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BKFK Announces the Unleash Your Locker Challenge
Contest partners with Global Entrepreneurship Week/USA, offers youth the
opportunity to showcase unbridled creativity and vision
Stamford, CT (October 6, 2008) – By Kids For Kids (BKFK) is partnering with
Global Entrepreneurship Week/USA, founded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman
Foundation and sponsored by the Acton Foundation for Entrepreneurial Excellence,
to present a fun and rewarding opportunity for our youth with the Unleash Your
Locker Challenge. This no holds barred open submissions competition, leveraging
the power of the BKFK Idea Locker™, will unleash the ideas, inventions and
innovations of our youth between the ages of 5 and 23 in the United States and
Canada (except Quebec) The competition runs until October 31, 2008 and all
entries must be received online via the BKFK website,
www.bkfk.com.
Submissions in the Unleash Your Locker Challenge are open to any category of
innovation- absolutely no limits will be imposed in this creative free for all.
Judging criteria will include 4 main parts: originality of concept, broad
appeal, development of idea, and feasibility of implementation. All entries must
include answers to questions posed on the online entry form (available at
www.bkfk.com) and will require a full description of the invention/innovation
along with optional supporting images and documents (up to 3 uploads). BKFK.com
provides an optional mechanism for video and data uploads.
The grand prize winner will receive a $500 prize and a one day expense-paid
visit to an innovative company linked to the winner's passions and interests.
The winner can be accompanied by an adult and the company will be selected after
the competition is closed. This "connection to reality" prize is provided by the
Kauffman Foundation. The winner will also have an opportunity for a licensing
agreement and patent if patentable through BKFK.
Norman Goldstein, the founder and CEO of BKFK, commented, "By partnering with
Kauffman Foundation and presenting the Unleash Your Locker Challenge, we
celebrate the virtually unlimited potential of our youth. Partially built on the
foundation of our Idea Locker™ innovation, and synergizing with the "Unleashing
Ideas" theme of the 2008 Global Entrepreneurship Week, this contest sets the
stage for an output of imagination and creativity on a dazzling scale!"
About By Kids For Kids Co.
By Kids for Kids® (BKFK®) is a youth marketing and media company partnering with
the world's leading corporations to provide a platform to foster, share,
showcase, and commercialize youth innovation and entrepreneurship. Their mission
is to inspire, motivate and stimulate the innovative spirit within all young
people.
The closely held Stamford, CT-based Corporation has been dedicated to making
youth ideas a reality since 2003. Through its website (www.bkfk.com) and its
social community (Idea Locker™), online competitions, TV show (Think Big™),
Magazine (Possible™), press, and education outreach, the company engages youth
in the US and around the world. BKFK® youth-created products are available
nationally and serve as a testament to the power of youth innovation and social
entrepreneurship.
The BKFK Idea Locker™ is a private online space where youth can create, develop,
store and share their ideas. Partially adopting the social networking style now
familiar to the target age group, users are able to add friends, chat, share
ideas and provide ratings and feedback on ideas that others have decided to
share through their "Idea Locker™". This secure personal locker can hold as many
ideas as the user can dream up. The Idea Locker™ also includes a mechanism for
uploading files such as text, images, audio and video.
More information about the company and its successes helping young innovators,
is available online at www.bkfk.com
About Global Entrepreneurship Week
Global Entrepreneurship Week will encourage youth to think big, to turn their
ideas into reality, and to make their mark. From Nov. 17-23, 2008, millions of
young people around the world will join a growing movement to generate new ideas
and to seek better ways of doing things. Thousands of activities are being
planned in more than seventy-five countries from around the world. Global
Entrepreneurship Week is: founded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and
the Make Your Mark campaign; sponsored by NYSE Euronext, IBM and Ernst & Young;
and, supported by JA Worldwide, Endeavor, Entrepreneurs' Organization, DECA,
National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship, Young Americas Business
Trust, Lisbon Council, and YES - European Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs.
To learn more, visit www.unleashingideas.org.
About the Kauffman Foundation
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is a private nonpartisan foundation that
works to harness the power of entrepreneurship and innovation to grow economies
and improve human welfare. Through its research and other initiatives, the
Kauffman Foundation aims to open young people's eyes to the possibility of
entrepreneurship, promote entrepreneurship education, raise awareness of
entrepreneurship-friendly policies, and find alternative pathways for the
commercialization of new knowledge and technologies. It also works to prepare
students to be innovators, entrepreneurs and skilled workers in the 21st century
economy through initiatives designed to improve learning in math, engineering,
science and technology. Founded by late entrepreneur and philanthropist Ewing
Marion Kauffman, the Foundation is based in Kansas City, Mo. and has more than
$2.4 billion in assets. More information is available at
www.kauffman.org.
Media Contact:
John Forrester
323-702-3684
media@bkfk.com
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