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Statewide Competitions

For Students & Educators

Business World in the Classroom

2025 Competitions

The Wisconsin Business World works to engage students from all over the state as they compete in our two statewide competitions.  Students are invited to participate in the Business is a Force for Good Essay Contest or our Culture and Innovation Competition. Educators are invited to apply for the Manufacturing, Engineering and Technology (MET) Education Impact Awards.

National Civics Bee

IN PARTNERSHIP

The 2024-25 National Civics Bee® encourages students in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade to engage in civics and contribute to their communities. Three $500 cash prizes will be awarded!

The competition, modeled on traditional spelling and geography bees, gives students the chance to win recognition on a local, state and national stage and to earn cash prizes by sharing ideas for improving their communities and showing their enthusiasm for civics. 

CIVICS BEE

Culture & Innovation Competition

Presented By

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In order to thrive, businesses need to constantly be thinking two steps ahead of today. The Wisconsin-based Kwik trip Corporation has generously partnered with the Wisconsin Business World to bring you our inaugural bi-annual statewide classroom Culture and Innovation Competition. 

Students are invited to create a new product idea for the Kwik Trip Convenience Stores and creatively present the idea in a format of their choice: video essay, video commercial, written essay, recorded sales pitch, or other presentation style.

INNOVATION COMPETITION

"Why Wisconsin" Annual Essay Contest

Presented By

From your local restaurant helping fundraise for your basketball team to large corporations partnering with schools to offer skills education programs, Wisconsin businesses are making impactful efforts to help students, their employees, and their communities each day. Behind every great state are excellent businesses helping support local activities, individual livelihoods, their communities and our state.

Students are tasked to write an essay about the impact a business has made directly on them or their community, showing how Business has been a Force for Good at a local or state level here in Wisconsin.

ESSAY CONTEST
Michelle Grajkowski

Questions?

If you would like to learn more about our programs, please contact the Business World Program Senior Director, Michelle Grajkowski, via e-mail or by phone 608.258.3400.

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Sponsors

THANK YOU

Sponsors

Since 1982, Wisconsin Business World, a program of the WMC Foundation, has educated more than 25,000 students from all corners of the state on business, entrepreneurship and free enterprise through summer camps, one-day “mini” programs and classroom presentations.

In order to continue to grow our program, we rely on the generous support from our business community. As our impact has more than tripled over the past two years, our program budget has also grown to $265,000 for this fiscal year.

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