October 2025
The theme of TEC 2026 announced – check it out here!
Registration Round 1 opens on 10/10/2025 and closes on 24/10/2025: https://forms.office.com/e/EMDBLEpWBU.
7 November 2025
The deadline by which it will be announced whether TEC 2026 can welcome all the participants registered in Registration Round 1.
Registration Round 2 begins for all 7 challenges (the exact names of mentors and students + registration fee required).
In case of an excessive number of registrations in Registration Round 1 in one or more challenges, the registered schools might either:
- be asked to reduce the number of their students/teams to one per challenge in any of the 7 challenges – this will be an opportunity to organise a school-level competition/selection;
- or enter a pre-selection stage in any of the following challenges; Story, Music, Film, Drama (because even after the reduction to one student/team per school per challenge, the number of participants would still be too large).
16 January 2026
- Announcement of topics for the Debate Challenge.
- Also, only if the number of registered participants was too large in one or more challenges in Registration Round 1, the following applies:
- If the schools have been asked to reduce the number of students/teams to one per school for any of the challenges:
- By this date, these schools conduct a school-level competition/selection and chosen one student/team per challenge to register for TEC.
- Registration Round 2 begins for these schools for all 7 challenges, regardless of the number of challenges in which the reduction was done. The exact names of mentors and students, as well as the registration fee, will be required.
- If the schools have entered the pre-selection stage in any of the following challenges – Story, Music, Film, Drama:
- By this date, these schools should submit the stories, songs, films, and play scripts for the pre-selection stage.
- These schools do not enter Registration Round 2 yet; they will wait for the pre-selection stage to conclude before registering all their students for all challenges, regardless of how many challenges were part of the pre-selection stage.
- If the schools have been asked to reduce the number of students/teams to one per school for any of the challenges:
11 February 2026
- The deadline for submitting the stories, songs, films, and play scripts for the TEC 2026.
- Also, only if the number of registered participants was too large in one or more challenges in Registration Round 1 and the schools have entered the pre-selection stage (for any of the the following challenges: Story, Music, Film, Drama), the following applies:
- The end of the pre-selection stage.
- The invitations are sent to the accepted participants in these challenges.
- Registration Round 2 begins for these schools for all 7 challenges, regardless of how many challenges were part of the pre-selection stage. The exact names of mentors and students, as well as the registration fee, will be required.
11 March 2026
A one-month-long online voting period begins to select the winner according to the audience vote in the following challenges: Story, Music, Film.
11 April 2026
The English Challenge 2026!
Celebrating passion for English