{"id":636,"date":"2025-01-21T01:15:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T01:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ticamericas.net\/startup\/?page_id=636"},"modified":"2025-05-07T20:10:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T20:10:59","slug":"timeline","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ticamericas.net\/startup\/en\/rules\/timeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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  1. Official Announcement: December 10, 2024.<\/strong><\/li>
  2. Registration Period: January 15, 2025 \u2013 May 15, 2025<\/strong>.
    • Teams create a Team Profile on the Website and participate in online training sessions.<\/li><\/ul><\/li>
    • Materials Submission Deadline for registered teams: May 30, 2025, at 10:00 PM (EST).<\/strong>
      • Registered teams may submit or make changes to Competition Materials and their Team Profile until the deadline.<\/li><\/ul><\/li>
      • Business Opportunity Online Training Camp (BOOT Camp): February 2025 \u2013 May 2025.<\/strong>
        • Boot Camp helps participants transform innovative ideas into more solid, structured projects, business plans and social enterprises. The BOOT Camp is a one-stop resource center for young entrepreneurs to access business development content, tips, tools, online training, and other relevant material for developing youth-led projects, start-ups and businesses.<\/li><\/ul><\/li>
        • Evaluations: June 2025.<\/strong>
          • Judges will conduct evaluations following the criteria defined in these Rules, Terms and Conditions. (Section D). The evaluation process is conducted solely by judges and coordinated by the Organizer. No contact between judges and team members, including mentors, is permitted at this time.<\/li><\/ul><\/li>
          • Announcement of Finalists: July 2025.<\/strong>
            • Due to an expected high number of participants, YABT and its partners will announce the Finalist Teams through a virtual event transmitted via webcast. Only Finalist Teams will be contacted directly via email.

              In preparation for the Finals, Finalists will receive the following technical assistance:<\/p><\/li>

            • Assessment Report<\/strong> \u2013 YABT compiles feedback and scoring that the teams received from the Judges during the Semi-Finals phase. This resulting report helps teams understand the areas that need work and improvement.<\/li>
            • Group Mentoring<\/strong> \u2013 Finalist teams will receive group mentoring to improve the business strategy in preparation for the Finals. Mentors will be identified by YABT and will come from renowned multinational companies, universities, incubators, etc. who allocate time and resources to support Finalists improve their projects for the live presentation to judges during the finals.<\/li>
            • Meet the Finalists Campaign<\/strong> \u2013 YABT holds an hemispheric social media campaign to provide wide visibility and potential partnerships to Finalists, including live, webcasted interviews, presentations, etc.<\/li><\/ul><\/li>
            • Finals and Awards Ceremony: August 2025
              <\/strong>The Finals, a live virtual event that will be transmitted via webcast, (except when indicated below), consists of the following::
              • Presentation to Judges<\/strong>: Finalists will present to a panel of judges in real time, via virtual meetings using technological communications platforms (zoom, meet or similar). The teams\u2019 presentations are not publicly transmitted and can be organized over a week .<\/li>
              • Expo<\/strong>: a virtual Expo will be available and open to the general public to meet, connect, and support the finalists; Finalists will visualize and promote their initiatives during this period.<\/li>
              • Awards Ceremony<\/strong>: YABT and Banreservas will announce the winners during the closing and awards ceremony, attended by authorities and special guests of the program.<\/li>
              • Plenary Sessions<\/strong>: Composed of panels, keynote lectures and discussions on Innovation, Development and New Technologies, among other topics of interest to the ecosystem, led by international experts, including the Finalists and high-level speakers.<\/li><\/ul><\/li>
              • Follow up and Capacity Building: August\u2013November 2025<\/strong>
                1. Awards Packages implementation process: YABT will work with Winners in the development and presentation of an investment plan, as well as all required documentation and formats for disbursements of funds. As winners, teams also receive further mentoring, visibility opportunities, including speaking invitations to YABT and\/or partner events, youth dialogues or forums, and other similar spaces that will showcase their impact and open partnership opportunities.<\/li><\/ol><\/li><\/ol>\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":"

                  Official Announcement: December 10, 2024. Registration Period: January 15, 2025 \u2013 May 15, 2025. Teams create a Team Profile on the Website and participate in online training sessions. Materials Submission Deadline for registered teams: May 30, 2025, at 10:00 PM (EST). Registered teams may submit or make changes to Competition Materials and their Team Profile […]<\/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-636","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ticamericas.net\/startup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/636","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=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/ticamericas.net\/startup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":849,"href":"https:\/\/ticamericas.net\/startup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/636\/revisions\/849"}],"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=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}