GET READY TO APPLY: ARC Prize 2026
ARC Prize Foundation
Apply on their own site: https://arcprize.org/competitions/2026
This checklist: https://qualifyafrica.com/o/arc-prize-2026
Built only from what the listing states. Lines marked (our advice) are ours.
A long application, by our reading.

1. CHECK YOURSELF AGAINST WHAT THEY ASK
[ ] strong machine-learning and programming skill
[ ] must open-source your solution under a permissive licence; no internet access during Kaggle evaluation

2. WHAT TO GET READY
It asks for something outside the usual documents; read it below.
In their words: "Code and methods open-sourced under a permissive licence (e.g. CC0 or MIT-0); submissions before official private scoring"

3. DATES
- Closes 2 November 2026, in 11 days.
- On the date, the listing says: Submissions due 2 November 2026; papers due 8 November 2026
- Aim to send it by 30 October 2026. Websites slow down near a deadline, and data runs out. (our advice)

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