Welcome back!
Challenge yourself with new and improved PolyUp! Log in with your old account to save your progress before May 10, 2021 and get access to the new PolyUp and the many features:
New and upcoming Part Libraries: terrain, city, solar energy and many more!
A 7-Week program with project week, demo week and festival.
New machines and puzzles to solve in Math, CS, and Robotics.
Simplified challenge experience and new badges to earn.
Join PolyUp Innovation Hub and create your Startup!
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Use scholarhsip code WMC1N1039 to upgrade your account.
For a limited time, you will get full Summer and Fall Scholarships when you upgrade by the May 10th, 2021.
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Explore New Part Libraries to Build 3D Worlds
Create, Innovate, and Mod the world with Math!
New Parts coming this Spring!
Solar Energy
Build home concepts and equip it with the solar system of your design!
Terrain
Create surfaces of nature, and make forests and lakes!
Poly City
More road blocks, more building blocks to create the cities of the future
Robotic Joints
All you need to create the robot that will take over the world.
New Solar Energy Parts
Coming this spring, the Solar Energy Library will enable you to create even more innovative solutions to real-life problems and share with your friends.
Readiness for Innovation Economy
The World Math Challenge follow-up programs leverage the projects recognized on the leaderboards to help students with their applications to top universities.
Practicing Design Thinking
Connect curricular math to real-life problem solving and create innovative solutions in a portfolio of projects addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Impactful Internship Experiences
World Challenge honor leaderboard winners create and lead their own PolyUp startup where they design, deliver, and market their products for 2 seasons. These experiences are valuable to reflect in the top university applications.
Entrepreneurship Camp
Top startups will be eligible to apply for the Global Innovation Catalyst 8-week Entrepreneurship Camp for 5th-12th graders.
400+
Winners worldwide
Invited for PolyUp Innovation Hub internship from previous Challenges
Submit projects to create an innovative solution to one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and build a robust portfolio for your applications to top universities.
Storytelling, Leaderboards, and SDG Projects
Each student will submit five projects during five weeks.
The final project on innovative solutions to SDGs.
Projects are ranked on leaderboards based on the voting of other students and challenge judges.
Top winners get invited to a live PolyFest session to present their machines.
Learn Computational, Systems, and Design Thinking Skills
Industry Leaders in Technology and Learning
Learn curricular Math, Computer Science, and Robotics to create innovative solutions with positive social impact, and launch into high tech entrepreneurship!
27% Increase
in math performance in the NAEP Math test items
During Fall 2020 U.S. Challenge
Understand and ace math
Visually execute any math expression and algorithm at the most basic step of thinking. PolyUp is the pioneering quantum learning playground.
Learn CS, Robotics, AI
PolyUp enables learning systems thinking with the ability to assign physical effects expressed in math through distributed and connected parts.
Earn Badges and certificate
Regular reports of your progression, measured by awarding badges and leaderboards, provide a holistic view of your learning and improvement.
World Math Challenge
has three seasons, Spring, Summer, and Fall, each lasting about four months with personalized activities in Math, Robotics, and CS that earn Polycoin and XPs. The peak of activities is in the last seven weeks of each season.
You submit one machine per week for the leaderboards. In the final week, you create a Challenge project focused on an innovative solution for one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Each season’s final leaderboard is based upon both the ranking of the XP’s earned and their final project machine.
Spring 2021
Spring Challenge Timeline
26
Apr
3
May
10
May
17
May
24
May
21
May
7
June
14
June
21
June
What you get when you upgrade
| Basic | Premium | |
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| Gameplay | ||
Play Machines
Created by the community of PolyUp |
Yes | Yes |
Create Machines
and share with your community |
12 parts per machine | Unlimited Parts |
Clone Other Machines
and create your own version of them |
Once a month | Unlimited |
Access Premium Parts
and create more unique machines |
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| Challenge Activities | ||
Math, CS, and Robotics
curated activities |
Limited | Unlimited |
Join a teacher's Class
(Optional) work with your classmates |
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Submit Projects
and complete weekly challenges |
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Participate in Leaderboards
get your rank within your community |
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Badges and Certificates
Earn Badges for different subjects, and receive a Certificate at the end of this Challenge. |
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PolyUp Portfolio
share your PolyUp inventions in a space of your own |
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| Service | ||
Student bug support line
Your voice is heard, and we are here to help |
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Student learning support line
Get priority help, including hints for solving and creating activities |
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PolyUp Innovation Hub Opportunities
Top performing students will get a chance to help make PolyUp a better place to play and learn |
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GIC Entrepreneurship Camp Scholarships
Top performing participants will receive a scholarship to learn about entrepreneurship and the fundamentals of business |
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Join with confidence
Continue your journey and login to PolyUp to participate in the upcoming challenges.
