Building Nigeria's next generation of STEM talent

The National STEM Challenge is a secure, national digital platform for identifying and cultivating Nigeria's brightest secondary school students through rigorous annual assessments and competitions. We run a multi-week, multi-subject competition spanning Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics and Biology, built on a curriculum-mapped bank of thousands of questions. Students compete in weekly online challenges, climb live national, state and school leaderboards, and progress through qualification stages that culminate in a Top 50 Elite Computer-Based Test and a Top 20 National Finals. Alongside the individual contest, the platform hosts a Teams Innovation Challenge focused on AI in Edutech, encouraging collaborative problem-solving and real-world application of STEM skills.

The platform is designed for SS1 students across every state in Nigeria, their schools and coordinators, and the administrators who steward a fair, transparent competition. Every assessment is server-authoritative, integrity-monitored, and scored against configurable rules for accuracy, difficulty, speed and consistency — so rankings reflect genuine mastery, not luck or manipulation.

The National STEM Challenge is built and maintained by a dedicated team of educators, software engineers and competition administrators committed to expanding access to world-class STEM opportunities for every Nigerian student, regardless of geography or background.