Season 1 · Registration opens spring 2026
Outthink. Outsolve. Outscore.
Not just an Olympiad site — a STEM club you belong to all year.
Most competition platforms give students one contest, then silence. SciPookie gives them a House, a division to climb, a new mission every Monday, and a verified record of everything they build along the way.
Free tier includes 2 competitions and 3 missions a month, forever.
Why we built it
Students don't quit STEM. They run out of reasons to come back.
Every gap below is one we heard from students, parents and teachers before we wrote a line of code.
How it works
Five parts. Each one feeds the other four.
Win a round and your House gains points. Finish a mission and your Passport gains a badge. Write a good problem and it lands in someone else's mission next month. Nothing here is a side quest.
A league with real stakes
Five divisions, promotion and relegation, and a season that ends in three months — not "someday". Every month brings a Speed Round (30 minutes, multiple choice) and a Depth Round (90 minutes, show your working) across Maths, Physics, Coding, Science and Logic.
- Top 15% of a division go up. Bottom 15% go down.
- Win any monthly round and you're promoted on the spot, whatever your rank.
- Schools compete too, ranked on their top five students per subject.
Divisions · bar width shows how many seats
Everyone starts in Rookie. Nobody starts at the bottom of a list of ten thousand strangers.
Six Houses, one for life
A short quiz on onboarding — favourite subject, how you like to be challenged — puts every student in one of six Houses named after people who changed what was possible. You keep it. Your House shows on your profile, your leaderboard row, every mission you submit and your Passport.
House Points aren't just for winning. They're for turning up, helping, reviewing and creating.
A few ways to earn House Points
Monday's mission
One story, four to six connected problems, seven days. Each answer unlocks the next chapter — so a mission feels closer to an escape room than an exam paper. Miss the deadline and the debrief still explains every solution, including the elegant one you didn't spot.
- Every mission crosses at least two subjects.
- Six rotating universes: Space, Cryptography, Biology, Engineering, Finance, Climate.
- The community votes on the most elegant solution. That vote is worth bonus points.
This week · "Decode the Satellite Signal"
The ground station goes quietBronze
Work out the orbital period from three timestamps. Solve it and the next transmission decrypts.
A signal that shouldn't be thereSilver
The carrier frequency is drifting. Model the Doppler shift to find where the satellite really is.
Break the keySilver / Gold
The payload is encrypted with a semiprime. Factor it before the transmission window closes.
Plot the recovery burnGold
Minimum fuel, fixed window, one shot. Show your working.
Bonus: who moved it?Champions
Optional. Ugly. Roughly forty students a week finish this one.
The part no other platform has
Solving problems is a skill. Writing one that is correct, original, clearly stated and quietly beautiful is a much rarer one. The Problem Setter Club treats it as a real craft, with a real review process — the same eight stages a published competition problem goes through anywhere.
Setters are credited by name on every problem they write, and it lands on their Passport.
Every submitted problem, start to shelf
Scored on rigour, originality, clarity, elegance and whether the stated difficulty is honest.
Proof that survives the application form
The Digital Passport records the whole journey — contests entered, missions finished, problems written, hours spent mentoring, reviews given — and every entry is timestamped by the platform, not typed in by the student.
- Students can add, never subtract. Nothing quietly disappears.
- Universities open a link or scan a code and see a read-only verified view.
- Export as PDF, share as a link, or pull the raw data over the API.
What it records
The House system
Pick one. Actually — the quiz picks for you.
Six Houses, balanced by design, permanent by choice. Belonging to a named team is the single biggest reason students come back next week — so we made it the first thing that happens after sign-up.
House Euler · named for Leonhard Euler
“Elegant by nature”
Euler wrote more mathematics than anyone alive could read, and made most of it look easy. His House goes to students who reach for the neat proof over the brute-force one.
Sample standings shown. Real House tables go live with Season 1.
Weekly Missions
Every Monday, a new story with problems buried in it.
Released Monday, closes Sunday. Solve part one to unlock part two. By Thursday half your House is arguing about part three in the forum, and that argument is the point.
Streaks, because showing up is the hard part
The Digital Passport
One link. Everything they did, and nothing they didn't.
Sample Student
House Turing · Gold Division · joined 2026Scan or open the link and a university sees this record read-only, with every entry timestamped by SciPookie. Sample card — not a real student.
Why an admissions officer should trust it
Entries are added by the platform and never removed. A student writes the application essay; they don't write this.
Mentoring hours, peer reviews and a 104-day streak say things a medal count never will.
Twelve accepted problems means twelve times a panel agreed the student's own idea was rigorous and original.
Public link, branded PDF, QR code, LinkedIn badge, or raw JSON for institutions verifying at scale.
Not only for students
The two people who decide whether a student stays.
For parents
You stop having to ask "how's the maths going?" and get an answer you can actually read.
- A monthly report showing what they attempted, not just what they scored.
- Streaks and mission history — evidence of habit, which is the thing that compounds.
- Mentoring sessions booked and logged, with the mentor's rating visible.
- Parental consent flow for under-16s, and a data export or delete button that works.
For schools & teachers
Enter a team, watch a class, and stop building your own worksheets on a Sunday night.
- Register up to 50 students; the school gets an aggregate leaderboard and trophy cabinet.
- Class analytics by topic — see which sub-domain the whole cohort is quietly avoiding.
- Bulk seats, one invoice, one admin who manages the roster.
- Every problem passes automated checks, two peer reviews and an editor before a student sees it.
Pricing
Free is a real tier, not a trailer.
Houses, leaderboards and the League are free forever. Paying unlocks volume and the Passport — never the community.
- A House, for good
- 2 competitions a month
- 3 missions a month
- All leaderboards
- Limited Passport
- Unlimited competitions
- Unlimited missions
- Full Problem Setter Club
- Full Digital Passport
- 2 mentoring sessions a month
- Everything in Premium
- Team & school leaderboard
- Class-level analytics
- Monthly parent PDF
- Mentoring booking
- Everything in Basic
- School-level analytics
- Weekly + live parent reports
- Unlimited mentoring
- Championship entry included
Season 1 opens spring 2026
Six Houses are still filling up.
Take the two-minute quiz, get sorted, and solve this week's mission before Sunday. The rest of the season follows on its own.
Join the waitlist