# Submissions closed?

**URL:** <https://community.drivendata.org/t/submissions-closed/11434>\
**Category:** Children’s Speech Recognition Challenge\
**Created:** [April 7, 2026, 12:29am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/submissions-closed/11434 "2026-04-07T00:29:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![adengit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@adengit](https://community.drivendata.org/u/adengit)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2026, 12:29am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/submissions-closed/11434/1 "2026-04-07T00:29:50Z")

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The competition said submissions are until April 6th, 11:59PM. I didn’t know there was a time zone that was specified? I worked so hard and it’s 8:29PM and it says submissions are closed - huh?

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**Author:** ![hannahmoro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a4c791/32.png) [@hannahmoro](https://community.drivendata.org/u/hannahmoro)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2026, 9:01pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/submissions-closed/11434/2 "2026-04-08T21:01:11Z")

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Sorry to hear this! [The deadline](https://www.drivendata.org/competitions/308/childrens-word-asr/page/973/#competition-end-date) was midnight [UTC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time).