iSEED Announces National Youth Ideas Challenge iCUBE on Entrepreneurship

NEW DELHI, September 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

Over 500 Colleges From Across the Country Participating in One of the Country's Largest Youth Ideas Contest

iSEED - the Indian School for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development, a unique educational institution offering India's first full time 1-year post-graduate level program in Entrepreneurship - has rolled out one of the largest National Youth Ideas Challenge - iCUBE to encourage the spirit of entrepreneurship amongst the youth. The month-long contest running across 500 colleges of the country will encourage college students to come up with ideas that have the potential to benefit humanity by making the common man's life better, simpler and affordable. The 3-tiered competition format with awards at every stage will see participation from leading colleges across the country.

According to Mr. Sanjeeva Shivesh, CEO and Co-Founder, iSEED, "Entrepreneurship education in our country has been largely undertaken as a token exercise in MBA colleges. We at iSEED are working actively with angel investors, entrepreneurs and industry experts to create a unique learning experience for students coupled with seed capital funding opportunities for in-house entrepreneurial opportunities as we believe that if India has to prosper, it has to create a culture of entrepreneurship and innovation by engaging with youth. The iSEED National Youth Ideas Challenge iCUBE with its objective to spark creativity, foster innovation and showcase inventions of college students from across India is a step forward in this direction."

The first stage of the month long iSEED Youth Idea Challenge iCUBE involves submission of ideas by students individually or in teams in an Idea Box kept in their respective college premises. 500 ideas nationally will be selected by a panel of experts comprising of entrepreneurs, innovators, investors, mentors and academia for the next round and will be rewarded with certificates and prizes. The top 50 ideas will be further shortlisted through interviews for the final round of mentoring program post which the selected teams will compete in a Rapid Product / Service Prototyping and presentations over 2 days. The three winning entries will win cash prizes worth Rs. 2 lakh. Over 50 scholarships as well as one week and six month mentoring programs at iSEED alongwith funding opportunities will also be presented to shortlisted entries.

About iSEED

iSEED - the Indian School for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development located in Gurgaon - is a unique educational institution offering India's first full time 1-year graduate level program in Entrepreneurship. Founded by a group of professionals from institutes of national repute, iSEED's vision is to be a world-class educational hub offering a variety of long and short-term programs for budding entrepreneurs and startups at various stages of their journey. For further information, please log on to http://www.iseed.edu.in/

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