M-T1-YS-14 · Theme 1 · Youth & Schools
Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge
Helps young people test a community-minded venture ethically, learning customer discovery, cost, impact and failure without pressure to commercialise.
What could this idea change?
Participants learn responsible enterprise and local problems gain low-cost, evidence-informed concepts.
A simple way to start
- Publish a problem-led brief and explain what a responsible venture must demonstrate. Who could lead it: Challenge director
- Run team formation and an ethics-first idea screen. Who could lead it: Education partner
- Provide clinics on user research, costs, impact and pitching. Who could lead it: Mentor coordinator
- Test assumptions with consented users and document evidence. Who could lead it: Student teams
- Judge against the published rubric and fund only a governed next-stage experiment. Who could lead it: Independent panel chair
What should we look for?
- Teams completing ethics and assumption checks.
Before we say yes
- Does it fit a real local need?
- Can people take part safely and fairly?
- Are the facts, permissions and Rotary branding right?
- Who will lead it, and when will we review it?