Eureka! Junior, a Business Plan Competition for students

The Entrepreneurship Cell of IIT Bombay is organizing Eureka! Junior, a Business Plan Competition for students of classes 6th to 12th promoting entrepreneurship at a young age. It encourages students’ inquisitive minds to bring up innovative ideas and provides them with a platform to present their startup ideas.

 The students would be provided workshops and mentoring from business experts for developing their startup ideas. An Entrepreneurship Olympiad is also being held for imparting and testing the knowledge about the field of entrepreneurship. The students have to register by themselves at the official website of Eureka! Junior: https://www.ecell.in/eurekajunior

Registration Deadline: 30 September 2022 

Timeline: 18 August 2022 - 4 February 2023 

Fees: Free of cost 

Mode: Online & Offline

Students have to: 

 Register at:: https://www.ecell.in/eurekajunior for the competition and the olympiad 

 Login using the credentials received on mail after registering for the competition and fill the questionnaire describing their startup idea 

 Participate individually or in a team of 2-3 members for the competition

Incentives

• Prizes worth INR 2 lakhs.
• Mentoring from Business Experts
• Certificate from E-Cell, IIT Bombay
• Workshops

Guidelines

Eureka! Junior is divided into two tracks - Classes 6 to 8 and Classes 9 to 12

Preliminary Workshop: Free online and offline workshops covering the basics of Entrepreneurship, Idea Generation and Idea Validation

Registration: Click on the Register button and use a valid email id to signup. Only the team leader (chosen based on the team’s decision) needs to register and add other team members

Intermediate Workshop: The registered teams will be able to attend workshop on Customer Discovery and Idea Validation

Preliminary Submission: The semifinalists are required to submit a pitch deck(presentation) covering the various aspects of their startup idea before coming to the advanced workshop

Advance Workshop: The semifinalists will have the opportunity to attend the Advanced Workshops of entrepreneurship

Mentoring: The teams will be allotted mentors to help improve the students’ ideas

Finals: The Finals will be conducted at IIT Bombay where the finalists are required to pitch their startup idea in front of a panel of judges

Rules

The participants can register in a team with a maximum of 3 members.

The participants must be from Classes 6-12. There are two tracks of Classes 6-8 and 9-12.

Any team from the track of Class 6-8 must have all team members only from Classes 6-8. The same rule applies to the other track as well.

Entries submitted after the registration deadline will not be considered.

Previous winners are not allowed to participate again this year.

The Prize Money Distribution will be subject to E-Cell IIT Bombay.

Last date: 30 September 2022