Competition have been organized each year since the Movement was founded (1993)

Nine competitions have already been held, and the number of competitors has been growing with each year.
In the most recent, 7th National Competition of Ideas, more than 1100 children aged 5 to 17, from 47 towns and 13 villages, took part with some 993 works in various forms of expression.

The topics have been conformed to the basic objectives of the Movement:

• expanding and deepening the knowledge of children and adolescents aged 5 to 18;
  
• contributing to the formation of their civic positions;
  
• affording opportunities for self-expression.
  

The choice of topics has been related to the commemoration of anniversaries of important cultural and historical events, and to topical issues of our times, including the prognostication of humanity's universal priorities.

Past National Competitions of Ideas:

• I "How to Help Zoo Animals Survive?" /A follow-up of the Children's Festival "Preserving the Lives of Our Pets"/
  
• II "What Creatures Might Survive in the 22nd century?" /A follow-up of the "Children's Festival of Fantasy"/
  
• III "The Primer of Our Times" /170 years since the first "Bulgarian School Primer" by Dr. Peter Beron, known as The Fish Primer/
  
• IV "The School - A World of Discovery" /1140 years since the creation of the Bulgarian alphabet, 160 years since the first Bulgarian school, founded in Gabrovo, 100 years since the formation of the Bulgarian Teacher's Union/
  
• V "Our Favorite Newspaper" about children and school printed issues /150 years since the first Bulgarian newspaper, Bulgarski orel, edited by Ivan Bogorov/
  
• VI "I Teach Mum and Dad" /New solutions of old problems: social knowledge and heuristic thinking of children aged 7 to 14, relevant to important civic fields of self-expression/
  
• VII "My Prognostications about the 21st Century" /Children's prognostications about the new century/.
  
• VIII "Projects for survive"
  
• IX "Bulgaria - Our Common Home"
  

Forms of presentation of competing works: drawings, caricatures, photocollages, tales, short stories, essays, interviews, scholarly papers, audio-recordings, computer games, publications and albums.

Rules for participation are announced in a special news sheet Ritsarski vesti (Knightly News) and in the media.

A special jury determines the winners and awards the prizes. Creative thinking is given priority.
Certificates and "Knight of Knowledge" badges are awarded to winners of special and first prizes.
The best ideas are stored in the "Bank of Children's Ideas".

Contacts are made with institutions able to give financial support to children's ideas.

The funds for organizing and holding national competitions of ideas are raised from: donations, financing projects, special awards given by organizations who take interest.

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Aimed at engaging children and adolescents in the ideas of knowledge, contemporary science and culture, invention and children's creativity. For many participants these festivals prove to be the first steps towards future competitions and workshops.

The festivals and the competitions they include are held for:

• Children from Sofia (headquarters of the Movement)
  
• Children from the entire country, usually as part of the concluding stage of the National Competition of Ideas.
  

The themes of the festivals are of topical interest and different each time.

The festivals are announced by bills and through the media. The site and meeting place are announced.

In spring and summer the festivals are held outdoors and are open to the general public.

• Parade of Anything that Flies
  
• Protecting the Lives of the Animals We Love /held in the Zoo/
  
• Sun, Air and Water
  Winter festivals are held in halls.
  
• Children's Festival of Knights of Knowledge
  
• Children's Fantasy Festival
  
• The Idea is Yours
  
• Water - the Source of Life
  
• Packing that Outwit Us
  
• The Knights of Knowledge Ball
  
• Spring Festival of Mind and Skill
  
• Awarding the Winners in the National Competition of Ideas
  
• Celebrating anniversaries of the Movement
  

The Scenarios of the festivals include official ceremony, thanks to donators, partners and friends, greetings by the children's dance companies, "knightly encounters" (competitions in knowledge and creativity) with awards.

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Vacation programs are a component of the more extensive projects of the Movement for Children "Knights of Knowledge" /MCKK/.

They are held during the spring, summer or winter vacations in the mountain, at the seacoast or in the city.
The programs organize creative activities in children's spare time, for children in mountain and sea camps organized by other institutions and NGOs.

Urban vacation programs are organized entirely by MCKK in the Children's Information Center /CIC/; these are half-day activities with children of approximate age.

Each vacation program has a main theme of activities. The theme is chosen according to the general orientation of the project in which it is included.

Past vacation programs

• "Eco-vacation Bezbog '94" January 1994, "Bezbog" Mountain chalet, Pirin
  
• "Ideas Vacation" April 1994, Mountain resort "Fizkulturnik", Vitosha
  
• "Vacational Eco-post" April 1995, Rest House of CM, Bansko, Pirin
  
• "Fun Vacation '95" August 1995, "Discovery Club" of MCKK, Sofia
  
• "Sea Knighthood" August 1996, Sports Campus of NSA, Nessebar
  
• "Hello 21st Century!" April 2000, CIC, Sofia
  
• "Help me!" June 2000, CIC, Sofia
  
• "School of stories" April 2001, CIC, Sofia
  
• "Intercultural dialogue" June 2002, Kubrat, Djebel and Venets /Shumen/

The duration of the vacation programs is from 7 to 14 days.
The vacation programs include three-hour continuous activities: games, mini-contests, activities for training the mind, the imagination, creativity, and civic-mindedness. The animators always comply the activities with the children's preferences.
The animators are members of MCKK, volunteers, teachers ho have proposed programs of their own in preliminary competitions for animators.

Parents take part in the vacation programs as volunteers, sponsors, or as competitors together with their children.

A daily record is kept of the credits achieved by children in grade-books made by them.

Vacation programs always end with a ball, where children demonstrate their achievements before their parents, take the Knight's Oath, every child receiving an award according to the total number of his/her credits.

Through its projects, MCKK provides materials for children's activities, covers the fees of animators and the costs of the awards.

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