During the week of August 23rd, we will be hosting our 4th Annual Impact Apprentice Competition at Downtown Toronto. The candidates will be competing in 4 days of business challenges including: Marketing, Sales, Consulting, and Creativity. Past prizes include $10,000 worth of goods and services, as well as exclusive internship opportunities with some of the top North American companies.

Impact Apprentice have been recognized as Canada’s most prestigious and exclusive business competition. We are looking for the top 48 university students (both undergraduates and graduates) across the nation to compete. The registration process is private and only by nomination. Please submit the following information to the provided email address.

Your Information

• Name:
• School:

Nominee’s Information

• Full Name:
• School:
• Area of Study:
• Email:
• Phone Number:
• One or two sentences of why you are nominating them to be Impact’s Apprentice:

Once they have been accepted through the first round of nomination, we will then conduct the second and third round of selections (the candidates will also be able to access the Apprentice website). The deadline for nomination is APRIL 30TH, 2010.

All nominations should be sent to apprentice@impact.org.

Impact is excited to unveil a promotional video for Impact Microcredit 2010! The video shows a few of the people who are involved in the planning of Impact Microcredit, hailing from all different parts of the country, and provides a brief overview of the competition itself. We are excited to bring this national competition to high school students across the country!

If you are still trying to get some friends, students or classmates to join your team, or if you aren’t understanding what the competition is about, this video is a great resource to use. Check it out below or click here!

The Impact Entrepreneurship Group is excited to have an eight page spread in the Spring/Summer 2010 issue of the Canadian Student Magazine. Be sure to check out some of our success stories (including the likes of Kunal Gupta, founder of Impact and Polar Mobile,  and Kyle Vucko, co-founder of Indochino.com) and our 2010 initiatives (such as Microcredit 2010) in the issue! Read the electronic version here (the Impact spread starts on page 40): http://www.canadianstudentmagazine.com/!

A big thank you to our friends at the Canadian Student Magazine for giving us this opportunity!

Do you have an innovative start-up idea? Are you looking for your next big break? Well here is your chance!

Impact Entrepreneurship Group is proud to present the “Ontario’s Next Top Entrepreneur” competition at the Discovery 2010 conference and extend this amazing opportunity to Ontario’s most talented teams.

Present your idea in a short video, telling us why it could be the next big thing. The top five teams will move on to deliver their pitch at Ontario Centres of Excellence’s (OCE) Discovery 2010 conference. The winning team will be enrolled in OCE’s Centre for Commercialization of Research’s New Entrepreneur Program where they will be granted a non-recourse micro-loan of up to $18,000 ($6,000 per team member), have access to advisory services, and have the opportunity to network with key mentors and private investors.

For more details about the  ”Ontario’s Next Top Entrepreneur” pitch competition and the Dicovery 2o10 conference please visit http://www.ocediscovery.com/.

To apply for this amazing opportunity, click here.