08:33 27.02.2023
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The Ministry of Education’s Start Cup youth championship is a program that brings elementary and high school students closer to the real world of entrepreneurship, through learning and self-experience in authentic processes of developing an idea into a product. The Kiryat HaNuchun Amihai Amit, the Hamer Amit, Madadim and Ort – qualified for the national semi-finals, out of 500 competitors across the country
The program helps students advance ideas into an applicable and meaningful product, while learning skills relevant to the reality of the changing world of employment.
As part of the championship, the students promote their idea and at the end of the competition submit the product for examination by the leading venture capital funds in Israel who will examine the students’ ventures.
The competition is open to all students studying in grades 9-12.
These days, the program reached the semi-final stage: over 5,000 students from all over the country registered for the competition, over 500 executive summaries were received, and only 90 of them moved on to the semi-final stage.
Of these, only 15 of them will reach the grand final!
The first place will receive support worth 100,000 NIS for the establishment of his start-up.
6 out of 90 that advanced to the semi-finals are ideas submitted by Rehovot students:
The schools that advanced to the semi-finals
• The Science Education Council – ICUP project
• Amit Amichai – BraiTina project
• The Amichai school – Safool project
• The Kiryat HaHakim Amit Hamer – REDA project – Real time Earthquakes Damage Assessment
• The Kiryat HaHakim Amit Hamer – World Saviors
• Ort Rehovot – Goal360
The 6 teams from Rehovot advanced to the semi-finals and were invited to a training camp that took place last week at the Israchart offices in Bnei Brak. At the training camp, the students received many tools and participated in 3 entrepreneurship workshops on the following topics: business model, how to build a winning investor presentation, and a validation and market research workshop. The students experienced a very significant day and left with many tools that they could use to write the winning investor presentation.
Rahamim Malol, the mayor: “We are proud of all our youth, who came up with ideas, challenged themselves and advanced to the semi-finals. These are wonderful tools for life, and for us they are already winners!’
Acting mayor, holder of the education portfolio Zohar Blum: “The municipal education system pushes students to reach their full potential. We wish them great success.”
Efrat Zuckerman Head of Education Administration: “We work to present challenges and competitions to our youth in order to encourage curiosity, entrepreneurship and innovation from a young age. “
Sarit Salzman, technology and urban excellence coordinator who coordinates and operates the program in the city:
“The training camp was an empowering and educational day. During the day I watched our students participate in an extraordinary experience, an empowering and enriching experience in a festive high-tech atmosphere. During the day in the workshops the students acquired many tools on entrepreneurship and product development. With the help of the tools they have acquired, they will be able to continue developing the idea in the best possible way. Good luck going forward”
