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---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Alex Shipillo Named Top 20 Under 20
Globe and Mail
June 3rd, 2009Through Impact, Alex also developed the Microcredit Competition (http://microcredit.impact.org), which provides teams of high-school students from across Canada with a $100 loan and one week to generate as much revenue as possible for a charity of their choice. In 2008, it raised $15,000 through 35 schools; next year, Alex is hoping 500 schools will participate.
“It’s very inspiring for students to know that they’re capable of taking an idea and turning it into reality,” says Alex, who has just finished his third year studying sciences at UBC and hopes to start his own business one day. “Youth engagement is about more than just learning at school,” he says. “It’s about supporting and inspiring them.”
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------BC, Saskatchewan and Ontario teams Win Top Awards at the Impact Microcredit Competition
April 28th, 2009Vancouver, BC – Students from Walter Murray Collegiate Institute in Saskatoon are winners of the Studentawards.com National Champion award in the Impact Microcredit 2009 competition, a youth entrepreneurship competition organized by the Impact Entrepreneurship Group and sponsored by Studentawards Inc. The team made over $2400 in one week by selling advertising on ecologically friendly shopping bags that were then distributed to local businesses. Two other teams across Canada garnered top recognition in the competition. Killarney Secondary in Vancouver, British Columbia won the BC Innovation Council Award while Bowmanville High School in Bowmanville, Ontario won the Encounters with Canada Business and Entrepreneurship Award. All teams started with only $100 in seed funding.
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---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Budding High School Entrepreneurs Across Canada Kick Off $25,000 Challenge
March 30th, 2009Starting on March 30, 2009, 100 teams of high school students across Canada will transform their business ideas into reality through the Impact Microcredit competition sponsored by Studentawards Inc. Now in its second year, the competition provides $100 microloans for teams to generate as much profit as possible in just one week. Competing for nearly $25,000 in scholarship prizes and venture funding, participants will have the opportunity to demonstrate their social entrepreneurship flare in their school and communities by donating their proceeds to charity.
