The Foundry is the program. The Founder's Cup is where it's headed: an inter-school startup championship for South Australia, built as more schools come on board. The aim is a live, Shark-Tank-style event where the strongest student ventures from each school pitch to a panel of founders and investors, the way schools compete in rowing or debating.
Every school running The Foundry ends its program with a demo day, where students pitch their venture to a panel. That happens from day one, inside each school.
The Founder's Cup is the next layer up. As founding schools come on board through this year and next and the program reaches critical mass, the aim is to run a live, inter-school championship in South Australia: the best ventures from each school, on one stage, pitching to a panel of founders and investors, with real prizes and real publicity.
We're honest that it's being built, not that it's arrived. The point of naming it now is that the program has somewhere to go. Students take the work seriously when there's a real stage at the end of the road.
As the championship takes shape, foundercup.com is where it lives: the format, the schools involved, and how to get your school on the founding path. The Foundry is the program that gets students there.
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