BILLINGS, Mont. – To spotlight profession alternatives for younger individuals, the Hive Entrepreneurship Competition at Montana State College Billings welcomed enterprise pitches from highschool college students from Billings to give them the suggestions they should launch their enterprise profession. 

Highschool entrepreneurs had been evaluated by the judges on their creativity, feasibility and potential for future success. 

The winner of the competitors will take away a money prize of $5,000, giving them a powerful head begin for his or her enterprise. 

Tyler Power, a participant from the Billings Career Center, stated that this can be a fantastic alternative for them to develop their concepts into an precise future profession. 

“That is giving us the chance to create our personal enterprise and soar begin it, which would not be potential with out this due to the cash. There isn’t a different method we might have gotten this chance,” added Power.  

The Hive was first began in 2019 by Brandon Scala, the Senior Vice President of Business Development at Valley Credit Union. 

Scala said that he desires to assist younger entrepreneurs who aren’t fascinated about following a conventional path to show their ardour right into a job. 

“That is our second yr and we determined that we needed to present children that perhaps aren’t on the standard path of school to know that if they’ve a dream, if they’ve a product or a ardour, they will flip that right into a job. We need these children to know that it is so essential to observe your desires and observe your hopes and make it a actuality,“ emphasised Scala.  

This yr’s Hive competitors was sponsored by 9 totally different organizations, together with Northern Hotel, who might be making a gift of $1,500 and $1,000 to second and third prize winners and TEDx Billings who will current $500 to the participant profitable essentially the most votes by viewers members.