What is Coolest Projects Malaysia?
Coolest Projects Malaysia is a competition for young people from Standard 1 to Form 5 (typically aged 7-18) to create and showcase their ideas using technology. Students across Malaysia showcase their creativity, problem-solving skills, and innovation in areas such as coding, game development, and hardware design.
Age Categories
Primary School Students
Standard 1 to Standard 6
(Typically aged 7-12)
Secondary School Students
Form 1 to Form 5
(Typically aged 13-18)
Project Categories
Visual Programming
Anything developed using a block-based language, including (but not limited to) Scratch, Kodu, or MakeCode. This includes projects that use Scratch or other visual programming languages to program hardware components or electronics.
Hardware
Robots, machines, and hardware hacks. Any project that uses hardware such as Lego Robotics, Arduino, micro:bit, or Raspberry Pi boards.
Games
Every kind of game made in any programming language using any technology (except Scratch). You might like to use a text-based programming language such as Python, or a game engine such as Unity, Godot, Unreal Engine or Blender.
Web
Web-based applications on any topic you like, from informative pages to interactive applications. Sites can be built using HTML and CSS, but might also include a web programming language such as JavaScript.
Mobile Apps
Interactive apps for phones or tablets. You can use App Inventor, a free service that lets you build mobile apps with a block-based programming language, install and use Android Studio, or use any other app development platform such as Thunkable.
Project Judging Stages
Online Submission
All submissions will be reviewed by our panel of shortlisting judges.
Showcase of Finalist Projects
The top entries in each category will be invited to showcase their projects to our panel of judges to determine the winning entries. This session will be conducted in person at Penang International Science Fair.
We welcome the public to join and vote for their favourite project in person.
Prizes
Participants
For each project category (separately for primary and secondary):
- Champion: RM700
- 1st Runner Up: RM500
- 2nd Runner Up: RM400
- Honorable Mentions: RM300
- Honorable Mentions: RM300
For each age category:
- The Coolest Project: RM500
- Best Presentation: RM300
- Project that Captured Our Hearts: RM300
- Most Popular Project: RM300
Schools
One primary school and one secondary school in Malaysia with the highest overall number of qualifying project submissions will receive a cash prize of RM1500 to invest in hardware and software for the upcoming Coolest Projects Malaysia.
Make sure your students submit their project under their school name in order to qualify!
Special Recognition by Broadcom Foundation
The Broadcom Coding with Commitment award is strictly limited to students aged 11–14. The selected project is from a participant or team that combines STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) learning with coding to solve a community problem that aligns with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
Passion for Community is defined as the desire to protect, preserve, save, improve, or promote quality of life or nature within one’s family, urban or rural, region, or the Earth, across any STEM category of the student’s choosing, and is consistent with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations.
The winner will receive public recognition at Broadcom Foundation–sponsored competitions and showcases, along with a formal award certificate from the Broadcom Foundation, a $250 USD gift card, and a Raspberry Pi Pico Kit.
Important Dates
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| 2026 | Project Submission Opens |
| 2026 | Project Submission Closes |
| 2026 | Finalist Project Announcement |
| 2026 | Finalist Showcase and Award Ceremony |
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