<p>ok i am going to be a junior next year.. for past 5 years (since we moved to america) my mom worked 12 hours a day and 7 days a week and same with my dad so i never had any rides to clubs and stuff. Now my mom has a better job where she comes back at like 4 so i was wondering i need to join some clubs and i decided to join</p>
<p>key club
national honors society
debate team</p>
<p>now i don't know much about competitions but i would like to compete in math and science and also i would like to know how to learn math and science for competitions and stuff outside of school</p>
<p>thank you</p>
<p>There are several. First, there are the Math League competitions. They aren't very hard, and they work through the school. The Mandelbrot is a harder but better competition; again, you take it at school.</p>
<p>The largest standardized one is the American Mathematics Competition. It is multiple choice, twenty-five questions. If you do well enough, you will qualify for the American Invitational Mathematics Examination. This is a hard one, that has 15 questions with integer answers between 0 and 999 (maybe like 5 kids in the country get all of them right). From there, the top 500 students in the country take the USA Mathematics Olympiad. The top 12 go to the Math Olympiad Summer Program, from which 6 will be chosen to go to the International Math Olympiad (=guaranteed admission into any college, basically). </p>
<p>There are also regional ones, check this link: State</a> and Regional Math Contests</p>
<p>The other big one is American Regional Mathematics League, in which states send teams of 15 students to compete. There are different locations depending on where you are (west is in Vegas, there's one in Pennsylvania I think, etc.). It's pretty big.</p>