Status
What?
Start your concept
Select your team’s pitch event location,
competition track and concept name (get
creative!). You can change this
information at any time until you hit
“submit”.
Confirm your team leader information
How?
Click “Start Concept” in the registration
platform
Once you have registered, confirmed your
account, and clicked “Start Concept” you will
see a competition details tab. Be sure to review
the descriptions and pitching round
information on the right hand side.
Team Leader tab in your concept
Confirm your team members information
Team Member(s) tab in your concept
Confirm your adult advisor information
Adult Advisor tab in your concept
Watch our online entrepreneurship
support videos
Identify your opportunity
Videos
Validate your opportunity
Read through the Diamond Challenge
rules
Build out your concept model
Attend a Q&A session
Use an idea notebook and talk to people about
their problems
Talk to customers/beneficiaries/stakeholders
and check data, facts and figures
Rules
Take a team photo and upload it
Hit “Submit concept”!
Fill out the lean canvas or social impact canvas
Join the Facebook Community to receive
updates regarding upcoming Q&A sessions
See examples in the participant toolkit and
look at the help text found in the gray boxes
within the Uploads and Agreement tab in your
concept
See examples in the participant toolkit and
look at the help text found in the gray boxes
within the Uploads and Agreement tab in your
concept
Uploads and Agreement tab in your concept
By January 8 at 11:59 p.m. EST
Create a LinkedIn account and add
Diamond Challenge to your LinkedIn
profile under the “experience” section
Go to https://linkedin.com and use the LinkedIn
descriptions provided in your participant
toolkit
Write out your concept
Put together your pitch deck