Join us for BUILD’s 2nd Annual
Youth Business Plan Competition

Saturday, June 1, 2013
At Northeastern University
9 am – 4 pm

The highlight of each year’s BUILD program is the Annual Youth Business Plan Competition, or “BPC” which represents the culmination of a year of hard work by our 9th-graders and their mentors. Teams present their innovative business ideas and prototypes during two rounds of competition. Winners receive start-up funds to launch their business. The BPC celebrates our students’ creativity and energy, on a day of competition where one team will emerge victorious, and everybody wins.

First Round Competition

9:00 am – 11:30 am
Shillman Hall
115 Forsyth St.

VIP Luncheon with Student Busines Expo

11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Curry Student Center

Final Round

1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Blackman Auditorium in Ell Hall
342 Huntington Avenue

Final Round Judges:

Chris McIntosh, Publisher of the Boston Business Journal
Michael Bronner, Founder of Digitas, Upromise and Co-founder of UNREAL® Candy
Jeremy Sclar, Real Estate Developer for Legacy Place Dedham (tentative)
Amy Villeneuve, President and COO, Kiva Systems
Melissa Steffy, General Manager, Herb Chambers BMW

Event Sponsors

Corporate Partners and Supporters

Our Mission

BUILD’s mission is to use entrepreneurship to excite and propel disengaged, low-income students through high school to college success.

OUR PROGRAM

Building a Path Toward Success

How do you provide underserved young people with the resources they need to succeed? At BUILD, we do it by helping our students to start their own small businesses. As they reap the rewards – from keeping the profits to gaining self-confidence – they know there is a connection between hard work and creating a stronger community. They are excited to go to college.

The BUILD Program is not vocational education. Rather, it’s an in-school elective in 9th through 12th grade, taught by BUILD mentors and on-site teachers at partner public high schools. The program works like this:

• Students learn the basics of entrepreneurship while improving academic skills
• Students develop a business plan
• Students secure seed capital through a pitch to a Venture Capitalist
• Students run their own businesses
• Students concentrate on going to college

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