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When 17-year-old Hüseyin Demir Gökpinar attended the Investor Insights Panel at the 2026 Limitless World Summit hosted by the University of Delaware’s Horn Entrepreneurship, he expected to gain insider knowledge from investment professionals at Chartline Capital, W.L. Gore & Associates, Caterpillar Inc., Soundboard Venture Fund and Archangel’s Axion Fund. In addition to learning about the realities of a venture capital career, Gökpinar left the panel with a new perspective encouraging him to seize all the opportunities the conference had to offer.

What happens when you give more than 500 high school students the same real-world challenge and the opportunity to develop their own solutions? A whole lot of creative thinking, collaboration and innovative ideas.

Social innovation is often the result of collaboration, but the efforts of one person dedicated to furthering a cause can truly make a difference. That’s what the young entrepreneurs and their chaperones from across the globe gathered to celebrate at the 2026 Limitless World Summit, an annual conference hosted by the University of Delaware’s Horn Entrepreneurship that offers secondary school students the chance to hone their entrepreneurial skills and win funding for their business and social ventures. Epitomizing that potential was the 2026 Emerging Innovator of the Year: Soneesh Kothagundla, an 18-year-old health advocate from Georgia, USA.

As School Partnerships Manager at Horn Entrepreneurship, Brittany Acosta is helping expand access to entrepreneurship education beyond the University of Delaware campus. Through partnerships with high schools, she works with educators and administrators to bring business, innovation, and leadership courses to students before they begin their college journey.

The pathway to positive world-change isn’t a journey one should take alone, but rather hand-in-hand with like-minded visionaries — that’s what young entrepreneurs from 13 countries and 20 U.S. states learned firsthand at the 2026 Limitless World Summit, a conference hosted by the University of Delaware’s Horn Entrepreneurship for high school students to learn and grow together as leaders in business and innovation.

The future is often shaped by the next generation of changemakers. Based on the vision shared by the young entrepreneurs attending the 2026 Limitless World Summit, a two-day global conference hosted by the University of Delaware’s Horn Entrepreneurship at the Chase Center on the Riverfront, our future is one where businesses prioritize sustainability.

On a morning in April, Nicholai Williamson, CEO of BonaFyde and University of Delaware alum, addressed a room of 500 young entrepreneurs and their chaperones from around the globe.

On March 5, high school students from across the Delaware Valley gathered at Clayton Hall at University of Delaware for the 2026 EntreX Delaware Venture Showcase. Representing schools from throughout the region, these aspiring entrepreneurs pitched their startup ideas to a panel of experienced judges for a chance to win $500 and earn a spot in Diamond Challenge finals at the prestigious 2026 Limitless World Summit.

High school students from across the mid-Atlantic stepped into the spotlight on February 25 for the 2026 EntreX Regional Venture Showcase. These aspiring entrepreneurs pitched their startup ideas to a panel of expert judges, competing for $500 and a spot in the Diamond Challenge finals at the 2026 Limitless World Summit.

The EntreX Impact Talk series continued this quarter with a conversation focused on sustainability, climate innovation and entrepreneurship. Hosted by Horn Entrepreneurship, the event featured Jo Norris, co-founder and CEO of Carbon Reform, a climate technology startup working to reduce building emissions through HVAC innovation.