Intuit Social Innovation Challenge

This fall, Intuit and FBLA present a 6-week innovation experience led by teams of high school students across the country. Students are challenged to tackle the following question: How might we help underrepresented aspiring business owners access equitable opportunities to starting a new business? We want students to join us and ‘Lead with a Cause.’

About the Challenge

Intuit’s Social Innovation Challenge engage students from nonprofit partners and school districts to leverage design thinking to develop innovative solutions that help increase access to entrepreneurship and small business ownership for underrepresented groups.

• Learn Real-World Skills
  Learn skills used by the most innovative founders & companies, including Intuit’s design thinking method, Design for Delight, and add new skills to your resume and/or college application.
• Create a Solution
  Create solutions that interests you, leveraging your knowledge of design thinking. Then, identify potential customers, brainstorm, and test your ideas.
• Compete With Your Team
  Compete against other high school students across North America and test your new skills.

Some of the Problems you are trying to solve:

• Only 1.2 percent of funding raised by startups in the first half of 2021 went to Black founders.
• 90 percent of Latinx entrepreneurs struggle to access the capital and support they need to launch and grow.
• All-women teams received just 2.3 percent of all venture capital dollars in 2020
• California, Massachusetts and New York — made up 73.1 percent of venture funding in the U.S. last year

Intuit wants FBLA students with bold visions to take on these real world challenges. You will learn design thinking and entrepreneurship skills from Intuit along the way and become leaders for your community.