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GLOBAL STUDENT ENTREPRENEUR AWARDS

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Application Deadline: Varies

LOCATION: Multiple Region

The 2023-2024 GSEA competition season is open! Calling all studentpreneurs! It’s time to ignite your entrepreneurial spirit and accelerate your success with the highly anticipated opening of the GSEA 2023-2024 competition season. Apply today for the GSEA competition season and embark on an exhilarating journey that could change the trajectory of your entrepreneurial career forever.

ELIGIBILITY:

You must be enrolled for the current academic year in a university/college as an undergraduate or graduate* student at the time of application. Full-time enrollment is not required; part-time enrollment is acceptable.

You must be the owner, founder or controlling shareholder of your student business. Each company can be represented by only one owner/co-founder – studentpreneur.

Your student business must have been in operation for at least six consecutive months prior to the application.

Your business must have generated US $500 or received US $1000 in investments at the time of application.

You should not have been one of the final round competitors from any previous year’s GSEA Global Finals Competition.

The age cap for participation is 30 years of age.

*Graduate students are eligible to apply only if they have continually enrolled in a university following their undergraduate degree and not left school to work on their business or to seek other employment. Exceptions can be made for students who have taken up to one academic year off before beginning their postgraduate education.

BENEFIT:

At the Global Finals, students compete for a total prize package of US$100,000 in cash and first place receives US$50,000. Second place will receive US$20,000and third place will receive US$10,000.

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NIKON SMALL WORLD PHOTOMICROGRAPHY COMPETITION

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Application Deadline: April 30th, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. ET

LOCATION: USA

The Nikon Small World Competition is open to anyone with an interest in photography through the microscope. Winners have included both professionals and hobbyists. Application opens 1 September, 2023

ELIGIBILITY:

The Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition (the “Competition”) is open only to individuals who are at least eighteen (18) years old at the time of entry and have access to a light microscope.

Upload up to three (3) photomicrographic digital images taken by the Entrant (collectively, the “Images”) to the Entry Form.

Images must be submitted in .jpeg, .png, or .tiff format.

Images should be submitted with the highest quality with regard to file size, bit depth, and resolution.

Images do not need to be taken with a Nikon-branded microscope.

BENEFIT:

There will be twenty (20) winners ranked from first (1st) place through twentieth (20th) place, plus Honorable Mention prizes, and prizes for images of distinction if and as determined by the Judges (collectively, the “Prizes”).

First Prize: Three Thousand U.S. Dollars ($3,000.00)

Second Prize: Two Thousand U.S. Dollars ($2,000.00)

Third Prize: One Thousand U.S. Dollars ($1,000.00)

Fourth Prize: Eight Hundred U.S. Dollars ($800.00)

Fifth Prize: Six Hundred U.S. Dollars ($600.00)

Sixth Prize: Four Hundred U.S. Dollars ($400.00)

Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Prizes: Three Hundred U.S. Dollars ($300.00) each.

Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Prizes: Two Hundred U.S. Dollars ($200.00) each.

Honorable Mentions: One Hundred U.S. Dollars ($100.00) each. The number of Honorable Mention Prizes will be determined by the Judges in their sole discretion.

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