NOT FIVE but six teams made it into Round 3, which is the final round of the HSBC Young It Entrepreneur Awards (YITEA) 2004/2005. So keen was the competition among the 26 teams in Round 2 that the panel of judges decided to let an extra team through.
“At this stage of the competition, it is definitely tough shortlisting teams. Each team’s proposal has strong points. Some had really creative and innovative ideas but lacked commercial viability. There were however a few proposals that stood out in terms of the amount of thought and research that was put into them.