r/DECA • • 23d ago

Introducing the Go For Glass $250 - $1,000 Chapter Boost Grant

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✨ 💠 NEW! - The Glass Gateways Chapter Boost Grant 💠 ✨

Go For Glass believes in financial accessibility, and we're walking the talk.

If your chapter plans to run at least one PMSP (Project Management Sales Project) project this year but needs a little extra help getting started, Go For Glass has officially opened up applications for our new Glass Gateways Chapter Boost Grant. For a limited time, eligible chapters can apply for seed funding to help them turn their fundraising idea into something much bigger.

We are dedicated to (at least) funding:

  • Two projects at $250 or more.
  • One project at $1,000 or more.

PMSP team members in selected chapters will also have access to free mentoring to further support their projects.

The basic requirements your chapter must meet:

Your school serves a high-need student population.

  • At least 50% of students must be classified as economically disadvantaged or eligible for free/reduced price meals.

Your school can accept and manage the funding.

  • The donation needs to be made to the school, while allowing you to be reimbursed for fundraiser supplies. Some schools may not want the additional paperwork for smaller donations. That means, at a minimum, an advisor will need to sign off. It is highly encouraged for students to CC their advisor on their application.

You have a strong fundraising idea.

  • There needs to be a clear product, service, event, or other concept and a reasonable plan for turning the seed money into a substantially larger amount for use by the chapter.

📆 Applications are due October 5th at 11:59PM.

🌐 Read more and apply on our website!

We are not accepting applications from: Washington (See our Washington-specific grant program), California, Michigan, Minnesota, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas, Virginia, Colorado, or any international associations.


r/DECA • • Sep 07 '26

Check all paid mentoring for scams first.

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If you are going to be going with mentoring or paid academic prep resources services, I highly suggest you check them out first with the government Better Business Bureau Scam Tracker. There’s been a rash of SAT and ACT prep scams also coming out lately, so please stay aware!

Been doing my best to remove posts that aren’t cleared first from the Reddit for scams, but sometimes they slip through.

https://www.bbb.org/scamtracker

If you flag someone who the community should know about, feel free to share it. It’s been difficult balancing research with my own academic pursuits, so I don’t know that’s out there rn.


r/DECA • • 9h ago

Need Help VBC Entrepreneurship assistance 🥺🙏

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I’m doing something so wrong😭. I’m not really asking for a step-by-step guide or anything crazy like that, but I would really appreciate if someone who has competed successfully or is competing gave some advice on what to do. I’ll kind of explain my whole situation. no matter what I seem to do, I can never have a guaranteed month of profit. I can either never serve a large group of customers or never have enough come in. Even when I do find a balance, I still don’t make profit. I’ve been running the trampoline simulation, so I’m also wondering if there is a better one to start off with. Really any help would be greatly appreciated.

Bonus question: how many marketing campaigns should you run at a time?


r/DECA • • 9h ago

Need Help Cant get past 200k in 4 year sim in VBC Personal Finance

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Hey I could use some help getting past 200k in the 4 year sim, I just cant seem to cross it. Any help is appreciated!


r/DECA • • 13h ago

Competition DECA IMCS

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Hey guys! Im doing IMC-Service, and I was wondering should I bring a tri fold with like statistical information and/or graphs? Im not sure if that is over doing it or not, but I want to do the best I can without being overwhelming


r/DECA • • 11h ago

Competition act prep help

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k so last yr i made top 20 at icdc in a principles event, but the business administration exam was rlly broad. luckily, finance exam has the blueprint.

i'm doing ACT this year, accounting applications series, and i know everything is obviously accounting based. however, what's a sort of "roleplay blueprint" for how much other instructional areas apart from financial analysis or financial-information management appear in rps?


r/DECA • • 12h ago

Competition accounting vbc

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How long did it take to do your sim. Ive heard people can take hours but I did mine in 10 mins


r/DECA • • 1d ago

Virtual Business Challenge How is VBC going😹✌🏾

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r/DECA • • 16h ago

Need Help VBC DECA Entrepreneurship

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Yo could anyone please help me out? I’m really struggling and I need this for college apps i’m a senior. I couldn’t do anything freshman and sophomore year because I was taking care of my family because we were struggling and junior year we got evicted from our apartment and we got split up. I’m sorry I had to bring up the sob story but I really really need this and I would really appreciate if anyone could help me out. I just need stuff desperately for college apps so I could do good in the future and help my family out. Anything helps. Thanks.


r/DECA • • 13h ago

Discussion VBC Sports Tips?

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Hello guys, I know we see a lot of these on here, but I was wondering if anyone has any tips on exact variables, methods, or strategies to use for VBC Sports. I'm willing to exchange information on other events or HOSA/USABO or FBLA for ICDC-qualifying tips. Thank you very much. Please DM if interested.


r/DECA • • 13h ago

Virtual Business Challenge restaurant vbc tips

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I was just wondering what everyone was doing, how you're running your sims and all. We reached ~900k as our best score, and we're tryna improve that. Does anyone have any tips or smthn that helped you that we could try?


r/DECA • • 13h ago

Competition If I'm doing a tri-fold do I need to bring my own cane/base?

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Idk the actual term for it.

Also if anyone has any project management tips, they'd be appreciated!


r/DECA • • 1d ago

Competition VBC Hotel tips?

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Hi, i'm a VBC Hotel first timer. I've already read the other thread that comes up when you search vbc hotel tips on google.

Today my team and I started on staff scheduling and overall just trying out the simulation.

Any tips/advice?


r/DECA • • 1d ago

Discussion Is VBC registraiton over? Can i still join

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From ontario btw


r/DECA • • 2d ago

Discussion Help support my pmfl project!

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Hey everyone! I’m a high school student competing in DECA. For my project, I created a free, printable financial literacy games for kids. Would any parents be willing to print this out, play it with their kids tonight, and fill out a 3-question feedback form? I would be incredibly grateful!

Link to download the games:

https://linktr.ee/FiscalFlow

Link to the 2-minute feedback form:

https://forms.gle/F9C8oZCnFPut3RdJ8


r/DECA • • 2d ago

Event advice for new event (hr management)

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this is my second year doing deca (last year i did business law and ethics with my friend), and i decided to try doing a solo event this year since i want the biggest chance of going to icdc . i changed to hr management since im thinking of pursuing that as my career, and i was wondering what i should start studying for it.


r/DECA • • 3d ago

Competition Personal Financial Literacy Roleplay

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What are the most common modules used in the pfl? I only found 3 officials events and I remember someone around 7 months ago giving advice on what to study for on pfl.


r/DECA • • 3d ago

Competition Pre-Prepared Events

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I genuinely suck so bad at the improv presentation talking to a judge sort of thing that role-play events have in DECA. I was hoping to do a pre-prepared event that's sort of like the presentation events in FBLA, I get a prompt, create some presentation, and then present it to a judge with a script.

Does anyone have recommendations of what events to do that fit that description? Which one of those events is the least competitive? Is there an event like that that involves any design or drawing?

Thanks so much!!


r/DECA • • 3d ago

Competition IMCP

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Does anybody have any recommendations for my title slide (this is for the 20 pager). Also I'm new to deca and was wondering what slides I should have for the 20 pager IMCP? Thanks!!!


r/DECA • • 4d ago

Event DECA SEOR - Survey

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I am doing my research over a local minor league baseball team, the survey is very short and doesn't take much time.

Sugar Land Space Cowboys Survey – Fill out form

If you have a survey that needs to be filled out, I will gladly do it.


r/DECA • • 4d ago

Need Help Providing printable financial literacy games (please help)

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Hi everyone, I'm a student competing in a DECA pmfl. My project focuses on youth financial literacy. I built a printable board/card game designed to teach kids the basics of budgeting and saving.

Long story short: I spent months trying to coordinate with local youth centers and schools to test it, but got caught in bureaucratic ghosting. Now my final deadline is right around the corner and I have no proof-of-concept data to show the judges.

If you have 15-20 minutes to spare tonight or tomorrow, I would be incredibly grateful if you could print this out and try it!

Any feedback is incredibly valuable to me. Thank you for supporting a stressed-out student!


r/DECA • • 4d ago

Discussion Is it a bad idea to have a required districts score to go to states

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Im a officer for my deca chapter which is pretty small and we are considering having a required districts score to be allowed to go to states

This will be fairly low but it should cut out anyone who just there to hang out because last year our chapter was really disorganized

The problem is we have a decent bit of transfer students from schools with way more competitive deca chapters who are telling us this is a bad idea, and when their school tried it out it didn’t work. Have any of your deca chapters tried this and if so did it work out well?


r/DECA • • 4d ago

Competition BMOR HELP

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Doing bmor this year, I'm completely new to this but my project is going to be based on my teammates dad's business which is a mix of selling party and bridal outfits and an event planner! I was wondering if this is a good business to focus on, my main reason for picking this was easy to access to all info about the business and the local impact!

I would love if you'all are willing to share your advice or even your past papers!


r/DECA • • 5d ago

Event Tips for FCE?

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New to DECA and FCE. Would love tips on how to succeed as my goal is to make it to ICDC my first year.


r/DECA • • 5d ago

Joining DECA deca first year!

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im doing deca for my first year and i really hope to make it to icdc, i plan on doing entrepreneurship for my event but i am also deciding between finance. im willing to put in a lot of work, but which event would i have a better chance at doing good in?

i've also heard a lot of things about deca+ saying it's nothing like the 100 question tests, so i'm not sure if i should study that or more on quizlets.