It all comes down to this:
The 2021 Trust Your Crazy Ideas Challenge
State Finals
Friday, March 26 @ 11:00 AM
Join Junior Achievement and the Brees Dream Foundation at New Orleans Entrepreneur Week (NOEW) on Friday, March 26, at 11:00 AM as four teams of high school students from across the state pitch their own Crazy Ideas for a shot at up to $10,000 in scholarships!
After working with mentors for months to develop their business plans and perfect their pitches (and winning their own local pitch competitions), finalist teams from New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Lafayette, and Shreveport will pitch their Crazy Ideas to determine who will be the 2021 State Champion.
Since 2013, the Trust Your Crazy Ideas Challenge has awarded over $250,000 in scholarships to entrepreneurial students and their schools across Louisiana. For the 2020-21 school year, the Challenge went entirely virtual and worked with nearly 7,000 high school students across the state.
Registration to attend NOEW is free - simply visit noew.org, or click the button below to sign up!
Finalist Teams
Get to know the four teams pitching their Crazy Ideas at the State Finals.
Plan Pals
Lafayette
Everyone needs friends and with the struggles 2020 has brought, the essence of socializing is of utmost importance. Plan Pals provides a safe social-networking platform for adults to connect in a technology driven world.
Home Drone
New Orleans
The Home Drone brings in the next level of cleaning technology as the most affordable, unique way to clean and recycle both inside and outside areas. Home Drone was designed to keep our city in mind when it comes to our greatest event, Mardi Gras, saving the city thousands of dollars and hours. Let’s go green by being clean.
Clean Crate
Shreveport
Clean Crate is an affordable and environmentally friendly beauty subscription service, where the products are formulated to fit our customers’ needs. The formulas are designed through an online quiz and will arrive in recyclable or biodegradable packaging.
Green Sky Ads
Baton Rouge
Green Sky Ads is a bioengineered billboard that is made from a customized robot that will strategically cut grass in the form of certain ad design. The billboard is environmentally friendly and solar powered.
2021 State Finals Judging Panel
Joe Spell
CEO, Tides Medical
Lafayette, LA
Maranda White
Owner, Octagon Media
Baton Rouge, LA
David Watters
VP of Accounting + Finance
Morris & Dickson Co, LLC
Shreveport, LA
Chris Salamone
Owner-Operator, Chick-fil-A Kenner
New Orleans, LA
Thank You, Sponsors!
We’re grateful to have the support of a variety of sponsors that help make the Trust Your Crazy Ideas Challenge happen across the entire state of Louisiana.
