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Business Competitions

Unlocking Entrepreneurial Ambitions

By Mr. Edward Lee

This academic year was action-packed with various teams
from Spring eld School’s PB2, PB3, and Ra es Hills
campuses participating in 10 business competitions held

at the national, regional, and global levels. Motivations for
our students to join these competitions ranged from
gaining valuable entrepreneurial skills, nding potential
investors, building their university application pro les,

winning cash prizes, to learning new and more practical
concepts outside the con nes of the Cambridge Business
syllabus.

Indeed many Spring eld School teams were successful in gaining places with podium nishes or making it to the nal round in several
business competitions during the academic year, making Spring eld School a leading contender when compared to the performance of
other Cambridge/IB schools in Jakarta. While these Spring eld School teams relished in the joy of victory, it is inevitable that most teams did

not – but learned valuable lessons in loss, which re ects the harsh reality of the risk in doing business in the “real world.” This point leads to
another key incentive to join these competitions – a risk-free simulated environment to test out your entrepreneurship skills while guided by
Spring eld School teacher mentors!

In this article, we would like to spotlight our most proli c
student team participants this year who enrolled in 4 Business

competitions in total, and ultimately placed as 3 runner-up
rd
in the Prasetiya Mulya Business Plan Competition and
2 Place winners in the Street Smart Society Business Case
nd
Competition. These team members dedicated a good portion

of their extracurricular time pouring over the details of their
written business plans, creating presentation slides, and
sweating it out when pitching their ideas to a live panel of
judges and responding to tough Q&A. After one of the

competitions this team participated in, their food-based
business idea caught the eye of SariAgri, an online
agricultural-focused magazine.

The team members were interviewed and their article was
publicly published online.