Only a few hours now before the deadline for entries to the Make Your Mark Challenge! This is the UK-wide schools’ enterprise competition, which launched on the morning of 17 November, as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week. It’s in the fourth year, and a massive 56,000 students across the UK are taking part.

The Challenge to them is to ‘Create an entrepreneurial idea inspired by the Olympic and Paralympic Values’. We’re running it with the London Organising Committee of the 2012 Olympic Games – in thousands of schools. Check out some of the pictures of schoolchildren taking part from around the country!

So, who will win? We’ll see. It’s a tough competition, with regional finals and then a national finals event in London in December. But it’s by far our best-known activity. It really brings entrepreneurship to young people, in a fun and friendly way. It helps teachers build a culture of enterprise in the classroom. And, every year, it throws up hundreds of good business ideas.

So it definitely deserves pride of place in the UK’s contribution to Global Entrepreneurship Week this year. Let’s see what ideas the next generation generates!

Tags: competition, Make Your Mark Challenge, MYM Challenge, Olympics, school, UK

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