2026 Cloud County YEC

2025-2026 Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge Series Feb 18, 2026

Concordia, Kansas

Feb 18

Project application deadline: Feb 10, 2026
Judge registration deadline: Feb 12, 2026
Entry fee: Free

Description

CloudCorp will hold their YEC and Annual Luncheon in the commercial building at the Cloud County Fairgrounds in Concordia, Kansas. The morning will start with the YEC competition, move into the trade show that is open to the community, followed by the annual luncheon with guest speaker Nick Poels and awards presented to the winners of the YEC.

Schedule and key dates

The date of the competition is Wednesday, February 18th, 2026. YEC participants will need to have their businesses registered on VentureDash by Friday, February 6th, and their Executive Summary on VentureDash by February 11th, 2026 by midnight. This will give the judges adequate time to review all the summaries.

Organized by

Deb Lange

Date & time

Wed, February 18, 2026 at 9:00 AM CST

Address and location

Cloud County Fair Grounds Commercial Building
615 Industrial Road
Concordia, Kansas 66901

Components

Executive Summary

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

Weight: 25%

Elevator Pitch

The Elevator Pitch is a short pitch of an entrepreneur's business to a panel of...

Weight: 25%

Formal Presentation

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

Weight: 25%

Tradeshow

The Tradeshow is a 90-minute event where businesses will have the opportunity to...

Weight: 25%

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	Project	Overall score	Executive Summary	Elevator Pitch	Formal Presentation	Tradeshow

1	Simply Soap	44.219 / 50	16.25 / 20 complete	18.75 / 20 complete	22.5 / 25 complete	17.75 / 20 complete
	:project judge scores		Judge #1: 17 Judge #2: 12 Judge #3: 17 Judge #4: 19	Judge #1: 18 Judge #2: 20 Judge #3: 18 Judge #4: 19	Judge #1: 24 Judge #2: 25 Judge #3: 17 Judge #4: 24	Judge #1: 18 Judge #2: 18 Judge #3: 17 Judge #4: 18
2	M&M Nails	41.781 / 50	15.25 / 20 complete	17.5 / 20 complete	22 / 25 complete	16.5 / 20 complete
	:project judge scores		Judge #1: 17 Judge #2: 16 Judge #3: 18 Judge #4: 10	Judge #1: 18 Judge #2: 18 Judge #3: 16 Judge #4: 18	Judge #1: 23 Judge #2: 24 Judge #3: 20 Judge #4: 21	Judge #1: 18 Judge #2: 20 Judge #3: 12 Judge #4: 16
3	Signing Off	38.625 / 50	13 / 20 complete	17.75 / 20 complete	18.5 / 25 complete	16.25 / 20 complete
	:project judge scores		Judge #1: 16 Judge #2: 9 Judge #3: 17 Judge #4: 10	Judge #1: 19 Judge #2: 19 Judge #3: 17 Judge #4: 16	Judge #1: 23 Judge #2: 16 Judge #3: 15 Judge #4: 20	Judge #1: 19 Judge #2: 15 Judge #3: 14 Judge #4: 17
4	Pasta on the Run	38.094 / 50	14 / 20 complete	16.5 / 20 complete	19 / 25 complete	15.25 / 20 complete
	:project judge scores		Judge #1: 17 Judge #2: 9 Judge #3: 16 Judge #4: 14	Judge #1: 18 Judge #2: 17 Judge #3: 14 Judge #4: 17	Judge #1: 22 Judge #2: 18 Judge #3: 13 Judge #4: 23	Judge #1: 17 Judge #2: 16 Judge #3: 11 Judge #4: 17
5	FFF	36.938 / 50	13.25 / 20 complete	15.5 / 20 complete	17 / 25 complete	16.75 / 20 complete
	:project judge scores		Judge #1: 15 Judge #2: 14 Judge #3: 13 Judge #4: 11	Judge #1: 19 Judge #2: 14 Judge #3: 15 Judge #4: 14	Judge #1: 18 Judge #2: 16 Judge #3: 16 Judge #4: 18	Judge #1: 18 Judge #2: 18 Judge #3: 15 Judge #4: 16
6	Happy Tails Pet Care	36.688 / 50	15.5 / 20 complete	15.25 / 20 complete	17.75 / 25 complete	13.75 / 20 complete
	:project judge scores		Judge #1: 18 Judge #2: 13 Judge #3: 18 Judge #4: 13	Judge #1: 18 Judge #2: 15 Judge #3: 13 Judge #4: 15	Judge #1: 21 Judge #2: 16 Judge #3: 12 Judge #4: 22	Judge #1: 17 Judge #2: 9 Judge #3: 14 Judge #4: 15
7	Splash Bros Power Washing	33.531 / 50	14 / 20 complete	14 / 20 complete	16.75 / 25 complete	12.25 / 20 complete
	:project judge scores		Judge #1: 16 Judge #2: 7 Judge #3: 17 Judge #4: 16	Judge #1: 18 Judge #2: 14 Judge #3: 12 Judge #4: 12	Judge #1: 20 Judge #2: 17 Judge #3: 12 Judge #4: 18	Judge #1: 16 Judge #2: 11 Judge #3: 10 Judge #4: 12
8	B and L Links	29.875 / 50	12.25 / 20 complete	12.75 / 20 complete	13.5 / 25 complete	12 / 20 complete
	:project judge scores		Judge #1: 13 Judge #2: 10 Judge #3: 16 Judge #4: 10	Judge #1: 17 Judge #2: 12 Judge #3: 11 Judge #4: 11	Judge #1: 18 Judge #2: 10 Judge #3: 10 Judge #4: 16	Judge #1: 15 Judge #2: 12 Judge #3: 11 Judge #4: 10

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