School students entrepreneurship competition

Chain of Free-Online-Workshops in schools across the country. These workshops are to provide students with basic knowledge of entrepreneurship, idea generation, and idea validation.

In the Entrepreneurship Olympiad, there will be an exam where there will be two sets of question papers for each category (6-9 classes and 10-12 classes). The maximum total mark will be 50. The question paper will be in the form of MCQs which will consist of 45 questions and the duration of the Olympiad will be 1 hour. It will be held on 31st October 2021.

The details and sample question paper can be accessed by students from the website. The top 10 performers from each category will be able to enter the semi-final of Eureka! Junior 2020. The top 100 students from each category will be awarded a Certificate of Excellence, and the top 3 from each will also be eligible for cash prizes.

You can register online through the website. The last date to register is 25th October 2021. Students can enter individually or in a team consisting of no more than 3 members. In a team, all the team members should fall into the same category of classes. Each team member must have a team leader. The registration will also include filling a questionnaire that will include the basic idea of their business plan. You need to answer all questions and these answers can be changed anytime till the deadline of the registration. The answers that you will submit will be the basis on which the semi-finalists will be selected and contacted via email.

The semifinalists will get advanced workshops. These workshops will revolve around a deeper understanding of the Business Model and Pitching. The attendees will be awarded a ‘Certificate of Participation in Eureka! Junior 2021’. With the knowledge gained in these Advanced Workshops, the semi-finalists will be allowed to submit a final edited version of their Preliminary Submissions. These workshops will be held on 4-5th December 2021.

Each team participating in this competition will be given a mentor. Your mentor will guide you all the way to the end. Mentors will help teams at every stem. Mentoring will start from 6th December to 26th December.

The finalists will be invited to the E-Summit, a flagship event of the Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Bombay. The finalists will have to pitch their idea in front of a panel of judges.