2025 NFTE Southeast Hillsborough County Schools Entrepalooza (In-Person)

The Hillsborough County Schools District will be hosting their district-wide Entrepalooza event where students will have the opportunity to showcase their projects from their entrepreneurship education classes. 

To enter the competition, participants have created a business idea presentation. Some participants are students for NFTE's Statup Tech course, while others are from NFTE's Entrepreneurship course. These students have won their school level competition and are now looking to present their business ideas to a new set of judges in this in person event held on April 2, 2025 at The University of South Florida Main Campus.

The top students from this event will move on to the nationally recognized NFTE Regional & National competitions.

As an expert in your industry, students value the feedback they received from industry experts in their local communities. As a volunteer judge you will  evaluate each business based on the given rubric. Utilizing the entrepreneurial mindset as a guide, you will be asked to provide feedback to students based on their business idea and how they can make improvements to their problem, solution, target customer and more. 

Once registered as a volunteer, a calendar invite and volunteer guide will be sent. There will also be an orientation session on the day of the event prior to students arriving. This will give volunteers training and the opportunity to ask questions.