The National Olympiad for Scientific Creativity (Ibdaa)

It is an annual scientific competition based on competition in one of the scientific fields, by submitting individual scientific projects according to the standards and controls specific to the project, and it is judged electronically and directly by an elite group of academics and specialists according to specific scientific standards with the aim of identifying distinguished projects to nominate them for the higher competitive stages.

Stage One: Registering Student Information

Phase 2: Training Lectures

Stage 3: Recording project information

Stage Four: Electronic Arbitration, Announcing Candidates for Central Exhibitions, Uploading Creativity Models on Mawhiba’s Website

Phase Five: Central Exhibitions and Accompanying Training Workshops, Announcement of Qualifiers for the Creativity Exhibition for Science and Engineering “Creativity”

Stage 6: Creativity Exhibition for Science and Engineering “Ebd3”, Qualifying Workshop for International Participations, Participation in the International Science and Engineering Fair “ISEF”

To know the conditions for participation in the National Olympiad for Scientific Creativity (Ibd’a) and its fields, you can visit the participation conditions page.

Yes, there are guides in the Olympiad library.

There are several ways to help the student ensure the originality of his idea through:

All students who meet the registration requirements are allowed to participate, the most important of which is that the participant must be a general education student in the middle or secondary stages

In case of withdrawal, the competition management must be notified immediately by writing an official letter explaining the reasons for taking the necessary measures and sending it to the following email: ibdaa@mawhiba.org.sa

To learn how to write a project, you can visit the Olympiad Library and view the file “Instructions for Writing a Project Summary and Plan.”

You can access the Creativity Olympiad Library and view a file titled Project Display

(Board Template Click here)

One of the conditions for participating in the Creativity Olympiad competition: the project must be individual, meaning that only one student participates in the project, and registration on the website with a group project will not be accepted.

The Scientific Committee answers inquiries regarding filling out scientific research project forms, and verifies that the project complies with the controls and ethics of scientific research. The Scientific Committee can also evaluate some projects and provide comments with the aim of improving and developing the project.

Scientific Committee Email: SRC@mawhiba.org.sa

Contact us by sending a message to the competition’s email: ibdaa@mawhiba.org.sa

Or the arbitration committee:judging@mawhiba.org.sa 

Or the Scientific Committee:src@mawhiba.org.sa

Each year appropriate international competitions are determined,

Selection mechanism: This is done by a specialized committee that selects projects that meet the competition criteria.

Yes, there are forms that must be filled out, noting that there are mandatory forms for all projects and no participation will be accepted without the forms (the forms are available in the Olympiad Library)

Yes, the scientific committee facilitates the student’s entry into the laboratory when it is available to conduct experiments after evaluating the research, with the importance of verifying that the experimental procedures are in accordance with the scientific ethics controls of the Creativity Olympiad, and also after verifying the importance of the project and the originality of the idea.

Send a message to the Scientific Committee’s email:  src@mawhiba.org.sa

The message explains the following: 

Participant’s name, city, mobile number, project name, field, mention of the request, attaching the research summary and research plan with a clear and precise explanation of the experimental procedures. 

Yes, prizes (cash or in-kind) are offered and announced at the Ebdaa Science and Engineering Fair.

Clarify during the arbitration that the project is a continuation of the participant’s previous efforts. 2- Fill out Form No. (7) available in the Olympiad Library , which is specific to completing the project and displaying it on the display board for this year’s project. 3- Do not write the procedures that were carried out in last year’s project in the research summary and the display board, and it is sufficient to display the developments that have taken place in the project this year. 4- Submit a summary of last year’s project to the arbitrator if requested.

Middle and high school students.

Conditions for participation in the Creativity Olympiad:

The participant must be a general education student in middle or high school.

The participant must fully adhere to all the following controls and conditions:

1. The student has the right to participate in only one project, provided that the project is individual, meaning that only one student participates in the project, and registration on the website for a group project will not be accepted.

2. It is prohibited for more than one student to participate in the same project. If this happens, the participation of both students will be cancelled.

3. Completing the registration stages, which consist of registering personal information, then project information and forms in the second stage, then bank data, then printing the “Ibdaa” card to attend the central exhibitions and the Ibdaa Science and Engineering Exhibition when the project qualifies.

4. When filling in the project information, the participant must write a comprehensive project summary that includes all elements of the summary, as electronic arbitration depends on the summary and plan of the project registered on the Mawhiba website.

5. Projects that have not fully registered project information on time will be excluded.

6. The Executive Committee has the right to exclude projects in which the project title does not match the project summary.

7. The Executive Committee has the right to exclude projects that do not provide basic scientific information in the project summary.

8. The Executive Committee has the right to exclude a participant who has other participations concurrent with any stage of “Ibd’a”, and which have an impact on his participation in accordance with the controls, regulations and obligations contained in the framework.

9. Participation must be within the “Creativity” field, where the project will be judged according to the participant’s choice of field, and the participant is not allowed to change the field after the project has been judged.

10. The participation must be an original and unprecedented work, and it is permitted if it is a development of a previous work, and a personal effort of the participant, knowing that any participation will be excluded in the electronic arbitration stage or any stage of “Creativity” if it is discovered that the work is copied or incomplete.

11. It is not possible to change the project supervisor after registering his name on the “Mawhiba” website. Any supervisor who meets the criteria has the right to supervise more than two projects at most. (Link to the controls for selecting the supervisor) .

12. Commitment to scientific ethics controls in conducting experiments and implementing the project, and adherence to security and safety controls and instructions for presenting the project. (Scientific ethics link) .

 13. Fill out the required forms for the project according to the project field, noting that there are mandatory forms for all projects and no participation will be accepted without filling out the forms (the forms are available on the “Mawhiba” website).

14. In the event of an engineering model, the specified measurements must not be exceeded: (length 50 cm, width 40 cm, height 20 cm). A display larger than these measurements will not be permitted. A video clip and photographs of the engineering product may be used. 15. Prepare the project display board as shown on the “Mawhiba” website, as well as prepare the project blog when starting the project and write a plan and summary of the project as shown on the “Mawhiba” website.

16. If the project is a continuation of last year, the following must be adhered to:

- Explain to the judge at the Central Exhibitions and the Creativity Exhibition for Science and Engineering during the arbitration interview that the project is a continuation of last year.

- Fill out Form No. (7) available on the “Mawhiba” website, which is specific to completing the project and displaying it on the display board for this year’s project. (Link to Form No. 7) .

- Write only the developed (new) part of the project in the display board and the project summary without writing the procedures in the previous year.

The student may participate in only one project, and the student is not allowed to participate in more than one project.

The project supervisor does not have to be a specialist in the project field unless the project is in the field of medicine or experiments are conducted in a scientific laboratory. Otherwise, the supervisor can be a person who holds a bachelor’s degree in one of the specializations, and it is preferable that his specialization be the same field as the student’s project. The supervisor may be a teacher, a parent, or a relative who has knowledge and awareness of the Creativity Olympiad competition, and is familiar with the conditions for participation in the Creativity Olympiad and the controls of scientific ethics and the controls for presenting projects. He has the desire and readiness to support and assist the participant in the project from the beginning of planning the work until it comes out in its final form for display in any of the Creativity Olympiad exhibitions or any international participation.

Print a creativity card to confirm completion of registration procedures, as well as bring the project summary, project blog, and project display board.

Projects are judged electronically and directly by a group of academics and specialists according to specific scientific criteria with the aim of identifying distinguished projects to nominate them for the higher competitive stages. 

The Olympiad Library has a special file on scientific ethics regulations that you can view.

No participation will be excluded unless it is not original. All innovations have some kind of modernity and complexity, but what we mean is simplicity of explanation, simplicity of presentation of the idea, and clarity of explanation of your innovation, as we seek a simplified formulation of the innovation only.

If the project includes an engineering design, a miniature model must be provided to illustrate how it works. 

Sometimes a sample is not required if the engineering design is a computer program or a mathematical proof. 

If the innovation can be applied and displayed, it must be available at the Creativity Exhibition for Science and Engineering “Creativity” stage.

All participants in the final stage, which is the Science and Engineering Creativity Exhibition, will receive a certificate of participation.

Yes, and a time will be set to open the exhibition for everyone to visit.

The student wishing to participate in the Olympiad registers his information on the website. 

The student can recover the account and send the activation code via the mobile number or email registered in the student account (or modify the mobile and email data and recover the password and activate the account) via the ID number via the option “I cannot access my account/I forgot the password”