Dare to Dream
Entrepreneurship Ecosystem
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2021-2022
VYEF Programs
Dare to Dream leverages entrepreneurship to instill confidence, empower vulnerability, and enable young women to take steps toward their dreams. This year’s event will feature on campus interactive programs and expand to two modules focused on specific areas of interest. These modules include Dare to Dream and Dare to Start.
November 8 & 9, 2021
This high energy event is designed to simulate the excitement of a real-life trading floor. Teams of 4 to 5 students learn to work together, leverage each other’s strengths, and use critical thinking skills while analyzing news articles and data during a fierce high-stake competition.
December 9, 2021
Upcycle: Enterprise allows students to explore social entrepreneurship through creative lessons, hands-on prototyping and an opportunity to pitch ideas. Staff from Upcycle Parts Shop work in a variety of formats that meet the needs of educators to allow students to use upcycled materials for innovation, creativity, and prototyping.
Year Round
An online business plan competition open to all high school students in Northeast Ohio, offering $8,000 in prizes. Semifinalists are invited to attend an Executive Coaching Day and receive guidance from entrepreneurial professionals in the Cleveland business community. The Final 4 teams will compete live at the thinkBIG! Summit 2022 in March.
DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES
December 29, 2021 Online
Have you ever wanted to be a part of the solution for issues in your community? Have you ever had an idea to solve those issues? Attend our Design Challenge Hackathon to partner up with like-minded students and find the resources to turn ideas into reality.
February 11 & 12, 2022
The thinkBIG! Summit provides a climactic close to the annual thinkBIG! Challenge by providing a platform for the Final Four Challenge teams to pitch their ideas. The finalists present to a panel of volunteer judges as part of the full-day conference on the campus of Case Western Reserve University with approximately 400 guests in attendance.
March 1, 2022
