Last chance to apply for be-Entrepreneurial pitch competition for high school students

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December 6, 2022

HUNTSVILLE – The deadline to apply for the fifth annual be-Entrepreneurial pitch competition for area high school teams is Wednesday.

The 2022 beE is a free Entrepreneurship and Idea Competition presented by the Invention to Innovation Center at the University of Alabama-Huntsville. Click here to apply.

The grand finale is Dec. 13.

The mission is to empower the next generation of high school entrepreneurs to ideate, collaborate, and deliver new ideas.

Teams of Alabama high school students, supported by teachers and mentors, will compete in a business idea challenge to win cash from a $3,000 prize pool.

2021 beE student recipients (Flourish contributed)

The 2022 beE is open statewide to all high school students in Alabama and will accept applications from teams consisting of students from different schools as long as all participants are high schoolers, and the team has a sponsor.

This year’s beE will be conducted online via Zoom.

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