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Competition Overview
The Nationwide Pitch Video Competition allows all of our Notable Learning students at participating schools around the world to submit a short video pitching their business, to compete for awards, accolades, and cash prizes.
This pitch video not only helps you craft effective talking points for your business, but will also be a great asset that you can post on social media, add to your website, or text/email to your friends and family promoting your business. It should help you drive sales! And as part of the pitch competition, this pitch video also has the chance to make you some serious money and earn accolades for your resume and college applications. In other words, the time spent on this video could make you money and benefit you in more than one way!
Your video does not just have to be you talking to the camera, either. Feel free to incorporate other people or pets into your video, act out a scene, pretend you are on the news, tell a story, or anything else that you think would be effective as a pitch for your business. See the short list of rules below.
The best pitch videos are memorable, actionable (meaning it encourages someone to respond, and makes it clear on how they can do so), and convincing.
Watch: Competition Overview
Ready to get started? Register below!
Important Dates
Registration for the Spring 2026 semester is open from April 1, 2026 - June 5, 2026. You may submit your video and register for the competition at any time up to the closing date of June 5th at midnight (central time). Don’t procrastinate and wait until the last minute. You won’t want to miss out on this opportunity.
Judges will score each video and winners will be announced via email by June 26, 2026.
Rules
- Entrants are limited to students currently in Notable Learning classes at participating schools. Others may participate in your video as actors, supporters, customers providing short testimonials, etc.
- Video submission can be up to 3 minutes long. Videos longer than 3 minutes will not be accepted.
- Only one entry per participant will be allowed and submit your own content (only put content in your video that you have the rights to use).
- Videos must be uploaded to YouTube, Vimeo, Google Drive, or Dropbox (they can be public or unlisted) and shared via a link on our registration form. See “How to Register” below for more details.
- Videos will be scored according to our “Judging Criteria” (see below).
Judging
Judges will score each video 1-10 in each of the below criteria (see “Judging Criteria”). The score for each criteria is then multiplied by how much that criteria is worth to the overall score. The score from each criteria is totaled to create the final score for each participant. For example, receiving an “8” in the “Differentiation” category that is worth 15% of your overall score would be worth 1.2 points (8 times 15%) towards your aggregate score. The highest any video can score is a total of 10 points.
The top three highest cumulative scores in each age category will be declared the winners.
Judging Criteria
- Business and Product/Service Description: (Worth 15% of Total Score): How well was the business explained? Was the product or service clearly defined?
- Differentiation (Worth 15% of Total Score): What makes the product or service different/better and why would the customer want to buy from this business? How compelling was this difference?
- Call to action (Worth 10% of Total Score): Was there a clear call-to-action defined and a way for someone to buy from their business outlined in the video? How memorable and effective was the call-to-action?
- Goals, Aspirations, and Impact (Worth 15% of Total Score): Did the entrepreneur effectively describe what they wanted to get out of their business and what goals they had moving forward? Did the entrepreneur provide some way their business is having an impact other than just making sales? (Saving for the future, giving back to the community in a relevant way, etc.)
- Confidence / Delivery (Worth 15% of Total Score): Was the entrepreneur speaking with confidence and clarity? Did the entrepreneur convey enthusiasm about their product or service?
- Creativity / Entertainment (Worth 20% of Total Score): Did the pitch hold your attention? Was it memorable? Was the video creative?
- Audio and Video Quality (Worth 10% of Total Score): Could we see and hear the entrepreneur and anyone else involved in the video well?
Awards & Prizes
Awards and prizes will be given out to the top three entrants with the highest cumulative judging score.
First Place - $500
Second Place - $300
Third Place - $200
How to Register
1) Film a Pitch Video that promotes your business to a potential customer in under 3 minutes. (Helpful tips on filming a great video here: https://youtu.be/G-5a1jSQ8nc
2) Upload the video to YouTube, Vimeo, Google Drive, or Dropbox (you can create your own free account or use a parents’). Make sure your video is marked as either “Public” or “Unlisted” (NOT private). Learn how to upload to YouTube here: https://youtu.be/5ud5DJiNi2I?t=33
3) Fill out the registration form below between April 1, 2026 and midnight central time on June 5, 2026 and include the link to your video.
