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COMPETITIONS

  • What competitions can students take after these courses?

  • Skills learned from APAA can be applied to competitive programming (USACO), Science Fairs (ISEF, STS, AJAS, GSF), Hackathons(MIT Appathon), and a variety of other prestigious competitions. Below are some suggestions.

  • Opportunities: scholarships (ex. Coca Cola, important dates, Davidson fellowship, Cutler-Bell award(s), ISEF, STS, AJAS, AJSHS

  • Group training events - available for: SECC, San Ramon Hackathon, MIT Appathon, Future Bridge AI Innovation Summit, Congressional App Challenge, MetroHacks, USACO 

International Science and Engineering Fair

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United States of
America Computing Olympiad

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Hackathon

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SECC

SECC Competition is designed for grades 6 to 12 to inspire students' interest in STEM through hands-on & creativity projects, recognition, real world challenges, and interaction with industry.

San Ramon Hackathon

San Ramon hackathons is aimed to gather students with brilliant and innovative ideas and help solve the challenges. The creativity and experience from participates can help build apps, products, and ideas that benefit the community.

High school and above.

MIT Appathon

Appathon challenge teams and individuals to design an app that supports one of the a few United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. These goals are meaningful to you and your community. You may find a specific problem related to that goal to solve and explain in your video how your app connects to the goal you have chosen.

Open to all ages.

The AI & Innovation Summit

It is a summer Capstone Project, after the summer AI & Innovation Track "Artificial Intelligence” source. It aimed to fully integrate with the school, district, state, and national science and technology competitions in the fall semester.

The Summit is open to all middle and high school students.

Congressional App Challenge

Congressional app challenge inspires students nationwide to learn to code. With the support from their Member of Congress, the students have produced apps that address problems locally, nationally, and globally.

Open to all middle and high school students.

MetroHacks

MetroHacks is one of the biggest hackathons hosted in the DFW Metroplex. It is a beginner-friendly, 24-hour virtual hackathon with a focus on applying cutting-edge technology in real apps. Talented students from all across the world attend talks and workshops, and of course build incredible, world-changing technology for social good and innovative change: from web apps to mobile apps to trend analysis. Open to all ages. 

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