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Carnegie Mellon MSCF Trading Competition
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) - MSCF
One-day simulated trading competition to apply quantitative and trading skills; includes prizes, networking, and interview opportunities.
🏆 Competition prizes + networking & interview opportunities
Deadline: Sep 5, 2025
EuroCC, NVIDIA & OpenACC AI Hackathon
EuroCC (with NVIDIA & OpenACC)
Challenge your AI code with NVIDIA & EuroCC experts to accelerate, optimize, and scale real-world projects; includes GPU cluster access.
🏆 Dedicated GPU cluster access, expert mentorship, and performance acceleration
Deadline: Aug 5, 2025
HackHarvard 2025
HackHarvard Undergraduate Hackathon
36-hour undergraduate hackathon at Harvard University for students worldwide.
🏆 Project prizes, mentorship, and global networking
Deadline: Sep 15, 2025
Stanford SCIEN AI Summit
Stanford SCIEN & Imagination In Action
A premier gathering of leaders, startups, and researchers to shape the next revolution of AI across science, industry, and society.
🏆 Pitch/demo opportunity to investors & media; free with registration
Deadline: Aug 30, 2025
Zero Robotics High School Tournament (MIT)
MIT Media Lab
Compete globally to program NASA robots on the ISS. Win MIT & NASA recognition in this elite coding and space engineering challenge.
🏆 Finals on the ISS + NASA/MIT recognition
Deadline: Feb 20, 2025
Harvard AI Bootcamp Summer Program
Harvard Computer Society
Experience Harvard’s world-class AI bootcamp: 5 days of hands-on projects, mentorship from Harvard researchers, and a Certificate of Honor. The ultimate launchpad for future AI leaders.
🏆 Certificate of Honor + Harvard mentorship
Deadline: May 30, 2025
Stanford CARE AI Summer Program
Stanford University
Unlock AI's power at Stanford! Analyze real health data, lead change, and boost your future in just 2 weeks. For ambitious high schoolers.
🏆 Stanford certificate + AI leadership experience
Deadline: Mar 10, 2025
Yale Young Global Scholars (YYGS)
Yale University
2 weeks at Yale! Join 2,000+ top teens from 150+ countries for world-class seminars, global networking & Ivy League prestige. Apply by Jan 10, 2025.
🏆 Yale certificate + global network
Deadline: Jan 10, 2025
Carnegie Mellon MSCF Trading Competition
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) - MSCF
One-day simulated trading competition to apply quantitative and trading skills; includes prizes, networking, and interview opportunities.
🏆 Competition prizes + networking & interview opportunities
Deadline: Sep 5, 2025
EuroCC, NVIDIA & OpenACC AI Hackathon
EuroCC (with NVIDIA & OpenACC)
Challenge your AI code with NVIDIA & EuroCC experts to accelerate, optimize, and scale real-world projects; includes GPU cluster access.
🏆 Dedicated GPU cluster access, expert mentorship, and performance acceleration
Deadline: Aug 5, 2025
HackHarvard 2025
HackHarvard Undergraduate Hackathon
36-hour undergraduate hackathon at Harvard University for students worldwide.
🏆 Project prizes, mentorship, and global networking
Deadline: Sep 15, 2025
Stanford SCIEN AI Summit
Stanford SCIEN & Imagination In Action
A premier gathering of leaders, startups, and researchers to shape the next revolution of AI across science, industry, and society.
🏆 Pitch/demo opportunity to investors & media; free with registration
Deadline: Aug 30, 2025
Zero Robotics High School Tournament (MIT)
MIT Media Lab
Compete globally to program NASA robots on the ISS. Win MIT & NASA recognition in this elite coding and space engineering challenge.
🏆 Finals on the ISS + NASA/MIT recognition
Deadline: Feb 20, 2025
Harvard AI Bootcamp Summer Program
Harvard Computer Society
Experience Harvard’s world-class AI bootcamp: 5 days of hands-on projects, mentorship from Harvard researchers, and a Certificate of Honor. The ultimate launchpad for future AI leaders.
🏆 Certificate of Honor + Harvard mentorship
Deadline: May 30, 2025
Stanford CARE AI Summer Program
Stanford University
Unlock AI's power at Stanford! Analyze real health data, lead change, and boost your future in just 2 weeks. For ambitious high schoolers.
🏆 Stanford certificate + AI leadership experience
Deadline: Mar 10, 2025
Yale Young Global Scholars (YYGS)
Yale University
2 weeks at Yale! Join 2,000+ top teens from 150+ countries for world-class seminars, global networking & Ivy League prestige. Apply by Jan 10, 2025.
🏆 Yale certificate + global network
Deadline: Jan 10, 2025
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Hey, it's Jivesh.
Last year, I won the 
Harvard GHLC pitch competition.
But I almost missed it completely.
- Spent months digging through Linkedin & Reddit posts.
- Scrolling university websites at 2 AM.
- The Harvard competition that changed everything?
And the more I searched, the clearer it became —
The best opportunities aren't in the most obvious places.
Here’s what I mean:
Zero Robotics Challenge — buried in a random MIT subdomain.
Stanford AI x Quantum Hackathon — by the time I found it, the deadline had already passed.- Hack Harvard — hidden deep in obscure web pages.
That’s when I realised.
The gap between you and a Harvard winner can come down to one thing:
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Too many students never get that shot.
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