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Dear AGEC High School Learners!

We hope you’re having a blast with the AGEC entrepreneurial exercises this year because there’s more excitement coming your way! Get ready to unleash your creativity and marketing genius in Mini Challenge 2 – the Online Marketing Challenge!

🎮 Challenge Details:

Platform: AGEC’s Gaming Network!

Theme: Let’s market a made-up product or business!

Task: Think of a kind of product or service. Then write a blog post where you explain an imaginative way to tell other people about the product/service (this is called marketing) and include a cool social media post that will help you market it. In 200-250 words, explain your marketing ideas and create an image or graphic that will convince people about your product/service.

💡 Guidelines:

Remember to think about:

• What your product/service is
• Who your target market is (the people who will most likely use the product or service)
• Where you will market your product online and why
• When you will market your product online and why
• How you will grab the interest of your target market

Think outside the box and include a well-designed image that represents your social media post. We would recommend using a simple design tool like Canva to create the image.

🎮 Prize: Oh, did we mention the grand prize? For the Top 10 Marketers in this round, a cash voucher to the value of R400 awaits!

🎮 Deadline: Set your calendars for the deadline of Monday 6 November 2023!

Submission Process:

• Share your brilliant blog post on the Gaming Network
• Don’t forget to send us a screenshot of your blog post, and your social media post design via email to info@entrepreneurshipchallenge.co.za

Make sure your submission email includes the following details:

• Full Name
• School Name
• Grade
• Province
• Cell phone Number (for distribution of prizes)

Challenge Criteria:

• Participants must be in a High School in South Africa, between Grades 8–12 in 2023.
• All entries must be posted on the Gaming Network from your individual Gaming Network profiles – You can create a profile or log in here
• Blog posts must be between 200 – 250 words long
• Only 1 blog post can be submitted per individual
• Ensure your Gaming Network account settings are set to ‘public’ so the AGEC Team can read your post. Locked/Private profiles during this challenge will unfortunately be disqualified
• Plagiarised articles will be disqualified
• Send your submission (see Submission process above) to info@entrepreneurshipchallenge.co.za before midnight on Monday 6 November 2023
• Although this activity is not based on likes and comments, still remember to interact with other posts from the community! Let’s hype each other up!
• This Online Marketing Challenge is your chance to shine, learn, and take your entrepreneurial skills to the next level. It’s all about creativity, strategy, and making your mark in the digital world!
• Get ready to power up your marketing skills, and let’s make this challenge a memorable one! Stay tuned for more entrepreneurial adventures, and may the best marketers win!

Kind Regards,
The AGEC Team

Dear High School Entrepreneurs!

We hope this message finds you buzzing with entrepreneurial energy, as the AGEC journey continues to unfold with more thrilling challenges!

Introducing Mini Challenge 1 – Entrepreneurial DIY Showcase Challenge!

📆 Date

27 September – 8 October

🌟 What’s the Challenge? 

This time, we’re diving into the world of DIY Business Solutions, and it’s all happening on TikTok! Get ready to unleash your creativity and innovative spirit by filming a 30-second TikTok video showcasing a DIY solution to tackle a common business challenge. 🛠️

🚀 Task

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to craft a video that demonstrates your ingenious DIY solution step-by-step. It could be anything from a unique marketing strategy, a process optimisation hack, or an ingenious workspace organisation idea! Let your imagination run wild.

📋 Guidelines

To ace this challenge, you’ll need to:

1. Introduce the Challenge: Briefly explain the business challenge you’re tackling.
2. Step-by-Step DIY: Walk us through each step of your DIY solution, using captions to explain the process.
3. Showcase Impact: Reveal the final result of your solution and highlight its incredible benefits.

📸 Use of Visuals

Elevate your video by using visual aids, adding images or using side-by-side effects to showcase the before-and-after if applicable. You can add some text for important explanations and benefits.

🎵 Music

Keep your viewers engaged with an upbeat and catchy track that matches the vibe of your DIY solution. Not too loud though – we still want to hear you! (You can adjust the volume of your voice and the volume of the music in the App)

📢 Hashtags

Don’t forget to include the hashtags: #AGECSolutions and #EntrepreneurialDIY to connect with fellow AGEC participants and enthusiasts.

🏆 The Prize

The rewards are waiting for the Top 5 creative minds out there! The lucky winners will receive an exclusive AGEC swag bag (branded hamper) and a cool R300 cash voucher each!

📅 Deadline

You’ve got until the end of the day of October 8th, 2023, to craft your masterpiece and submit it for glory!

📩 Submission

Share your brilliant creation by shooting your video on TikTok with the hashtags mentioned above. Also, make sure to send us the TikTok video link via email to info@entrepreneurshipchallenge.co.za

Challenge Criteria:

• Participants must be in a High School in South Africa, between Grades 8 – 12 in 2023
• Entries must be in the form of videos recorded from the TikTok app and be shot in portrait mode
• Videos must be between 30 to 60 seconds long
• Remember to add a short caption when posting your video
• Tag the AGEC account @agec_za
• Add music from the TikTok app (do not record the sound from an outside speaker as this may cause TikTok to flag your video for copyright issues)
• Do not use watermarked images in your video
• Experiment with your video and think out of the box – Be creative! The TikTok App has tons of features that can really make your video pop
• Ensure that you email your video link to info@entrepreneurshipchallenge.co.za before midnight on Sunday, 08 October 2023
• Please note that winners will be announced around 2 weeks after this Mini Challenge has closed. Judges’ decisions are final and no correspondence will be entered into.

So, get your entrepreneurial spirit fired up because this challenge is bound to be a blast! We can’t wait to see your innovative solutions in action and witness the impact they make.

Stay tuned for more thrilling AGEC adventures, and remember, your entrepreneurial journey has just begun!

📢 P.S. Share the excitement with your friends and fellow high school entrepreneurs, and let’s make this challenge one for the books! 🔥💡

 

Best of luck, and let the DIY creativity flow! 🌟

Warm regards,

The AGEC Team

We are thrilled to release the leaderboard for 2023 Primary Champions gameplay. Before jumping into the results, we want to say congratulations and thank you to all the schools, teachers and primary schoolers who took part in the challenge! We commend your bravery and celebrate the entrepreneurial mindset your learners have developed through their participation.

Without further delay, here is a list of the 2023 Primary Champions:

Primary Champions Top Schools

We are thrilled to release the full leaderboards for 2023 AGEC gameplay. Before jumping into the results, we want to say congratulations and thank you to all the brave high schoolers who took part in the 2023 challenges! We commend your bravery and celebrate the entrepreneurial mindset you have developed through your participation.

Below you will see 5 separate leaderboard documents: South Africa, Eswatini, Botswana, Namibia and TVET. For an easy way to find your name and results, you can use the following desktop keyboard shortcut:

Step 1: Select the applicable leaderboard below to open the relevant PDF document
Step 2: Click Ctrl + F on your Windows keyboard (or Command + F on your Mac keyboard) to bring up a search box in the top right corner
Step 3: Type your name in that search box and it will locate the text (your position) in the document

2023 AGEC Leaderboards:

South Africa Eswatini Botswana Namibia TVET

With the Allan Gray Entrepreneurship Challenge 2D Game drawing to a close on 31 May, learners can now put their newly developed entrepreneurial skills to the ultimate test with the AGEC Applied Learning Challenge: Business Venture Pitching Contest! Dream up your very own business idea, create a pitch video, and stand a chance to kick-start your business! 

See the infographic below for everything you need to know about the new competition and start dreaming big! 

Competition Information

In this module, your learners will be listing their virtual companies on the stock exchange. This will be done through something called an Initial Public Offering (IPO). You can find some helpful tips for facilitating Module 5 by downloading the Teacher’s Pack below. Remember that your learners need to complete the game to earn a certificate, an the more of your learners participate, the better your chances of winning the Top Teacher Prize.

Module 5 Teacher’s Pack

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Watch the video about Module 5 below for a full overview of what to expect.

In this week’s module, you’ll be going bigger than you’ve ever gone before, because you’ll be listing your company on the stock exchange. This will be done through something called an Initial Public Offering (IPO). While you have some tough decisions to make, don’t worry, you can find some helpful tips for Module 5 by downloading the Learner’s Pack below.

Module 5 Learner’s Pack

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More of a visual learner? Then check out the video about Module 5 below.

Your learners have done well to bring their product to market, but in Module 4 they’ll find out that they have some competition. They’ll learn what it takes to adapt to competition either by changing up the product strategy or acquiring another company. They must just be mindful because wrong choices in this module will have a negative impact the bottom line of their virtual businesses. Find tips on how to facilitate this module’s gameplay in the Teacher’s pack below.

Module 4 Teacher’s Pack

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You can find an overview of Module 4 by viewing the below video:

You’ve done well so far to bring your product to market, but now you’ve got competition in Module 4. In this module you’ll learn what it takes to adapt to competition either by changing up your product or, if you think it will benefit your business buy out another company. Just be careful as making the wrong choice will have a negative impact your bottom line. Learn more about the module by downloading the Learner’s module pack below.

Module 4 Learner’s Pack

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You can find an overview of Module 4 by viewing the below video:

So you’ve reached the half-way point in the AGEC 2D game?

In Module 3 things will start to become a little more difficult for your learners, so please keep encouraging your learners to keep learning – they can only grow from tackling the tougher parts of the challenge. In this module your learners will put their product to the test by doing market research, marketing the product and then seeing how well they’ve done to promote the product to the right people. Download the Module pack below to see how you can best facilitate this module’s gameplay.

Module 3 Teacher’s Pack

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You can also watch the video here to see what the module has in store: