Lighting up entrepreneurial thinking in the final round of the Gen Tea 2025 competition

Photo caption — The Organizing Committee representative awarded the first prize to "Cuu Long Doi Dong".

Within the framework of the International Tea Festival (World TEA Fest 2025), the Gen Tea 2025 competition - "Lighting up the soul of tea, unleashing youth" has concluded after many exciting rounds taking place in Ho Chi Minh City and Lam Dong.

The representative of the Gen Tea 2025 organizing committee said that the competition is one of the main activities within the framework of World TEA Fest 2025 with the mission of finding, supporting and accompanying the startup ideas of the generation of young tea lovers - Gen Tea. This is also a creative playground, helping to promote startup thinking, increase practical experience, thereby breaking through one's own limits to turn ideas on paper into valuable real projects.

Accordingly, the participating teams were quite confident in facing the challenges but were not afraid to admit their shortcomings to the judges. The spirit of "dare to think, dare to do" of the participating teams illuminated the core values of start-ups that the competition proposed. Based on the scoring results, the organizing committee and the judges unanimously selected the excellent teams to award prizes with a total prize value of 300 million VND. The teams' entries clearly showed their own mark and were convincing enough to win the grand prize, including: First prize went to the Cuu Long doi dong team; Second prize went to the Green Tea team; Third prize went to the Moc An team; 2 Encouragement prizes went to the Nhan nha voi tra team and the Dong Tam team.

The champion team "Cuu Long doi dong" from Ho Chi Minh City University of Culture and Ho Chi Minh City University of Management and Technology has a project called "Ghe ghe dang ten lai tea" with a strong Western flavor with a multi-sensory startup program. The project brings multi-sensory integration, spreading culture, the spiritual value of tea in the cultural life, land and people of the Mekong Delta. The champion team received a cash prize of 30 million VND, gifts and vouchers from the sponsor; at the same time, they have the opportunity to receive advice and support from experts to develop their startup projects as well as job opportunities if they want to increase their experience and skills in a professional working environment.

The Gen Tea competition was first held for generations of young tea lovers (Gen Tea). After 2 weeks of launching the online competition, more than 100 entries from teams across the country were sent in. The judges selected the top 16 excellent teams from many universities across the country to enter the direct competition rounds such as: product introduction presentations, debates with opponents on creative communication strategies and convincing the judges about the investment potential for their start-ups.

The achievements that the teams representing universities across the country brought to the competition are not only excellent ideas and the courage to prove their ability to break through their own limits, but also a source of inspiration to promote the creative movement among the youth. The contest "Gen Tea 2025 - Light up the soul of tea, unleash the youth" is expected to continue with more intense competition seasons, fulfilling the mission of building an incubator of ideas closely linked to reality, contributing to promoting creative thinking, creating motivation to commercialize valuable ideas and projects to develop Vietnamese tea in particular and Vietnam's agricultural sector in general.

Source: https://baotintuc.vn/kinh-te/thap-sang-tu-duy-khoi-nghiep-trong-chung-ket-cuoc-thi-gen-tea-2025-20251209094759758.htm