Competition Awards
3 awards announced
The winners of this award have not been announced.
Competition Timeline
Written Applications and Staff Screening
Round One is the written Application for the Rural Entrepreneurship Challenge. It includes a 750-word executive summary and five captioned photos. Please visit www.StrongRuralAmerica.com/Challenge for rules and scoring info.
Only Ten Semi-Finalists will proceed to Round Two.
- Update Applications
- 24-Jul-2014 05:00 PM to 15-Sep-2014 05:00 PM
- Judging
- 19-Sep-2014 05:01 AM to 23-Sep-2014 07:00 AM
Online Judges
Staff will screen applications for eligibility and completeness, and begin weeding out the 4s on a scale with 1s the best. A total of 48 applications will be passed along to the Online Judges.
- Update Applications
- Not Announced to Not Announced
- Judging
- 23-Sep-2014 09:00 AM to 06-Oct-2014 05:00 PM
Times are in EST (-0500)
Rural Entrepreneurship Challenge 2015
Welcome, Rural Entrepreneurship Challenge participants!
To see the eligibility and judging criteria for this competition please visit http://www.StrongRuralAmerica.com/Challenge. See left menu for Eligibility and Rules and Procedures.
Congratulations to the Top Ten Semi-Finalists!
ATP-SC (Allendale, S.C.) - Team lead: Joe James
Branches, Inc. (Neosho, Mo.) - Team lead: David Parsons
Fergus Foods (Fergus Falls, Minn.) - Team lead: Robert Fuglie
Golden Bridges, Inc. (Palmyra, Mo.) - Team lead: Suzanne Ellerbrock
Mobile Rural Veterinary Clinic (Panhandle, Texas) - Team lead: Joe Hillhouse
Pasturebird, LLC (Temecula, Calif.) - Team lead: Paul Greive
Pulaski Grow (Pulaski, Va.) - Team lead: Lee Spiegel
ScoutPro (Lone Tree, Iowa) - Team lead: Michael Koenig
Shelf Life (Arlington, Tenn.) - Team lead: Glenn Cunningham
StopFlood Appliance Systems (Inkom, Idaho) - Team lead: Brent Singley
Their next step is a pitch audition via Skype or Google Hangouts to be scheduled in early November. For more information about the semi-finalists and what is next, see the official press release.