Uploaded July 23, 2021
Curiosity and creativity swept through the first virtual workshop of School Entrepreneur of the Year 2021, Australia’s inaugural nationwide business-building tournament.
In six hours (think equivalent to a single school day), our high school participants were able to grasp and deliver upon pivotal entrepreneurial concepts from problem identification all the way to pitching their solution to a panel of external judges. Out of the teams who joined, two were qualified for the second round of the Tournament where they will be taking their solutions further by delving deep into viable financial models and cost structures with teams from all across Australia. Congratulations to Brainstorm Learning (Baulkham Hills High School) and SpeakNow (Kambala High School) who were our winners and runners up respectively.
1st Place: BrainStorm Learning,
Siddharth Shasidharan, Alexander Ho, Ian Park, Gurteer Rai, Pratyush Takalikar — Baulkham Hills High School
Runner-up: SpeakNow
Vanessa Lin and Alessia Yue — Kambala High School
Aiken Goh, Daniel Liu, Nathan Chan, Nelson Luo & Rohan Wahan (North Sydney Boys High School).
We know that all young people have the potential and motivation to change the world with the right encouragement. This is why Startup 101 and the opportunities it creates are the reasons why Generation Entrepreneur and companies like Finder are determined to drive the next generation of change-makers through entrepreneurial and enterprise learning.
Keep a lookout in the coming weeks to see how you can get involved in the next virtual workshop as a teacher or a current high school student, no matter where you are in Australia.
A big thank you goes out to Finder for sponsoring the success of the first round. On behalf of the Generation Entrepreneur team and the attendees, we thank you for continually inspiring and empowering a generation of entrepreneurs.
We also want to thank our judging panel — Sunny Lin and Blake Im, for lending their expertise amidst what would have been a difficult deliberation session. You were both phenomenal!
Part of the amazing Generation Entrepreneur team
Mehak Bokhari, Lisa Cheng, Nathan Hu, Ronaldo Keng, Allen Lee, Emily Lee, So Mang Lee, Carmen Ly, Katherine Nader, Melissa Qiu, Guari Sharma, Sanjith de Silva, Sakshi Talaulikar & Esmond Ye.
Gen E Team