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🎓 NYU Abu Dhabi University Prep Program (UPP) 2026 Get hands-on guidance for your US university application — right on the NYUAD campus! This free 2-day program walks you through the CommonApp process with workshops, peer community, and expert support. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 ABOUT A 2-day in-person program helping students build stronger university applications using the Common Application. Workshop-style sessions covering personal goals, application skills, and college prep essentials. 📅 DATES: July 4–5, 2026 🕙 TIME: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM 📍 LOCATION: NYU Abu Dhabi, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ ELIGIBILITY Open to students worldwide applying for Fall 2027 university entry via CommonApp Rising seniors (graduating spring 2027), 2026 graduates taking a gap year, or UAE nationals entering military service Full attendance required — no lateness or absences accepted ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💰 COST 🆓 Free — program materials and meals included ✈️ Travel, accommodation & transport are NOT covered — students must arrange their own ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📝 APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS High school transcript (marks to date) 2025–2026 report cards Optional: 1 letter of recommendation Optional: English proficiency test scores ⏰ DEADLINE: May 18, 2026 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 APPLY HERE: https://connect.nyu.edu/register/?id=0cb6d1f8-0ff8-4d32-a962-64e4eaf7b772 🌐 MORE INFO: https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/apply/undergraduate/connect-with-us/university-prep-program.html 📧 CONTACT: nyuad.admissions@nyu.edu

✍️ Yale Review of International Studies High School Essay Contest 2026 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 About the Contest The Yale Review of International Studies (YRIS) is accepting essays for its annual High School Essay Contest. Essays must be related to international affairs and under 1,500 words (double spaced). ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📝 Essay Prompt Examine how cultural relations between two countries have evolved in the modern age. What insights does this evolution offer about the possibilities of global citizenship, and what can it teach us about fostering international cooperation? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏆 Prizes 🥇 1st Place — $250 + publication on YRIS website 🥈 2nd Place — $150 + publication on YRIS website 🥉 3rd Place — $100 + publication on YRIS website ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Eligibility Open exclusively to high school students worldwide. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 Details 🆓 Cost: COMPLETELY FREE TO ENTER 📅 Deadline: June 30, 2026 at 11:59 PM EST ⚖️ Judging: Rolling basis until deadline 🔗 Submit here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc_KaNy2SpaaliIDAZCFBHg7g4SvCUK2x-JfIebvyvxKbrHSA/viewform

🧠 RNS NeuroCamp @ Rice University 🇺🇸 Free neuroscience camp for high school students — online & in-person! 📋 About the Program NeuroCamp is run by the Rice Neuroscience Society at Rice University (Houston, TX). Students explore neurons, neurological diseases, neuroanatomy, and even philosophy of mind through interactive lectures and hands-on lab experiments. You'll also get career panels, college application advice from current Rice students, and professional development sessions. 🗓 Dates 🖥 Online (Zoom) — July 18 OR July 19, 2025 (pick one) 🏫 In-Person — August 1–2, 2025 (Houston, TX) ⏰ 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM CST ✅ Eligibility ✔️ Open to all high school students worldwide ✔️ No prior experience required ✔️ International students can apply for both online and in-person tracks 💰 Cost 🆓 Completely FREE — funded by Rice University grants ⏳ Deadline 📌 May 8, 2025 — applications close soon! 👉 Application form: https://forms.gle/XBrZo7m4b8nY86qz7 🌐 Program page: https://rns.rice.edu/rns-initiatives/rns-neurocamp/

Study medicine at ZJU-ISM (Top university in China) Meet Dilnaz, a Kazakh student from our class of 2023 who is already making waves in the medical community! From publishing a research paper to participating in international social practices, she's defining what it means to be a global medical professional. 📅 Date: Thursday, May 7th ⏰ Time: 18:30 (UTC+8) which is 15:30 Astana time 📍 Platform: Zoom (Meeting ID: 817 6847 7841 | Password: ZJUISM) Registration link: https://form.zju.edu.cn/#/dform/genericForm/iPg6MOYB

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Как устроено поступление в зарубежные университеты — и что нужно знать родителям уже сейчас Разберём: системы поступления в США, Великобритании, Европе, Канаде и Азии; как строится сильная заявка — от оценок и эссе до внеклассной деятельности; финансовое планирование и стипендии; и главное — как вы как родитель можете реально помочь своему ребёнку. Для кого: родители старшеклассников 30 апреля (четверг) в 20:00 Регистрация: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/wTf7YEk4RB-6So5-k-Xphg

🎓 TUMO Astana — бесплатный центр цифрового образования для подростков TUMO Astana — это современный образовательный центр для подростков 12–18 лет, где можно освоить творческие и цифровые навыки. Полностью бесплатно. 💡 Без экзаменов. Без барьеров. Только твой интерес и готовность учиться. 📚 11 направлений на выбор: Ты выбираешь 4 из 11 треков: 🖥 Программирование 🤖 Робототехника 🎮 Разработка игр 🎬 Кинопроизводство 🎨 Графический дизайн 🌐 Веб-разработка ✨ Моушн-графика 🎞 Анимация 🧊 3D-моделирование 🎵 Цифровая музыка 🤖 Генеративный ИИ 📍 Формат: Офлайн-занятия в Астане 🕐 Продолжительность: ~2 года (в своём темпе) 💰 Стоимость: Бесплатно 👤 Возраст: 12–18 лет ⚡️ Места ограничены — регистрация по принципу «первым пришёл — первым записан» Регистрация не гарантирует зачисление — принятые участники получат уведомление на почту.

⚠️ Если тебе меньше 18 лет, форму должен заполнить родитель или законный представитель. Возьми с собой удостоверение личности (своё и родителя) на вводную сессию.

🔗 Подробнее и регистрация: https://astana.tumo.kz/enroll-now/

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Why do I always write that TARGET SAT is 1500+? I want you to have higher chances to secure offers and generous scholarships. High SAT scores can really lift your chances up. I had students with average application portfolios but high SAT scores getting full-tuition scholarships at some selective universities in China, Europe, Korea, and etc. So, if you need this test, then study thoroughly. Here are some free resources to help you prepare: 📚 Free SAT Prep Platform – alikhanprep.kz 📐 Math SAT Materials – https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1MgznoEMau7bKtdKemKWR1ORBwXjSRsb3 🎓 Online SAT Bootcamp – schoolhouse.world/sat-bootcamp 🙋 Schoolhouse – Free Online Tutoring – schoolhouse.world 📖 Khan Academy – Official Digital SAT Prep – khanacademy.org/digital-sat 💻 Bluebook – Official SAT Test App – bluebook.collegeboard.org/students

📌 Devpost — A Free Directory of Hackathons From Around the World If you're interested in hackathons, coding competitions, and tech projects — bookmark this website: 🌐 devpost.com/hackathons What is Devpost? Devpost is a platform that hosts hundreds of online and in-person hackathons from companies, universities, and organizations worldwide. You can find events covering AI, cybersecurity, web development, sustainability, engineering, and more. Why it's worth your time: 🆓 Most hackathons are free to enter 🌍 Many are fully online — accessible from anywhere in the world 🏆 Prizes include scholarships, cash awards, certificates, and mentorship 📁 You can publish your projects and build a portfolio 🤝 Team participation is welcome — great for beginners How to use it: Go to devpost.com/hackathons Filter by: Online / Open to All / Prize amount Register and participate — hackathon experience is valued in university applications 💡 Tip: You don't need to be an expert programmer. Many hackathons welcome participants with different skills — design, research, presentations, and business ideas all count. 🔗 devpost.com/hackathons

🌐 MIT Solve — Innovation Challenges by MIT MIT Solve is an open innovation platform by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) that runs challenges seeking tech-based solutions to the world's most pressing problems — in climate, health, education, and economic development. 🔑 What makes it unique: New challenges launch regularly. There are always open and upcoming challenges on the platform, so check back often. 🏆 CURRENTLY OPEN: 10th Anniversary Global Challenge 📌 What it is: MIT Solve is looking for 10 exceptional solutions built for the next decade — innovations that pair technology with real-world impact in areas like climate, learning, health, and economic prosperity. 💰 Prizes include: AI for Humanity Prize — up to $150,000 E Ink Innovation Prize — $100,000 Citizens Workforce Prize — $100,000 Seeding the Future (Food Systems) Prize — $100,000 Collegium Mental Health Prize — $100,000 📅 Deadline: May 21, 2026 ✅ Who can apply: Innovators and teams from anywhere in the world with tech-based solutions already growing or operating at scale. Open to individuals and organizations. 🆓 Cost: Free to apply 🔗 Apply here: https://solve.mit.edu/challenges/10-for-10-challenge/start 🔗 All challenges (check for new ones): https://solve.mit.edu/challenges 💡 Even if you're still in school, bookmark this platform — it's where student innovators and young entrepreneurs launch global careers. Past Solvers have reached over 370 million people worldwide. 📬 Subscribe to their monthly newsletter (The Marketplace) for new challenge alerts: https://solve.mit.edu/newsletters ⚠️ Note: The 10th Anniversary Challenge is designed for teams with working solutions. If you have a project, startup idea, or tech initiative addressing a global issue — this is your stage.

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🔬 Polygence — Independent Research Program for High School Students🌍 Open to students worldwide | 100% Online ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 What is it? Polygence pairs you 1-on-1 with a PhD mentor from top universities (Harvard, MIT, Stanford) to complete an independent research project in any field you choose — biology, economics, CS, psychology, history, engineering, and more. You decide the topic, the format, and the outcome: research paper, app, podcast, or prototype. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Eligibility High school students (Grades 9–12) Any country, any background No prior research experience required ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💰 Cost Core Program: starting ~$2,100 Pods (group format, 6 students): from $495 Need-based financial aid available ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📅 Deadline & How to Apply Polygence uses rolling admissions — no single cutoff date. Students are batched into cohorts by application date.

🗓 Apply by the 15th of any month to start the following month.

Even if you plan to start later, applying early gives you access to the widest range of mentor matches — so don't wait! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 Apply here: polygence.org

✍️ John Locke Institute — 2026 Global Essay Prize 🌍 Open to students worldwide | Any country, any school ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 What is it? One of the world's most prestigious essay competitions for students under 19. You pick a thought-provoking question from 10 subject categories and write a 2,000-word essay judged by academics from Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford. Categories: Economics · History · International Relations · Law · Philosophy · Politics · Psychology · Public Policy · Science & Technology · Theology ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Eligibility Under 19 years old as of 31 May 2026 Open to all nationalities and school types Junior category (under 15) judged separately ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💰 Cost Free to enter (regular registration) ⚠️ Late Registration: Regular deadline has passed. Late registration still available until 30 April 2026 for a $10 fee → essaycompetition.johnlocke.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏆 Prizes 1st place per category: $5,000 scholarship to a JLI programme 2nd place: $2,000 | 3rd place: $1,000 Grand Prize (best overall): $10,000 Junior Fellowship Top essays invited to London for academic conference + awards dinner (Oct 2026) Shortlisted students receive certificates ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📅 Key Dates ⚠️ Late registration deadline: 30 April 2026 ($10 fee) Essay submission deadline: 31 May 2026 Late submission extensions available: until 7 June or 21 June (fee applies) Shortlist notification: 7 July 2026 Awards ceremony in London: 3 October 2026 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📝 How to apply Register (late fee applies) → essaycompetition.johnlocke.com Full details → johnlockeinstitute.com/essay-competition ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💡 AI tools are permitted for brainstorming, but essays must be your own original work.