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Jamila Payne with Nia Froome, this year's winner

You could actually feel the energy and excitement when getting off the elevator at the 3rd floor of the Millennium Broadway Hotel. Kids from all over the country were talking and meeting each other for the first time. The parents and teachers were just as excited and nervous as the kids were (maybe even more nervous in some cases).  It’s the 2010 OppenheimerFunds/ NFTE National Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge and we had 32 student finalists representing 28 businesses competing for a grand-prize of $10,000.

Today we’re proud to highlight the NFTE Elevator Pitch Challenge 2010, Presented by E*TRADE Bank.  As part of the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship’s 2010 OppenheimerFunds /NFTE National Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge, teen entrepreneurs representing 22 businesses get 30 seconds to sell their ideas to the world in an online video “elevator pitch,” and a shot at $2,500 and two round-trip plane tickets

April was Giving Made Simple month at Sam’s Club, and NFTE was fortunate to be chosen as one of a handful of charities to compete in a member voting initiative and win $250,000 to support our work!