{"id":578,"date":"2025-01-21T00:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T00:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ticamericas.net\/startup\/?page_id=578"},"modified":"2025-02-26T06:51:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T06:51:30","slug":"eligibility-criteria","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ticamericas.net\/startup\/en\/rules\/eligibility-criteria\/","title":{"rendered":"Eligibility Criteria"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"578\" class=\"elementor elementor-578\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4a242e4 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4a242e4\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-98ac7e7\" data-id=\"98ac7e7\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c847b1d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c847b1d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>In order to compete and be eligible to win in the Start-Up Challenge, a special category of TIC Americas 2025, competing teams (\u201cTeams\u201d) must meet the following criteria:<\/p><ol><li>Be composed of a minimum of one (1) person and a maximum of five (5) people between 18 and 34 years old, with experience in different areas of their business.<\/li><li>Participants must be citizens or legal residents of an OAS Member State. Multinational Teams may compete. Multinational teams shall register under the country of nationality or country of permanent residence of the CEO.<\/li><li>Each team may register up to two Volunteer Mentors responsible for guiding the team through their expertise (optional). (See &#8220;Mentors&#8221;).<\/li><li>Each team may register up to two (2) Volunteer Mentors responsible for guiding the team through their expertise (optional). (See &#8220;Mentors&#8221;).<\/li><\/ol><p>The following individuals are not eligible to register or compete in the Start-Up Challenge:<\/p><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">YABT staff, members of its Board of Directors, and national chapters.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TIC Americas judges.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Any Banreservas staff, contractors, or\u00a0 members of its Board of Directors and Advisory Council\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Entrepreneurs who have already received capital investment and\/or financing from Cree Banreservas Program<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Organization of American States\u2019 General Secretariat personnel.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Immediate family or household members of anyone mentioned above.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to compete and be eligible to win in the Start-Up Challenge, a special category of TIC Americas 2025, competing teams (\u201cTeams\u201d) must meet the following criteria: Be composed of a minimum of one (1) person and a maximum of five (5) people between 18 and 34 years old, with experience in different areas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":561,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-578","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ticamericas.net\/startup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ticamericas.net\/startup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ticamericas.net\/startup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ticamericas.net\/startup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ticamericas.net\/startup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ticamericas.net\/startup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":792,"href":"https:\/\/ticamericas.net\/startup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/578\/revisions\/792"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ticamericas.net\/startup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ticamericas.net\/startup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}