Programs accessible without relocation — virtual camps, online fellowships, and remote-eligible awards. Most programs in this directory are in-person or location-dependent; these 52 do not require you to move or travel.
Computer Science
An organization dedicated to introducing Black and Brown girls ages 7–17 to coding, robotics, and mobile app development through workshops, hackathons, and digital learning programs. Their goal is to place one million girls in tech by 2040.
View details →Deadline: April
Computer Science
A global app development competition for girls ages 8–18 who work in teams to build a mobile app addressing a real community problem. The program runs annually from August to May and includes prize funding for winning teams.
View details →Engineering
A Society of Women Engineers initiative connecting women returning to engineering after a career break with corporate return-to-work programs, resume workshops, mentoring, and job listings. More than 21 major corporations partner with SWE and iRelaunch to create structured reentry pathways.
View details →Engineering
A UK charity founded in 1984 that works with schools, universities, and employers to increase the participation of women and girls in STEM. WISE operates through regional hubs and provides resources, a STEM jobs board, and the My Skills My Life role model platform.
View details →Other
An award-winning UK social enterprise running mentoring programs, hackathons, work experience, and qualification academies for girls and young women aged 5–25 across the UK and Ireland. Since 2013, Stemettes has provided over 60,000 young people with positive experiences of STEAM.
View details →Other
A Canadian national charity with 30+ years of experience providing free bilingual STEM education programs and resources to youth across Canada, including remote and Indigenous communities. Let's Talk Science actively addresses gender equity in STEM through outreach and mentorship.
View details →AnitaB.org
Computer Science
Scholarships to attend Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC), the world's largest gathering of women and non-binary technologists. Covers virtual or in-person registration and career-advancing access. Awarded by AnitaB.org annually.
View details →Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)
Deadline: February
Mathematics
Annual biographical essay contest in which students interview a woman or gender-minority mathematician and write about their career. Open to grades 6–12 and undergraduates, including homeschooled and international students. Monetary prizes per grade category; the Grand Prize essay is featured in the AWM Newsletter. Co-sponsored with Math for America.
View details →Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation
Deadline: January
General STEM
The premier US undergraduate award for students pursuing research careers in natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering. Awards up to $7,500 per year for tuition, fees, books, and room and board.
View details →Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Deadline: September
General STEM
A highly selective full scholarship for exceptional, Pell-eligible minority high school seniors intending to pursue any four-year US college. Covers the full cost of attendance not already met by other aid.
View details →Jack Kent Cooke Foundation
Deadline: November
General STEM
One of the largest private US scholarships, awarded to high-achieving high school seniors with financial need. Awards up to $40,000 per year toward the nation's best four-year colleges.
View details →Astronaut Scholarship Foundation
Deadline: April
General STEM
Awarded to exceptional US college juniors and seniors pursuing STEM degrees with the intention of advancing research or their field. Founded by the Mercury 7 astronauts; awards $15,000 per year.
View details →National Merit Scholarship Corporation
Deadline: October
General STEM
A national academic competition based on PSAT/NMSQT performance that provides recognition and undergraduate scholarships. Corporate and college-sponsored awards are frequently directed toward STEM fields.
View details →U.S. Department of Defense
Deadline: December
Engineering
Sponsored by the Department of Defense, NDSEG fellowships support US citizens pursuing doctoral degrees in science and engineering disciplines of military importance. Fellows receive full tuition plus a monthly stipend for up to three years.
View details →Fannie and John Hertz Foundation
Deadline: October
Engineering
One of the most prestigious US graduate fellowships, supporting innovative PhD research in applied physical, biological, and engineering sciences with up to five years of funding including stipend and cost-of-education allowance.
View details →Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
Deadline: November
General STEM
Supports graduate education of immigrants and children of immigrants across all disciplines including STEM. Provides up to $90,000 in funding over two years; many fellows pursue STEM doctoral and professional degrees.
View details →Ford Foundation / National Academies
Deadline: December
General STEM
Administered by the National Academies, Ford Foundation Fellowships increase faculty diversity by supporting predoctoral, dissertation, and postdoctoral students from underrepresented groups across all disciplines including STEM.
View details →National GEM Consortium
Deadline: November
Engineering
Provides opportunities for underrepresented minority students to pursue graduate education in applied science and engineering through paid summer internships and graduate stipend support at the master's and doctoral levels.
View details →Deadline: April
Computer Science
A global program where Google awards stipends to contributors to spend a summer working on open source software projects mentored by participating organizations. Open to students and open source newcomers worldwide across virtually every technical domain.
View details →IBM
Deadline: April
Computer Science
A free virtual skills-building program for undergraduates providing exposure to IBM technology, career paths, and culture through online modules and mentorship. Often serves as a pipeline to IBM internships. Participants earn IBM digital badges upon completion.
View details →Citadel / Correlation One
Deadline: Rolling
Data Science
A series of data science competitions hosted by Citadel and Correlation One, open to university students globally, where teams solve real-world financial and economic problems. Top competitors earn prizes and receive fast-track recruitment consideration.
View details →Major League Hacking
Deadline: Rolling
Computer Science
A 12-week remote program where participants contribute to open source projects, work on production software, and receive mentorship and a stipend. Tracks include Open Source, Explorer (original projects), and Production (real company software).
View details →Software Freedom Conservancy
Deadline: February
Computer Science
Three-month paid remote internships with free and open source software organizations for people subject to systemic bias and underrepresentation in tech. Interns receive a $7,000 stipend and work on software development, documentation, UX, and data science.
View details →Linux Foundation
Deadline: Rolling
Computer Science
Connects students and open source newcomers with mentors from Linux Foundation-hosted projects including Linux kernel, Kubernetes, and CNCF projects. Participants receive a stipend and gain experience contributing to production-grade open source infrastructure.
View details →Meta
Deadline: September
Computer Science
An annual international online programming competition hosted by Meta since 2011, where participants solve algorithmic problems across multiple rounds within fixed time windows, using any programming language of their choice.
View details →NASA
Deadline: October
Aerospace
NASA's annual two-day international hackathon challenging participants of all skill levels to solve real-world problems using NASA open data, with 487,000+ cumulative registrants across 3,400+ local events in 190+ countries.
View details →USA Computing Olympiad
Deadline: January
Computer Science
A free online competitive programming competition offering contests across four divisions (Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum) for high school students worldwide, with top US participants invited to a training camp and selected to represent the US at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI).
View details →Breakthrough Prize Foundation
Deadline: September
General STEM
An annual global science video competition where high school students create short videos explaining a challenging concept in mathematics, physics, or life sciences. The winner receives a $250,000 post-secondary scholarship plus $50,000 for their teacher and $100,000 for their school's science lab.
View details →Computer Science
Apprenti is a nationally recognized, U.S. Department of Labor-registered tech apprenticeship program that places candidates into roles such as software developer and cybersecurity analyst. It combines accelerated classroom technical training with about a year of paid on-the-job training at an employer. Training is currently offered at no cost to apprentices, funded by employer contributions, grants, and donations.
View details →Other
reacHIRE runs return-to-work programs that place professionals coming off a career break directly into paid roles at partner employers, typically over six to nine months. Participants join a peer cohort with a dedicated program manager, mentorship, re-immersion training, and career coaching. The programs are designed to convert returners into full-time hires at sponsoring companies.
View details →Computer Science
Multiverse delivers employer-based apprenticeships in software engineering, data, and AI, where apprentices learn on the job in a real business setting rather than paying tuition. In the UK its programs are funded through the Apprenticeship Levy and are offered at multiple levels including data fellowship and AI/software tracks.
View details →U.S. Army Educational Outreach Program (AEOP)
Other
Free U.S. Army-sponsored (AEOP) virtual STEM competition for grades 6-9 where teams identify a community problem and solve it via scientific inquiry or engineering design; national winners receive up to $10,000 in savings bonds per student.
View details →Air & Space Forces Association
Deadline: Registration deadline October 1
Cybersecurity
Air & Space Forces Association program in which middle and high school teams act as newly hired IT staff securing virtual networks through online rounds, advancing to an all-expenses-paid national finals; scholarships awarded to top teams.
View details →U.S. House of Representatives
Deadline: October
Computer Science
Nationwide coding competition hosted by Members of the U.S. House of Representatives for middle and high school students, who build an original app in any language or platform; district winners are recognized at the U.S. Capitol.
View details →Samsung
Other
National STEM contest for U.S. public-school students in grades 6-12 to develop a project using STEM to address a community issue; national winners earn technology and classroom prize packages from a multi-million-dollar prize pool.
View details →Carnegie Mellon University CyLab
Cybersecurity
Free Carnegie Mellon CyLab capture-the-flag cybersecurity competition for participants aged 13+ covering cryptography, web exploitation, forensics, reverse engineering and binary exploitation, with a year-round picoGym practice platform.
View details →Cyber Skyline / National Cyber League
Deadline: Fall season registration August-October
Cybersecurity
Puzzle-based, capture-the-flag cybersecurity competition and learning community for high school, college and bootcamp students to build and validate skills; serves 17,000+ students across 1,200+ schools with a year-round Gymnasium practice environment.
View details →Indiana University Indianapolis
Deadline: February
Mathematics
An 8-week NSF REU in applied mathematics and biophysics with research applications in medical sciences, fluid mechanics, and physics, run virtually with an optional in-person conference component.
View details →Deadline: February
Other
ExploraVision, sponsored by Toshiba and administered by the National Science Teaching Association, is a K-12 STEM competition in which teams of 2-4 students research current technology and design an innovation that could exist 10+ years in the future, competing for U.S. Savings Bonds and a trip to Washington, D.C.
View details →Cybersecurity
CyberStart America is a free, gamified online cybersecurity program for U.S. high school students (grades 9-12) run by the National Cyber Scholarship Foundation, offering 200+ real-world challenges and a pathway to compete for National Cyber Scholarship college awards.
View details →University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Deadline: March 1, 2026
Data Science
A fully online 10-week NSF REU training undergraduates in big data analytics and high-performance computing applied across science and engineering disciplines. Runs June 1 to July 24, 2026 with a $5,600 stipend. Open to U.S. citizens and permanent residents.
View details →Deadline: Annual; 2026 Challenge weekend Feb 27 - Mar 2, 2026
Mathematics
A free mathematical modeling contest organized by SIAM and sponsored by MathWorks for 11th/12th graders in the U.S. (and sixth-form students in England and Wales). Teams of 3-5 spend 14 continuous hours over Challenge weekend using math and data to solve a real-world problem, competing for more than $100,000 in scholarship awards. Teams work remotely, in person or via online collaboration.
View details →Deadline: Annual tournament; 2026 High School Finals Feb 21, 2026
Computer Science
An MIT-run programming competition (with NASA and the ISS National Lab) in which middle and high school student teams write code to control real Astrobee/SPHERES satellites aboard the International Space Station. After online virtual rounds, finalist teams' code is run live in microgravity by an astronaut aboard the ISS, broadcast from a championship at MIT.
View details →Deadline: Annual; 2026 contest Feb 18-19, 2026
Computer Science
An annual programming contest for secondary school students run by the Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing (CEMC) at the University of Waterloo. Students compete individually at Junior or Senior level in a 3-hour online exam graded by the CCC Online Grader. Top Senior participants from Canadian schools are invited to the Canadian Computing Olympiad (CCO).
View details →Deadline: Annual; entries typically due in early November
Mathematics
COMAP's High School Mathematical Contest in Modeling challenges teams of high school students to solve a real-world, open-ended problem using mathematical modeling over a multi-day window, submitting a written solution paper.
View details →Deadline: Rolling admissions
Other
A national nonprofit offering flexible, part-time training programs in fields such as IT support, data analytics, and cybersecurity for working adults without four-year degrees, using an outcomes-based tuition model tied to job placement.
View details →Statewide California Earthquake Center
Environmental Science
An undergraduate internship program in earthquake science coordinated by the Statewide California Earthquake Center.
View details →Computer Science
A global student technology competition run by Microsoft in which teams build apps and startups.
View details →Other
A national science competition for middle-school students, run by 3M and Discovery Education, awarding a top young-scientist prize.
View details →Computer Science
A community and career program supporting undergraduate and early-career women in tech through mentorship, events, and internships.
View details →Computer Science
A national community supporting Black and Latinx computing students with career development, mentorship, and technical resources.
View details →Computer Science
An international computer-science and programming competition for middle-school and high-school student teams.
View details →Note on online eligibility: "Online" in this directory means the program itself is delivered remotely or that participation does not require physical attendance. Many scholarship awards (cash payments) are technically remote — the recipient attends their own institution. Those are not flagged here. Check individual program pages for current remote vs. in-person status, as formats change.
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