Texas High School Ideas Challenge 2025
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The Texas High School Ideas Challenge motivates high school students — like YOU — to explore entrepreneurship and discover the benefit of an entrepreneurial mindset.  To compete, you only need an idea! No business plan or product development is required for the Texas High School Ideas Challenge. You should prepare and submit a compelling application that illustrates the creative, careful and methodical planning that has gone into your idea.

All Texas high school students may participate, and you may submit ideas individually or as a team. After the application deadline, all entries will be reviewed in a Pre-Screen Round and scored by a hand-selected group of judges. Finalists (hopefully that will include you!) will be selected from this Round and invited to pitch their ideas on Competition Day. Winners (again, maybe you!) will be announced and awarded prizes during an Awards Reception & Showcase that same evening.

IMPORTANT DATES

  • Application Opens Online — Sunday, December 1, 2024
  • Application Deadline — Saturday, March 15, 2025, 11:59 p.m.
  • Finalists Announced — Week of March 28th
  • Competition Day / Awards Reception & Showcase  — Thursday, April 17, 2025

STUDENT ELIGIBILITY

For specific details regarding eligibility rules and requirements please refer to our website

  • Only current Texas residents enrolled in high school are eligible to compete.
  • Competitors must be between the ages of 14-18.
  • Competitors may choose to enter as an individual or as a team (limit of 6 members per team).
  • Competitors/teams may submit as many ideas as they wish. Note that each idea will require a separate application. A single person will be allowed to participate in no more than two ideas as a Finalist.