Diamond Challenge

Group of young students and teens at an award ceremony holding large checks, smiling on stage with a blue "Diamond Challenge" backdrop.

Description:

Since 2012, the Diamond Challenge provides a unique opportunity for 10,000+ teams to learn entrepreneurship skills and put them into action in real life.

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  • 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).

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Four individuals on stage in front of a large screen showing team members with their names and titles during a presentation at Dilijan Community Center, with standing banners promoting the Diamond Challenge youth entrepreneurship competition.
Group of six people standing in front of a screen that reads 'Welcome to Diamond Challenge, touching round in Goth... 2025'; they are smiling and posing for the photo.
Four high school students, two young men and two young women, smiling and holding a large check for $11,000 awarded from the Diamond Challenge for High School Entrepreneurs on April 7, 2017, inside a room with beige curtains.
Two young men presenting in a conference room with an audience. The presentation screen displays a slide. There is a blue banner to the right that reads 'Diamond Challenge' and 'Global'.
Blue glowing crystal diamond with the text 'Diamond Challenge' written on it.