The 2022 AES Student Competitions

Submission Deadline: TBA

AES Student Recording Competition

The AES Student Recording Competition is a unique opportunity for students at AES international conventions to receive feedback and recognition for their audio production work. Students can enter the competition in four different categories covering every possible genre and recording technique.

Saul Walker Student Design Competition AES Student Site

Submission Deadline: June 15, 2023

Saul Walker Student Design Competition

The AES Saul Walker Student Design Competition is an opportunity for aspiring hardware and software engineers to gain recognition for their hard work, technical creativity and ingenuity, by participating in a worldwide contest at AES Conventions.

Submission Deadline: June 15, 2023

AES MATLAB Plugin Competition

The opportunity to challenge both your signal processing skills and creativity and design a new kind of audio production VST plugin using MATLAB. Shortlisted teams will be selected to present their work for a chance to win cash and software prizes.

AES Mix Critiques

An opportunity for selected AES student member
producer and engineer to receive feedback on their
mixes from a panel of industry professionals, in a live,
non competitive setting