THE ENTREPRENEURSHIP CHALLENGE

The Entrepreneurship Competition opens with a jolt: on Day 1, students are thrown into mixed teams of 5–8, handed a live-style case, and given just 20 minutes to build a solution before a 5‑minute presentation and Q&A. In that short window, strangers must become a functional team, splitting roles, structuring thinking, and choosing what to leave out.​ On Day 2, school teams of 3–5 step up with their own ventures, pitching ideas that have to stand on both impact and numbers in front of an entrepreneur-led panel. As they refine value propositions, markets, revenue models, and financial logic, they begin to see what it looks like when a business is designed to help communities flourish in the long run, not just stay afloat in the short term.