Mainframe Student Competition

This unique, virtual contest is open globally to high school and college students to progressively teach mainframe skills in a real world enterprise computing environment. Employers from around the globe use this contest to seek out potential candidates for mainframe careers.

Coding challenge contest helps high school and college students learn in-demand mainframe skills

It’s back! One of the largest virtual student competitions in the world has returned for its 14th year with new prizes and new coding challenges for students around the world. The Master the Mainframe contest is open globally to high school and college students to progressively teach mainframe skills in a real-world enterprise computing environment. Employers from around the globe use this contest to seek out potential candidates for enterprise IT careers. Earn Digital Badges and learn how 93 of the top 100 banks use IBM Z to ensure their business critical systems are secure, reliable, and always up.

Obtain unprecedented exposure to a wide variety of enterprise systems, software, and products. Earn an Enterprise Computing Open Badge to put on your resume or social media pages so potential employers can easily find you. Yup, that’s right – this is one competition that can even land you a job!

Anyone who is currently a student at the high school or university level can compete — no experience is necessary. The contest teaches the skills you’ll need and the competition difficulty increases as you progress through the contest phases. For more information on eligibility please reference the PA which can be found here.

Competition Ends at 11:59pm PT, December 31st, 2018

Students can register for the 2018 Master the Mainframe global virtual contest and compete to win prizes and earn badges.