Student competition

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A student competition is any student event where an individual or a team compete for a prize, where skill is the main predictor of the winner. There can be a competition between students or teams of students within a classroom or across different schools and across geographical regions. Student competitions help bring about a student's best effort by inspiring creativity and challenging the student to utilize their skills.^[1] Teachers incorporate student competitions as part of their curriculum to encourage students to stay on task and bring forward their best work by significantly increasing the ‘Payoff for the Student’ by providing:

• In-class marks towards final grades.
• The opportunity to put their creativity and skill set to the test by allowing them to show off their comprehensive knowledge of, for example, a software, hardware, or music technology item.
• An occasion to compare their skill levels and creativity with that of students across the world, as well as with their own local classmates.
• A chance at winning cash and other great prizes.