The WTO knowledge hub
The knowledge hub brings together everything that helps you prepare - guides, sample papers, a glossary of tech terms, and the blog.
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Guides & explainers
Understand the whole model - tracks, rounds, the rating, and recognition.
OpenSample papers
See the practical, thinking-led style of the olympiad, by track.
OpenThe skill rating
How the transparent, chess-Elo-style rating is calculated.
OpenBlog & articles
Readable articles for parents, schools, and students.
OpenFor parents
Why WTO, how to register, and answers to common questions.
OpenFor schools
Run a curriculum-aligned olympiad, starting with a free pilot.
OpenFrom the blog
Readable guides for parents, schools, and students.
The skill rating, explained simply
Why WTO uses a chess-Elo-style rating, and how beating harder questions moves it more than easy ones.
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Choosing the right track for your child
Foundation, Explorer, or Innovator? How grade-based tracks keep the challenge just right, year after year.
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Preparing for your first edition
What the questions are really like, and how to practise the kind of thinking they reward.
Read articleTech glossary
Plain-language definitions of the terms you'll meet across the olympiad.
- Artificial intelligence (AI)
- Software that performs tasks we associate with human intelligence - recognising patterns, making predictions, and learning from data.
- Computational thinking
- Solving problems in clear, ordered steps an algorithm could follow - the foundation of coding and modern technology.
- Cybersecurity
- Protecting systems, data, and people from digital threats - and the habits that keep them safe.
- Robotics
- Designing and programming machines that sense their surroundings and act in the physical world.
- Skill rating
- A persistent, chess-Elo-style number that measures a student's demonstrated ability against calibrated question difficulty.
- World Rank Holder
- Recognition for students in the top percentile of the global leaderboard, by persistent rating.
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