School coordinators/teachers may create a school account at any time.

How does the NBC work?

  1. School teacher acting as competition coordinator creates NBC school account. This is to be done only once for each school.
  2. Competition coordinator registers (and pays for) selected number of student seats.
  3. Once a school has registered a number of students, they will provide students with a “student key” so that they may individually register.
  4. A week before the contest, teachers will be provided with the information about how students can log into the competition website.
  5. On the day of the contest, students will write the contest on their laptop/school computer under the supervision of teacher(s) or staff member(s).
  6. Results and certificates will be released to student and school coordinator accounts within two months of the competition date.
  7. Awards will be sent to top-performing students and schools. For more details, check the following link https://biocomp.utoronto.ca/awards/

Next Steps

(Please note that the demo videos for instructions might state “2024” or “2025”, but all instructions have been updated and apply to the current NBC 2026 competition)