Stevens High School Business and Artificial Intelligence Video Pitch Competition

The Stevens School of Business hosts the High School Business and Artificial Intelligence Video Pitch Competition. Its central question is commercial as well as technical: who has a problem, what changes for them and why would the proposed solution be worth using? No coding experience or working prototype is required. That distinction makes the opportunity accessible to students with a thoughtful concept, but it does not make a vague promise about AI persuasive. The reasoning has to carry the pitch when there is no finished product to demonstrate. A published first-place example is GradeLift, Aryan Saksena’s rubric-aligned AI revision coach, which gives feedback on a student’s own draft rather than generating replacement text. The value of that example is not a topic to imitate. It shows how specifying the tool's role changes the business idea: the user, the task and the boundary of the intervention become easier to understand. CompeteMap would therefore recommend this contest to students willing to investigate a need and explain a mechanism, not just name an emerging technology. The short format rewards selection and clarity. Preparation means deciding what evidence deserves the viewer's limited attention, while resisting both an exaggerated market claim and a technical explanation that leaves the customer behind.