Virtual Enterprises International

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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Online – Live via Zoom

Online Competitions - San Bernadino Trade Show
2025-02-05 08:00 - 2025-02-10 17:00 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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
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 | 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 | 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
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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.

Midwest Region Winter Conference & Exhibition
2025-02-26 08:00 - 15:00 | Northern Illinois University – Naperville Campus, 1120 E Diehl Rd, Naperville, IL, 60563, United States
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 three competition judging opportunities are Best Booth Design, Elevator Pitch Competition & Salesmanship Competition.

VE-JV NYC Trade Show
2025-03-07 10:30 - 12:30 | I.S. R002 George L. Egbert, 333 Midland Avenue, Staten Island, NY, 10306
The VE-JV NYC Trade Show gives middle school student-led businesses the opportunity to display and sell their simulated products/services to VE guest shoppers.
To bring this event to life, we need volunteers like you to guest shop and judge our student competitions. All materials and resources for guest shopping and judging will be provided by VE, all we ask is that you register and arrive on time on the day of the event! Full information will be sent to all registrants before March 1st.

2025 Youth Business Summit
2025-04-07 07:30 - 2025-04-08 16:00 | Jacob Javits Center, 429 11th Ave, New York, NY, 10001
We invite you to serve as a competition judge at our upcoming Youth Business Summit, a two-day event where the brightest young minds in business and entrepreneurship
showcase their talents and innovative ideas and compete in a number of events.
As a judge you will view and rate students’ presentations based on a rubric provided to you. Your expertise will be invaluable in guiding and inspiring these future leaders.

Online VE-JV National Business Pitch Qualifiers
2025-04-22 08:00 - 2025-04-24 14:30 | Online – Live via Zoom
The VE-JV National Championships are the culminating competitions that allow students to compete for recognition as the top teams in the nation. Students will have the opportunity to showcase their VE-JV business or pitch their business ideas to volunteer industry professionals.

National Company Newsletter Competition
2025-05-08 00:00 - 2025-05-22 00:00 | Online – At Your Own Pace
The company newsletter is used to communicate information to company employees and VE stakeholders. An effective company newsletter will promote the company, highlight successes, keep business partners and investors apprised of the company’s progress, and acknowledge exemplary employees or departments.
This competition challenges VE students to showcase their company culture through the submission of an informative and compelling end of year company newsletter. In this competition Judges are asked to view, rate, and provide feedback on student-made company newsletters.

Online VE-JV National Business Pitch Championships
2025-05-13 08:45 - 12:00 | Online – Live via Zoom
The VE-JV National Championships are the culminating competitions that allow students to compete for recognition as the top teams in the nation.
Students will have the opportunity to showcase their VE-JV business or pitch their business ideas to volunteer industry professionals. During this competition the top teams will compete for the chance to be the champions of the VE-JV Business Pitch Competition.

2025 NYS Leadership Conference
2025-10-17 08:00 - 13:30 | LIU Post, 720 Northern Blvd, Greenvale, NY, 11548
Date: October 17, 2026
Location: LIU Post, 720 Northern Blvd., Brookville, NY 11548
Time: 8:30 am – 1:00 pm
Volunteer Description: Join us in shaping the next generation of leaders! Volunteers at the VE NY/NE Leadership Conference will engage directly with high school students as they explore the qualities of effective leadership and practice managing their student-run firms. By sharing your insights and experiences, you’ll help guide students as they work toward producing key deliverables, collaborate in breakout sessions, and network with peers from across the New York and New England regions.
Volunteers will also participate as judges in the elevator pitch competition during the event.
This is a rewarding opportunity to inspire future leaders while connecting with fellow professionals, educators, and entrepreneurs.

National Online Elevator Pitch Competition
2025-10-24 08:00 - 2025-11-15 13:30 | Online – At Your Own Pace
Date: October 25th – November 15, 2025
Format: Asynchronous – Rate submissions at any time within the judging period using our online VE Competitions Manager
Competition Overview 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. Register to judge this competition above!

IL - Midwest Region Fall Conference & Exhibition - Online Competitions
2025-10-25 08:00 - 2025-11-01 13:30 | Online – At Your Own Pace
We invite experienced and enthusiastic judges to participate in the evaluation of student submissions ahead of the Illinois Midwest Conference & Exhibition on November 14th. Students participating in the conference have submitted work across multiple competition categories, and your expertise will help recognize their efforts and achievements.
Judging Timeline:
Judges will receive login credentials and detailed instructions by Saturday October 25 to access the VE Online Competition Manager platform. Using the provided rubric, judges will review submissions and complete scoring by Saturday, November 1.
Competition Categories:
Company Branding: Evaluation of student firms’ branding guidelines, including logos, color schemes, and usage examples. Judging focuses on branding elements, consistency, and relevance to the business.
Sales Material: Review of sales collateral such as catalogs, brochures, direct mail campaigns, or promotional materials, assessed on content, design, salesmanship, and professionalism.
Newsletter: Firms create a two-page (front and back) newsletter targeted to employees, featuring company news, economic insights, product information, and employee highlights.
Website: Evaluation of the functionality and design of each firm’s website, assessing usability and aesthetic appeal.
