Challenges
National Competition Page
Week Three
The 10X National Competition
The National Competition is available to enter at the end of the four weeks of the Challenge and is divided into two different age groups: 11 - 14 year olds and 15 - 19 year olds.
Your students will need to fill in and submit the National Competition journal via the student platform. Once they have done this you will be able to review and submit the top entries via the ´Submissions´ page.
The deadline for the National Competition is Sunday 6th April 2025 at midnight.
All competitions open on Monday 3rd March 2025.
1. Best OVERALL BUSINESS/TEAM
This award will recognise an outstanding group or an individual student company performance using the combination of the following elements:
Product:
How did the team/individual choose the product/service?
To what extent did they assess customer needs?
Were there any technical or manufacturing challenges they had to overcome?
How did they maintain quality standards?
Innovation and Entrepreneurship:
Did the team demonstrate entrepreneurship and innovation?
How well did the team unlock the potential of their original idea?
How was added value created?
Marketing:
Did the team/individual carry out market research and respond appropriately to the information they gathered?
What marketing, sales and promotional channels did they use and how effective were they in maximising sales?
Selling and Customer Focus:
How well did the team/individual understand their target customers?
Where and how did the team/individual sell their product or service?
Were their customers’ needs identified and met?
Was their communication with customers effective?
Planning and Problem Solving:
Did the team/individual have a clear business plan?
Did the team/individual show strong problem-solving skills, independence and resilience?
2. 10X for Good
This award will recognise an outstanding group or an individual student company performance using the combination of the following elements:
- Why did the team/individual choose to connect or have an impact on their wider community?
- How did they achieve this?
- How did the team/individual communicate their ideas with customers?
- How did this make a positive contribution to the wider community?
3. Best in Sustainability
This award will recognise an outstanding group or an individual student company performance using the combination of the following elements:
- Why did the team/individual decide to recognise sustainability?
- How did they achieve this?
- How did the team/individual communicate their ideas with customers?
- What was the outcome?
4. Most Inspiring Individual
This award is open to any student taking part in the Challenge to recognise their outstanding personal performance. We are interested to hear about students who have demonstrated the following throughout the Challenge:
- An ability to take action
- A hunger for opportunity
- A willingness to find solutions to challenges and problems
- A strong work ethic
- A transformation in individual performance from their attitude and skills gained
- Did the team/individual have a clear business plan?
- Did the team/individual show strong problem-solving skills, independence and resilience?
You can submit a team into the National Competition only when their journal entry is complete and all their team members have completed their post evaluation questionnaires. Full details of the journal will be available shortly. Every organisation can enter up to a maximum of 5 teams per registration.
Please note that the journal entries cannot be saved as drafts, so it may be worth advising your students to write out their answers first so they can submit their entry in one go!
Care should be taken not to directly or overtly imitate, copy or trade using existing company names, trademarks or copyrights.