Top Competitions & Workshops for Young People during Lockdown

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The global pandemic has brought a sudden pause in our day-to-day lives. Needless to say, kids are the most affected age-group during the lockdown. With this novel situation comes the new challenges for parents to keep the kids engaged besides homeschooling. The best way to keep them engrossed is by enrolling them in top competitions & workshops for young people. These fun-filled activities help in reviving the liveliness of the kids.

Check about top competitions & workshops for young people during lockdown

Benefits of participating in Top Competitions & workshops for young people

·      Keeping the children busy & happy is a big task, the online activities during lockdown provide them the opportunity to grow as an individual. Online competitions & workshops are stepping-stones to real-life challenges.

·    Every task, test, or online sport endows them with unique life skills.

·    Besides, the competition also nurtures the inquisitiveness in children while learning what drives them & how to find a solution. Thereby making them more responsible.

The Top Competitions & workshops for young people 

Beta Bowl Virtual Entrepreneurship for Teens

A virtual entrepreneurship program enriched with hands-on experience of taking an idea from inception to launch. Teens anywhere in the age between 13-19 years are eligible for his program. The program duration varies from 5 days to 12 weeks. You get a completion certificate & chance to claim cash prizes with Beta Bowl’s pitch competition.

https://beta-bowl.com/enroll

Tubadzin Design Awards

An international competition for students, designers & architects to unleash your creativity, Tubadzin Design Awards (TDA) is inviting applicants to submit a project on the categories Young Power, Everyday Design & Unlimited Architecture. The last date of submission is 31^st July 2020. The lucky winners get a chance to win Grand Prix in Abu Dhabi or Iceland. 

https://www.tubadzin.pl/design/en/index.php

National Geographic Kids

Nat Geo Kids is conducting a competition for kids to help inspire people to recycle. Design a poster on innovative ways to reuse an item that otherwise would have been trashed. With this creative competition, you can win a massive $250 voucher to spend at the Entertainer Toy Shop.

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/registration/

The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction

Budding historical fiction writers here's a chance for you to showcase your work with the UK's only creative writing competition on history & writing. The fiction can be in any form be it prose, poem, drama, letters, or fictional diaries. With the age category between 11-15 & 16-19 years, this competition may get you a $500 travel grant.

https://www.walterscottprize.co.uk/young-walter-scott-prize/how-to-enter/

 Little Inventors Go Green

Competitions & workshops for little inventors help in boosting confidence & curiosity. Little Inventors encourages kids to think & draw their novel ideas. Think about your idea of making our planet sustainable. Draw your ideas on a worksheet, scan it & upload it on the webpage. 

https://www.littleinventors.org/upload

Generation Lockdown

This lockdown brings you an opportunity to write your experiences during the lockdown, be it a personal experience, poem, or creative story. Pen down your thoughts & get a chance to have your name published in a book. Your story would be read by UK's top authors. This writing competition is for children between 7-17 years old.

https://generationlockdown.co.uk/enter/

Young Wild Writer Competition

The Hen Harrier Action, a charitable organization of Scotland organizes an annual event every 8^th of August every year dedicated to protecting the birds & wildlife in the UK. The competition involves penning a unique poem or prose of 500 words describing the beauty of natural habitats & wildlife in Britain. The age category for this event is 5-8yr, 9-12yr & 13-16yr. The entries are open till 24^th July 2020 at midnight. This competition is open to UK citizens & residents.

https://www.henharrierday.uk/ywr-entry-form

Foyle Young Poets of the year 2020

The Poetry Society is conducting the Foyle Young Poets Award, one of the biggest poetry competitions for the 11-17-year-olds around the world. Enter as many poems as you wish. The deadline for the entry is 31^st July 2020. All entrants receive a participation certificate, and the winner will receive exciting prizes including enrolment in the residential Arvon writing course. You can follow the updates on Facebook & Instagram.

https://foyleyoungpoets.org/

Billboard Art Competition 2020 by Art Moves

Competitions & workshops for young people are a platform for young artists for presenting an innovative artwork. The theme for this year is Epidemics- a global catastrophe, a punishment, or a chance to reinvent yourself & the world? With cash prizes, the winners get a chance to get your art featured on billboards in the city space during the Art Moves Festival, Torun, Poland. The last date of entry is 23^rd July 2020.

http://artmovesfestival.org/

Options for Workshops for young people

Besides these international events, you can also enroll your kids in events like Online scratch coding, Sudoku championship, virtual yoga session, kids dance class, and workshops in the creative fields such as -

theatre workshop, 

art workshop, 

piano classes

online photography workshop,

paper quilling

Zumba

Storytelling activities

puppetry and Origami

Public speaking  & many more. 

The details of workshops are often visible on social media like Whatsapp groups, Instagram, and Facebook (especially Moms groups). Here is a link to know the details of the above workshops in India- https://buzzingbubs.com/bangalore/online-summer-workshops-classes-for-kids

I hope you have plenty of options to decide the right workshop or activity for your kid during these days. Do let me know if you find this post helpful or you have something to add related to this post.

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Reference:

https://childfriendlyleeds.wordpress.com/2020/05/12/competitions-for-young-people-during-lockdown/

http://www.scholasticworld.in/p/competitionscontests-for-indian-students.html