Competitive Kids Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (CKSTEM) is a volunteer-run, nonprofit organization engaged in enhancing kids' education by enabling them to achieve excellence. As a nonprofit organization, our core value system serves and gives back to our community while enabling learning opportunities for all students transcending any financial, social, racial, or economic barriers.

Starting in 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, as a parent's quest to find the right blend of like-minded peer groups and an environment offering healthy competition, CKSTEM quickly became recognized as the place where parents, educators, and industry experts came together to help young students.

In its first year of inception, our summer contest 2020 was highly successful, with hundreds of students joining us from across the globe. Since then, more and more students are associating with us to learn, compete and win in STEM.

Teachers play a significant role in grooming students. We want to partner with them to enrich students' learning. Considering that, we are taking the following actions:

1. Teacher Appreciation Award (qualifying students can nominate their teachers for this award)

2. Teacher Appreciation Certificates (students can request these certificates, which they can present to their teachers as a token of appreciation)

3. Brilliant for Educators (A program that will allow teachers to use excellent content from Brilliant in their classes. Teachers can send a request to CKSTEM to get free access for their entire class.)

Our goal is to create a sustainable ecosystem to develop high-performing students, which can only be done by partnering with educators. Students need to participate in international competitions so not only can their performances be evaluated at a global level, but we can genuinely bridge the gap of international boundaries and enable them to be 21st-century global citizens. We hope many educators will join us to enrich their student's experience. Please feel free to contact us anytime.

CKSTEM conducts several international contests to support STEM. A key objective of these contests is to provide a platform for the students to learn and then compete. Students get access to a database of thousands of questions. Finalists are given live training to prepare for the contests. These contests are made available free to all students across the globe. You can find details of these contests below.

• CKSTEM Math Summer Contest (CMSC)

• CKSTEM Computing Summer Contest (CCSC)

• CKSTEM Debate Summer Contest (CDSC)

CKSTEM Summer Contest initiative allows students to compete in three areas: Mathematics, Computing, Public Speaking & Debate. This helps students in multiple ways: keeps them engaged through the summer, provides them with continued learning, and helps them prepare for the new school year. In addition, the experience of competing boosts confidence, curiosity, logic, leadership and teaches teamwork, overall increasing the students' chances to succeed in life.

We believe problem-solving is best learned by enabling critical thinking and 'connecting the dots. Similar to competitive sports, students are coached to not only understand and solve problems but also trained to compete, nurturing their competitive spirit and mental fitness.

• Letter to the educators 

• Contest Information Broucher

• Contest posters

Our courses focus on bringing the best out of the students. We have successfully coached students to become champions in national and international competitions. Our comprehensive training plan helps students to get into the best schools and universities. Students also find it fun to work with like-minded students who believe in excelling.  We offer the following Math Problem-Solving courses to the mathletes from grades 3-10:

• Arithmetic Magic (Free Online Course for age 5-8)

• I - Elementary Math Math Problem Solving

• II - Middle School Foundation (MPS3)

• III - Advanced Math (MPS4)

• IV - Advanced Competitive Math (MPS5)

CKSTEM is led by some of the best professionals in the IT industry. They have put together very engaging training programs to help young coders to learn through a practical set of problems. We also prepare students to excel in computing competitions.

• Python Programming

• Java Programming

We believe in providing a well-balanced, holistic, and fun learning environment where students not only develop their intellect, problem-solving, math, or programming skills but also gain confidence and empower themselves. Public Speaking & Debate is an intrinsic part of our life and prosperous society; hence, it is essential that students from an early age are given the opportunities and coaching to develop these skills. We have put together two full-year programs to help you become a leader.