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Each competing team is required to schedule a pre-audit session with their Program Manager and submit the following reports in order to compete.
Annual Report
Every competing team must produce an annual report summarizing their projects, highlighting the impact made from April 14, 2024 – April 13, 2025. This mandatory document will be shared with judges during your 3-minute set-up period. Your annual report should detail project descriptions, target beneficiaries and actual impacts achieved.
Each team’s Annual Report must be typed in a legible font size and should provide an overview of the team’s efforts, results and achievements. It may also include information on future plans for growth and expansion.
Annual Reports are limited to the dimensions noted below, but can be bound or folded in any manner:
Please Note: Using one of the dimensions above but cutting the paper in a manner which causes a change in the size is NOT permitted.
Important points regarding the annual report:
Below are some examples of Annual Reports:
Project Verification Form
Every team must request that their Faculty Advisor, Student Leader and one administrator (e.g. dean, department chair, or institution president) review their Annual Report and sign the Project Verification Form.
Live Presentation Structure
Each competing team will have a 20-minute time block for their live presentation. The League Coordinator will keep the official time. After the League Coordinator has formally introduced the team, the time will be precisely divided as outlined below.
Judging Criterion
National Competition Judging Criteria | Printable Version
Further details on the National Competition, live presentations, and competition policies can be found in the Enactus Canada Team Manual on our Team Resources page.
Environmental Sustainability Challenge Requirements
Teams have the option to reuse, repair, refurbish, and/or recycle as part of their project or any combination of these activities
Community Empowerment Challenge Requirements
Note: Community empowerment is defined as the effective transfer of knowledge, development of relevant skills, and/or creation of meaningful opportunities or enterprises that lead to sustainable improvements in people’s livelihoods and well-being.
Innovation and Impact Challenge Requirements
The purpose of this challenge is specifically broad to allow Enactus teams to present their innovative ideas and solutions, regardless of the problem area, solution stage, or state of impact, etc. Teams are not required to have impact to compete in this challenge.
NOTE: To encourage new ideas/projects, teams cannot present projects that started before May 2024
Download the Innovation and Impact Challenge – Overview
Download the Innovation and Impact Challenge – Judging Criteria
Download the Innovation and Impact Challenge – Report Template
Entrepreneurship Challenge Requirements
The TD Entrepreneurship Challenge empowers Enactus teams to identify, create and deliver projects that teach relevant entrepreneurship skills, empowering aspiring and existing entrepreneurs.
Download the Entrepreneurship Challenge – Overview
Download the Entrepreneurship Challenge – Judging Criteria
Download the Entrepreneurship Challenge – Report Template
Presentation
Challenge Report Format:
Every competing team must produce a challenge report summarizing their projects, highlighting the impact made from February 23, 2025 – February 22, 2026. This mandatory document will be shared with judges during your 3-minute set-up period. Your challenge report should detail project descriptions, target beneficiaries and actual impacts achieved.
Here’s the breakdown of the Challenge Report:
Project Verification Form
Live Presentation
Each competing team will have a 12-minute time block for their live presentation. The League Coordinator will keep the official time. After the League Coordinator has formally introduced the team, the time will be precisely divided as outlined below.
3 minutes – Setup Period
5 minutes – Live Presentation
4 minutes – Judges’ Question & Answer Period
Prize Structure
The regional round of competition for Impact Challenges will take place with teams competing in one of the leagues per region. The first-place teams from each league will move on to compete in the Impact Challenge Final Round of Competition during the Enactus Canada National Exposition. The award structure for each Impact Challenge is as follows:
Regional Round of Competition
Final Round of Competition
Impact Challenge Final Rounds (at National Exposition)
How long are Impact Challenge presentations?
Will presentations need to be submitted prior to the competition?
How many students are allowed to present?
Are presenters required to hand out the Challenge Reports to judges?
Can additional team members join presenters and answer questions during the Q&A period?
Can the same project be presented in multiple challenge Challenges?
Can items/prototypes be shown in the presentation?
Can presenters use cue cards?
Can teams use their own timer?
Can we talk to the judges during the 3-minute tech set-up period?
When will leagues/presentation time and tech checks be announced?
Are students allowed to watch the presentations of other teams?
What are Challenge Reports and what is the format of the report?
What time period should be used when determining impact metrics in the Challenge Report and presentation?
What equipment and documents are required for the presentation?
Please note: Enactus Canada will provide a Power Bar, a table with 2 chairs, and a projector screen.
Will microphones be provided during the presentation and Q&A?
Can we share a projector with another team?
Thank you for your interest. We will be updating the 2025-2026 Project Accelerators this fall.
Alterna Savings SDG Project Accelerator
NOTE: 75% of the project grant will be disbursed in November 2024. The final 25% will be disbursed in May 2025 upon completion of a final impact report that is deemed acceptable by the review committee.
The CWB Indigenous Inclusion Project Accelerator
NOTE: 75% of the project grant will be disbursed in November 2024. The final 25% will be disbursed in May 2025 upon completion of a Final Impact Report that is deemed acceptable by the review committee, participation in the CWB Indigenous Inclusion Project Accelerator Final Round of Competition, and confirmation that at least two students from the Enactus team completed the Indigenous Awareness Training course.
The Jeanne Sauvé Global Project Accelerator
NOTE: 75% of the project grant will be disbursed in November 2024. The final 25% will be disbursed in May 2025, upon completion of a final impact report that is deemed acceptable by the review committee.
The PC Financial Resilience Project Accelerator
NOTE: 75% of the project grant will be disbursed in November 2024. The final 25% will be disbursed in May 2025, upon completion of a final impact report that is deemed acceptable by the review committee.
The Student Entrepreneur National Competition will launch in the late fall.
If you have any questions, please reach out to programs@enactus.ca.
To be eligible for the award, students and their businesses must meet the following criteria:
Nomination and Application Process:
Finalist Selection Process:
Digital Round of Competition:
Final Round of Competition:
Additional details can be found in the 2024-2025 Student Entrepreneur Handbook.
Three (3) finalists will receive complimentary lodging and travel (from within Canada) to attend the Enactus Canada National Exposition