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May 7, 2011 10:26 am GMT

You Think Pitching Your Startup Idea Is Hard? Watch These Kids Do It

Around eighty entrepreneur hopefuls gathered at NASA AMES last week to pitch their ideas for breakthrough technological products, with the hopes of gaining the funding to make their dreams a reality. But this wasn't part of the application process for anew fangled startup accelerator program, and the teams weren't comprised of Valley visionairies in their 20s and 30s but rather high school kids between the ages of 14-18.To compete in the Conrad Foundation's Spirit of Innovation Awards, each team of high schoolers had to create a business plan, technical report, graphical representation and elevator pitch for their product, presenting their invention to a panel of judges for 10 minutes.All in all 27 finalists competed in the Aerospace, Clean Energy and Cyber security categories to win $5,000 and the community support and mentorship to develop their product commercially.

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