Before You Submit
Terms & Conditions
Please read these terms carefully. By checking the box on the submission form and submitting your pitch, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to everything below.
1. Eligibility
To submit a pitch you must be a student currently enrolled at a Canadian high school (grades 9–12). If you are under 18, you confirm that a parent or legal guardian has reviewed these terms and consents to your participation, including the public display of your pitch and the name you choose to provide. We may ask for proof of enrollment or guardian consent at any time.
2. Accurate Information
You agree to provide accurate, truthful information in your submission and account, including your name, school, and contact email. Providing false information may lead to disqualification.
3. Your Pitch Is Public
Approved pitches may be displayed publicly to other students, judges, sponsors, and visitors. Do not include anything you need to keep secret — public pitches are not confidential, and submitting one creates no confidentiality, partnership, investment, or employment relationship. Never submit trade secrets, passwords, financial/banking details, government IDs, home addresses, phone numbers, or other sensitive personal information.
4. Original Work
Your pitch must be your own original work, or work you have the clear right to share. Plagiarism, copying another person's idea, or misrepresenting someone else's work as your own will result in disqualification.
5. You Keep Ownership
You keep ownership of your idea and pitch. By submitting, you grant SchoolPitch a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, display, and promote your submission and the name/school you provide for the purpose of running, judging, and promoting the competition (including on the website, social media, and sponsor materials). You may request removal of your pitch at any time and we will make reasonable efforts to honour it.
6. Acceptable Content
Submissions must not be illegal, harmful, dangerous, hateful, harassing, sexual, violent, or deliberately misleading. Business ideas that promote illegal or unsafe activity are not permitted. Be respectful — this is a student community.
7. Judging & Results
Finalists and winners are selected by the SchoolPitch team and judge using a rubric (for example: real problem, viable solution, and ability to communicate the idea). Public votes are an engagement signal only and do not decide winners on their own. All judging and administrative decisions are final.
8. Prizes
Prize and grant amounts are estimates and may change, be substituted, or be cancelled. Prizes are subject to verification of eligibility, including proof of Canadian high-school enrollment. SchoolPitch is not a financial institution or advisor, and nothing here is financial or investment advice.
9. Disqualification
We may disqualify any participant or submission — at any stage, including after results are announced — for ineligibility, false information, plagiarism, vote manipulation, harmful or illegal ideas, or violating these terms or the community guidelines.
10. Changes & Availability
The platform is provided "as is" and may change, pause, or end at any time. We may modify, extend, or cancel a pitch cycle if needed, and we may update these terms; the latest version always governs your use.
11. Privacy
We collect only what we need to run a safe, fair competition (such as your name, email, school, and pitch details) and we never sell your personal information. Required emails (verification, submission confirmation, finalist/winner notices) are sent to operate the competition; marketing emails are only sent with your separate opt-in. To request access, correction, or deletion of your data, contact us using the email below.
Questions, requests, or reports? Contact us at hello@schoolpitch.ca. This is a plain-language summary of the terms that apply when you submit; SchoolPitch may update it from time to time.