High School Entrepreneurship Challenge
The Entrepreneurship High School Challenge is a competition designed to excite and encourage the entrepreneurial spirit among high school students. This exciting competition brings high school students together for a day to network with other entrepreneurially inclined students, showcase their new ventures and innovative ideas, network with college students and professors, while allowing the high school students to apply their creativity and imagination to develop a business idea and present it to a team of judges. For more information, please contact Sally Allen at 859.572.5931 or you may email her at allens@nku.edu. The next High School Entrepreneurship Challenge will occur in Spring 2010.
See the results from 2009 High School Entrepreneurship Challenge! Congratulations to our 2009 High School Entrepreneurship Challenge Winners:
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First Place: Tiffany's Diner, William Coughlin
Tiffany’s Diner is a new, state of the art diner that will open in Union, Kentucky on May 22, 2012. Although we are famous for our breakfasts, especially our pancakes, we also serve lunch, dinner, and a variety of desserts. Although we will begin operation with the hours of 5:00 A.M.-11:00 P.M., we hope to eventually operate 24 hours a day as the success of our diner increases. We will build loyalty to our diner through excellent customer service, first-class food and an outstanding atmosphere. We will be loyal and understanding towards our employees and customers while also balancing the needs of our business financially and lawfully. By operating under these morals, we will achieve success in the restaurant business.
Second Place: Top Notch Tutoring, Hannah Bierwirth
Top Notch Tutoring is an academic tutoring company. This business gears towards improving the grades of middle and high school age students. The overall goal of Top Notch Tutoring is to promote education through the enhancement of academics.
Third Place: Project Legacy, Dakoda Trenary
Project Legacy enters nursing homes and interviews the patients there. They then take the typed version of the interview, formats it into a binder, and presents it to the family and friends of the person that they interviewed. The goals of Project Legacy are to preserve the past and to give a priceless keepsake of a loved one for their family and friends to always remember them.
Student Choice: ROD Carpet Cleaning, Desmond Smith, Repu Richardson, Oluseyi Oloare
ROD Carpet Cleaning is a service, retail, and manufacturing business that cleans carpets, leather, vinyl, etc. for homeowners with medium to high income levels. ROD has an on the spot service for emergency cleanings and also offers regularly schedule appointments. ROD's main goal is to make their customers happy, provide better service, perform as a greater company, and to be the top business for employees to work.
Past winners include:
2008 Entrepreneurship Challenge article
2007 Winners
2006 Winners
2005 Winners