Visualization Contest for Children
Data Kids
3 age groups (6-11)
3 categories (Crafts, Drawing, Digital)
Chance to win prizes: iPads, gift cards and more!
Want to spark your child’s curiosity for STEM, creativity, and data?
Looking for fun ways to learn and grow together?
Wish your kids could practice real-world problem-solving in a fun way?
You work in tech but aren’t sure how to get your child excited about it?
The first family-friendly data visualization award for kids
Have fun at our workshops together
Help your child build valuable future skills
Win exciting prizes
Bond with your child
Categories
Timeline
Age Groups
Hand-drawn on paper
or another surface
Drawing
Paper, clay, candy, or any other material
Craft
Data-based, created in any application
Digital
exploring numbers and shapes through play
6–7 years
combining creativity with logical thinking
8–9 years
more advanced and independent projects
10–11 years
until X
Registration
Jury evaluation
X
Award ceremony
X
X
Submission deadline
To keep things fair, participants are divided into age groups:
Top three winners in each category receive:
1st place — Certificate, Special prize
2nd place — Certificate, Prize
3rd place — Certificate, Small Prize
Every Participant receives:
Certificate of participation
Awards
and Recognition
Contest Jury
Our jury includes leading experts in data visualization, analytics, and design:
Sophie
Sparkes
Sophie Sparkes is an Information Designer and Data Sketch Artist. For over 12 years she's been using data to tell visual stories that get people talking. Sophie loves taking data off the spreadsheet and making it more human and relatable, creating data-informed experiences with an illustrative and hand-made touch.
Gulrez
Khan
Gulrez is a Father of three beautiful kids and works as a Data Science Leader in his day job. He has almost two decades of experience under his belt and has a knack for turning boring numbers into captivating stories. When he's not busy working, you can find him passing on his skills to the next generation in the hopes of creating a world of data literate children. This is evident by his award-winning book - Drawing Data with Kids.
A strong believer in the power of data literacy, Gulrez is on a mission to improve the way people make sense of data. He's known for delivering corporate workshops that are equal parts informative and entertaining.
Silvia
Romanelli
Silvia Romanelli is a freelance data visualization designer based in France, with more than 6 years’ experience in the field. She works on creative data visualization and information design projects of all sorts, she gives trainings, and specialized in UX/UI design applied to data visualization.
With a background in journalism and in digital communication in NGOs, Silvia loves working in particular on environmental, cultural and social topics
Prasann
Prem
Business Intelligence (BI) leader and Tableau expert with a strong focus on data visualization, dashboard design, and BI enablement. Currently working as a Senior BI Engineer at Emirates NBD, I help organizations transform raw data into impactful visual insights that drive business decisions and empower users at every level.
Nikita
Rokotyan
Data-viz developer and designer.
Winner of the World Data Visualization Prize, Information is Beautiful Awards, and W3 Awards; Webby nominee.
Founder of Interacta Studio, author of the open-source library Unovis, and one of the creators of Cosmograph — the fastest web-based tool for graph visualization.
Data Visualization Specialist; Author of Chart Spark; Host of Data Viz Today Podcast; Awarded the Impactful Community Leader award from the Data Visualization Society.
Anastasia Kuznetsova
BI and data-visualization expert.
Author of the BI Bites newsletter, where she writes about how to make charts and dashboards clear and user-friendly — and shares inspiring ideas from the world of data and beyond.
Nadezhda Andrianova
Designer and data artist.
Winner and finalist of multiple international data-visualization and data-art competitions. She teaches data visualization and mentors emerging creators in the field.
Annabelle Rincon
After successfully leading teams of data experts across various sizes and locations over the past fifteen years, Annabelle is now dedicated to driving data-driven insights and fostering innovation. She is passionate about community engagement, co-leading the Tableau Analytics User Group, which has over 6,000 members worldwide and Data+Women Zurich. As a recognized Tableau Visionary and Social Media Ambassador, her expertise spans Visual Analytics and mastery of Tableau.
Vani
Agarwal
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Is participation paid?
The contest is completely free. We want as many children as possible to have the opportunity to learn about their parents’ profession.

Do children need to know how to use a computer?
Computer skills are not required. Projects can be created on paper, using toys, or with other available materials.
Will there be examples of projects?
In Х and Х, we will host livestreams for children and parents where we will share ideas.
What does “data” mean for children?
It’s information that can be represented as a chart or graph: the height and age of family members, the number of toys, how many books were read in a month, or an analysis of cartoons and computer games.
Does the child have to come up with and do everything alone?
The child should remain the main author of the work, and the jury will pay attention to this. But parents can help by suggesting ideas, collecting data, taking photos, or explaining new words.
How do I submit the project?
After registration, you will receive a form to upload files. You can attach a photo of a drawing, a craft, or a file with a chart.
What awards await participants?
In addition to new experiences, shared family creativity, and learning about IT professions, every child will receive a commemorative certificate of participation.
What are the judging criteria?
Every project tells a story.
We value works that reflect a child’s world — their passions, favorite things, or family moments. Personality makes every idea shine brighter.

Effort matters.
We celebrate the dedication and focus it takes to complete a project that matches a child’s age and abilities.

Creativity stands out.
Unique ideas, bold colors, and unexpected materials make a project truly memorable.

Clarity counts.
A great project is easy to understand and beautifully presented. It helps others see the idea just as clearly as the creator does.

Accuracy brings it all together.
We appreciate when creativity goes hand in hand with correctness. And when data, details, and imagination work in perfect balance.
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