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Bett Asia School Challenge 2026
Bett Asia School Challenge 2026
Bett Asia’s Schools Challenge returns for its fourth year in partnership with Google, empowering students to become champions for a better world and enabling teachers to earn their Bett Asia Educator Certificates.
This year’s challenge focuses on the importance of local, community-driven action to tackle today’s most pressing environmental and social issues. Through expert training and the use of Google tools, including Gemini, teams will develop solutions specific to issues faced by their local communities, considering how they can create real, lasting impact in the places they call home.
Finalist teams will present their solutions live at Bett Asia in Kuala Lumpur on 24 September!
Open to teams from: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Click below to get access to training and resources to prepare your projects for submission!
The Challenge
Your mission is to design an innovative technology solution that tackles an environmental and/or social issue affecting your local community. Through dedicated training sessions, you’ll learn how to use Google tools – including Gemini – to shape your ideas. These tools will help support every stage of your project development, from refining concepts to generating prototype images that help bring your solutions to life.
Competition Tracks
For K–12 Students (Ages 13–17)
Design a technology-based solution to raise awareness and/or solve a key challenge in your community.
Think about challenges related to the environment, health, education, safety, or community wellbeing. How could technology help make life better for people around you?
For Higher Education Students (Ages 17+)
Develop a tech-driven solution such as an AI tool, data-driven platform, sensor-based system, or app that helps your local community with a prevalent challenge you have identified.
For example, can your idea help monitor energy use, reduce waste, protect natural resources, or model climate risks within your local community?
The Pitch
You’ll present your idea through a short video, digital prototype, or visual concept explaining:
✅ What the problem is
✅ How your solution works
✅ How you used AI to develop your project
✅ The impact it could have on education and the environment
Winning ideas will be showcased at Bett Asia 2026 on 24 September in Kuala Lumpur, inspiring real-world action in education!
Important dates
20 April
K12 training session (ages 13-17)
21 April
HE training session (ages 17+)
Drop-in support session 1
9 June
Drop-in support session 2
10 July
Project submission deadline
Week commencing 3 August
Finalists announced!
2025 Winners
K12
- Team Conqueror, CAM-ASEAN Foreign Language School, Cambodia
HE
- Team WhirlWind, University of the Assumption, Philippines
Honourable Mention
- Disasteam, Lyceum of the Philippines University - Batangas
2025 Finalists
K12
- Team WattWise, Saint Paul University Philippines
HE
- The Irregulars, University of the Assumption, Philippines
- EcoPoint, Air Link International Aviation College, Philippines
2025 Highlights
Register to take part in the 2026 School Challenge
Showcase your idea at Bett Asia in the Mandarin Oriental in Kuala Lumpar and register your interest in taking part.
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