Free Business Competitions With Big Cash Prizes

The Business Education Initiative (BEI) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit offering free-to-join business competitions and business CTSO competitive event preparation.

*Signups and donations are closed until March 2023

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STOCK WRITE EVENT (NOT CURRENTLY IN SESSION)

Stock Pitch Challenge
BEI X YIC

Prompt

Write a Stock Pitch about any company listed on the New York Stock Exhchange (NYSE)

Prizes

Prizes are eligible for all U.S participants who sign up and do all the steps listed under "How To Join"

1st Place: $1500

2nd Place: $1000

3rd Place: $500

Word Limit: 1000 Words

Submission Deadline: 11:59 P.M., June 24th, 2022
*Note: Anyone may compete but only those in North America are eligible to receive prizes

STOCK TRADING SIMULATION (NOT CURRENTLY IN SESSION)

North America Young Investors Competition

Prizes

Prizes are eligible for all U.S participants who sign up and do all the steps listed under "How To Join"

1st Place: $150

2nd Place: $100

3rd Place: $50

Stock Write Event (NOT CURRENTLY IN SESSION)

Stock Write: A Stock Market Writing Competition
BEI X M&T Bank

Prompts

Prompts will be added throughout the course of the competition; all prompts will fall under the broad topic of the stock market; the purpose of these prompts are to get you thinking, not cage you in a specific direction.

Prompt 1: To what extent has the Gamestop incident with Robinhood affected young people's view and behavior surrounding investing in the stock market?

Word Limit: 600 Words

Submission Deadline: 11:59 P.M., December 7th, 2021
*Note: Anyone may compete but only those in the U.S are eligible to receive awards

Frequently asked questions

How do awards work?: The top 3 submissions from this competition will receive a certificate signed by M&T Bank verifying the students national award.
How can I be sure my submission went through?: Feel free to send us an email asking for verification. We will respond in a timely fashion.

Our Mission

Providing Quality Business Education
To Anyone, Anywhere, For Free

I learned from my peers, and I learned from doing projects, and I learned from mentors, but I learned very little from lectures, and I've talked about how little I attended them.

Sal Khan, CEO at Khan Academy

How we do it

BEI curates investing competitions with large prizes. Our partner, Invest Org, curates investing courses alongside these competitions which our members can use to learn as they compete.

At BEI, we go beyond for our members by not only providing meaningful opportunities for our members but by partnering with other student-led organizations. Our partnership with Invest Org allows our members to complete investing courses while participating in our investing competitions but also trade in real-time on Invest Org’s proprietary trading platform.

At BEI our members curate content for FBLA and DECA competitive events; we also support member-led initiatives; by doing this we continue to expand our 75k+ student network.

Founded: August, 2020

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A look into our competitions & FBLA/DECA event prep

BEI aides tens of thousands of FBLA and DECA members across the nation to succeed in their competitive events. Our curated content has helped members place at national career development conferences. Our content is created by our members, for our members.

Business Competitions

At BEI we aim to make learning fun and engaging. For this reason we curate business competitions with large cash prizes. We also allocate funds for our members to work with us and create member-led events/competitions.

$5000 Prize Pool Trading Competition (3x): Compete in a trading competition using a proprietary platform we share with one of our partners. Sign up to compete, an email will be sent explaining the join process. Prizes are as follows: 1st - $3000; 2nd - $1500; 3rd - $500
Member-led events: Create and host business competitions with other students at BEI. We'll provide funding and guide you guys in this process. Signup to get notified when these opportunities come!
Member Initiatives: Create your own initiative under BEI. Contact us and we'll do our best to fund it and help in other ways.

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FBLA/DECA Competitive Event Prep

BEI aides tens of thousands of FBLA and DECA members across the nation exceed in their competitive events. Our curated content has helped members place at national career development conferences and we strive to curate the most useful and advantageous content for our members.

300+ Videos: We have created over 200 videos on FBLA/DECA event preparation, look to our YouTube Channel to see almost all of them. Our courses also feature some of this content, in a more organized manner (Will be launched soon).
90+ Content Creators: We had over 90 students and business professionals create content for BEI. We have 30+ States involved, and reach 75K+ students.