Virtual Enterprises International

National Company Branding Competition
2024-11-22 00:00 - 2024-12-12 00:00 (America/Halifax) | Online – At Your Own Pace
In this online competition, VE students demonstrate their company branding through the submission of a branding package that includes the company logo, fonts, color palette and associated applications such as a company letterhead, business cards, sales materials and more. Judges are asked to review and score student branding packages and provide helpful feedback.

2024 Kern Business Plan Competition
2024-12-09 08:00 - 13:00 (America/Halifax) | Career & Education Technical Center (CTEC), 7301 Old River Rd, Bakersfield, CA, 93311, United States
This competition represents Rounds 1 and 2 of the Regional Business Plan Competition. During this event, all VE teams will present twice, each with a different judge panel.
The top 42 teams from all Rounds 1 and 2 in the West will be invited to the semi-final round 3 in Bakersfield on January 22, 2025.

Midwest Regional Fall Conference & Exhibition
2024-12-09 12:00 - 2024-12-10 17:00 (America/Halifax) | Saginaw Valley State University, 400 Bay Rd, University Center,, MI, 48710, United States
The Midwest Region Fall Conference & Exhibition will be held at Saginaw Valley State University.
This event will include a variety of competitions, trade show, and final rounds for the Midwest Business Plan Competition.

Los Angeles Business Plan Competition
2024-12-11 08:45 - 13:30 (America/Halifax) | Rio Hondo College, 3600 Workman Mill Rd, Whittier, CA, 90601, United States

2024 San Diego Conference & Exhibition
2024-12-13 07:45 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA, 92182
The 2024 San Diego Trade Show is an exciting event where VE students from San Diego gather to compete in their business plan competition as well as participate in a trade show where they can display their sales and marketing skills on a trade show floor.
The judging opportunities for this event include Business Plan Competition, Trade Show Judge as well as many online judging competitions as well. Please view the registration link for more details.

NorCal Business Plan Competition
2024-12-16 08:30 - 12:30 (America/Halifax) | Napa Valley College, 2277 Napa Vallejo Hwy, Napa, CA, 94558
The National Business Plan Competition challenges students to demonstrate their business expertise through written submissions and oral presentations of their company’s complete business plan. Startup companies and continuing businesses may be presented.
Judges will be required to review executive summaries for firms online prior to the event and will review and score presentations the day of the competitions based on a rubric provided. View the registration link for more details.

NYC Executive Summary Scoring
2024-12-16 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Halifax) | Online – Live via Zoom
Join us for an executive summary scoring session where we will review and rate four-page executive summaries submitted by NYC schools on their student run businesses.

Your participation in scoring these summaries will prepare students for the in-person oral business plan competitions and help them as they compete against regional firms hoping to advance to the National Business Plan Competition in April.

Local Business Plan Competition – Staten Island and Brooklyn Division
2024-12-17 09:00 - 13:30 (America/Halifax) | LIU Brooklyn, 1 University Plaza, Brooklyn, NY, 11201
The Local Business Plan Competition challenges Staten Island and Brooklyn teams to showcase their global business expertise through written submissions and oral presentations, with the opportunity to qualify for the citywide competition in February.
Teams of 3-6 students will have 10 minutes to present their business plan, followed by a 5-minute Q&A with the judges. This event rewards excellence and helps students to develop advanced business skills.

Local Business Plan Competition – Manhattan and Bronx Division
2024-12-18 09:30 - 13:30 (America/Halifax) | University of Mount St. Vincent, 6301 Riverdale Ave, Bronx, NY, 10471
The Local Business Plan Competition challenges Manhattan & Bronx teams to showcase their global business expertise through written submissions and oral presentations, with the opportunity to qualify for the citywide competition in February.
Teams of 3-6 students will have 10 minutes to present their business plan, followed by a 5-minute Q&A with the judges. This event rewards excellence and helps students to develop advanced business skills.

Local Business Plan Competition – Queens Division
2024-12-19 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Halifax) | Academy of Finance and Enterprise, 30-20 Thomson Ave, Long Island City, NY, 11101, United States
The Local Business Plan Competition challenges Queens teams to showcase their global business expertise through written submissions and oral presentations, competing to qualify for the City-Wide Competition in February. Teams of 3-6 students will have 10 minutes to present their business plan, followed by 5 minutes of Q&A with the judges. This event rewards excellence and trains students to apply advanced business skills.
This competition consist of two judging sessions, morning and afternoon. See below for the session times and view the registration form for more details.
Morning Session: 8:00 am – 12:15 pm
Afternoon Session: 12: 15 pm – 5:00 pm

NYS-VE Regional Business Plan Competition and Trade Show
2025-01-08 08:00 - 2025-01-09 13:30 (America/Halifax) | LIU Post, 720 Northern Blvd, Greenvale, NY, 11548
The New York State Regional Business Plan Competition and Trade Show is a two day event at LIU Post that brings together firms from all over Long Island and NY state to compete in the first round of the National Business Plan Competition as well as participate in a trade show to demonstrate their business skills learned through the VE program. The event is broken down into the two following events:
Business Plan Competition – The National Business Plan Competition challenges students to demonstrate their business expertise through written submissions and oral presentations of their company’s complete business plan. Startup companies and continuing businesses may be presented. The top teams from this competition will earn a spot to compete in the Long Island Business Plan Championship Round in February.
Best Booth & Sales Pitch Competition – The VE Trade Exhibition welcomes firms from around NY State to showcase their student-run businesses and demonstrate their skills by promoting and selling their products and services to guest shoppers. Volunteers will rate Sales Pitch And Booth Design participating as guest shoppers and interacting with students on the trade show floor.

Online Preliminaries Departmental Competition - HR, Finance & Marketing
2025-01-10 09:00 - 09:30 (America/Halifax) | Online – Live via Zoom
Join us for an scoring session where we will be reviewing and rating the submitted entires for students in the southern region to compete in Marketing, Human Resource and Finance competitions.
We ask judges join our 30 minute zoom orientation to review the rubrics and go over the way the scoring will work. Judges can then decide to stay on the zoom to judge or judge on their own offline.
All scores for this competition will need to be submitted by the end of the day January 11th. Judges may register to score one specific departmental competition through the registration link.

NYS-VE Regional Online Business Plan Competition
2025-01-13 08:00 - 12:30 (America/Halifax) | Online – Live via Zoom
This competition challenges students to demonstrate their global business expertise through written submissions and oral presentations.
Volunteers judges will use their industry experience to give students valuable feedback.
Students will present their work on a live video conferencing tool and volunteers will watch presentations, score teams, and give feedback based on the competition rubric.

2025 Central NJ Business Plan Competition & Exhibition
2025-01-14 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Halifax) | Fairleigh Dickinson University, 285 Madison Avenue, Madison, NJ, 07940, United States
The 2025 Central NJ Business Plan Competition & Exhibition challenges NJ teams to showcase their global business expertise through written submissions and oral presentations, competing to qualify for the National Business Plan Competition at the Youth Business Summit in April.
Teams of 3-6 students will have 10 minutes to present their business plan, followed by 5 minutes of Q&A with the judges.
During this event students also have the opportunity to participate in a trade show to present their sales skills and compete in competitions such as booth design and sales pitch.

2025 Mid-Atlantic South Division Business Plan Competition
2025-01-15 09:00 - 12:00 (America/Halifax) | Online – Live via Zoom
The South Division Business Plan Competition brings together schools from the Mid-Atlantic Region to compete for their regional business plan competition. Firms will compete for the opportunity to represent their firm at the National Business Plan Competition in April.

National E-Commerce Website Competition
2025-01-17 00:00 - 2025-01-30 00:00 (America/Halifax) | Online – At Your Own Pace
An effective website will demonstrate the company’s mission, provide ease and use for customer purchases, apply branding consistently, and contain value-added content and features to enhance the customer experience. This competition challenges VE students to showcase their business and product/service offerings through the submission of their company website.
Judges are asked to review and explore student made e-commerce websites and provide productive and helpful feedback.

NYS - VE Online Regional Department Competition: Marketing
2025-01-17 08:00 - 13:30 (America/Halifax) | Online – Live via Zoom
For this competition, each marketing team prepares a marketing presentation that explains why potential customers would be interested in the products or services provided and outlines company resources they will use to attract sales and customers.
Presentations will include the pitch/problem, target market, and market analysis.
Judges will review the submitted marketing plans, and provide scores based on the competition rubric on the VE online competitions manager.

2025 Bakersfield Trade Show
2025-01-22 07:30 - 2025-01-23 13:00 (America/Halifax) | Mechanics Bank Arena and Convention Center, 1001 Truxtun Avenue, Bakersfield, CA, 93301
The 2025 California State Conference and Exhibition is a series of business education events will be held over 2 days.
Events include: Trade Show, Video Commercial, Elevator Pitch, Newsletter, Sales Pitch, Rapid Prototype, Job Interview and Booth Design.
Competitions for VE only are the national qualifying rounds for Business Plan, Marketing Plan and Human Resource.

Midwest Online HR, Finance and Marketing - Round 1
2025-01-25 09:00 - 2025-01-31 17:00 (America/Halifax) | Online – At Your Own Pace
Join us as an online asynchronous judge by reviewing and rating he submitted entires for students in the midwest region to compete in Marketing, Human Resource and Finance competitions.
For this competitions judges may select which competition they would like to judge. When judging opens up you will receive a link to judge the submissions on our VE competitions manager.
The scores from this competition will help determine who competes during the round 2 presentations on February 13, 2025.

NYC Business Plan Competition: Wild Card Qualifiers Round
2025-01-30 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Halifax) | Online – Live via Zoom

Online Competitions - San Bernadino Trade Show
2025-02-05 08:00 - 2025-02-10 17:00 (America/Halifax) | Online – At Your Own Pace
Are you an expert in marketing, finance, design, or sales? We need your expertise! Help us evaluate amazing entries asynchronously in the following categories:
📈 Marketing Plan
💰 Finance Competition
📊 QuickBooks Online
📧 Email Campaign
🍀 St. Patrick’s Day Banner Ad
🎥 Sales Pitch Video
As a judge, you’ll play a key role in recognizing talent and providing valuable feedback—all on a flexible schedule that works for you using our VE competitions manager.

2025 Southern Region Competition & Exhibition
2025-02-06 08:00 - 2025-02-07 15:00 (America/Halifax) | Nova Southeastern University, 3300 S University Dr, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 33328
On the first day of the 2025 Southern Region Competition & Exhibition students from Florida will have the opportunity to compete in the Regional Business Plan Competition for their opportunity to move on to the National Competition in NYC. Students will also compete in department competitions sucha are HR, Finance & Marketing to qualifiy to compere in NYC in April.
On the second day of the conference firms throughout the country will have the opportunity to be a part of the Trade Show to demonstrate their sales techniques and compete in events such as Best Booth and Sales Pitch competitions.

New York State Online Business Plan Competition - Championship
2025-02-11 08:00 - 2025-02-12 13:30 (America/Halifax) | Online – Live via Zoom
The VE Business Plan Competition challenges students to demonstrate their global business expertise through written submissions and oral presentations.
Judges will utilize industry experience to give students valuable feedback as a competition judge. Students will present their work on a live video conferencing tool and volunteers will watch presentations, score teams and give feedback based on the competition rubric.
The top 10 teams from this competition will move on to compete with teams around the country at the National Championships in NYC in April.

2025 NYC City-Wide Business Plan Competition
2025-02-13 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Halifax) | LIU Brooklyn, 1 University Plaza, Brooklyn, NY, 11201
The 2025 NYC Business Plan Competition challenges qualifying teams from across NYC to showcase their global business expertise through written submissions and oral presentations.
Teams of 3-6 students will have 10 minutes to present their business plan, followed by 5 minutes of Q&A with the judges. The top 6 teams from this competition will advance to the 2025 National Business Plan Competition at the 2025 Youth Business Summit.

Midwest Region Finance, HR, and Marketing Regional Competition - Round 2
2025-02-13 09:00 - 12:30 (America/Halifax) | Online – Live via Zoom
The regional round of competitions determine the Top 4 teams for each event (HR, Finance, and Marketing) that will represent the Midwest Region at the national Youth Business Summit in April in NYC.
In this competition judges will select a department competition to judge. Judge will be asked to review submitted materials online between January 23rd and Friday January 31 and review and score presentations live on zoom on Friday

Midwest Winter Conference Online Competitions
2025-02-13 09:00 - 2025-02-21 17:00 (America/Halifax) | Online – At Your Own Pace
The Midwest Region Winter Conference & Exhibition will be held at NIU-Naperville in Naperville, IL on Wednesday, February 26. Join us for varies competitions, trade show, and networking opportunity.
The online submissions competitions happen before the event and the winners will be announced on February 26th
Judging Period: February 13,2025 – February 21,2025
For this competition you will be judging submissions on our VE Competitions Manager.
Please register to be a judge for the following online submission based competitions:
Sales materials
Website Banner
Email Campaign
Video Commercial

National Video Commercial Competition
2025-02-14 00:00 - 2025-02-27 00:00 (America/Halifax)
A video advertisement is a short video (usually 30 to 60 seconds) designed to attract potential customers. An effective video commercial will grab attention, garner interest, and get people excited about the company.
This competition challenges VE students to produce a 30 to 60 second video commercial that effectively promotes their business and product/service offerings. In this competition Judges are asked to view, rate, and provide feedback to student-made video commercials about their VE companies.

Wildcard Business Plan Competition
2025-02-19 08:30 - 12:30 (America/Halifax) | Online – Live via Zoom
The Wildcard Competition Round gives teams a final opportunity to secure a coveted spot in the National Business Plan Competition at the Youth Business Summit this April. In this round, students will showcase their global business expertise through written submissions and live oral presentations.
Volunteer judges will use their industry knowledge to provide valuable feedback, evaluate presentations via a live video conferencing platform, and score teams based on the competition rubric. This is a pivotal moment for students to demonstrate their skills and earn their place at the national stage!

VE / IECE Trade Show, San Bernardino
2025-02-20 07:30 - 13:30 (America/Halifax) | CSU San Bernardino, San Manuel Student Uniion, North & South, 5500 University Parkway, San Bernardino, CA, 92407
In Person Judging Opportunities and Time Commitments:
7:45 am- 1:15 pm: Finance, Elevator Pitch, QBO or Marketing
8:30 am – 1:30 pm Sales Pitch & Booth Design (both)

Wild Card Finance, HR, and Marketing Competition
2025-02-21 08:30 - 12:00 (America/Halifax)
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In this event, judges will be asked to decide between judging Finance, Marketing or Human Resources Presentations.
The regional round of these online competitions determine which teams for each event (HR, Finance, and Marketing) that will move on to represent their schools at the national rounds at Youth Business Summit in April in NYC.
In this competition, teams will compete and present their work in the specific category and will be judged on Oral Presentations via Zoom on February 21, 2025.
