Virtual Enterprises International

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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 – 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.

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.

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.

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.

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
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.

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

2024 Inland Empire Business Plan Competition
2024-12-06 08:45 - 13:00 (America/Halifax) | CRY-ROP, 214 Indiana Court, Redlands, CA, 92374, United States

Orange County Business Plan Competition
2024-12-04 08:00 - 14:15 (America/Halifax) | Saddleback College, 28000 Marguerite Pkwy, Mission Viejo, CA, 92692, 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.
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San Diego Ranking & Scoring Dinner
2024-12-03 17:00 - 2024-12-04 21:00 (America/Halifax) | Mount Migel High School, 8585 Blossom Ln, Spring Valley, CA, 91977, United States
Join us for an in-person scoring session to judge submissions for the pre-event competitions at the 2024 San Diego Conference and Exhibition.
We will gather for a 4 hour scoring session where dinner will be included, this will occur at Mount Miguel HS for two nights on December 3 & 4,2024.
The following competitions will be scored during this event:
Video Commercial
E-Commerce Website
Radio Commercia
Winter Themed Banner Ad
Sales Materials

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.

Southern Student Leadership Event
2024-11-20 08:30 - 2024-11-21 12:30 (America/Halifax) | Middle Tennessee University, 1301 East Main Street, Murfreesboro, TN, 37132
On the first day of the 2024 Southern Student Leadership Event, students from the southern region will have the chance to compete in the Regional Business Plan Competition for an opportunity to advance to the championship round on the 21st.

On the second day of the event, firms throughout the country will have the opportunity to participate in the Trade Show demonstrating their sales techniques and competing in events such as Best Booth and Sales Pitch competitions. Additionally, the final round of the Business Plan Competition will take place on the second day.

Midwest Fall Conference Online Competitions
2024-11-15 09:00 - 2024-11-30 17:00 (America/Halifax) | Online – At Your Own Pace
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.The online submissions competitions happen before the event and the winners will be announced on December 10th.
Judging Period: November 15, 2024 – November 30
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
Company Branding
Newsletter

VE-JV Dream Job Essay Competition
2024-11-01 00:00 - 2024-11-22 00:00 (America/Halifax) | Online – At Your Own Pace
The VE-JV Dream Job Essay Competition is a contest that challenges VE-JV students to think about their dream job or career and write an essay about why they chose it. Prizes will be awarded to the top essay winners and several honorable mentions will also be recognized. The top essay winners will have the opportunity to attend a video conference and speak with a professional who works in the job or career of their dream.

National Elevator Pitch Competition
2024-10-25 00:00 - 2024-11-20 00:00 (America/Halifax) | Online – At Your Own Pace
An elevator pitch is a quick and persuasive speech that generates interest in a person, product, service, or business. The name elevator pitch is used because the conversation usually takes place within the amount of time of a short elevator ride. This competition challenges VE students to make a convincing and engaging elevator pitch about their business to someone they recently met.
Judges are asked to review and score student elevator pitches and provide helpful feedback.
