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Using the Competitions Catalog

Search and filter student competitions, read deadlines and country pathways, save the ones you care about, and see them on the calendar.

StudentSuite Team · 2026-09-06 · 4 min read

The Competitions catalog is a curated list of student competitions, olympiads and scholarships, each with real dates and a link to the organizer's own site. It is not a submission portal or an application tracker - StudyMap never handles entries or applications on your behalf. Every record links out to the official competition site for the actual submission.

Browse and filter

Search, category chips, and a filter panel

Search by name or subject in the search box, or tap a category chip (STEM, Coding, Essay Writing, and so on) to narrow the list. Open the filter panel for more: format (online, offline, hybrid), individual or team participation, region, free entry only, an age range, and a deadline window (next 30 or 90 days, or this cycle).

Use the list/grid toggle above the results to switch between a dense list and a card grid - your choice is remembered on this device.

Read deadlines and countdowns

Every date, and whether it's confirmed

Each competition's detail page shows its full timeline - registration open/close, submission deadlines, judging rounds, results, ceremony - and a live countdown to the next one. A date tagged estimatedis the organizer's best guess for this cycle, not yet confirmed; treat it as a planning date, not a hard deadline, until it's updated.

Check country pathways

Real national qualifying routes, where one exists

Some competitions run a country-specific qualifying stage before the international round - a national olympiad round that feeds into an international one, for example. Where a real pathway exists, the detail page's Country pathwayssection lists its stages with dates and a link to that country's official page. Pick your country from the tabs to see the stages that apply to you specifically, not just the international dates.

Save competitions you care about

Signed-in users can save a competition from its card or detail page. Saved competitions show up on your Saved page and are what the calendar prioritizes for you (see below). Each competition also shows how many people have saved it, but only once that count reaches a few - a count of one or two would just identify individual savers, so it stays hidden until then.

How the calendar picks what to show you

Saved-first, never empty

The Calendar defaults to your saved competitions once you have at least one, with a toggle to see everything instead. If you have no saves yet - signed in or not - it shows every competition scoped to a country you choose, rather than all of them unfiltered at once.

Get reminders in your own calendar

Subscribe once, see every saved deadline automatically

A countdown only helps if you are already looking at the page. On the Saved page, signed-in users get a private feed URL (/api/competitions/saved.ics?token=...) to subscribe to in Google Calendar (Settings > Add calendar > From URL) or Apple Calendar (File > New Calendar Subscription). Every saved competition's dates then show up there automatically, kept in sync each time your calendar app refreshes the feed. Dates still marked estimatedin the catalog appear as "approximate" in the event title, never as a confirmed date.

The link is a bearer credential, like a password - anyone who has it can see your saved competitions, so treat it like one. The Saved page has a button to get a new link at any time, which immediately stops the old one from working.

Contributing a competition

The catalog is community-maintained

Know a competition that should be here? See the competitions contributing guide on GitHub for the record schema, which category file it belongs in, and how to open a pull request.

Date wrong or missing?

This is the fastest way to lose trust in the catalog, so please tell us

Every date on every competition links to an official source. If a deadline has changed, a result date is wrong, or a competition is missing entirely, please open a GitHub issue with a link to the organizer's own page. A wrong date is the one mistake here that costs the most trust, so please report it even if you are not sure - we would rather double-check a false alarm than leave a wrong date live.

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