Wharton High School Data Science Competition

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Registration for the 2026 Wharton High School Data Competition opens on December 3, 2025.

The Wharton High School Data Science Competition is a free, experiential sports analytics competition from the Wharton Sports Analytics and Business Initiative, supported by the Wharton Global Youth Program. It delivers valuable data, analytics and team-building experience. 

This year’s competition theme centers on the exciting sport of ice hockey. Teams of high school students will crunch the numbers to rank teams, predict tournament match-up winners, and dive deep to unpack and visualize ice hockey insights..

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About the Competition

The Wharton High School Data Science Competition is a free, two-month opportunity for students to learn team dynamics and problem-solving through sports analytics.

This global competition is school and team-based, and open to all current high school students.

The Wharton Sports Analytics and Business Initiative is developing a new challenge that will use comprehensive data from a simulated professional sports league. Using a comprehensive sports dataset, teams of high school students will analyze the data and make predictions based on their findings.

Why Should You Compete?

Participating in the Wharton High School Data Science Competition is a fantastic way to develop your data analysis and prediction skills through the lens of sports, all while having fun with your friends. You can apply the experience and problem-solving skills you develop through this competition to your everyday life outside of sports analytics. 

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Skill Development

Develop highly marketable skills through hands-on experience with the latest tools and programming languages in data analytics.

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Working with a Team

Just like on a sports team, you will work with your peers to effectively delegate tasks and optimize individual skillsets in order to achieve a common goal.

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Valuable Data Experience

The data you’ll be working with closely resembles the same data that major sports teams use across the world. Get a head start on working with advanced sports data.

For more information, complete the form below or visit the official competition website.

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