Jewell County YEC 2026

2025-2026 Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge Series December 10, 2025

Mankato, KS

Dec 10

Business application deadline: December 1, 2025
Judge registration deadline: December 5, 2025
Entry fee: Free

Description

This is Jewell County's 4th year participating in the YEC Series. YEC will be held at Rock Hills High School. Back again this year is the audience favorite, the tradeshow, where entrepreneurs will display their business concept. Over $1,500 in prizes from JCCDA and NexGen Roundup for Youth.

Schedule and key dates

12:45 - Students released to set up trade show booths (cafeteria)
1:15 - Formal Presentations begin
1:00 - 2:30 - Trade Show (1:15 -2:15 open to the public)
2:15 - Formal Presentations conclude
2:45 - YEC awards

Organized by

Jennifer Urbaniak

Date & time

Wed, December 10, 2025 starting at 1:00 PM CST

Address and location

710 E. Madison St.
Mankato, KS 66956

Components

Executive Summary

The Executive Summary is a written business summary, in PDF format, including de...

Weight: 30%

Formal Presentation

The Formal Presentation is a four-to-six-minute presentation where each business...

Weight: 40%

Tradeshow

The Tradeshow is an event where businesses will have the opportunity to pitch th...

Weight: 30%

Leaderboard

Watch them go! The leaderboard reflects all scores that have been approved by the competition’s host.

The leaderboard is not finalized until every score has a checkmark.

= Not scored = In progress = Complete

Rank	Business	Overall score	Executive Summary	Formal Presentation	Tradeshow
1	Meili's Knitted Goods	44.6 / 50	17 / 20 complete	22.75 / 25 complete	22.75 / 25 complete
	Meili's Knitted Goods judge scores		Judge #1: 17 Judge #2: 20 Judge #3: 13 Judge #4: 18	Judge #1: 24 Judge #2: 22 Judge #3: 22 Judge #4: 23	Judge #1: 20 Judge #2: 24 Judge #3: 25 Judge #4: 22
2	Caboose Cafe	38.338 / 50	13.25 / 20 complete	17.5 / 25 complete	24 / 25 complete
	Caboose Cafe judge scores		Judge #1: 14 Judge #2: 13 Judge #3: 10 Judge #4: 16	Judge #1: 21 Judge #2: 14 Judge #3: 15 Judge #4: 20	Judge #1: 21 Judge #2: 25 Judge #3: 25 Judge #4: 25
3	Grizzlies Apparel	30.725 / 50	11.5 / 20 complete	13 / 25 complete	19.5 / 25 complete
	Grizzlies Apparel judge scores		Judge #1: 14 Judge #2: 14 Judge #3: 9 Judge #4: 9	Judge #1: 12 Judge #2: 13 Judge #3: 13 Judge #4: 14	Judge #1: 17 Judge #2: 20 Judge #3: 22 Judge #4: 19
4	need a sitter?	25.85 / 50	11 / 20 complete	10 / 25 complete	16 / 25 complete
	need a sitter? judge scores		Judge #1: 12 Judge #2: 15 Judge #3: 9 Judge #4: 8	Judge #1: 9 Judge #2: 10 Judge #3: 10 Judge #4: 11	Judge #1: 16 Judge #2: 17 Judge #3: 18 Judge #4: 13

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