As many of you know from an earlier post, our team is working hard in the second round of selections for the Impact Apprentice Competition that takes place in August.

However, we would like your help in choosing the competitors!  Each candidate has submitted a 1-2 minute video on a topic that we have assigned them, and we would like you to vote for your favorites.  The videos have been posted here.  Don’t forget to check back often as more videos will be submitted as the deadline of July 11th approaches!  After you have voted, be sure to spread the word and encourage your friends to vote!

How to Vote:

1. Go to www.impactapprentice.ca
2. Use the options in the top left corner to “Login with Facebook” or create your own account using your email with the “Register” option and login through that.
3. Select the videos of your choosing and click on the “Vote for this Entry” button below the video.

You can vote for as many videos as you like, so feel free to choose more than one! You can vote for each video once per day until July 11, 2010 at midnight.

As the Impact Apprentice Competition draws near, our team is beginning to finalize the final 32 competitors. We are in our 2nd round of selections where candidates are submitting 1-2 minute videos on a variety of topics we provided to them.

We need YOUR help in spreading the word about the video competition (this will really help us build up a stronger brand for Impact) by sharing the news on your social media channels. You could also choose who should be selected to compete in the competition. All videos have been posted at www.impactapprentice.ca. Visit the website to view all the submitted videos and vote for your favorites. Encourage your friends and fellow Impact members to visit the website and vote as well. Check back frequently as we will be approving a lot more videos as the deadline approaches (July 11th). These votes will be taken into account when the applicants are selected for the final round of selections. Videos combine business and marketing with creativity, comedy and everything in between so vote now!

How to Vote:

1. Go to www.impactapprentice.ca
2. Use the options in the top left corner to “Login with Facebook” or create your own account using your email with the “Register” option and login through that.
3. Select the videos of your choosing and click on the “Vote for this Entry” button below the video.

You can vote for as many videos as you like so feel free to choose more than one! You can vote for each video once per day until midnight of July 11, 2010.

To celebrate the success of the year’s Microcredit competition and the amazing group of competitors,  Impact Microcredit’s amazing Media Partner, Globe Campus, published this incredible article on the 10 day challenge. The article features interviews with competitors, the President of the Impact Entrepreneurship Group and the chairperson for this year’s Microcredit competiton!

Congratulations to the Microcredit team and all the participants in this years competition! Check out the full article here.

The winners of Impact Microcredit 2010 have finally been announced! First and foremost, we would like to say how proud we are of each and every team that took part in the competition. They have completely blown us away. We received amazing final reports and witnessed some amazing business ideas thrive.

There are three teams that we would like to recognize as our grand prize winners in the competition:

Studentawards.com National Champion Award

Burnarby North Secondary – Burnaby North Secondary, British Columbia
Emily Chou, Elysia Gunn, Jory Wong

The team held a 10 day online art sale for emerging artists to sell their artwork, different forms of artwork including photography prints, custom art commissions, drawing, painting, and canvases. The team also held a Fill-A-Bag $10 Vintage sale in which customers could fill a bag with vintage item

College Pro National Scholarship Award

Lord Byng Secondary School – Vancouver, British Columbia
Tina Yuan, Carrie Cheung, Shingly Lee, Emily Lu, Vivian Cheung

The team transformed paper into intricately designed origami roses and also held a rose-themed arts nights.

Encounters with Canada Award

Steveston-London Secondary School – Richmond, British Columbia
Rachel Wong, Cherrie Lam, Annie Cheng, Jessica Yeung

The team sold generic pre-designed, design-your-own, and custom-made pin-back buttons. They also created a contest for students to design their own pins and awarded the individual whose pin designs sold the most.

We would also like to give recognition to some honorable mentions:

Moscrop Secondary – Burnaby, British Columbia
Jennifer Liu, Marina Tam, Asuka Takahashi, Karen Wu, Alice Li

Guelph Collegiate and Vocational Institute – Guelph, Ontario
Matthew McLeod, Vigne Sridharan, Hillary Conway, Clinton Chan

Windmere Secondary School – Vancouver, British Columbia
Chanel Ly, Alivia Ma, Jennifer Luo

We wish the best to all competitors in their future entrepreneurial endeavors! We also want to give thanks to our amazing sponsors consisting of our Title Sponsor of Studentawards Inc., our Supporting Partners of College Pro, Irfhan Rawji, Encounters with Canada, and our Media Partner of GlobeCampus.

On Wednesday, June 9, SiG@MaRS, in collaboration with MobileActive.org, hjc New Media, Toronto Public Health and the Mobile Giving Foundation, will be hosting Ontario’s first MT4SC Toronto as part of Net Change Week 2010.

MT4SC Toronto features interactive discussions, hands-on-demos, as well as collaborative planning about ways to use, develop, and deploy mobile technologies in areas such as health, advocacy, economic development, environment, human rights, and citizen media.  Click here to see the full schedule.

The event’s featured keynote speaker is Professor Iqbal Z. Quadir, who is the Founder and Director of Grameenphone and the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT, as well as a former TEDTalks speaker. Grameenphone is the pioneer of the Village Phone model in Bangladesh, which changed the way low income communities access connectivity.  Quadir now supports students and professionals starting initiatives at the intersection of entrepreneurship and technology in developing countries. He will be discussing how he started this enterprise, and where he sees the opportunities in developing countries for entrepreneurial technology start-ups using mobile.

A 65% discount is offered to students to attend Professor Quadir’s evening keynote.  Use the discount code ncwk_student for a $10 ticket to the event! Click here for more information and to register for MT4SC Toronto.