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The third edition of the Riipen Cross-College Entrepreneurial Challenge, sponsored by RBC Future Launch, invites Ontario college students to collaborate and tackle real-world challenges facing businesses today. Student teams from 11 Ontario colleges will compete for top honors by using their skills, creativity, ingenuity, and classroom knowledge to tackle a real-world challenge proposed by employers.
This yearβs competition will feature teams from Canadore College, Durham College, Centennial College, Algonquin College, Humber College, George Brown College, St. Lawrence College, Georgian College, Conestoga College, Loyalist College, and Cambrian College.
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Riipen Cross-College Entrepreneurial Challenge 2024
Your business may be an ideal candidate to take advantage of a small team of entrepreneurial student consultants devoted to helping you at no cost to your business. Welcome to the third edition of the Riipen Cross-College Entrepreneurial Challenge ! The CCEC brings together Mentors, Faculty and Students to help real-world businesses solve current challenges. Are you a small business looking for some innovative and creative ideas from intrapreneurial-minded students capable of solving a pressing business problem? Then this challenge is a good fit for you! Your business will be featured in our social media campaigns launching in March to May of 2024 with your logo prominently displayed. You will be responsible for creating a 5 to 10 minute video explaining your business concern, then meeting with student teams to answer their well researched questions. You will have the opportuntiy to select the best option for your problem based on the submissions from various college student teams. This year's competition launches on Friday April 19th , and will have two portions: a student team video submission and Q&A response (from student teams as well). The video submission will be a 5 minute recommendation of the challenge presented. S tudents will be responsible for submitting their video by 5:00 pm on Wednesday April 24 . You will be required to review and evaluate all the submissions on Thursday April 25th , generating some questions to which student teams will answer that day. Then, upon a professional panel review from industry experts along with you, winners will be chosen on Friday April 26th , and announced at our virtual closing ceremony. Prizes will be awarded to selected teams & individuals based on outstanding teams, creativity, top presenters and much more!
Cross-College Entrepreneurial Challenge
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Welcome to the inaugural Riipen Cross-College Entrepreneurial Challenge! The CCEC brings together Mentors, Faculty and Students to help real-world Entrepreneurs solve current challenges. This year's competition will have two portions: a video submission and Q&A. The video submission will be a 5 minute recommendation of the challenge presented, submitted by 11:59 pm on April 27. On April 28th, each team will join a live Q&A session with the company leads for final chance to give your recommendations/solutions. Prizes will be awarded to selected teams & individuals based on outstanding teams, creativity, top presenters and much more!
Cross-College Entrepreneurial Challenge 2023
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Your business may be an ideal candidate to take advantage of a small team of consultants devoted to helping you at no cost to you. Welcome to the second edition of the Riipen Cross-College Entrepreneurial Challenge! The CCEC brings together Mentors, Faculty and Students to help real-world Entrepreneurs solve current challenges. This year's competition will have two portions: a video submission and Q&A. The video submission will be a 5 minute recommendation of the challenge presented, submitted by 5:00 pm on April 27. On April 28th, the winners will be announced. Prizes will be awarded to selected teams & individuals based on outstanding teams, creativity, top presenters and much more!