Pawnee County Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge
How to Register for Pawnee Co. YEC:
To Sign-up go to YEC VentureDash and click Join the Competition. Sign-up as an Entrepreneur for the Pawnee County Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge (YEC) 2025 by clicking the Choose Role drop-down. Deadline to sign up is February 21, 2025.
Direct Sign-Up Link: https://goventuredash.com/competitions/641
Important deadlines to remember:
Deadline to Register: February 21, 2025 by 5:00 pm. To register, visit: https://goventuredash.com/competitions/641 and join the competition as an entrepreneur.
Deadline to Upload Executive Summaries & PowerPoint Presentations: March 3, 2025 by 5:00 pm. If your executive summary and/or PowerPoint Presentation has not been uploaded by March 4, 2025, you will not compete.
Pawnee County Economic Development Commission is excited to host the Pawnee County Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge! All 7th - 12th Grade students and young entrepreneurs in Pawnee County are invited and encouraged to participate! Do you know of a student with a business or product idea? We want to hear those ideas at the Pawnee County Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge held on March 6th in Larned.
At Pawnee Co. YEC, students from Pawnee County will be judged on their business idea, executive summary, and formal presentation (not exceeding 4 minutes) with slides. Our top three businesses will win cash prizes totaling $1,000!
Students can compete as individuals or as a group. Businesses can be a real dream, already existing, or completely hypothetical.
If you know of any students interested in competing, please have them contact our office at 620-285-6916 or larnedcofc@gbta.net before our sign-up deadline on February 21st, 2025.
Additional Competition Information
Competition will be located inside the Chamber Jordaan Room, 502 Broadway, Larned (based on the number of businesses).
Tradeshow will begin at 9:30am in conjunction with the Chamber Coffee Hour. Presentations will tentatively begin at 10:15 AM.
Refreshments will be available.