Scholars’ Compass

🌍 1. Global Country Economics Simulation Challenge A 4-day online macroeconomics hackathon where your team runs a fictional government economy, responds to live crises, and pitches strategy to experts. 🏆 Winners receive free certifications from Yale, Wharton & Google 👥 Solo or teams of up to 3 · 🌐 Open worldwide · 💰 FREE ⏳ Deadline: June 7 · 🚀 Starts: June 8 📝 Register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScYsvXb7r3clOj59Heof2xYQdCRKudNEsVU7jGHTkuazM51dQ/viewform 📢 Organizers: @blackswan_buisnesscommunity · @youthfinance · Questions: @anna_nemytova (Instagram) ——— 🏅 2. IFEO — International Finance & Economics Olympiad Online olympiad for grades 8–12 and 1st–2nd year college students, organized by Astana Finance Club & FinLit. 💰 Prize pool: 500,000 KZT (~$1,000 cash) + $35,000+ in partner bonuses 📋 Round I (June 14): Individual econ & finance test (50 questions) 📋 Round II (June 20–23): Team business case — 5-min video + 10 slides 👥 Teams of 3–5 · 💰 FREE TO ENTER 🗓 Registration closes: June 11 🏆 Winners announced: June 29 📝 Register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfQwGRbYDnx8TdqLnsplPVPBoEVU3za2ymort7QSHTORU5QPQ/viewform 📢 @youthfinance · @Financialkno

🎓 Ellison Scholars Programme — Fully Funded Undergraduate at Oxford The Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) is now accepting applications for its 2027 cohort of Undergraduate Ellison Scholars — a fully funded undergraduate degree at the University of Oxford, combined with hands-on research internships at EIT. Ellison Scholars study any discipline at Oxford while completing 10-week summer internships at EIT each year, working on real-world projects in areas like: — AI & Robotics — Health & Generative Biology — Climate Change — Food Security & Agriculture Selection is highly competitive. EIT is especially interested in students with backgrounds in CS, AI, maths, biology, chemistry, engineering, medicine, economics, and related fields. 💰 Cost: Fully funded (tuition + financial support) 📋 Eligibility ✅ High school leaving qualification accepted by Oxford ✅ Grades meeting Oxford's course requirements ✅ English language requirements met ✅ Must meet EIT's selection criteria 🗓 Key Deadlines Applications open on 1 May 2026 Applications close on 31 July 2026 Semi-finalists selected in Sep–Oct 2026 Finalists identified in Jan–Feb 2027 Scholars announced in Mar–Apr 2027 Studies begin in October 2027 🌐 Information Session Want to learn more? Attend the online info session: 📅 Wednesday, 17 June 2026 🕐 1:00 PM UK time | 🕔 6:00 PM Astana time (UTC+5) 👉 Sign up here https://studentportal.eit.org/eventregistration?id=701dP00000rjSPpQAM 🔗 Apply: ellisonscholars.eit.org/undergraduate 🔗 Program info: eit.org/education-and-scholarships/undergraduate 📧 Questions: scholars@eit.org

🇰🇿 "Independence Generation" Grant 2026 Got a project idea? Kazakhstan's government will fund it. 30 grants of ₸3,000,000 each (~$6,000) are up for grabs — awarded annually since 2021 by initiative of President Tokayev to support young people who are actually building something. --- 🌐 Official page: https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/mam/press/news/details/1205746?lang=kk --- 📋 Language: Kazakh and/or Russian ✅ Who can apply: Citizens of Kazakhstan, ages 14–34 — yes, high schoolers too! 📅 Deadline: June 21, 2026 --- Pick your category and apply: 🔬 Science — got a research idea? This is your grant 🎨 Culture — preserving heritage, promoting Kazakh arts and traditions 💻 IT — building an app, platform, or startup? Apply here 💼 Business — turn a business idea into a funded reality 📱 Media — create content that educates, inspires, or entertains 🤝 Volunteering — tackling a real social problem in your community --- What you'll need to submit: - Project description + draft budget (PDF) - A 60-second video OR 10-slide presentation of your idea - Copy of your ID or birth certificate --- 📝 Apply here: https://forms.gle/8Edm9PwoqQZQyw287 📞 8 (7172) 74-12-78 | 8 777-114-66-82 ✉️ t.urpaqtary2026@gmail.com *(weekdays 9:00–18:30)*

🧠 #1 — USC Neuro Scholars Program University of Southern California | Virtual Read real scientific papers, join bi-weekly discussions with USC PhD researchers, and complete a capstone project — with potential publication opportunities. ✅ Grades 9–12 | International students welcome | No prerequisites 💰 FREE 📅 Priority Deadline: May 29, 2026 ⚡ (Today! Late apps on rolling basis) 🗓 June – September 2026 🔗 Apply: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdq6aKgrh66Qlnz2wW6JJlfruWsR5VfVzoqFTWCj01A8V1yIA/viewform 🌐 Website: https://www.uschighschoolneurosciencejournalclub.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔬 #2 — Stanford iGEM Bioengineering Research Program (SIBRP) Stanford University | Virtual Free virtual program covering wet lab, computational biology, and bioinformatics — with 1-on-1 mentorship from Stanford students and faculty. ✅ High schoolers & incoming college freshmen | International students welcome 💰 FREE 📅 Deadline: June 5, 2026 (11:59 PM PST) 🗓 July 13–31, 2026 (MWF, 8–10 AM PST) 🔗 Apply: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScyxoXb9Vpw2A-0g2j-kICawv99E1_XZXVM0kal1wvr2_t61Q/viewform?usp=send_form 🌐 Website: https://igem.stanford.edu/education 📩 Questions: stanfordigemteam@gmail.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧬 #3 — iGEM Summer Camp @ Nazarbayev University Astana | Online & Offline | 🇰🇿 5-day synthetic biology camp at NU — hands-on labs, team projects, workshops, meals, and a certificate of participation. ✅ Years 11–12 | English & Russian 💰 FREE (meals included) 📅 Deadline: June 10, 2026 🗓 June 22–26, 2026 🔗 Register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc9Zzog5_ycgTlGuGRi8DplAVliMTuSUuq8GcgwAPRUm8mY8g/viewform?pli=1 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/igem.nu_kazakhstan/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏛 #4 — ResearchOrda Nazarbayev University, Astana | In-Person | 🇰🇿 4-week research program at NU — conduct your own project under professor supervision and present at a closing academic symposium. ✅ Grades 9–11 | Any city in Kazakhstan 💰 FREE (out-of-city students cover travel & accommodation) 📅 Deadline: June 22. 🔗 Apply: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf2SMgSaqDCMKvZilX7tKlyw1S-DiuXSJ15yINrgamMh_UfUw/viewform 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/researchordakaz/

🧬 Stanford iGEM Bioengineering Research Program (SIBRP) Free virtual summer research program by Stanford — covering wet lab techniques, computational biology, bioinformatics, and more! ───────────────────────── 👤 Eligibility: High school students & incoming college freshmen (international students welcome) 💰 Cost: Free 📅 Program Dates: July 13 – July 31, 2026 (MWF, 8–10 AM PST) 📍 Format: Virtual ⏰ Application Deadline: June 5, 2026 (11:59 PM PST) 📣 Decisions: Week of June 15, 2026 ───────────────────────── ✨ What you get: 1-on-1 mentorship from Stanford students & faculty Guest speakers from top industry & academia Professional development workshops Hands-on: wet lab, computational analysis, quantitative modeling, bioinformatics ───────────────────────── 🔗 Apply here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScyxoXb9Vpw2A-0g2j-kICawv99E1_XZXVM0kal1wvr2_t61Q/viewform?usp=send_form 🌐 Education page: https://igem.stanford.edu/education 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stanford_igem?igsh=dXI2bXViODFvNmc4 📩 Questions: stanfordigemteam@gmail.com ⚠️ Note: The website currently shows applications as not yet open — disregard that. The application form is live and the deadline is June 5, 2026.

🌍 GLOBAL COUNTRY ECONOMICS SIMULATION CHALLENGE Join a 4-day online macroeconomics hackathon where you take on the role of a government — managing a fictional economy, responding to financial crises, and competing for prestigious prizes. 📋 WHAT YOU'LL DO → Run economic policy for a fictional country → Respond to live financial crises under pressure → Present your strategy in a final Zoom pitch before experts 🏆 GRAND PRIZE Each member of the winning team receives a free certification from: 🏛️ Yale University — Financial Markets 📈 Wharton (UPenn) — Business & Financial Modeling 💻 Google — Digital Marketing & E-commerce 📌 DETAILS 👥 Teams of up to 3 (solo participants welcome) 📍 Format: 100% Online 🌐 Open to all countries 💰 Cost: Free ⏳ Registration deadline: June 7 🚀 Simulation starts: June 8 👉 REGISTER: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScYsvXb7r3clOj59Heof2xYQdCRKudNEsVU7jGHTkuazM51dQ/viewform 📢 Follow the organizers: 🖤 Black Swan → @blackswan_buisnesscommunity 💙 Astana Finance Club → @youthfinance Questions → @anna_nemytova on Instagram

🏛 Spain–Kazakhstan Policy Case Competition ⏰ Opens on May 28 at 00:01 — you'll have exactly 24 hours to submit. A team-based policy challenge for high school students across Kazakhstan. Receive a real international case, build your solution, and defend it before an international jury on May 30. 📅 Key Dates May 28, 00:01 — Case drops, submissions open May 28, 23:59 — Submission deadline May 30 — Final round (5-min presentation + 2-min Q&A) 🏆 Top teams win Certificates + exclusive prizes from SAT Space and Prospect Admissions — SAT courses, admissions support discounts, and expert consultations 💰 Free to participate 👉 Register now: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf8x74sODFKGufAPovxK6reApAJb9TIPtwRU9cltfP37gAPZw/viewform 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coreteam.policy/

ResearchOrda is a FREE 4-week summer program in Astana where high school students conduct original research and present it at a closing symposium. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 WHAT YOU'LL DO ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ - Conduct your own research project under professor supervision - Present your work at a final academic symposium - In-person at Nazarbayev University, Astana ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ ELIGIBILITY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ - Grades 9–11 (12-year system) - Open to students from any city in Kazakhstan ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏆 SELECTION PROCESS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Stage 1 — Application form Stage 2 — Academic grades + SAT/ACT, AP, IB, or A-Level scores Stage 3 — Interview (if required) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💰 COST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Participation is fully FREE ⚠️ Students from other cities cover their own accommodation, transport & personal expenses ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📎 APPLY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 Application form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf2SMgSaqDCMKvZilX7tKlyw1S-DiuXSJ15yINrgamMh_UfUw/viewform 📸 Instagram: @researchordakaz 📧 Questions: researchorda@gmail.com

🧠 USC Neuro Scholars — Free Virtual Summer Program 🎓 University of Southern California A competitive, 100% free virtual program where high school students explore neuroscience research alongside USC professors. You'll read real scientific papers, join bi-weekly discussions with PhD-level researchers, and complete a capstone project — with potential publication and conference opportunities. 📋 What you'll do: Read & discuss cutting-edge neuroscience literature Bi-weekly meetings with USC neuroscientists (June–July) Independent capstone research project (Aug–Sep) Chance to publish in a research journal ✅ Eligibility: Any high schooler (grades 9–12) for the 2026–2027 school year International students welcome No prerequisites required 💰 Cost: FREE 📅 Key Dates: Priority Deadline: May 29, 2026 ⚡ Late applications considered on a rolling basis (email organizer) Program runs: June – September 2026 🔗 Apply here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdq6aKgrh66Qlnz2wW6JJlfruWsR5VfVzoqFTWCj01A8V1yIA/viewform 🌐 Program website: https://www.uschighschoolneurosciencejournalclub.com 📩 Questions / late applications: samiansyed@gmail.com

🌍 Introducing IFEO — International Finance & Economics Olympiad Free-entry online competition for high-school (gr. 8–12) and college students (yr. 1–2) organized by Astana Finance Club & FinLit. 💰 Prize pool: 500,000 kzt (~$1,000) in cash 🎁 + over $35,000 in bonuses from partners 📋 Format: • Round I (14 June) — Individual econ & finance test (50 questions). Team score = average of members. • Round II (20–23 June) — Team business case: 5-min video + 10-slide presentation. 👥 Teams of 3-5. Free to enter. 🎁 Partners: SATashkent • QOS Education • Teenvestor • Sunbridge Education • CurriculaGuide • Impact Admission 🗓 Dates: › Reg. open: 24 May › Closes: 11 June › Round I: 14 June › Round II: 20–23 June › Winners: 29 June 💬 All registered participants will be added to a private group chat with updates, announcements, and case materials. 📲 Register Astana Finance Club: @youthfinance FinLit: @Financialkno

ISTITUTO MARANGONI PRESENTATION Hilton Hotel Astana, ASTANA Date: May 22 (Friday) Time: 07:00 PM Istituto Marangoni - the Luxury school of Fashion, Design, Art, Beauty and Hospitality in Milan, Florence, Paris, London, Dubai and Riyadh On May 22nd, at 7 pm, at the Hilton Hotel Astana, you will have the opportunity to discover more about Undergraduate and Postgraduate programmes, industry projects, and career opportunities. Registration is required. https://www.istitutomarangoni.com/landing_pages/en/im-presentation/astana?utm_source=dbinterno&utm_medium=ARlink&utm_campaign=email_reply-sabina Contact details of the representative: Sabina Demelas Russia, Middle East & GCC Area Manager Istituto Marangoni Headquarters Corso di Porta Vittoria 9, 20122 Milano m. +39.344.149.4820

🔬 The Junior Academy by New York Academy of Sciences Free online STEM program for students aged 13–17 The Junior Academy connects high school students from 100+ countries to work in international teams on real-world innovation challenges — mentored by STEM professionals from industry and research. 📋 What you'll do: Collaborate in teams to design solutions to real-world problems sponsored by leading companies. Each 10-week challenge takes you through research, ideation, prototyping, and a final solution presentation. 🏆 What you get: Certificate of completion + free Young Membership to the New York Academy of Sciences. Winning teams receive educational prizes. Top solutions are presented at the Virtual Student Symposia. ✅ Eligibility: — Ages 13–17 — Open worldwide — Strong English proficiency required — Time commitment: 3–4 hours/week during challenges 💰 Cost: 100% FREE 📅 Key Dates (Fall 2026): — Applications open: April 1, 2026 — Applications close: July 2, 2026 ⏳ — Admission decisions: by August 31, 2026 — Fall challenges run: mid-September to mid-November 🔗 Apply: https://gsa.smapply.io/prog/student_programs_/ 🌐 More info: https://www.nyas.org/learning/high-school-research-programs/the-junior-academy/ 📧 Questions: education@nyas.org

🎬 Breakthrough Junior Challenge 2026 — Win $250,000! One of the most prestigious science competitions in the world is now open. If you love science and can explain a big idea in under 2 minutes — this is for you. 📌 What is it? The Breakthrough Junior Challenge is a global annual science video competition where students create a short, creative video explaining a complex concept in Physics, Life Sciences, or Mathematics. Founded by science philanthropists Julia & Yuri Milner, it's backed by some of the biggest names in tech and science. 🎥 How it works: Pick a big idea in Physics, Life Sciences, or Math Make a video (max 90 seconds) explaining it creatively Submit via YouTube/Facebook + the official website Participate in a peer-to-peer review of 5 other entries Top videos go to expert judging panel → Popular Vote → Winner announced at the Breakthrough Prize Ceremony 🏆 Prizes: 🥇 Winner: $250,000 post-secondary scholarship 👨‍🏫 Inspiring Teacher: $50,000 cash prize 🏫 Winner's School: $100,000 science lab ✅ Eligibility Ages 13–18 at time of submission Open worldwide — no nationality or location restrictions Individual entries only (no teams) Must be 13 by May 11, 2026 💵 Cost: FREE to enter 📅 Deadline: September 15, 2026 at 11:59 PM PDT (Submissions opened May 11 — start early, production takes time!) 🔗 Official website: https://breakthroughjuniorchallenge.org 📋 Rules: https://breakthroughjuniorchallenge.org/rules ⚖️ Judging criteria: https://breakthroughjuniorchallenge.org/judging Tip: Watch past winners' videos on the official site before you start — the best entries use animation, props, or storytelling to make hard ideas click.

🌊 Ocean Awareness Contest 2026 — Win Up to $1,000! Calling all teen artists, writers, filmmakers, and performers! Bow Seat's Ocean Awareness Contest is one of the world's largest youth environmental arts competitions — and it's 100% open to international students. 📌 About the Contest The 2026 theme is "Your Story, Our Ocean" — exploring how the ocean sustains, protects, and inspires us. Share your personal connection to the ocean through your chosen art form, whether you live by the coast or far inland. 🎨 Categories (choose one or more): Visual Art: Handcrafted Visual Art: Digital Creative Writing Film Interactive & Multimedia Performing Arts (Music & Dance) Poetry & Spoken Word ✅ Eligibility Ages 11–18, enrolled in middle or high school Open worldwide — no nationality or location restrictions Students who have started university are NOT eligible Junior Division: ages 11–14 | Senior Division: ages 15–18 💰 Awards Cash prizes up to $1,000 per winner Winners featured in Bow Seat's global online exhibition Special awards for resilience, spoken word, and more 💵 Cost: FREE to enter 📅 Deadline: June 8, 2026 at 11:59 PM ET 🔗 Apply here: https://bowseat.org/programs/ocean-awareness-contest/contest-overview/ 📋 How to enter: https://bowseat.org/programs/ocean-awareness-contest/how-to-enter/ 📏 Rules & eligibility: https://bowseat.org/programs/ocean-awareness-contest/rules-eligibility/

🚀 OyLab STARTUP CUP 2026 Совсем скоро стартует масштабный отбор стартапов для школьников и студентов со всего Казахстана и Центральной Азии 🌍 Это возможность проверить свою идею в деле и заявить о себе! 🔥 Лучшие команды выйдут в финал и поборются за призовой фонд в 200 000 тенге💸 И это ещё не всё 👀 Участников и подписчиков нашего Telegram-сообщества ждут дополнительные бонусы и возможности ⚡️ 📅 Дата: 16 мая 📝 Регистрация открыта до: 12 мая, 23:59 💰 Оргвзнос: — до 10 мая: 3000 тг с команды — после 10 мая: 4000 тг 📍 Локация: KIMEP University, Алматы 📝 Регистрация: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeuhFM1FoTdHEe-v6JN54u5KAZV_QHpWzcVMlyztkrF3n7s5A/viewform 📸 Подробнее в Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DX0764MDCed/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== 🤝 Партнёры и спонсоры: Prospect Admission, Q-Study International, Unigate, WISE Programs, Investly Hub

🔬 Medicine4Youth | High School Summer Research Program ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Want to gain real research experience this summer — from anywhere in the world? Medicine4Youth is inviting high school students to join their fully virtual Summer Research Program (SRP) as Research Assistants! 📅 Program Dates: Late June – End of August 2026 🌍 Format: Fully virtual | Open to students worldwide ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 What You'll Do Work alongside university students and experienced supervisors to conduct medical or health research and contribute to a literature review on a topic aligned with your interests. This could potentially be submitted for publication. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Eligibility Currently enrolled in high school (Grade 9–12) Interest in research, medicine, or health sciences Strong English communication skills No prior research experience required Open to students worldwide ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💰 Cost Payment of $30 required only upon acceptance 🎗️ Fee waivers available for eligible applicants ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏰ Deadline Sunday, May 17, 2026 at 11:59 PM EST Late applications will NOT be considered ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 Links 📝 Apply here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSej1wZrDyyLwD7gHt22hMeAgCEXylIeTXcn63IyEZY28Gy4Gw/viewform 📲 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/medicine4youth/ 🌐 All links: https://linktr.ee/medicine4youth 📩 Questions: medicine4youth@gmail.com (Subject line: SRP High School)