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Abstract: The article describes the concept of the academic competition in technologies worked out by the teaching staff of the Ural State Pedagogical University. It analyzes the global trends in technological education for young people. Academic competition is viewed as a means of the global trends implementation. A brief description of the most popular academic competitions in technology in Russia and abroad is provided. The concept of an academic competition in technology is presented, it describes: the mani goals and tasks, the content, forms and tasks. The main goals of the competition include development of creativity of students and their interest to scientific research work, support of talented youth, promotion of scientific knowledge in the field of new technologies amoung young people. It is proposed to make the competition similar the the Unified State Exam and World Skills format, which will help to develop competences in the following academic subjects: Technology, Information and Communication Technologies, Math, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Economics. The academic competition may be held within the project “Urals Engineering School”. The concept determines the areas and directions of modernization of the content and methods of teaching students technologies in extracurricular work, including academic competitions based on the international experience. The examples of tasks included in the competition is a unity of academic units of training in technology, which help to achieve personal, meta-subject and subject results of education based on the extra-curricular activity of students.