The Business Cup Challenge is a unique competition designed to challenge high school students and introduce them into the business world at a young age.
The competition gives students the opportunity to win the trophy for their school while developing new business ideas, gaining valuable knowledge, and competing for an amount of GHS 20,000 for the winning team of 3 as well as scholarships from Lancaster University Ghana and other exciting prices.
Students are encouraged to review and implement real life business plans, analyze critical business scenarios, and present their cases to an academic and professional panel.
The four-week competition will begin on the 1st of February and the finals will be on the 23rd of February.
How the Business Cup Challenge works
- The competition is open to all high schools in Ghana.
- There is no entry fee to participate in this competition.
- Each school can register up to three teams from grade 11.
- Each team can consist of a minimum of four to a maximum of six members.
- Each school can register a maximum of 3 teams.
- Each participating school is required to nominate a Team Supervisor to liaise with the University.
- After each team has registered individually, Mentors/teachers must email [email protected] confirming the list of students and teams from their school for them to be eligible to participate.
- Registrations close at 5.00PM on 31st January 2024
- Cases and guidelines are released online (BCC Site) as per schedule for easy access to the Team Supervisors
- Certificates will be issued only to the teams who participate through the elevator pitch / grand finale. Teams that drop out before that point will not be awarded certificates.
- All answers must be submitted to the link below after login: http://bcc.lancaster.edu.gh/user/login OR [email protected] (if the login link isn’t active)
- Case studies will be rated, and feedback given online.
- Teams will be awarded points according to the set criteria.
