Make Your Mark Challenge

The Make Your Mark Challenge is UK’s largest, one-day enterprise competition for 14-19 year olds. It kick-starts Global Entrepreneurship Week and engages students from secondary schools and further education colleges across the UK. On Monday 16 November students from over 1,000 schools and colleges will work in small teams to generate new and innovative entrepreneurial ideas in response to a brief that is kept secret until Challenge Day.

The Make Your Mark Challenge has run annually since 2005 and as a result of this has become an established part of school and college calendars. In 2008 the competition was a huge success where over 56,000 students from over 1,000 schools and colleges nationwide took part.

This year’s competition has a global theme, in keeping with its role as the curtain raiser for GEW in the UK, and will encourage students to think about the environmental impact of their idea. Don’t be a carbon copy – go low carbon!

The competition identifies the best of the UK’s young entrepreneurial talent through a series of 12 regional finals and culminates in a prestigious final in London in December where the winning teams are selected by a high profile panel of judges.

• The winners of the 14-16 category will visit a school in France or Belgium (by Eurostar) to share and develop their enterprise ideas.  This will be an opportunity to either enrich an existing school partnership or develop a new one
• The winners of the 16-19 category will travel to Serbia to participate in the Skills@Work Challenge final, a joint-project between the British Council and Junior Achievement-Young Enterprise (JA-YE) Europe, and supported by Microsoft CEE. The team will also participate in a virtual final with counterparts from countries such as Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan.

Register now at www.makeyourmarkchallenge.org.uk/ or phone 08450 940 226

All you need to plan and run international links in your school!