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The National Youth Entrepreneurship Awards (NYEA) concluded yesterday with MOS Alvin Tan presenting the awards to the recipients and SP students/alumni swept 4 of the 9 national awards! 

This year, the NYEA has been expanded to include two components: the NYEA Recognition (Open Category for youths under 35 years old) who have displayed entrepreneurial qualities and to recognise their contributions to the Singapore startup ecosystem and POL-ITE Entrepreneurs' Challenge (Student and Alumni category).

National Youth Entrepreneurship Award Recognition (Open)

Judges: Alvin Ng – Partner & Director (Community & Partnerships), Farquhar VC (FVC), Ethen Ong Yongsen – Deputy Executive Director, *SCAPE SG, Patrick Lim – CEO, ACE.SG,  Vivian Lee – Co-Founder & CEO, Go!Mama

GOLD Winner

Ernest Soh (DMAD/DMC 2024 graduate)
(Co-founder of RunAI, 2023 SP Batey Challenge Grand winner and 2022 SP Batey Hackathon Gold winner – also from MAD’s Creative Entrepreneurship Pathway programme working on his startup for FYP and Internship in AY 2023/2024)

SILVER Winner

Alicia Hong En Ting (DMAD/FT/3B/DC21)

(Founder of Digi-Up!, 2024 SP Batey Challenge Gold winner, 2023 SP Batey Hackathon Gold winner, 2023/24 Youth Action Challenge Winner)

POL-ITE Entrepreneurs' Challenge (Student Category)

Judges: Jay Prakash, PhD – Co-Founder & CEO, Silence Laboratories, Shao-Ning Huang – Chief Angel & Co-Founder, AngelCentral, Shawn Liam – Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, Atlas

GOLD ($10,000)

Kloss (supported by 2024 SP Small Project Funding)

Co-founder Javen Francis Koh Wei Yang (Singapore Poly - DMB/FT/3A/04) (Also co-founder of NETT, 2024 SP Batey Challenge Silver Award)

Director of Design, Shyakirah Ummi Nadhilah (Singapore Poly - DMB/FT/3A/04)

Co-founder Lingesh Sachuvanantham (Ngee Ann Poly)

This is an interesting group with SP and NP students and we are working on a cross-IHL initiative, Open Design Institutes Network (ODIN) to facilitate student-driven collaborations. 

SP students:
Shyakirah Ummi Nadhilah(2nd from right)  Javen Francis Koh Wei Yang (far right) 

BRONZE ($5,000)

RTE Technologies (also 2024 SP Batey Challenge Gold Award winner – this is a multi-disciplinary group from EP1101 Incubating Innovation elective)

Foo Zheng Yong Jerald (DEB/FT/3B/21)

Chin Yan Kang Elliot (DEB/FT/3B/21)

Ysabela Rica Villamayor Dela Cruz (DMAD/FT/2B/DM04)

Mohamed Irhamshah Bin Kamarudin (DIT/FT/3B/01)