CompetitionSamsung UK
A free national tech-for-good competition and innovation programme. Students, alone or in teams of up to four, come up with a tech idea in one of three categories: Smarter Sport, Greener Future or Safer Online. Semi-finalists get mentoring and prototype funding before a national final in London.
Samsung Solve for Tomorrow is a free, curriculum-linked programme and national competition for 11 to 18 year olds at secondary schools and colleges across the UK and Ireland. Students, on their own or in teams of up to four, create a tech-for-good idea in one of three categories: Smarter Sport, Greener Future or Safer Online.
Entries close on 18 January 2027. Twenty-four semi-finalists then get support to develop their idea, with a deadline of 15 March 2027, and nine finalists present to a panel of experts at the final event on 29 and 30 April 2027, held at Samsung KX in King’s Cross, London.
Teachers can run it in one lesson, six lessons or as independent study, and no specialist technology knowledge is needed. Winners can earn Samsung technology, mentoring, work experience with Samsung and a place on the Piccadilly Circus screen. Schools and teachers have their own prizes too.
Samsung Solve for Tomorrow is a free, award-winning innovation programme and national competition for 11-18-year-olds at secondary schools and colleges across the UK and Ireland.
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Mentoring, work experience, some of Samsung’s latest tech and a chance to display their idea on the big screen in Piccadilly Circus!
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Deadline: 18 January 2027
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Entries close on 18 January 2027; national final on 29 and 30 April 2027[3]
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