How the World Tech Olympiad works
The World Tech Olympiad is a season-long competition in AI, coding, and emerging technology for students in Classes 2 to 12.
Students join the track that matches their grade, compete across rounds, earn a transparent skill rating, and receive a verifiable certificate recognized worldwide.
- 1M+
- learners worldwide
- 145+
- countries reached
- 2016
- trusted since
How it works
From sign-up to a global credential, in four simple steps.
Register and pick a track
Create a parent account in minutes. Your child's grade maps automatically to the right track.
Practise and sit editions
Practise all season, then sit proctored online editions from home - age-appropriate and fair.
Earn a rating and a rank
Every result feeds a transparent skill rating and a global, country, and school rank.
Receive a verifiable certificate
Take home a portfolio-ready certificate anyone can verify by ID - proof that lasts.
The model
Four parts work together to make WTO a benchmark, not a one-off test.
A transparent rating
A chess-Elo-style rating with a published method - no black box.
How the rating worksRecognition that lasts
Tiered badges and verifiable certificates, checkable by anyone.
Recognition and certificatesThe cadence
A season, not a single day
Editions run through the year and each one updates the skill rating, with the Annual World Championship as the flagship final. There is always a next opportunity, so one difficult day never defines a student.
The Qualifier is open all year with a short cooling window between re-attempts; the National Round runs twice a year per country. Each attempt draws a randomized paper per student from a calibrated bank, so every sitting is fresh and fair.
What it means for you
One olympiad that creates real value for everyone involved.
For parents
A safe, motivating, and verifiable way to grow your child's technology skills, with a credential trusted by parents in 145+ countries.
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For schools
A curriculum-aligned olympiad with a coordinator dashboard, school rankings, and a free pilot to prove the value before you pay.
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For partners
License WTO in your territory and run a world-class olympiad on our platform, brand, item bank, and rating engine.
Trusted by families, schools, and partners
“Finally a tech competition that shows real progress over the year, not a one-off result. My daughter checks her rating after every edition.”
Anjali Mehta
Parent, Explorer track
“The free pilot made it an easy yes for our principal. Bulk enrolment and the board-ready report did the rest.”
Rahul Verma
School coordinator
“We brought a credible global olympiad to our region without building any of the platform or content ourselves.”
Sofia Alvarez
Regional partner
Frequently asked questions
The questions parents, coordinators, and partners ask most.
What is the World Tech Olympiad?
The World Tech Olympiad (WTO) is a global, season-long technology competition for students in Classes 2 to 12. It assesses future-ready skills - artificial intelligence, coding, cybersecurity, robotics, and computational thinking - and benchmarks a student's technology aptitude with a transparent, persistent skill rating and a verifiable certificate.
Who can take part, and at what age?
Any student in Classes 2 to 12 can take part. There are three grade-based tracks: Foundation (Classes 2 to 4), Explorer (Classes 5 to 8), and Innovator (Classes 9 to 12). A child's grade maps automatically to the right track at registration, so every student is challenged at the right level.
Is the olympiad online or in person?
Qualifier and National Rounds are sat online from home, proctored and age-appropriate, with no special hardware. Only the annual World Championship final is live and supervised. There is no travel for the rounds that build a student's rating.
How is WTO different from a normal school exam?
A school exam is a single, pass-or-fail snapshot. WTO is a benchmark: every edition updates a transparent skill rating - like a chess Elo for technology - so the result reflects demonstrated skill against calibrated difficulty over time, and produces a comparable global, country, and school rank.
How much does it cost?
A single attempt is a low-friction way to try the olympiad, while the annual Season Pass covers every edition, the dashboard, and the rating for the year. Pricing is purchasing-power adjusted by country. See the parents pricing page for the bands that apply to you.
How do schools bring WTO to their students?
Schools start with a free pilot edition and a free coordinator dashboard, so the team sees real participation and ranking data before any license is purchased. The program is mapped to CBSE, ICSE, and CSTA so it is easy for a principal to justify.
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Ready to begin?
Registration takes minutes. Your child can start practising for the next edition today.