Fast Pitch is a vivid presentation of the work done by the participants of the BizCamp summer entrepreneurship camp on creating a business model for the future business. According to the results of the pitch, the members of the jury chose 19 projects that will be presented at the regional competition of business ideas of the National Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge and will compete for the opportunity to present their project at the finals of the World Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge in the USA.

BizCamp is an educational program aimed at developing entrepreneurial skills among young people, implemented in an exclusive partnership between Ukrainian Future, the business incubator of the Junior Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE). It lasted from July 9 to 25. During a series of trainings, program participants had the opportunity to finalize their innovative ideas and prepare their pitch decks for presentation at the Demo Day on July 30. Each team had 3 minutes for their presentation, and the same time for questions and answers from the jury, which included:

• Iryna Bystrova, head of the Ukrainian Future business incubator;
• Natalia Sydorko, trainer-methodologist of educational programs and interactive SCORM courses;
• Vasyl Matei, coach-consultant of Ukrainian Future, expert in fundraising.

According to the results of the pitch, the jury selected 19 of the 24 projects presented at the Demo Day to participate in the National Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge, a national competition of business ideas to be held on September 6 in Kyiv. It:

1. Learvniverse is an innovative platform for interactive learning in virtual reality.

2. HomeGarden — ready-made kits for growing plants at home and accompanying mobile application as a gardening assistant.

3. E-dermatologist is an application for pre-medical diagnosis of dermatological diseases.

4. The project of improving the waste sorting process using a neural network.

5. OUTEX is an application for sports and rehabilitation in which AI independently corrects the performance of exercises.

6. WITERoK is a bladeless wind generator.

7. SAYVO is a mobile game for mental support of children affected by war.

8. FWD is a web service for generating documents for recording damages received as a result of armed aggression.

9. Eco-friendly solar panel cleaner.

10. Niavka is a monthly book subscription.

11. EKZO is a frame exoskeleton of an active type with a lifting weight of up to 660 kg.

12. PhAInix — a system of protocols for changing drone communications on the fly.

13. STEMup is an educational portal using neural networks to assess the level of knowledge of teenagers in STEM disciplines.

14. WEAR BAND is a technological complex that non-invasively determines a person's state of health.

15. MasterPay is a mobile multi-currency crypto wallet with NFC support.

16. iScreen is a technology that turns any flat surface into an interactive whiteboard.

17. GreenGuard is an additional method of physical protection of people and property in buildings from fragments of missiles and drones.

18. Smart Green House is a universal plant care system.

19. Drone protection system in the event of an emergency fall.

Summarizing the Demo Day of the BizCamp entrepreneurship summer camp program, the head of the Ukrainian Future business incubator Iryna Bystrova noted:

"I want to note the high level of presentations and involvement in the business idea of ​​the participants who went to the final pitch of the summer entrepreneurship camp. I am convinced that for most of them, this is just the beginning of their career as innovative entrepreneurs. After all, every idea, the presentation of which we saw at Demo Day, can become a really successful viable business project! We will be glad to meet all the participants of BizCamp at the following programs and events, and the authors of 19 innovative projects that were selected for the National Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge - we are waiting for you in Kyiv on September 6!" - said Iryna Bystrova.

The members of the jury of the final pitch of the program also highly praised all 24 projects presented at the pitch and advised their authors not to stop their work, regardless of the results of today's selection.

"I want to thank everyone who participated today. I was very pleased to listen to your presentations, it was nice to see the level of involvement and motivation with your projects, your mastery of their presentation. To those who did not hear their names in the invitation to NYEC, I want to say: you have an interesting path ahead of you. Because you have already chosen your topics, you already know what you are interested in, you can develop it, improve it, accordingly — present it, perhaps from the other side," says Nataliya Sydorko, methodologist trainer of educational programs and interactive SCORM courses.

"You are all very well done. You have done a really very good job. I am very pleased that there are such young people in Ukraine who have ideas and want to implement them. Those whom we have selected - we will meet at the national selection! Those who did not pass the preliminary selection - request: do not stop! After all, maybe the jury somewhere didn't hear something, didn't understand, didn't believe in your ideas, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't believe in them and work on them! Maybe in other programs, contests you will finalize your ideas and success will be on your side!” said Vasyl Matei, fundraising expert, Ukrainian Future business coach.