The U.S. Department of Education’s annual challenge series
Preparing high school students for rewarding careers and increasing access to career and technical education.
CTE Momentum challenges
Careers In Your Community Challenge
Expected to launch August 2026
CTE students can empower their peers with career exploration solutions.
Through the Careers in Your Community Challenge, CTE students will design practical solutions that help peers better explore career pathways and postsecondary opportunities in their own communities.
Through the Careers in Your Community Challenge, CTE students will design practical solutions that help peers better explore career pathways and postsecondary opportunities in their own communities.
Your AI Horizons Challenge
August - November 2025
CTE students can reimagine traditional ways of working.
Through the Your AI Horizons Challenge, CTE students explored artificial intelligence’s impact on industries and their future careers.
Through the Your AI Horizons Challenge, CTE students explored artificial intelligence’s impact on industries and their future careers.
Power Your Future Challenge
August - November 2024
CTE students can be changemakers in their schools and in their communities.
Through the Power Your Future Challenge, CTE students can make positive contributions to advancing clean energy.
Through the Power Your Future Challenge, CTE students can make positive contributions to advancing clean energy.
Your Place in Space Challenge
March - October 2023
Any career can be a space career — and career and technical education (CTE) programs already present a natural starting point for a space career.
The Your Place in Space Challenge connected the dots between the skills students build in CTE programs and the fulfilling careers they can have in the space industry.
The Your Place in Space Challenge connected the dots between the skills students build in CTE programs and the fulfilling careers they can have in the space industry.
Look back at the first CTE Momentum Challenge and get inspired
In the Your Place in Space Challenge, CTE students from across the country designed products and services that could contribute to space missions and exploration. Watch the video to see how CTE Momentum challenges give students hands-on opportunities to apply their learnings and explore real-world career pathways.
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