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Awards of $25,000, $50,000 or $100,000 to students 18 or under who have completed a significant piece of work in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Literature, Music, Philosophy, or Outside the Box. Two-person teams are eligible.

National French language exam and contest for students, administered through schools.

National German language exam recognizing student achievement, administered through schools.

Organization supporting school-based history clubs, with essay contests and chapter grants.

National standardized exam recognizing achievement in Spanish language study, often administered through schools.

National poetry recitation competition that builds public speaking skills and confidence; students compete at school and state levels and winners advance to the national finals.

Nation's longest-running recognition program for teen artists and writers, offering regional and national awards and scholarships since 1923.

Year-long history research competition where students create papers, exhibits, documentaries, websites, or performances; work advances from local to state to national contests. 2027 theme: Innovation in History: Impact, Influence, Change.

Contest in which high-school students solve linguistic problems to learn about the diversity and consistency of language while exercising logic skills; no linguistics background required.

Essay contest asking U.S. high-school students to write about an act of political courage by a U.S. elected official, with first place winning $10,000.

Audio-essay scholarship contest for students in grades 9-12 on an annual theme, with national and state scholarships and more than $1.6 million awarded each year.

Digital volunteer program where community members transcribe Smithsonian collections to make historical materials searchable, with peer review and expert approval before publication.

Residential summer arts camp on a 1,200-acre campus in Michigan with programs in music, theatre, visual arts, creative writing, dance, film and new media, and interdisciplinary arts.

National program championing artists across all art forms, offering award winners creative and professional development opportunities across classical music, dance, design, film, jazz, photography, theater, visual arts, voice, and writing.

Intensive two-week summer creative writing workshops where students write and share stories, poems, and essays in small groups that meet five hours a day.

Merit-based, fully funded scholarship for American high-school students to study Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Korean, or Russian abroad or online.

Tuition-free, five-week residential interdisciplinary summer program for rising seniors from any New Jersey high school, aiming to sharpen critical thinking, writing, and research skills.

Multi-week hybrid summer journalism intensive (virtual classes plus a residential stay at Princeton) for academically excellent students from limited-income backgrounds who are considering a journalism career.

Free six-week summer seminar for high-school sophomores and juniors with college-level humanities and social science seminars, community decision-making, and a public speaking program.

Free New York City program where teens attend five field trips to live performances and exhibitions and weekly workshops over 10 weeks, writing about visual arts, music, theater, dance, media and film.