CIC 2025
World's Most Innovative Contests
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PARTICIPATE IN CIC 2025
Canadian Innovation Contest
The CIC 2024 was one of the largest innovation events for students in grades 2 through 10 worldwide. 8,000 students from numerous educational institutions participated in six innovative competitions designed to showcase their potential to learn, compete, and win.
For the CIC 2025 contests, the focus is on environmental sustainability. This will bring awareness, develop a sense of responsibility for the environment, and encourage students to adopt practices that lessen environmental impact and promote sustainability, particularly in Canada. CIC 2025 contests will be conducted from March 1st to April 13th. Registration for these contests is now open.
Canadian Innovation Math Contest (CIMC 2025)
Objective: This contest is designed to challenge and promote problem-solving, critical thinking, reasoning, and abstract or spatial thinking for the students. Learning mathematics through problem-solving activities is the most efficient way for students to develop mathematical skills that will prepare them for the future.
Teacher's Role: Help students understand the contest goals, support student learning with the contest or other resources, and proctor the contest.
Contest Dates: April 1-13, 2025
The theme is "Problem Solving for a More Sustainable World." The contest will include math problems inspired by environmental sustainability and will focus on solving practical mental math problems.
Canadian Innovation Computing Contest (CICC)
Objective: This contest aims to cultivate students’ creativity, logical reasoning ability, and algorithmic and computational thinking skills. Students were given problems focused on computational thinking. No prior programming knowledge was required to participate in this contest.
Teacher's Role: Help students understand the contest goals, support student learning with the contest or other resources, and proctor the contest.
Contest Dates: April 1-13, 2025
The theme is using computing to create a More Sustainable World. The contest will include computing and logic problems inspired by environmental sustainability.
Canadian Innovation Creative Writing Contest (CIWC)
Objective: CIWC is designed to promote students' language and comprehension skills and ability to apply reasoning and logic. It also encourages students to use creative writing, drawing on their imagination to convey meaning through imagery, narrative, and drama in their written words. Students will follow rules of writing structure combined with imagination to create stories that entertain and engage readers.
Teacher's Role: Help students understand the contest goals and themes and support student learning and growth using the contest or other external resources as needed. Incorporating story/paragraph writing into their regular teaching can help improve the language skills of the entire class.
Contest Dates: April 1-13, 2025
The theme is "Create a More Sustainable World." The contest will include reading comprehension and verbal reasoning problems inspired by environmental sustainability. Students will also have the opportunity to creatively express their thoughts on how they can contribute to supporting sustainability.
Canadian Innovation Debate Contest (CIDC)
Objective: The contest allows students to showcase their persuasive speaking, communication, and debating skills. This contest will focus on persuasive public speaking and debate.
Teacher's Role: Help students understand the contest goals and themes and support student learning and growth using CKSTEM or other external resources as needed. Teachers can also help conduct practice speeches and presentations in class, which can improve the communication skills of the entire group/class.
Contest Dates:
CIDC 2025 Preliminary Round: March 1-21, 2025
CIDC 2025 Final Round: April 5, 2025 from 12-3 pm ET (Live over Zoom)
The theme is environmental sustainability. Why is recycling important, and what role can you play in it? How does saving the environment make people healthier, and how can you contribute to a better environment?
Canadian Innovation Visual Art Contest (CIAC)
Objective: CIAC, the Visual Art Contest, is designed to give students an opportunity to engage in imaginative and innovative thought and action and to develop their ability to communicate and represent their thoughts, feelings, and ideas creatively.
Teacher's Role: Help students understand the theme, incorporate the theme in a class project and/or excursions as appropriate, support student learning with the contest or other resources, and help students with the submission process.
Contest Dates: March 1-31, 2025
The theme is to explore students' connection to the natural world through the lens of healthy environments and their impact on human health. We would like students to use their imagination to create artwork that shows nature's impact on mental and physical health.
Canadian Innovation Photography Contest (CIPC)
Objective: CIPC, the Photography Contest, is designed to allow students to capture how innovations influence our lives and humanity. We also want our young photographers to show the impact of innovations on society. This will enable them to analyze, communicate and reinterpret the ideas and expressions.
Teacher's Role: Help students understand the theme, incorporate the theme in a class project and/or excursions as appropriate, support student learning with CKSTEM or other resources, and help students with the submission process.
Contest Dates: March 1-31, 2025
The theme is to create a more sustainable world through a personal or school project. Students can tell their photo stories, explaining their project and its impact.
LEARNING RESOURCES
CKSTEM FAMILY CHALLENGES
As children's first teachers, family members are crucial to student success. And the more adults become engaged in their children's education, the greater the chances that children will succeed. Hence, we aim to engage families in the learning process through these fun challenges.
Today's citizens need more than basic computation and rote mathematical skills. They must master the higher-level concepts and approaches to problem-solving that are key to success in work and everyday life. Download weekly challenges and enjoy with your family.
DOSES OF MOTIVATION
Motivation is a crucial ingredient for sustained competitiveness. Our fictional CK ROBO has become an integral part of the CKSTEM family. It firmly believes in core values, and its vision is to motivate students. In the current era of AI, it's getting wiser daily. He loves to share his wisdom in the form of doses of motivation.
