Conrad Challenge

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Description:

The Conrad Challenge encourages students to generate unique, innovative business concepts and present them to judges for prizes.

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Competition details (3 stages):

    • Lean your Canvas as a team, meaning complete your initial ideas by answering 12 questions, each around 40 words maximum, about your innovation, business model, and market. 

    • Additionally, name your business and choose a category.

    • During this stage, each team will write their Innovation Brief, which answers 10 essential questions about their innovation, storyline, progress, and operational model.

      Then each team will film a 3-5-minute Innovation Video demonstrating their innovation through a rough draft, 3D models, storyboard, wireframes, or other visual artifacts.

      Lastly, each team is required to build a website.

    • Finalists could deliver their pitches here to the judges and audiences, alongside an opportunity to connect with speakers, experts, and students from all over the world. There would also be a grand awards ceremony.

    • Finalists would have to submit a presentation by April 2nd, which they will present on the 22-25th.

    • At Space Center Houston, Taxes, costing 499 USD (not including hotel and travel expenses).

    • Invitation only, for those who qualified as finalists.

Official website: click here

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  • Students aged 14-18 form a team of 2-Register as a team of 2-5 each aged 13-18, and the team members can be enrolled in different day schools in different regions/countries. Then, it is required to have an advisor older than 18 (contact us if you need one).

    • Activation Stage deadline: October 30, 2025

    • Financial Aid Applications: November 3 – December 4, 2025

    • Innovation Stage deadline: January 8, 2026

    • Finalist announcement: February 27, 2026

    • Innovation Summit: April 22-25, 2026

    Please note that the deadlines for 2026-2027 have not come out yet, so the 2025-2026 deadline is provided to give you a rough idea when it will be due this year.

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