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New and official page for VentureLab. Join us on our mission to create the next generation of diverse entrepreneurs.
You don’t need to have a business idea.
You just need to care about something enough to ask: “How could we make this better?”
At IGNITE, you’ll meet other driven students, build an idea together, get real feedback, and step up to pitch something you created🚀
It’s fast. It’s challenging. And it might show you what you’re capable of.
Free for high school students. $1,500 in prizes.
June 24-26 at Trinity University.
🚨Only 2 days left—register now to save your spot: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/venturelab-ignite-social-innovation-challenge-registration-1990098690756?aff=oddtdtcreator
06/22/2026
You don’t need to have a business idea.
You just need to care about something enough to ask: “How could we make this better?”
At IGNITE, you’ll meet other driven students, build an idea together, get real feedback, and step up to pitch something you created🚀
It’s fast. It’s challenging. And it might show you what you’re capable of.
�Free for high school students. $1,500 in prizes.
June 24-26 at Trinity University.
🚨Only 2 days left—register now to save your spot:
VentureLab IGNITE Social Innovation Challenge 3 days. Real mentors. AI tools. $1,500 in prizes. Walk in curious walk out an entrepreneur.
Even the most amazing product won’t survive if it doesn’t create value.
A lesson from Founder and CEO Cristal Glangchai that every entrepreneur needs to hear💡
Perfection is a moving target.
Start before you’re ready🚀
has heard thousands of ideas at Shark Tank. The ones that succeed aren’t always the smartest or even the most original. They’re the ones led by people who refuse to quit.
That’s why at VentureLab, we’re teaching students how to take risks, learn from failure, adapt quickly, and keep building.
Because that’s what success looks like—in business and in life💡
06/19/2026
What a week in Flint. 🎉
Our team had the privilege of serving as room captains and mentors for the K-4 division at the Mott Million Dollar Challenge finals, and we are still riding the high from everything we saw.
Sixty student teams from across the country pitched live in front of judges. The energy in the rooms was something else.
We are so proud of every single team we worked with, but we have to give a special shout-out to our K-4 winners: KindLeaf, a plantable thank-you card company that took home the Social Challenge, and Sticky Pals, a sticker designed to make vaccine shots less scary for kids, who won the Business Challenge.
These students showed up, owned their ideas, and delivered. We could not be more proud.
Thank you to the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation for creating a stage this big for young entrepreneurs.
Many of today’s careers will look completely different in 10 years. Some won’t exist at all.
The future belongs to people who can adapt, create, communicate, and solve problems.
That’s what we’re really teaching at 🚀
06/18/2026
Next week, some of the most ambitious young entrepreneurs in San Antonio get three days to dream up, build, and pitch solutions to real problems.
They need mentors in the room to make it happen.
VentureLab IGNITE is looking for volunteers to join us June 24-26 at Trinity University for our Social Innovation Challenge. Whether you spend an hour or all three days, your presence matters. Students get real-world perspective. You get a front-row seat to what the next generation is already capable of building.
If you're a founder, operator, educator, designer, or just someone who believes in what happens when kids are given the tools and the room to create, we'd love to have you.
Link to signup below
https://bit.ly/4ejowbN
We’ve landed in Flint! 📍
VentureLab is taking over our channels all weekend for the Dollar Challenge 60 young founders, one stage, big ideas.
Stay tuned for live pitches, behind-the-scenes content, and more 🚀
Every great company started as a “wait, what if we tried this?” moment. This room is full of those moments right now. Some of these ideas are headed straight to VentureLab IGNITE, our biggest stage of the year.
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