2023 Competition Timeline
- 4 Sep. 2023 - Start date
- 11 Sep. 2023 - Q&A Webinar
- 25 Sep. 2023 - Q&A Webinar
- 2 Oct. 2023 - Final projects presentation
- 30 Nov. 2023 - Winners’ announcement
- 10 Jan. 2024 - Awards ceremony & dinner
20X is Whole New World for Youths!
What Will Youths Learn!
Through Talents of Endearment 20X youths will discover how to:
- Stay motivated and productive.
- Connect and engage with people and develop booming relationships.
- Develop entrepreneurial talents to build the future of their dreams and start their own businesses.
- Become desirable with desirable ideas.
- Discover, build, and compete with their branded ideas to shine.
- Start the careers of their choice.
20X is Different!
- Designed by experts with youths' level of experience and needs in mind.
- Simple 3-dynamic-experiential-learning-modules to help trainees customize their learning experience and create live case projects - helping them discover the right-thing-to-do-next and create unexpected future opportunities.
- Trainees will have mentors support to get guidance whenever they need it, never without experts' support during the program.
- Trainees will be brought together from around the world through a unique collaborative platform to share and discuss ideas.
- After the program end, trainees get lifetime online community support to get help whenever they need it throughout their career.
Value to youths!
Through 20X online activities and global community support, youths will discover the art of:
- Building relationships.
- Connecting to people and discover their needs.
- Creating engagement opportunities to build business fresh ideas.
- Changing people’s lives for the better.
- Transforming people’ dreams to reality.
- Creating a long-lasting value relationship to become appealing to the community and to business.
Process - How it works!
- Youths subscribe to join 20X.
- Complete the required self-paced modules within 30 days.
- Recorded video of final project presentations submitted to coaches for review and approval.
- Approved final projects will be submitted to a judging panel to select the 3-best projects.
- Awards will be granted for the best 3-winners.
- On the second Wednesday of January of every year, the best voted projects will be submitted to an international judging panel to select the best 3-projects of the year.
- Yearly awards will be granted for the best 3-winners of the year.
The Judging Panels
The judging panels will consist of thirteen members carefully selected from around the world that will include:
- Three members from industries/business.
- Three members from universities.
- Three members from reference points (i.e., NGOs, international organizations).
- Three members from funding/sponsoring companies.
- One member from a well-known auditing company.
Year-round Competitions!
Youths are able to join 20X either individually or through partner institutions and sponsoring businesses anytime and from anywhere in the world to compete annually.
The competitions aim to promote winning youths' discoveries, locally, regionally, and internationally.
With 20X, everybody is a winner!
- Lucky Winners - Youths who wins, will receive support packages to help them start their own businesses for their discovered ideas.
- Unlucky Winners - Youths who do not win the competitions, would have learned how to build relationships, discover and build-brand ideas.
Qualifications - Youths only
To qualify, youths' applicants must be:
- 15 - 25 years old
- A high school, college student, a working or non-working youth.
- A dreamer, passionate and social person, intellectually curious and ambitious, and ready to conquer the world of business and create change.
Fees & Benefits
$49 per person - online sessions.
You will start with mentors' guidance and get:
- 35 days online coaching program.
- A chance to compete yearly.
Certificate of Participation - Upon completion of this session, you will receive a Certificate of Participation
Lifetime online Community Support - You will also get online community support - get help on-demand whenever you need it.
20X is a World of Opportunities!
Become a 20X Partner!
We love to partner with Ministries of Education, Ministries of Labor, Ministries of Youth, Youth organizations, Universities, High schools, Labor organizations, NGOs.
Benefits include, but not limited to:
- Year-round local, regional, and/or global exposure.
- A chance to nominate members for a seat on the monthly judging panels and/or the annual international judging panels.
- No financial commitments to partner with us.
- An option for no-cast unlimited number of students to participate.
- And much more ...
Become a Sponsor
Businesses, media, incubators and accelerators, philanthropists, are welcomed to join the global elite and sponsor 20X to help creating great global impact and receive the great benefits waiting for you, including but not limited to:
- Year-round local, regional, and/or global exposure.
- A seat on the judging panels.
- A financial award in your name to sponsor winners' startup projects or education.
- Sponsorship of a minimum of 100 student to participate.
- Sponsorship of project theme of your interest.
- And much more ...