Schools
Enter your students
Choose at least five topics, form a group of three for each with at least one girl, and put forward a boy and a girl as individual innovators.
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Awakening
Innovation
Young innovators aged 6 to 16 from rural Uganda show what they have built to solve a problem in their home, their school or their village, and a panel of judges scores every entry on the same score card.
- When
- 05 September 2026
- Where
- Lwanyama Primary School, Nankandulo, Kamuli
- Who
- Students aged 6–16
Judges
Score on the day
Six lines, one hundred marks, the same score card for every contestant: on paper in the hall or on a phone, and it all lands in one place.
Open your score cardsEveryone
See who won
Averages, rankings and the four awards, with the working shown, on the leaderboard the moment they are announced.
Go to the leaderboardThe competition options
Ten topics, three headings
A school chooses at least five. Each is a real problem a student can put their hands on, from cleaning water to finding new things to make from sugarcane.
Earth and Life
- Clean Water
- Health Tools
- Farming and Food
- Nature
Building and Making
- Energy
- Robots
- Buildings
Tech and Fun
- Computing
- Fun with Sugarcane
- Games and Sports
What can be won
Winning Team (Primary)
Winning Team (Secondary)
Top Female Innovator
Top Male Innovator
Remarkable talent exists beyond Uganda's urban centres. The camp is where it is found, scored fairly, and celebrated.