300 thousand tenge was given to the best startup

On April 21, NIS in Aktau hosted the final stage of the “Caspian Start-up 2018” startup competition for school students of grades 7-11 and college students. The best 20 startup projects were selected and awarded with a total premium of 1 million 540 thousand tenge by Mangistau sponsors and entrepreneurs. Five Startup projects will be realized in Mangistau region.

During the final, participants presented their projects in 3 minutes. The main criterion was the creativity and relevance of the project.

– Today, I offered a jury my business project with a subtitle “Taxi-baby sitter”. My project aimed to help my parents to organize their time. Parents often face with problems to get to work on time because they need to take their children to kindergarten or school before. Sometimes they are late for work. My project can help to solve this problem effectively and accessible, “says Aziza Dzhubaeva, NIS student of grade 11. By the way, the project will be invested by the tour agency “Euro voyage- Aktau”.

Dana Akual student of grade 11 ,NIS in Aktau ,she offered to make the second safari Dubai in Mangistau in the location Tuiesu. She was awarded a prize and received a check for 300,000 tenge by LLP Forte Bank and LLP Logistics, tour agency ‘Euro voyage Aktau’ presented her info tour to Istanbul. The second place was given to Kuanysh Amangali student of grade 11 ,NIS in Astana , he proposed to develop a voluntary blood donor base. He was given a check for 250 000 tenge .In addition the member of jury and chairperson of LLP ‘Reckon Aktau’ Kydyrkozha Bakbergenovich presented him 50 000 tenge. Lauahayev Nur,Ayaguzov Galymzhan and Bekzat Saliev from Beyneu Lyceum were awarded 200 000 tenge check. Schoolchildren offered to play a popular monopoly game from the assyks.The boys plan to use the award to further developing their project.

Entrepreneurs of the region have taken an active part in encouraging young people to start and implement their start-up projects. At the end of the competition, the main sponsors of the contest LLP Forte Bank and LLP MKS Logistics gave a check certificate for 30 000 tenge for 8 participants, while the Eurovoyage -Aktau travel agency and the architectural company “Architecture Company LTD” sponsored 500 thousand tenge for 3 projects. At the same time, with the help of the Mangistau regional branch of the Chamber of Entrepreneurs “Atameken” and the entrepreneurs of the region, four projects in the finals of the Caspian Start-up 2018 startups contest were financed (inflated).

– It is pleasant to see young people who brought their projects to the Startup Contest and eager to start a business. There are many things to do using today’s projects. We are looking forward to more powerful startups next year, “said Omirbek Kurbanbaev, technical director of Mediana Service Limited, a jury member, entrepreneur.

The first startup competition for school and college students was organized by NIS in Aktau and Mangistau Education Department.

The main purpose of the competition is to create a platform for presentation of new projects among school students and college students and demonstrate and support the potential of innovative community.

It’s worth saying that the first competition was held in three stages. The project participant had to make a two-minute video about the business that he would like to start with and prepare a presentation about the importance, demand, effectiveness of the project and register to caspianstartup.kz until April 7. On April 14, the jury chose 20 best projects and sent it to the final stage. The participants who passed the selection round on April 21 defended their business projects in front of entrepreneurs and jury. The winner of the contest was awarded 300 thousand tenge. For the second place – 250 thousand tenge, for III place – 200 thousand tenge.

The general sponsor of the startup projects competition is the branch of LLP Forte Bank in Mangistau Oblast and LLP “MKS Logistics”, Mangystau regional branch of the Chamber of

Entrepreneurs «Atameken», the IT-company «Mediana», the youth party «Zhas Otan», «Mangystau» TV channel and «Inaktau.kz» city information portal

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Translated by Aidana Kuanyshkalieva