Teen Entrepreneurship Challenge
Virtual Teen Entrepreneurship Challenge
A six-week program designed to teach teenagers the skills and mindset needed to transform ideas into action. Participants will explore their passions and identify problems in the community, discover personal strengths and limitations, develop business ideas, and learn how to articulate and act on them. The challenge concludes with a pitch competition, where students present their ideas to a panel of judges for a chance at $1,500 in prizes.
- Program begins: TBD
- Program ends: TBD
- Pitch competition: TBD
- Tuesdays (Class time TBD)
- 1st place student or team will receive $1,000
- 2nd place student or team will receive $500
- Held in person
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news & events
September 13, 2022
HAZLETON, Pa. — An idea for a product that aims to improve the lives of children battling a rare degenerative disease earned a local high school student first prize in the Teen Entrepreneurship Challenge Pitch Competition hosted by the Hazleton...
May 18, 2021
HAZLETON, Pa. — In an annual Teen Entrepreneurship Challenge pitch competition marked by bright ideas, Kaitlyn Marley’s really shined. Marley’s concept of a dance shoe fitted with LED lights earned the Hazleton Area Academy of Sciences student the $1,000 first...
September 24, 2020
HAZLETON, Pa. — Anchoring the first floor of the recently renovated bingo hall on West Broad Street in downtown Hazleton, the new Hazleton LaunchBox supported by Pasco L. Schiavo Esq. demonstrates how collaborative economic development and public-private partnerships can revive Pennsylvania communities. Opened in September 2019, the 4,000-square-foot Hazleton...