I Am My Ambition launched its latest video today!  This week’s video features Anthony Del Col and Conor McCreery, the creators of Kill Shakespeare Entertainment.

Kill Shakespeare is a comic book series where the greatest heroes of William Shakespeare’s plays are pitted against Shakespeare’s most menacing villains.  The heroes set out for a quest to find a reclusive wizard named William Shakespeare who may have the ability to assist them in their fight against the villains, while the villains are on a mission to kill the wizard Shakespeare.

In I Am My Ambition’s newest video, Anthony Del Col and Conor McCreery discuss their experiences working in a partnership, as well as the hard decisions that they have had to make.  Watch the video on Youtube here or on the IAMA website and tell us what you think!

I Am My Ambition launched its third video today!  This week’s video features Sarah Prevette, founder of Sprouter, a web site designed to help entrepreneurs connect and collaborate with each other. Sarah Prevette has been named one of Inc.com’s 2010 30 under 30 list.  Be sure to also check out The Globe and Mail’s article on Sprouter.

In this video, Sarah talks about the challenges she faced as an entrepreneur, as well as the importance for entrepreneurs to work with others and to maintain enthusiasm for their ideas.

Look out for IAMA’s next video, to be released next Wednesday!

I Am My Ambition launched just last week and they has been great reception. The website was viewed by 35 countries across the world and hit 400 hits in its first few days with just the Impact team’s support in gaining exposure. This is just the beginning.

Every Wednesday invites a new entrepreneur to explore his or her challenges, fears, where it went it wrong and how it turned out okay. Many exciting stories to hear that hope to inspire youth everywhere.

This Wednesday, IAMA brings us Jordan Monaghan, founder of Angle Media Group. Jordan discusses the importance of taking action now and jumping in with both feet. He talks about how he overcame a challenge of running a business in his own basement.

Be sure to check out Jordan Monaghan’s video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIQ-z1dg8no.

At Impact, our main goal is to spread social entrepreneurship initiatives to youth across Canada. We have some really exciting events, programs and contests set to launch over the next few months, so be sure to keep following what we’re up to!

As entrepreneurs, we’re always focused on ROI and “Risk vs. Reward”, so how about we offer a no risk, high reward for helping us reach 2,000 Facebook Fans by July 31, 2010? We would like to invite one of our loyal fans to join us at our 7th annual Impact National Conference, taking place on November 12- 13th, 2010 in Downtown Toronto (over a $700 value!).

Held in November, the annual Impact National Conference brings together 500 of Canada’s top young leaders from high schools, universities and colleges. These future leaders participate in a two day long experience filled with workshops, breakout sessions, keynote speakers, a banquet and an awards ceremony. Past speakers at the conference include Harry Rosen (Founder of Harry Rosen Inc.), Frank O’Dea (Founder of Second Cup), Marc and Craig Kielburger (Founders of Free the Children) and many more!

Here’s what you do:

1) Get on Facebook

2) Become a fan at www.Facebook.com/ImpactFanPage

3) Share our page and invite your friends to sign up too!

So how do I win the FREE Impact National Conference ticket?

If we hit 2,000 fans before July 31, 2010 we’ll randomly select a winner!

Help the Impact Entrepreneurship Group SPREAD SOCIAL entrepreneurship across Canada and reward yourself with great ROI!

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www.Impact.org

Earlier today, Impact launched its newest initiative, I Am My Ambition (IAMA).  IAMA is an online awareness video campaign, in which various leaders and entrepreneurs talk about their experiences and journeys to success.  Thus far, our IAMA team has interviewed 19 entrepreneurs and successful leaders, including Justin Trudeau (Member of Parliament), Andy Nulman (Past CEO of Just for Laughs and CEO of Airborne Mobile), and Jeff Adams (Paralympics Champion and CEO of Marvel Wheelchairs.)

IAMA’s website is launching a new video and interview every Wednesday, so be sure to visit the site often!  While you’re there, don’t forget to read the IAMA blog, which is filled with interesting tales of achieving success and overcoming challenges by leaders and entrepreneurs whose ambitions have guided them.

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.

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.

Calling All Students!

Register now for these special Net Change Week events using the discount code “ncwk_student”* and receive over 65% off!

*(case sensitive, without quotation marks)