Deadline: April 12, 2024
Applications are open for the Allan Gray Makers InterCollege Entrepreneurship Competition 2024.
The aim of the Inter-College competition is to foster a culture of entrepreneurship in TVET students. Registration is open to students who are enrolled at one of the 50 Public TVET Colleges in South Africa, for the 2024 academic year.
The categories for the competition include:
- Business Idea: You must have a profitable business concept that can exchange goods or services for payment.
- Tech Business: You must have a profitable business concept that can exchange goods or services for payment.
- Artisan Business: You must have an existing business with paying customers in the technology industry
- General Business: You must have an existing business with paying customers that doesn’t fall under the other categories.
Benefits
- Not only do students have the opportunity of getting their share of R120,000 in prizes, but students also get mentorship and business support for a year. Most importantly, the winners get to put their colleges on the map and enjoy the bragging rights of being an Inter-College category winner.
- Students also get to interact and network with other like-minded students in the technical space and hopefully collaborate to build high impact businesses.
Eligibility
- Open to students currently registered at one of the 50 public TVET colleges in South Africa.
- Entrants must own at least 50% of the business they are submitting for the competition.
- Only one member of the business can be the representative throughout the competition. Failure to comply may result in disqualification.
Application
To qualify to participate, students need to be:
- Register an account using your name and email address.
- You will receive a confirmation email with the details you need to log in to your account.
- Complete the entry form. You can return to the form at a later stage if you need extra time to process.
- Once you have completed the form and are happy with your answers, click SUBMIT!
- You will receive a confirmation email, of your submission.
For more information, visit InterCollege Entrepreneurship Competition.
