Social Enterprise

"Communication with your teammates is perhaps most crucial well when deciding the basic ideas of your social enterprise. At that point, everyone needs to understand the intention." - 81B, 2023

Make sure you have a realistic target audience that wants to buy or use your product or service. - 83F, 2024

"Choose a project that connects with our 'closer community' to create better work." - 81C, 2023

"Work hard in the beginning so that you have a good foundation for the rest of the project and know what your target is." - 81E, 2023

"Your product should be easy to prototype." - 82A, 2023

"Focus on a unique selling proposition. Remove unnecessary ideas/areas of your enterprise that can make things complicated." - 82D

"Create a project that encourages 'good behaviour' to our community." - 83A, 2023

"Have clear ideas on how you want to spend the $2,000 prize money exactly." - 83B, 2023

"For your product to be appealing, you have to explain how your product specifically applies to your target market. For this you need to do research." - 83C, 2023

"The social enterprise must have room to expand its business. Have stretch goals." - 84E, 2023

"Find adults that can help and support you in the project. They will be the best sources of inspiration and information." - 85C, 2023

"Think of a social enterprise that doesn’t focus on the profit, but focus on how this will positively impact the community" - 81C, 2025

"Have a product that creates a direct positive impact on the issue you focus on" - 81B, 2025

Pitch

Make sure the basic idea of your business is crystal clear to the judges: What do you sell? When? how? To whom exactly? and finally why (who/what benefits)? - 85B, 2024

Keep it simple. If you talk about details ... you will get difficult questions about details. 85A, 2024

"Be sure to include statistics to support your motive for your social enterprise." - 81B, 2023

"Practice your script together as a group so you have the right timing and chemistry." - 81E, 2023

"Don’t stress too much when giving the presentation. Everybody in the audience understands that it is hard to do a presentation in "front of lots of people and it’s already amazing you are on the stage, so they won’t care if you make a mistake" - 82C, 2023

"Have detailed research, completely understand your project so you are able to answer the judging questions" - 84A, 2023

"Present information from reliable sources to strengthen your pitch." - 84B, 2023

"Don't leave any gaps in your reasoning because the judges will pick up on them" - 84D, 2023

"Memorize the script so instead of just reading off the note cards you can engage with the judges." - 85D, 2023

"Make sure all team members understand all aspects of the enterprise." - 85E, 2023

"Belief in your project. If you do not have belief in what you are doing, then it will be harder for your team to do well" -  84E, 2025

Teamwork

"You’d be surprised by the good ideas that people can come up with if you really are patient and listen, and always try to get to know your teammates better" - 82A, 2025

"When you are brainstorming ideas, make sure to acknowledge every idea you come up with, as it could be the new big business idea" - 83A, 2025

"make sure that everyone is engaged, and has opportunities to express their opinions." - 81B, 2023

"Assign each other work at the end of each class so that there is a balanced amount of work for everyone." - 82A, 2023

"Help each other when they don’t understand a task." - 83D, 2023

"Having someone be a sort of team leader is ok. It helps organize the team to make sure everyone is on track and everything is getting done." - 84A, 2023

"Do not be afraid to speak up in your group and do not be too sensitive to feedback or advice. Feedback is not a threat." - 84E, 2023

"Distribute the work equally between team members, adapting the tasks to better suit the skills and strengths of each team member." - 85A, 2023

"A good way to keep in contact with your team is to create a group chat or somewhere where your team can easily connect with each other." - 85C, 2023