General Admission
$250
A seat in the room. The awards show, the tournament, the full weekend, and a few hundred people who get it.
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Nerdy Teen Awards 2026 — We see you.
The 100 most obsessed teenagers in the World, in one room, for one weekend. Come see them before the world does.
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Limited to ~230 seats. First come, first in.
[01] 100 honored[02] 30 in the room[03] 2 days[04] 1 awards show
THE THESIS
The most interesting people alive are 15.
Somewhere right now, a kid just beat a world record in a game her teachers have never heard of. Another one is shipping software that grown adults can’t. They’re world-class at something nobody at school claps for. They don’t make honor roll. They get wedgies for the exact thing that’s going to make them unstoppable.
The Nerdy Teen Awards finds 100 of them, brings 30 into one room, and does two things. We tell them we see you. And we put them face to face with the founders who were once exactly like them.
In the 11-to-19 window, that’s not a party. It’s a trajectory razor. You can bend the whole arc of a kid’s life just by handing them a room full of other weirdos operating at their level.
THE CLASS OF 2026
100 honored. 30 in the room.
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01The kid who beat the NES Tetris kill screen everyone swore was unbeatable
02Three teens who flipped sneakers into a real brick-and-mortar store
03The 16-year-old building real games inside Roblox
04A Minecraft hobby turned into a media company
05The USA Math Olympiad squad, second in the world
06The 17-year-old forging knives between volunteer firefighting shifts
07A world-level Yu-Gi-Oh competitor
08The youngest person ever to debut a New York Times crossword
09Named Young Ham of the Year, a licensed radio operator at 17
10The national spelling-bee champion, age 14
11The teen who found a 150-million-year-old dinosaur bone on day one of a dig
12A national-champion high-school rocketry team
…and 88 more, being scouted right now. Know a teen who belongs on this list?
THE WEEKEND
Two days. One room. Find your people.
Friday
AUG 14- 3:00 PMHonoree check-in
- 3:30 PMMentor floor: founders and kids, small-group rotations
- 5:30 PMParents rejoin, everyone gathers
- 6:00 PMDinner
- 6:30 PMThe Awards Show. The “we see you” moment.
- 8:00 PMGame room, late night, find-your-people
Saturday
AUG 15- 8:00 AMRolling breakfast
- 9:00 AMVideo game tournament. Real bracket, finals on the main screen.
- 12:00 PMWrap
MENTORS
Mentored by the founders who were once the weird kid.
The kind of people who built companies you’ve heard of, in a room giving these kids their time, their attention, and their flowers.
Full mentor lineup announced soon
PARTNERS
Presenting Partner
Chess.com
Venue Partner
Draper University
WHY YOU'LL BE THERE
Be the one who saw them first.
Everyone says they spot talent early. This is the room where you actually do it. One night with the most obsessed teenagers in the country, and the founders who came to meet them, before the rest of the world catches on.
“We see you” is what we tell the kids. Buy a seat, and you're part of the we. The ones who showed up first.
Built for the founders, investors, and operators who'd rather meet the next generation than read about them later.
TICKETS
Be in the room.
VIP
Front row$1,500
The access tier. Front-of-house at the awards, a seat at the founders' dinner, and time on the mentor floor where the founders and kids actually mix.
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Honorees
Free
If you’re one of the 30, you and a guardian are our guests. Travel and stay handled.
Grab Your Seat// FINAL CALL
We see you.
Be in the room when we say it. Be one of the people who saw them first.
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