Diamond Challenge

Each team needs to choose to enter the competition in 1 of 2 tracks: business innovation or social innovation, as well as 1 of 2 pitch round formats: live pitch event or virtual/pre-recorded (both 5-minute presentations, 15 slides maximum, with live pitch events 3 more minutes of Q&A). A team should choose a business innovation track if their idea is focused on solving customers’ problems, and choose social innovation if their idea is focused on solving a societal or environmental problem.

Students aged 14-18 form a team of 2-4 people enrolled in official secondary education institutions. Students can team up with students in other schools, and it is required to have an advisor more than 21 years old (contact us if you need one). Businesses must not have generated more than 100,000$ of revenue. Concepts that have advanced to the final round (Summit) in prior years cannot be resubmitted.

• September 16 - Submission Window Opens

• January 14 - Submission Deadline (5PM EST)

• In between: PITCHING ROUND

• February 10 - Advancing Teams Notified (11:59pm EST)

• March 9 - Finalists Announced

• April 29-30 - Limitless World Summit

Feasibility (to what extent this concept can actually work and the ability to execute and establish a defensible position of the concept in the market), growth potential (how hard it is to grow and the possible final scale it can reach), highlights (creativity, passion, persistence, storyline, and/or other factors that could impact the operations).