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🧪 RadChem Olympiad 2026 ("Radical Chemists") — International Team Chemistry Competition 💰 Prize Pool: 2,400,000 KZT Solve real-world chemistry challenges as a team, then pitch your solutions to a professional jury. Hybrid format — online qualifiers, in-person final in Astana. 📅 Key Dates (Astana Time, UTC+5) - Registration Deadline: 6 August 2026, 23:59 - Qualifying Stage (Online): 8 August 2026 - Final (In-Person, Astana): 15–16 August 2026 🎓 Who can apply? Students who completed Grades 8–10 as of May 2026 👥 Team Format - Teams of 4–5 (only 3 required for the Qualifying Stage) - No team yet? Register individually — organizers will help match you with a group 🏆 Top 20 teams from Qualifiers advance to the Final. Cases are released 15 August; teams present to the jury and compete for awards on 16 August. 💵 Cost: No application fee mentioned in official materials — appears free to enter. 🤝 Sponsors: EduStream & Capital Education 🔗 Team Registration: https://forms.gle/jZNspQGTkBAdDB18A 🔗 Individual Registration (No Team): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdPtZJW_KjXNQvbjnUHRS5uFBD8hWNYQvcfFOOfml1kV4Eg8w/viewform?usp=header 📸 More info on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DbLrojIs9qs/

ThinkLab Research Competition 2026 🔬 ThinkLab Journal invites high school students and first-year university students from around the world to participate in the International ThinkLab Research Competition 2026 — an international online research competition. Participants may submit their original research in one of the following categories: • Natural Sciences • Social Sciences • Computer Science • Engineering & Technology • Mathematics • Language & Literature 💰 Total Prize Pool: $4,500 USD In addition to cash prizes, all participants will receive: • the opportunity to publish their research paper in the international peer-reviewed ThinkLab Journal • educational discounts and scholarships from Master Education and QOS Education 📅 Submission Deadline: August 10, 2026, at 8:00 PM (UTC+5) Detailed information, the official competition regulations, and registration are available on our website. Stay updated by following us on Instagram: @the_think.lab

🔥 Алматы, вас ждут крутые спикеры! 📐 Арман: НИШ → поступление сразу в 3 зарубежных вуза → Williams College на полном гранте → Harvard. Расскажет, почему Williams особенно силен в математике и кому стоит подаваться туда по Early Decision. 🧬 Кибриянур: олимпиадница из БИЛ → KAIST → сразу в докторантуру. Поделится, как построить сильную траекторию в STEM и выйти на PhD после бакалавриата. 🔬 Алинур: Hamilton College на полном гранте → исследования в MIT → Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Расскажет о поступлении, международной науке и карьере в биомедицине. 🤫 А еще вас ждет секретный гость: выпускник Stanford Medicine и основатель казахстанского AI-стартапа, привлекшего $4,1 млн инвестиций. У каждого спикера свой путь, а на встрече будут представлены все ключевые академические направления: математика, STEM, IT, медицина, биология, бизнес, социальные и гуманитарные науки. 📅 25 июля, 13:00–17:00 📍 Авторская школа Жании Аубакировой 🎟 Участие бесплатное, количество мест ограничено. Регистрация: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdgaV3E0SLgU1F0a_AM-ssBtdYZfeBOficG9i7_cp9EVGqM2g/viewform Пост мероприятия: https://www.instagram.com/alinurr_aj/?hl=en

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🧬 BIOLOGY SUMMER RESEARCH CAMP 2026 🌍 Location: NIS IB Astana 💰 Cost: COMPLETELY FREE 📅 Application Deadline: July 1, 2026 🗓️ Program Dates: August 9–28, 2026 📝 About A free 3-week biology research bootcamp designed for students who want hands-on research experience. Perfect for students aiming for US universities, as well as those preparing for RCSP and other academic competitions. Program Structure 📍 Week 1 (Online, Aug 9–12) — Develop a research question, literature review, and experimental plan 🧪 Lab Phase (from Aug 12) — Hands-on experiments and real data collection 📄 Final Week (until Aug 28) — Write a full research paper (8+ pages) + peer review. Selected papers will be published! 📚Perks - Access to Web of Science academic database - Online workshops and talks from RCSP winners, IBO participants, and alumni of Indigo Research, Pioneer Academics, and Lumiere Education - Mentorship from Nazarbayev University 🔗 Apply: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSevhw-odX6E8nkT5vFK6ebzBp9GoY33F2lhIAK1gzr9tNx9Zw/viewform 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bio4youth

🧠 #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: TBA (apply early) 🔗 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.

🏛 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/

🧠 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

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

🚀 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 Хочешь стать частью этого движения? Самое время подготовить свою идею 🚀

Georgia Tech’s partner Matriculate, has an opportunity for your juniors! Matriculate serves high-achieving, low-income students through free, near-peer college advising. Juniors can apply here. Counselors can also refer a student. The deadline for students to apply is May 31 or once seats are filled.

Breakthrough Junior Challenge This is a global short science video competition for schoolchildren. You need to create a video in which you explain a complex idea from life sciences, physics, or mathematics in a clear and engaging way. Who is it for? Suitable for high school students. The user description and official rules state ages 13–18. Paid or free Participation is free. What will participants receive? The grand winner receives: — $250,000 post-secondary scholarship — $50,000 prize for a teacher — $100,000 Breakthrough Science Lab for a school. Deadline: May 1st - Applications open — September 15th - Submission deadline. Schools and teachers should take note. Program link https://breakthroughjuniorchallenge.org/

SPINWIP The Stanford Program for Inspiring the Next Generation of Women in Physics (SPINWIP) is a virtual summer outreach program hosted by the Stanford Physics Department and the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, designed to get high-school girls excited about physics. This 3-week program is free to participants and is held through online video meetings.  First-generation students and students from underrepresented backgrounds in physics are particularly encouraged to apply. No prior knowledge of physics or coding is needed. Students will learn about cutting-edge research in physics in fields such as quantum physics, quantum computing, astrophysics, and cosmology. They will also learn to code in Python and apply their coding skills to physics-based projects. Students will attend lectures by Stanford professors and researchers, will work in small groups led by Stanford undergraduates, and will attend college planning and career development workshops. Students will have the opportunity to form mentorship relationships with Stanford students and professors. A program syllabus is here. 2026 Program Dates: July 6 to July 24, 2026; Monday through Friday.  Time: 9am - 1pm PDT (PDT is UTC −07:00). The exact schedule will vary day-to-day. Eligibility: High school students in 9th through 11th grade at the time of application. Students from countries outside the U.S. are welcome to apply Application: Applications for the 2026 program are now open. Please apply by May 1, 11:59pm Pacific Daylight Time (UTC-7) to be considered. The portal for submitting a letter of recommendation (see details in the participant application form) is also open and has same deadline. If you’re interested in applying for SPINWIP 2027, please sign up for our mailing list, and we’ll reach out when the application opens for next year’s program. Contact us: spinwip_info@stanford.edu for program-related inquiries.

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Уважаемые родители и ученики! Приглашаем вас на форум NURORDA Connect, который пройдет 18 апреля в Астане. Вы узнаете о зарубежных университетах, возможностях обучения и процессе поступления. Подробности и регистрация: https://nurorda-connect.netlify.app/

🎯 Synapse Research Academy. Это Казахстанский аналог Lumiere или Pioneer программ, которые нацелены на исследовательские работы для учеников старших классов (research). Хотим сделать стартовый запуск в мае, и сейчас собираем учеников. Пока только два предмета: Биология и Химия. Но в будущем будут и другие (+смотря как пройдет стартовый запуск). Что получит ученик? • Первый опыт работы в научной сфере • Знания о том как устроена наука • Сертификат о прохождении программы • И самое главное: Свою первую научную статью которую он/она напишет с нашим ментором Мы также максимально постараемся опубликовать статью в международных журналах Подробнее: https://synapseacademy.netlify.app

Samsung Solve for tomorrow This is a national social project competition for schoolchildren with a prize fund of over 10 million tenge. A Samsung initiative that helps future young leaders develop creative skills and find innovative solutions to important problems through science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Students (ages 13-18) from public and private schools are forming teams and pitching their ideas. Applications are accepted until April 30. Register https://solvefortomorrow.kz/kk/?cid=kz_pd_social_instagram_cm_sustain_solve_for_tomorrow-insta-feed_stories-cpm_video_none_awareness&utm_medium=paid&utm_source=ig&utm_id=120242314648850481&utm_content=120242315844810481&utm_term=120242314648670481&utm_campaign=120242314648850481&fbclid=PAdGRleAQmX6RleHRuA2FlbQEwAGFkaWQBqy_AjHiaUXNydGMGYXBwX2lkDzEyNDAyNDU3NDI4NzQxNAABpzf93hoXku7EtgnSkOG0MnbOkEREkxbanGo_JXDFVx7dceAKIr2qxyfFUW0n_aem_0w2r8vCFsLTmpk357QA1rA