Established in 2017 by two seniors at Beijing City International School (BCIS), Avenir is a business competition designed to encourage high school students worldwide to develop pioneering business plans. The competition aims to enhance the participants’ skills in entrepreneurship, social enterprise thinking, positive networking, and receiving critical feedback from business professionals.
Avenir takes secondary school students’ ideas to the next level by fostering an innovative mindset and offering numerous prizes and resources. The experience of competing in Avenir requires participants to be collaborative and do extensive market research in industries, practice and enhance public speaking skills, and build confidence in presenting arguments as a group. Students participate in this program and develop ideas to address demanding challenges. The event aims towards envisioning future businesses that work for the good of all and the sustainable development of the world.
Theme: Pioneer
This year, Avenir is encouraging you to think outside the box and pitch your innovative and unique ideas to the business leaders and win a start-up fund for your own business. Don’t worry – this is not rocket science! Whether starting from scratch or making improvements on existing products, you can be a pioneer by creating novel, positive impacts on others!
You may want to make your project relevant to the near future.
For example, in our the post-pandemic life (this is not a requirement), people will be more cautious with personal hygiene. Thus, the prevailing public drinking fountain might not be as favored as before. Is it possible for the entrepreneurs to improve the drinking fountains so that they will not be wasted?
Timeline:
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- Registration and submission open: December 2021- April 2022
- Workshop & Advice: Starting from March or April 2022 (TBD)
- Competition: May 21 and 22, 2022
Cost of entry per person:
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- RMB 279 for Early Bird (before Mar 15, 2022)
- RMB 359 for Regular Registration (deadline before Apr 30, 2022)
*6 percent additional charge if you need a fapiao.
Registration is open now for any teams that wish to register for Avenir 2022 and confirmation of your participation in the competition will be sent once we have reviewed your Registration Survey filled out in the link below:
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?i…
Or please scan the QR code:
Rules:
Each Avenir submission and presentation represents an original work that has been created by a team of two-four high school students from Grades 8-12. There is no limit to the number of teams that can enter the competition from the same school.
Two Divisions:
Junior division: Grade 8-9
Senior division: Grade 10-12
Team members have the authority to submit/present their original work by virtue of their ownership of the content (or the expressed permission of any non-participating content owners).
The submission/presentation does not disclose any third-party intellectual property or violate any existing copyright protections.
The Avenir leadership team maintains sole discretion to interpret, modify or eliminate any of the competition’s rules, terms, and conditions at any time and without notice. That said, the primary purpose of the Avenir rules, terms, and conditions is to provide equality of opportunity while also promoting a positive and impactful learning experience for all participants.
If you are interested in participating in Avenir 2022, either as a sponsor, speaker, mentor, or judge, please email us at avenir@bcis.cn & erica.wang@bcis.cn.
Follow Avenir on WeChat @AvenirEducation and @avenirbcis on Instagram for further notices!
Questions? Email us at avenir@bcis.cn.
Images courtesy of Avenir
