Imagine Cup Junior 2023

Competition year
2023

Active Dates (UTC):
Wed, 11 Jan 2023 00:00 - Tue, 27 Jun 2023 23:59

Online Competition

The 2023 season of Imagine Cup Junior has reached a conclusion and the winners have been announced on the Microsoft Education Blog. Congratulations to the winners and all of our 2023 participants—You truly inspire us!

We're looking for the next big thing and we know today’s students are full of ideas and creativity and are excited about how emerging technologies can help the world. Imagine Cup Junior is the opportunity for your students to learn about Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cybersecurity & more, and share their biggest, boldest ideas.

Step 1: Register - The 2023 season has concluded.

Step 2: Learning Resource Pack - Download all the resources to bring Imagine Cup Junior to your classroom and inspire students to get started on their Imagine Cup Junior Project!

Beginners Kit – includes all Imagine Cup Junior lessons (Word documents, PDFs and PowerPoints), submission template, judging criteria and rubric. The beginners kit also includes a number of hands-on activities to include in lesson plans and introduce students to real-world applications of AI.

Localized versions of the Beginners Kit are available for: Australia (1.6GB), New Zealand (2.6GB), and Saudi Arabia (49MB).

Deep Learning Modules – provides in-depth content with extra assessment, challenges, and resources for those students who want to extend their learning.

Step 3: Team Leader Toolkit – Get students excited about participating in Imagine Cup Junior

Team Leader Toolkit – provides social media templates and participation resources like certificates, posters, lock ups, t-shirt templates and selfie frames.

Step 4: Attend or run a Student Hackathon – Help your students build their idea

Hackathon is a word you might or might not be familiar with, so to clarify: a Hackathon in the tech industry is a fast-paced event where people come together to solve a problem. Hackathons usually have a specific focus, and the goal is to create a functioning product/solution by the end. In other words, they’re fun, fast paced, ideas-fueled days where the magic happens!

To help your students build out their Imagine Cup Junior projects we have a recorded hackathon session as well as materials you can use to run a hackathon in your classroom.

• Recorded virtual hackathon session
• The PowerPoint lesson, prep, and script materials make it easy to run a Hackathon in your classroom: download the Hackathon resources

Step 5: Get Ready to Submit – Once your students are ready to build out their idea ensure you leverage the following resources (individual download links are below, and all resources are included in the beginners kit above)

PowerPoint Submission Template
Judging Criteria and Rubric

All rules and regulations for participation in Imagine Cup Junior 2023 are available for download – Rules and Regulations

Stay tuned Thursday, 8 June 2023 at 9:30am PDT when we will announce the top 10 global winning teams and their projects on the Microsoft Education Blog

Questions? Contact Imagine Cup Junior