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Robotics, hackathons and cyber defence, mostly entered as a school team.

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Conrad Challenge

Conrad Foundation
  • Several months (Oct–Apr)
  • Grades 9–12 (ages 13–18)
  • Virtual (fully accessible to Alberta students)
Oct 29, 1 day left
Details

STEM Racing Canada (F1 in Schools)

F1 in Schools / STEM Racing Canada
  • Several months (design + competition season)
  • Grades 9–12
  • Alberta (regional hubs) + national championships
Has a fee
Oct 31, 3 days left
Details

APEGA Science Olympics

APEGA (Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta)
  • 1 day (regional events + provincial finals)
  • High school
  • Alberta-wide (multiple regional sites)
Cost varies
Nov 1, 4 days left
Details

natHacks

Network for Applied Technology
  • 64 hours, November 6-9, 2026
  • High school, minimum age 16
  • University of Alberta, Edmonton
Has a fee
Nov 1, 4 days left
Details

HiMCM, High School Mathematical Contest in Modeling

COMAP (Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications)
  • A 14-day window, November 4–17, 2026
  • Grades 9–12
  • Online, entered through your school
Has a fee
Nov 4, 7 days left
Details

NASA International Space Apps Challenge

NASA, with local events hosted across Alberta
  • 2-day hackathon (the 2026 event runs November 14 to 15)
  • Open to all ages, and high school students compete on teams
  • Calgary and Edmonton local events, plus a global virtual option
Free
Nov 15, 18 days left
Details

Scholastic Art & Writing Awards

Alliance for Young Artists & Writers
  • Submit work each fall, with regional then national judging
  • Grades 7–12 (age 13+)
  • Online (US and Canada, excluding Quebec)
Has a fee
Dec 2, 35 days left
Details

National Youth Remembrance Contests, Royal Canadian Legion

Royal Canadian Legion
  • One entry each fall
  • Kindergarten to Grade 12 (senior category for high school)
  • Through your local Legion branch, with video entries online
Free
Dec 15, 48 days left
Details

The Earth Prize

The Earth Prize Foundation
  • Registration to January 10, blueprint submission by January 31
  • Ages 13–19 (born 2007–2014)
  • Online (open worldwide)
Free
Jan 10, 74 days left
Details

Diamond Challenge, High School Entrepreneurship

Horn Entrepreneurship, University of Delaware
  • September to April, with a concept submission, pitch rounds, and a summit for finalists
  • Ages 14–18
  • Online, with an in-person summit for finalists (April 29–30, 2027)
Free
Jan 14, 78 days left
Details

HOSA Canada, Future Health Professionals

HOSA Canada
  • Year-long, with an online fall conference and a national spring conference
  • High school
  • School-based chapters, with conferences online and in Toronto
Has a fee
Jan 21, 85 days left
Details

Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision

Toshiba and the National Science Teaching Association (NSTA)
  • Team project over the fall and winter, and entries close January 27, 2027
  • Grades 10-12 (high school division)
  • Online entry, and national finalists travel to Washington, DC
Jan 27, 91 days left
Details

Grande Prairie and District Music Festival

Grande Prairie and District Music Festival Association
  • March 21 to April 30, 2027, with a Grand Concert on May 2
  • Up to age 28
  • Grande Prairie
Has a fee
Feb 11, 106 days left
Details

Blue Ocean Student Entrepreneur Competition

  • Pitches due February 21, 2027, with winners announced in May
  • High school
  • Online
Free
Feb 21, 116 days left
Details

European Astro Pi Challenge, Mission Space Lab

European Space Agency and the Raspberry Pi Foundation
  • Registration September 14, 2026 to February 22, 2027, with about 2 to 6 hours of work
  • Age 19 and under
  • Online, and the code runs on computers aboard the International Space Station
Free
Feb 22, 117 days left
Details

Technovation Challenge, Alberta

Technovation (global) / local Alberta hubs
  • Register October 12, 2026 to March 11, 2027, and submit by May 5, 2027
  • Grades 9–12 (ages 13–18)
  • Virtual or local Alberta hubs
Mar 11, 134 days left
Details

Alberta Envirothon

Alberta Envirothon Society
  • 3-day provincial competition in early May
  • High school (grades 9–12)
  • University of Alberta Augustana Campus, Camrose (May 12 to 14, 2027)
Has a fee
Mar 12, 135 days left
Details

Blue Planet Awareness Contest (Bow Seat)

Bow Seat Creative Action for Conservation
  • One creative entry per year
  • Ages 11–18 (Junior 11–14, Senior 15–18)
  • Online (open worldwide)
Free
Jun 7, 222 days left
Details

Moon Camp Challenge, European Space Agency

European Space Agency (ESA) and the Airbus Foundation
  • September 18, 2026 to July 26, 2027
  • Ages up to 16
  • Online
Jul 26, 271 days left
Details

FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC), Canadian Rockies Region

FIRST Canada / Canadian Rockies Regional
  • ~6 weeks (Jan build season) + competition season
  • Grades 9–12
  • Alberta (Calgary and Edmonton teams, with regional events in AB)
Open now, no deadline
Details

GreenLearning Innovation Challenges

GreenLearning Canada
  • Varies by challenge (weeks to months)
  • High school
  • School-based across Alberta (national program)
Open now, no deadline
Details

VEX Robotics Competition, Alberta Leagues

Robotics Education & Competition Foundation / VEX Robotics
  • Season-long (fall–spring) with local, regional, and provincial tournaments
  • Grades 9–12
  • Alberta-wide (local tournaments across the province)
Open now, no deadline
Details

FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC), Alberta

FIRST Canada
  • Season-long (fall–spring) with regional and provincial events
  • Grades 7–12
  • Alberta (Calgary, Edmonton, and regional events)
Open now, no deadline
Details

Alberta Debate and Speech Association Tournaments

Alberta Debate and Speech Association (ADSA)
  • Tournament season through the school year, with provincials in the spring
  • Junior and senior high school
  • Alberta-wide (tournaments hosted across the province)
Open now, no deadline
Details

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Halloween in Alberta

A crowd in evening dress under paper lanterns at a Halloween party in Edmonton in 1906
Edmonton, 1906 A Halloween party at the Prince Arthur Café
Guests in pointed witch hats with skull badges at a Halloween party in Wainwright in the 1920s
Wainwright, 1920s Witch hats and skull badges at a Halloween party
Four children in costumes standing among pine trees in Mountain Park in 1934
Mountain Park, 1934 Beulah Godby and friends in costume, in a coal town that is a ghost town now
A woman dressed as an angel and a man dressed as a devil with a pitchfork, standing in the snow in Claresholm in 1949
Claresholm, 1949 First place costumes at the skating carnival
Children in Halloween masks and a witch hat lined up against a wooden wall around 1950
Little Smoky River, About 1950 Animal masks and a witch hat
A pumpkin carved with a glowing bison head on a porch in Edmonton on Halloween 2024
Edmonton, 2024 A bison carved into a pumpkin on Halloween night Photo by Joli Rumi, CC BY-SA 4.0

From the Provincial Archives of Alberta, and one Edmonton porch. Photo credits