Eastern Illinois University

Academic Challenge

The Academic Challenge competition will take place in 2019!

Thanks to the UIUC College of Engineering for creating the Academic Challenge competition and operating it for about 40 years! The operation of the competition will now be taken on by Eastern Illinois University.

EIU will make its best effort to maintain and improve the competition as we move forward. The 2019 registration fees will remain the same as they were for the 2018 competition. Currently, efforts are underway to start exam production, to create software for registration and scoring, and to schedule regional and host site competitions. We will update this site as more information becomes available.

Thanks to all the coaches, regional and sectional site hosts, and exam authors and reviewers that responded to our email queries about interest in continuing the competition. It was very helpful to have the feedback for gaining the approval for us to hold the competition.

Note that the name WYSE (World Youth in Science & Engineering) is no longer associated with the Academic Challenge. That name belongs to UIUC College of Engineering and they will continue to use that name for their other outreach programs.

If you need any additional information at this time, please contact: Academic_Challenge@eiu.edu