Closed for 2024
EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™
Scholarship
EY is excited to continue the tradition of honoring a student entrepreneur in Austin with a scholarship in connection with EY’s 2024 Entrepreneur Of the Year program. One exceptional JA entrepreneurship student will win a $2000 scholarship!
Educators and volunteers, open the form below to nominate your students.
Junior Achievement/EY Entrepreneur of the Year Scholarship (EOY) Youth Scholars
JA and EY are proud to continue to collaborate to provide 1 exceptional young entrepreneur from each participating Entrepreneur of the Year (EOY) region throughout the United States with youth entrepreneurship scholarships. The scholarship amount that is awarded is $2000. This funding can be utilized to support their educational pursuits, preferably paid directly to the post-secondary institution*. In some cases, it may be the business of more than one person who would receive the award with the full amount being split equally. As young entrepreneurs, EY introduces these students to the local entrepreneurial community through their EOY Regional Gala.
About EY’s Entrepreneur of The Year Program
The Entrepreneur of The Year program has been celebrating the ambitious visionaries who are leading successful, dynamic businesses for nearly four decades. Founded in 1986, the program has recognized more than 10,000 entrepreneurs throughout the US and has expanded to nearly 60 countries globally. Explore the program history to learn more about the impact of these entrepreneurs. EY's US program consists of 17 regional programs whose panels of independent judges select the regional award winners every June. Those regional award winners compete for national recognition the following November at the Strategic Growth Forum®, where National finalists and award winners are announced. The overall National winner then goes on to represent the US at the EY World Entrepreneur of The Year™ competition the following June.
Application requirements
• Student must be a junior or senior starting post-secondary education in the following 24-25 or 25-26 school year
• Applicants should have the presence and ability to attend the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Gala in the region and use the opportunity to network and meet entrepreneurs in their communities.
• Applicants should have a business idea that they can speak to at the event.
• Applicant demonstrates initiative, self-reliance, future orientation, and opportunity recognition.
• Applicants must live in the U.S., specifically near your local JA Chapter.
Youth Scholar Timeline & Selection Process
• All applications due by Tuesday, April 30, 2024
• The winner will be announced the first week of May
• Collect the headshot and bio from their scholarship recipient by May 10th, 2024
• Scholarship recipients, 1 Chaperone, 1 JA staff member attends EOY Gala in June 2024
Click the link to learn more about EY’s commitment to entrepreneurship: https://www.ey.com/en_us/entrepreneur-of-the-year-us
*Higher education includes any post-secondary. i.e. college, community college, trade schools, etc…
