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Challengers recap their experience and pitch the judges on why they should be the inaugural Level Up Champion.

The Level Up Experiment

Grand Finale

The spotlight turns to the world of interior design.

Challenge 7: Designing the Future

Successful restaurateurs understand that when guests visit, they expect more than a meal.

Challenge 6: Brunch Anyone?

The Beltline is a symbol of Atlanta's progress, however progress often leaves some behind.

Challenge 5: Tech for Equity Hackathon

Successful business owners know how to create a story behind the brand and position themselves in the marketplace. Visual artists are the perfect metaphor for that process and at the BUCKHEAD ART & COMPANY gallery, 8 scholars had the opportunity to partner with prominent artists, learn how to express their own stories through art, and put on a gallery exhibition to pitch their works to the public.

Challenge 4: Artistic Endeavors

Business owners are challenged daily to seek out every possible resource to make their endeavors a success. In a challenge of creative thinking, flexibility and task delegation, Challenge 3 finds our remaining 10 challengers scouring business throughout the Castleberry Hill district of Atlanta to find and solve clues, keeping their teams safe from elimination.

Challenge 3: Scavenger Hunt

Twelve remaining scholars are split up into teams and placed into time-sensitive scenarios where they must work together, leveraging each other's strengths to solve complex puzzles, while becoming the first to free themselves from Big Escape Atlanta.

Challenge 2: The Great Escape

Personal Pitch challenges each scholar to craft and deliver a 30 second pitch to the board members as to why they belong on "The Level Up Experiment."

Challenge 1: Pitch Perfect

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HBCU students go from the classroom to the boardroom to face off in a series of challenges, with their performance being judged by a panel of Black executives, entrepreneurs and HBCU alums.