S-CDC Participation Guidelines

1. You must be a member of State and National DECA by February 1.
2. If your affiliated chapter has from < 30 members, your participation will be limited to 25 competitors with no more than three students per event and/or 3 teams per event areas.
3. If your affiliated chapter has > 30 or more members, your chapter will be allowed to bring 30 competitors with no more than four students per event and/or 4 teams per event areas.
4. Each school with a state roster of 50 or more members may bring a maximum of 40 competitors with no more than 5 students per event and/or 5 teams per event areas.
5. All student members must compete in at least one event. The Chapter Advisor is to be responsible for the first 15 student members and an additional registered, paying adult is needed for each additional 15 or part of 15 students in order to assist the advisor in supervision. Therefore, a group of 30 student members will have 2 adults with them, and a group of 40 student members will have 3 adults with them.
6. An adult refers to 21 years of age or older.
7. Students must be in attendance at the Mini-Awards as well as the Grand Awards sessions to be recognized as a winner or they will be disqualified.
   

Any student with a career goal and/or training station experience in one of the competency areas for which there is a participating Individual Series Event (ISE) or a Management Team Decision Making Event (MTDM) may compete in that event. That student may also compete in the Marketing Research Event that pertains to that ISE or MTDME (where applicable).  Additionally all students may also compete in the Marketing Research Events, Chapter Team Events, Business Management and Entrepreneurship Events, Marketing Representative Events, Online Events, DECA Quiz Bowl and the Sales Demonstration events.  Although students are allowed to participate in more than one event on the state level in Illinois, they would only be allowed to enter one individual/team event on the international level. They would need to make a choice if they win more than one event at state. It should be noted that at the state level there will be no separation of independent and franchising businesses in the entrepreneur projects.  The winning students in this event must choose either independent or franchising to compete at ICDC.