Find your next challenge
YOUR NEXT BIG OPPORTUNITY STARTS HERE

Big goals.
Real challenges.

Discover competitions, build your skills, and turn curiosity into achievement. Your next challenge is closer than you think.

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✦ Grades 6–12✦ Global opportunities✦ Personal prep plans
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THE OPPORTUNITY BOARD

Find your arena.

Filter by subject, organizer type, format, level, region and season. Each listing links to its official source.

Official sources · Eligibility and cycle dates must be checked

When can I take part? Tap a month.

Data quality note: organizer links are provided for verification. Dates and eligibility are not guaranteed current unless the listing explicitly says it was reviewed.

Quest: competition prep, inside the Arena

Academic Quest is part of the Competition Arena — one tool, not two. Quest is the Arena's competition-prep section: guided prep for mathematics competitions, science olympiads and country entrance exams, alongside the Arena's competition listings, timed practice, streaks and goal planning.

Browse all quests in the Academic Quest hub →

Choose your country:

Choose your country above to see its competitions. You can switch to all countries across the globe any time.

Your plan

Saved competitions, prep progress and registration status stay in this browser.

Your details

Keep these handy when you register. Nothing is sent anywhere.

Warm-up question

Practice like a competitor.

Build contest readiness with multi-step reasoning, applied science, algorithms, economics and evidence-based writing. Each set includes worked explanations; missed questions are saved for review.

Explanations after each answer
EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING LAB

Build the skill.
Prove the work.

Arena now separates guided preparation from quick decision scenarios. Follow a structured pathway, study methods, solve multi-step tasks, create work products, self-assess against a rubric, and keep a local progress record. Use official organizer rules for final requirements.

✦ 7 structured pathways✦ 5 milestones per pathway✦ Work-product drafts✦ Progress saved on this device

Preparation Studio

Choose a pathway and work through the milestones in order. This is guided practice, not a claim of official affiliation or guaranteed competition results.

YOUR PERSONAL TRAINING DESK

Turn practice into a repeatable system.

Build a realistic weekly plan, revisit work on a spaced schedule, focus in timed blocks, and export a portfolio of your saved drafts. These tools track your process; they do not pretend to grade expert-level work automatically.

Focus block
25:00

A simple local focus timer. Choose one task and take a short break afterward.

Quick field simulations

Short decision exercises for applying judgment. Use the Preparation Studio above for deeper preparation and portfolio work.

DEADLINES, PREPARATION & FOLLOW-THROUGH

Never miss
your next opportunity.

Choose the subjects you care about, select competitions, and set your own verified target dates. Arena can email preparation nudges and deadline reminders when the site is deployed with the companion server endpoint and a daily cron job.

✦ Email reminders✦ Competition-specific dates✦ Unsubscribe anytime

Build your reminder plan

Important: Arena does not yet automatically verify organizer deadlines. Enter a date only after checking the competition's official website. If no date is known, leave it blank and still receive interest-based preparation digests.

What are you interested in?

Choose competitions and enter verified target dates

Select specific competitions for deadline emails. The target date is your personal deadline or a date you verified on the official organizer page; it is not auto-fetched by Arena.

Email schedule

Email delivery requires the included arena-reminders.php endpoint on a PHP-enabled host and a daily server cron job. Opening this HTML directly from your computer cannot send scheduled email. Reminder dates are user-entered and must be checked against official rules.
STUDENT COMMAND CENTER

Your goals.
Your next steps.

A live overview of your saved competitions, preparation work, practice results and personal tasks. Metrics come from your saved activity on this browser—not predicted outcomes.

Next actions

Start with the most time-sensitive or unfinished work.

WEEKLY COMMITMENT

Set a realistic goal

Choose a target for this week and record the time you actually spend. This is a personal planning tool, not a prediction of competition success.

Set a target to begin.

PERSONAL TASK LIST

Your next small step

Add concrete tasks such as “solve 3 graph problems” or “review official eligibility rules”. Tasks stay on this device.

Competition readiness

Saved opportunities and the checklist progress you have recorded. Target dates are personal entries and must be verified on the organizer's official site.

Preparation progress

Milestones and practice results saved in this browser.