NBPC | College Leap

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Community College Students

College Leap Virtual National
Business Plan Competition (NBPC)

A Nationwide Competition for Community College Students;
A Series of Entrepreneurship Educational Workshops;
An Access to UC Berkeley Entrepreneurship Ecosystem;

NBPC FINAL ROUND
SCHEDULE

13:30 - 13:40 PST	OPENING
13:40 - 13:50 PST	KEYNOTE SPEECH
14:00 - 16:00 PST	FINAL ROUND COMPETITION
16:30 - 17:30 PST	HAAS TRANSFER PANEL
17:30 - 18:00 PST	NBPC ENDING & RESULT

Final Round Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/96728915981

Do you have a fabulous idea but NEED TEAMMATES?

Are you still looking to JOIN A TEAM for NBPC?

Then the Team Match GROUP is for you!

You will find people with ideas needing teammates, and people looking for ideas in the group.

Learn to Build a Business Plan,

Get Certificate for Participation!

The NBPC aims to education and expose community college students,
during the current pandemic to:

Entrepreneurship,
Start-up Business Plans,
Venture Capitalists,
The UC Berkeley Business Ecosystem
......

The NBPC bridges the resource gap faced by community college students in the U.S., providing opportunities for students to leverage their creativity and knowledge from academic studies while simultaneously boosting their competitiveness as transfer students.

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THE RULES

How does NBPC work? Nine Rules you should know before registration?

1 REGISRATION
RULES

The size of each team must be from 1 to 5 members;
Need to have at least one full-time U.S. community college students in the team;
If all of your team members are from one college that has a separate session (listed below), please register in your college's session. Otherwise, please register in open session.
Teams from all U.S. community colleges can compete in the open sessions.
Teams DO NOT need to submit their pitch deck when register, but need to answer several key questions about their business.
Registration forms will be used to conduct Screening Round.

2 EDUCATIONAL
WORKSHOP
RULES

The workshops are FREE & OPEN to all;
Workshops will be recorded and updated on the event page;
You MUST register for all workshops and submit your NBPC registration form to receive the Participation Certificate no matter whether you choose to participate in live session or watch video recordings.

3 BUSINESS
PLAN RULES

Teams need to include basic components of a business plan included in the guideline Here;
A slide on "Response to Covid-19" should be included on top of the guideline. It can mean either a) how can your business help with the current situation? In what aspect? or b) how will your business do to respond to the current situation

4 RUBRICS

Business Plan (70 pts):
Problem Identification; Solution/Value Proposition; Business Model; Market Opportunity; Growth Strategy; Financials; Covid-19 response
Delivery (40 pts)
a. Statement organization
b. Presentation Style
c. Teamwork
d. Q & A
Judge's Choice (15 pts)
Audience Pick (10 pts)

Here is the full Rubric for NBPC

5 FIRST-ROUND
RULES

A Screening Round will be held to decide participants of first-round sessions based on the quality of registration forms.
Participating teams MUST have their pitch decks ready before their sessions respectively
Each team will have 7 mins for presentation and 5 mins for Q&A;
At least three judges will be presented in every session, including one business faculty, one college alumnus/alumina, and one club officer from UC Berkeley.
The team with the highest score from each session will move on to the regional round.

6 OPEN SESSION
RULES

Team with at least one full-time student from any U.S. community colleges is eligible to register at open session;
The number of open sessions will depend on the number and quality of registrations;
Team will be randomly assigned to a open session to compete in first round;
The winners of open sessions will be randomly assigned to one of the three regions to compete in the regional-round
Registration for open sessions will be open on Sep. 1st and ends 11:59 PM PST on Oct. 10th.
All open sessions will be on Oct. 18th

7 REGIONAL-
ROUND RULES

Each regional team will appear in the Participating Teams section on this webpage.
A total of three sessions will be held for regional round on Oct. 24th
Top two teams from each region will move on to the final round.
The team whose post has the most "Likes (Thumb-ups)" by 11:59 P.M, Oct. 25th, will also move on to the final round.

8 FINAL-ROUND
RULES

Each Finalist team will be matched with a UC Berkeley Business Club to receive a two-week mentorship (Oct. 27-- Nov. 7);
Other than the pitch deck, Finalist teams need to submit a 6-page business plan summary & a one-minute elevator pitch video;
For Finalist teams that focus on Social Impact, they can choose to enter Berkeley Big Idea Contest
Every team in the Final Round will be ranked.

9 RECOGNITION
RULES

If you sign-up for all educational workshops & submit a registration, you will receive a Certification of Participation.
Winners of first-round sessions will receive an Regional-Round Award
Finalist teams will receive a Final-Round Award with their ranks.
The final round winning team will receive a Trophy
The team with best response to Covid-19 will receive the "Best Response to Covid-19 Award"
The team with the most "Likes (Thumb-ups)" by the end of the event will receive the "Most Popular Business Plan Award"

THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

A template and a sequence of workshops are prepared to walk you through the whole process of turning an idea
into a business plan. All of the workshops are open to all!