The Young Entrepreneurs, Make Your Pitch competition is a high school entrepreneurship competition run by Ontario Centres of Excellence on behalf of the Government of Ontario. Now in its second year, the competition invited Ontario high school students to pitch a new business idea in a two-minute video.
Nineteen finalists, selected through a combination of online voting and expert judges, were brought to Toronto to learn proper pitching techniques and present their business at this year's Discovery conference and trade show.
Six winners were then chosen by an expert panel based on the viability, creativity and persuasiveness of their pitch, and marketing of their idea. See the full competition here: [ Ссылка ]
The winners of the 2014 Young Entrepreneurs, Make Your Pitch competition were:
1. Rabiya Siddiqui, Doodle School, Sir Frederick Banting Secondary School
2. Andrew Williams, Poseidon Pool Care, Sandwich Secondary School
3.Brendan Marentette, Auricle Project, A.Y. Jackson Secondary School
4.Nathan Peregrine, The Food Plan, LaSalle Secondary School
5.Kaleb Sauve, Vision3D, LaSalle Secondary School
6.Joshua Karbi , NotesShare, Forest Hill Collegiate Institute
Moderator -- Rachel Simeon, Director, Entrepreneurship Branch, Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Employment (MEDTE)
Judging Panel:
Abraham Heifets, CEO, Chematria
Katherine Hague, Co-Founder, ShopLocket
Ella Mar, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Invest Ottawa
Bilal Khan, Managing Director, oneeleven
Donovan Dill, Manager, YES Entrepreneurial Programs
For more information about Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE), visit www.oce-ontario.org. To learn about OCE's Discovery conference, held annually in Toronto, Canada, visit www.ocediscovery.com.
