2026 BIEA STEM Competition Award List

Celebrating the Winners of the BIEA STEM Competition 2026!

We are thrilled to announce this year’s award recipients! The BIEA STEM Competition 2026 judges were truly inspired by the creativity, innovation, and ingenuity displayed by every young person who took part. Your ideas were not only impressive but showed real commitment to solving global challenges through STEM.

A huge THANK YOU and CONGRATULATIONS to all participants — we are incredibly proud of you! Whether you received an award or not, your work made an impact, and we hope to see you again in 2027 as we take on a brand-new theme:
‘Fish Forward – A Challenge to End Overfishing’.

Let’s keep innovating, collaborating, and changing the world—one STEM idea at a time.

Champions

• Fresh Trackers, Amjad Qurtoba American Diploma School, Saudi Arabia
• CitraSensePack, İSTEK Antalya Konyaaltı High School, Turkey
• EcoShield, Choate Rosemary Hall, Chadwick International School, Mountain Cherry Academy
• MyCel, Kolej Yayasan Saad Melaka, Malaysia

First Prize

• Fabulous Food Fanatics, Alpha Prep School, UK
• Eco Fresh Innovators, Altakween Private Schools, Oman
• Planthex, Tubitak Science High School, Turkey
• BioNova,  Amjad Qurtoba American Diploma School, Saudi Arabia

Second Prize

• Girls for the FuTor, Tormead School
• Afaverlos, Multi-school collaboration, China
• Mind Spark, Amjad Qurtoba American Diploma School, Saudi Arabia
• Project Flux, Queen Elizabeth's School Barnet, UK
• Hello World, Lou Hau High School, Macao, China

Third Prize

• Zero Waste, The China Soong Ching Ling Science & Culture Centre for Young People, China
• Fresh Keeper Manager, Hisar School, Turkey
• Tomato Guardians, Tubitak Science High School, Turkey
• Food Waste Killers, Alpha Prep School, UK
• Aqua Smart Farming,  China Welfare Institute Children's Palace, China
• Save-Savour Savants, Macau Pooi to Middle School, Macao, China

Peer Award

• Fresh Trackers, Amjad Qurtoba American Diploma School, Saudi Arabia

Lunch Box Challenge Award

• Afaverlos, Multi-school Collaboration, China
• I-Create 2, Macau Pui Va Middle School, Macao, China
• Food Waste Destroyer, Macau Pooi To Middle School, Macao, China

Ambassadors Award

• Grind To Grow, Victoria College Belfast, UK
• AgroRavens, Canyon Crest Academy, USA
• Breadify,  Tubitak Science High School, Turkey
• Dragons, Denla British School, Thailand

Future Tech Award

• AgriSort Innovators, KStudy, India
• 4+1, School-lyceum Number 20, Azerbaijan
• No Pest Express, Pui Ching Middle School, Macao, China
• Itoju, Federal University of Technology, Nigeria

Community Impact Award

• Zero Waste Meal, Kemerburgaz Bilim Middle School, Turkey
• Echo Food Print,  Gimnasio Kaiporé, Colombia
• Future Harvest,  China Welfare Institute Children's Palace, China
• Bingo, The China Soong Ching Ling Science & Culture Centre for Young People, China
• STEMPactors, Aburi Girls Senior High School, Ghana

Science Communication Award

• Carbon Treasure Squad, China Welfare Institute Children's Palace, China
• FoodPause Innovators, Model Education International Academy (Rayan) - MEIA, Saudi Arabia
• BestiesSquadForever, Kuen Cheng High School, Malaysia
• BioCrew, Amjad Qurtoba American Diploma School, Saudi Arabia

Rising Stars Award

• Eco Sprouts, Hangzhou Shanghai World Foreign Language School, China
• NGS STEAM Team, Newton Global School, Indonesia
• Peel Power, China Welfare Institute Children's Palace, China
• Symbiotic Tech, Hangzhou Shanghai World Foreign Language School, China
• Smart Peel Shield, Model Education International Academy (Rayan ) - MEIA, Saudi Arabia
• Xplore Mindz, Xplore Mindz Port Dickson, Malaysia
• Lacto Veg,  International School of Toulouse, France
• Samurai, ACS Hillingdon International School, UK
• Waste to Wall, Hisar School, Turkey
• Fresh From Waste (FFW), Smart Learning Schools, Saudi Arabia
• Bio Stars, International School of Toulouse, France
• Foodwise, China Welfare Institute Children's Palace, China
• ZeroWasteRoots, China Welfare Institute Children's Palace, China
• Sis-tainability,  Women Science Teachers, Turkey
• Sustainables,  Innovation International, USA/Philippines

 Award certificates will be emailed directly to registered mentors shortly.

Generic Certificate of Participation available to download here.