$20 Boss Awards.

The $20 Boss Awards are a fantastic way to celebrate the achievements of young people and showcase the brilliant business ideas they’ve created in $20 Boss. The awards bring together young people, teachers, parents, and supporters of young entrepreneurs.

We are accepting entries from students and schools that ran the $20 Boss program from Term 1 2023- Term 2 2024.

Enter today, before entries close on the 28th June 2024!

Award Categories & Prizes

Have you got a business idea that could be a real success, could change the world, become the next big thing, or could make a difference to the lives of people around you?

Enter your team to have a shot at becoming the $20 Boss Enterprise of the Year and win up to $500 in seed funding and $250 for the highly commended team.

We’re looking for schools that represent the very best of the values of $20 Boss, that succeed in supporting students to achieve their best, and that innovate, create and celebrate progress.

Enter your school for a chance to take out the Standout School Award and win a $5,000 programs membership for your school.

Getting the word out there about your business and building excitement around the products you are selling is a major element in succeeding in business. This award is for all teams who have gone above and beyond or used creative methods to get the word out about their business.

Enter your team for a chance to win $100 seed funding for your business!

Have you been able to make a difference in your community? Have you raised lots of money for charity? Has your business idea changed the outcome of something? Or has it changed your life? We want to hear all about how you’ve made a big impact with your business.

Enter your team for a chance to win $100 seed funding for your business!

Judges

For the 2024 Awards, we will be joined by some very special judges. To be announced soon.

$20 Boss Enterprise of the Year Award (Junior and Senior) Prizes:

  • $20 Boss Enterprise of the Year Trophy, $500 Seed Investment and a virtual mentoring package from Young Change Agents (2 x 1 hour sessions)

$20 Boss Enterprise of the Year High Commendation Award (Junior and Senior) Prizes:

  • High Commendation Certificate, $250 Seed Investment and a virtual mentoring package from Young Change Agents (2 x 1 hour sessions)

$20 Boss  Standout School Award

  • $20 Boss Standout School trophy, a framed $20 Boss Standout School certificate, and $5,000 programs membership package from Young Change Agents for your school.

Marketing Heroes Prize:

  • $20 Boss Marketing Hero Certificate, $100 Seed Investment and a virtual mentoring package from Young Change Agents (2x 1-hour sessions)

Impact Award Prize:

  • $20 Boss Impact Award Certificate, $100 Seed Investment and a virtual mentoring package from Young Change Agents (2x 1-hour sessions).

All shortlisted finalists will receive:

  • Finalist Certificate and a virtual mentoring package from Young Change Agents (2 x 1-hour sessions)

All shortlisted finalists will receive feedback on their business from the panel of VIP judges.

Prizes

2022 $20 Boss Award winners:

Senior Enterprise of the Year Award

Rusty Recycle Art by Luke

Rust Reloaded creates one-of-a-kind, individual sculptures and objects for people's gardens, using rusty recycled materials that would have otherwise gone to landfill. Luke sources the discarded metal from friends, family, local farms, and properties in the Adelaide Hills.

Senior Enterprise of the Year Award: Highly Commended

Seabird Jewels by Ashleigh

Seabird Jewels, collects marine debris, including: sea glass, wire, rope, fishing line, drift wood, glass jars and bottles, from the beaches on Christmas Island and recycles the debris into unique gifts and jewellery using sea glass found on Christmas Island.

Junior Enterprise of the Year Award

Sliving Fruits by Lucia

Sliving Fruits is a small local business that dries and stores over-abundant seasonal fruits to prevent wastage and storage issues. By air drying and packaging excess fruits for snacks, beverages and other handmade products. Sliving Fruits have a long storage life due to the jars they sell the products in, and jars can also be returned for sterilizing and refilled at a discounted price.

Junior Enterprise of the Year Award: Highly Commended

Mega Sticks by Logan

Mega Sticks sells and creates handmade pens from naturally dropped tree branches. Logan collects, sands, drills and constructs the pens themselves. When the pens run out of ink, they can be replaced. The problem they're trying to solve is the use of disposable plastic pens.

Impact Award

Seabird Jewels by Ashleigh

All the way from Christmas Island, Seabird Jewels collects marine debris from local beaches such as sea glass, wire, rope, fishing line, driftwood, glass jars and bottles. The debris is then recycled, and made into unique gifts and jewellery and sold at local markets.

Marketing Hero Award

Aaliyah’s Authentic Aromas by Aaliyah

Aaliyah is passionate about using natural products that are non-toxic to both humans and the environment, so has created Essential Oil Roller Bottles and Essential Oil Spray. Aaliyah has worked with some industry professionals during the planning stage of her business and has used marketing to help grow it even further.

Standout School Award

Tennant Creek High School

Tennant Creek High School has had a very successful experience in adapting and delivering the $20 Boss program to its Year 7-9 students. As a school operating in a low-SES, majority Indigenous community in the remote NT, TCHS services many students who have never had any experience with entrepreneurship/business, and as such, the $20 Boss program allowed our students to have an entrepreneurial educational experience that they would never have otherwise had, whether at school or in their lives beyond school. Teachers adapted and differentiated the program extensively for our students to give them the best chance at having a successful entrepreneurial educational experience.

Standout School Award: Runner Up

Heathfield High School

Since 2020, Heathfield has offered $20 Boss as a flagship component of the school's Entrepreneurial Pathway for students in Year 8. The strength of $20 Boss and the alignment with their school vision, their entrepreneurial vision for students and their desire to support the local community have enabled them to create a pathway that has grown from 40 students in 2020 to over 230 students for the 2023 school year; all of whom will participate in $20 Boss before moving onto associated ventures, programs and experiences.