The School Enterprise Challenge 2021

The School Enterprise Challenge is a free educational programme that teaches business and life skills. 

It supports teachers and students to plan and set up real businesses at their school. 

In the School Enterprise Challenge it is the students that take the lead, with teachers playing a supporting role, to complete 3 steps: 

Young participants from India are sat around a table whilst they are introduced to the School Enterprise Challenge by their teacher

Step 1:

Come up with your own

BUSINESS IDEA

A participant holds a clipboard as he carries out market research with one of his younger peers

Step 2:

Create your  sustainable

BUSINESS PLAN

A School Enterprise Challenge participant is selling ice cream to her peers in the school yard

Step 3:

LAUNCH and RUN

your school-based business

Benefits

There are so many reasons to take part in the School Enterprise Challenge!

It is a practical programme which enables young people to develop skills which are not covered in the classroom (experiential learning).

It also provides teachers with real-life examples to bring their teaching to life and allows them to develop new teaching practices (experiential teaching).

All participants in the programme are part of a global community of enterprising schools which provides lots of inspiration and is a place for collaboration and sharing of best practices.

Submission dates

Participants can submit any completed template (Business Idea, Business Plan or Annual Report) at any of the following submission dates:

Wednesday 21st July 2021

Saturday 21st August 2021

Sunday 21st November 2021

All submissions received by Sunday 21st November 2021 will be reviewed in early 2022 to determine eligibility for Award Level Certificates and prizes.

Prizes

There is more than USD $28,000 worth of prizes available for the best entries in the School Enterprise Challenge 2021!

The Award Levels

The School Enterprise Challenge is made up of 3 Award Levels:

Bronze - Silver - Gold

All new business teams start on the Bronze Level.

Once they have achieved that they can progress to the Silver Level and then once they have achieved that onto the Gold Level. 

It usually takes one academic (school) year to achieve each Award Level. All teams that meet the Achievement Criteria for their level will receive official Certificates of Achievement (for the school as well as for the students and teachers involved).