Looking for 2025 STEM Student Competitions? Start Here! 

Kick-off 2025 by challenging your students with these engaging STEM competitions! From ocean exploration to future technologies, these opportunities offer authentic problem-solving experiences while building critical thinking and collaboration skills.

• First Lego League Competition | Ages 4-16: The theme for 2025 is “Submerged.” Students use creative thinking and LEGO® technology to explore the layers of the ocean and bring learnings and ideas to the surface in a new challenge launching August 6. [learn more]
• TAME’s Regional Engineering Competitions | Grades 6-12: The Texas Alliance for Minorities in Engineering (TAME) brings together thousands of TAME Engineers each year to build their skills through collaborative engineering challenges while connecting with new peers and mentors. [learn more]
• e-Cybermission Virtual STEM Competition | Grades 6-9: Students form teams of 2-4, led by an adult Team Advisor, and select a community problem to investigate with science or solve with engineering. [learn more]
• How to … : An Informational Writing Contest for Teenagers by NY Times. Students explain how to do any task in 400 words or fewer. While not a specifically STEM-themed contest, students can choose to write about how to do STEM-related tasks. [learn more]
• Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision | Grades K-12: Since its inception in 1992, more than 450,000 students from across the United States and Canada have participated in Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision. The competition challenges students to envision and communicate new technology 10 or more years in the future through collaborative brainstorming and research of current science and technology. [read more]
• MathCounts Competition Series | Grades 6-8: The Competition Series has 4 levels of competition—school, chapter, state and national. Each level of competition is comprised of 4 rounds—Sprint, Target, Team, and Countdown Round. Altogether, the rounds are designed to take about 3 hours to complete. [learn more]