senior high school students in the United States. It attracts outstanding young scientists with lofty ideals. Its purpose is to encourage the younger generation to explore challenging scientific problems and cultivate their necessary skills to solve unknown social problems.
3.？ Intel International Science Engineering? Entry threshold ★★★★★☆ Gold content ★★★★★★★
Intel Science and Engineering Exhibition (ISEF)
Known as the "World Cup" of the global youth science competition, "Intel ISEF" is the largest and highest-level science competition in the world, and it is also the only competition for middle school students in grades 9- 12 (that is, grades 3 to 3). Its predecessor was Science Service, an American science fair for middle school students, which was established in 1950. Intel will sponsor the event until April 38, 1965. Competition disciplines include all natural sciences and some social sciences. It provides a stage for the best young scientists and inventors in the world to communicate with each other and show the latest scientific and technological achievements.
4.？ Siemens Science Competition? Entry threshold ★★★★★☆ Gold content ★★★★★★★
Siemens mathematics, science and mathematics competition. technology
Siemens Science Award is an award set up by Siemens to reward the best students in American mathematics and science. It was set by 1998. It is committed to selecting the best students in the fields of mathematics and science in the United States, and provides more than 7 million yuan each year to support education and development in the field of science. Siemens Science Competition is one of the highest-level science and technology competitions for middle school students in the United States.
5.？ American academic decathlon? Entry threshold ★★★★☆☆☆☆ Gold content ★★★★★☆☆
USAD (American academic decathlon)
American Academic Decathlon (USAD for short) is an academic competition for senior high school students organized by American non-profit organization (USAD Association). This competition includes ten subjects, including seven objective test subjects: art, economy, literature, mathematics, music, science and social science. There are also three subjective test subjects: speech, interview and writing. Every year, the competition has a specific theme, and students are required to learn the textbooks provided by the organizing Committee (English, all textbooks except mathematics are related to the theme of the year).
6.？ China Dazhihui Innovation Research Challenge? Entry threshold ★★★★☆☆☆☆ Gold content ★★★★★☆☆
China is ambitious (CTB)
China Thinks Big China Dazhihui (CTB for short) in China is the biggest innovation competition for young people in China, which has produced the largest number of students from world famous schools and self-enrollment students. The national finals are held in Stanford Center in Beijing and Harvard Center in Shanghai every year. Winners can participate in North American roadshows in Harvard University, Stanford University and Silicon Valley. The results of the participating teams were published in academic journals at home and abroad and reported by official media such as CCTV. China Thinks Big has joined dozens of top universities at home and abroad such as Yale, Stanford, Tsinghua and Peking University to present annual research topics and practical challenges to middle school students. Through the knowledge system and classic research methodology of world famous schools, stimulate the academic and innovative potential of participants and encourage attention to social problems and life around them; Practice the spirit of "think big and do small things" with original ideas and innovative solutions.
7.？ International Space City Design Competition? Entry threshold ★★★★★★☆☆ Gold content ★★★★★★☆☆
International Space Settlement Design Competition (ISSDC)
International Space City Design Competition, the most influential high school student competition in the global space research field, originated from the summer project of boy scouts of america, the largest youth organization in the United States, in 1984, and was open to students of grade 8- 12 all over the world. Participants need to form a team of 12 people to design their own unique space city scheme according to the requirements of RFP. Participants will fully demonstrate their knowledge, skills and innovative ability in the fields of mathematics, physics, computer, engineering, commerce, life science and art. The scheme is required to be written in English, covering six parts: overall design, structural design, infrastructure and operation, human settlement and safety, automation and service, and commercial development, so as to completely describe the design and construction process of a space city.
8.？ World Youth Invention Exhibition? Entry threshold ★★★★☆☆☆☆ Gold content ★★★★★☆☆
International exhibition of young inventors
The World Youth Civilization Exhibition is an international activity. It was established in 2004 to celebrate the100th anniversary of the establishment of Japan Institute of Innovation and Invention. It aims to encourage innovative young inventors around the world through exhibitions and competitions. IEYI takes invention and creation as a link, which not only provides a platform for international communication for young inventors around the world, but also improves their understanding of scientific core concepts while cultivating their scientific thinking and design thinking.
9.？ Dengfeng Cup National Academic Science and Technology Innovation Competition for Middle School Students? Entry threshold ★★★★ ☆☆☆ Gold content ★★★ ★ ☆☆☆
The full name of Dengfeng Cup is "Dengfeng Cup National Middle School Students' Academic Science and Technology Innovation Competition", which is a national academic science and technology innovation competition for middle school students, including Dengfeng Cup National Middle School Students' Academic Works Competition, Dengfeng Cup National Middle School Students' Mathematical Modeling Competition, Dengfeng Cup National Middle School Students' robot contest, Dengfeng Cup National Middle School Students' Structural Design Competition, Dengfeng Cup National Middle School Students' Data Mining Competition and Dengfeng Cup's artistic creativity.
10.？ "environmental marathon" high school science and engineering competition? Entry threshold ★★★★ ☆☆☆ Gold content ★★★ ★ ☆☆☆
"Envirothon" high school science and engineering competition is the world's largest high school science and engineering competition with the theme of environmental protection, aiming at encouraging students to cultivate top scientific skills and excellent sense of social responsibility. Formerly known as North American Environmental Olympics, the competition started at 1979 and was later renamed as "Environmental Marathon" to further stimulate students' exploration spirit. The North American "Environmental Marathon" high school science and engineering competition is sponsored and operated by the environmental protection departments of American States and Canadian provinces, with more than 4,000 middle schools and 500,000 students participating every year.