Stukent Social Media Marketing Challenge · 2026–2027

Eligibility & application

A registered member of a high-school DECA chapter at registration. Individual entries only: no group work, collaboration or multiple accounts. Only one winner per school is eligible for a prize. Registration: The DECA advisor registers first and directs students to their registration instructions; both advisor and student must register. Students use their school email. The sponsor page confirms registration opens July 31, 2026 and competition begins October 14, 2026. Required simulation: Finish one organic-posting round, one paid-posting round and two combined organic/paid rounds. Plagiarism, collaboration, additional accounts and repeated identical/near-identical posts are prohibited. Rounds cannot be redone except for a demonstrable technical problem. Authenticity, ROI and post quality determine the finalists. Advertising budgets are simulated, not real student spending. Source corrections: One PDF sentence mentions December 1, 2025 and its awards section calls entries teams. The current sponsor page independently confirms December 1, 2026 at 12:00 a.m. Mountain Time and individual cash prizes. Midnight is the start of December 1, not its end. The PDF’s current date table also agrees with 2026. Finalist participation: ICDC recognition in Anaheim, California, April 17–20, 2027 is conditional on chartered-association rules and school/chapter advisor approval; entry does not guarantee attendance.

Nationwide · remote · open

Education level: high school

Individual prizes: US$1,500, US$1,000 and US$500 for first, second and third respectively, confirmed by the current sponsor page. Challenge simulation access is free according to the rulebook; ad budgets are simulated. Chapter dues, other fees and finalist conference/travel costs are not established. Cash prizes are not employment pay.

Register through the advisor instructions using one school-email account, complete all four individual simulation rounds and comply with the originality/no-collaboration rules.

Published dates

Unannounced dates are kept pending. Dated history is included when you add a program; reminders apply to future dates. Date-only events do not have an invented cutoff time. The organizer confirms final eligibility and availability.

Official evidence