Registration/Information
About ICDC
The International Career Development Conference (ICDC) is one of the most anticipated events for any Collegiate DECA student. ICDC will be held in-person from April 5th – 8th in San Francisco, California. Students attend ICDC to apply their industry knowledge to hands-on, real world scenarios.
Registration Deadline
Complete the competitor registration below and we will follow-up with you on the next steps to compete at ICDC. Last date to complete the registration and submit your initial deposit is 02/23/2025.
FAQ
At UNLV DECA, our training has prepared competitors for over 10 years to be the best they can be at Collegiate DECA ICDC. Our training has helped to prepare competitors place on stage as finalists and champions. Our training consists of bringing in professionals from the community who will judge your presentation and provide feedback afterwards in our “Learn from the Pros” session.
Depending on your competitive event:
- If you’re competing in a prepared event:
- You’ll be required to attend 3 competition training sessions.
- Your first session can be a consultation with a professional in the community to hash out your ideas.
- Your next session will be presenting your presentation with a judge who will go over the grading rubric.
- Your 3rd session will require you to have your draft prepared material ready for a judge to review followed by another practice round with your presentation.
- A schedule will be worked out with you to make sure you’re on track to success.
- If you’re competing in a case study (individual and case study):
- You will be required to attend 2 practice sessions where you’ll go through the prep (individual – 30 minutes | teams – 60 minutes) and present to a judge. Afterwards, the judge will score your presentation and provide feedback to you.
- If you’re competing on your own, we will ask you to complete one session with a practice exam in preparation for your upcoming exam.
- You will also be required to submit an online video of yourself presenting another case study.
- All competitors will go through a final round closer to ICDC in our mock “SCDC (State Career Development Conference)”
We are excited to announce that there is no qualifier. If you competed in high school DECA, UNLV DECA does not have a State Career Development Conference (SCDC). Since we are the only active chapter in Nevada Collegiate DECA, any competitor who wishes to compete at ICDC can compete at ICDC. We require all competitors to go through our training so you’re more prepared to win at ICDC.
You can only select a prepared event and/or case study to compete in. There are opportunities to compete in other types of events such as Sales Challenge which is outside of your actual competition.
Practice, practice, practice! We plan to offer more competition camps so while you are required to attend a few, we encourage you to choose more so you’ll have more time to practice. It’s important to also stay up to date with your industry that your competitive event focuses on. You can also use National’s library of competitive events to train as well. Make sure to study those performance indicators!
At Collegiate DECA ICDC, “Learn from the Pros” is a session where after all of the competitors compete, the competitors will gather around their judge(s), and the judge(s) will talk about what they liked and what they saw were improvements. Based on the feedback, you can guess whether or not you’ll be placing and moving to the next round the next day.
Our “Learn from the Pros” is a 10 minute feedback session where your judge will go over their scores for each performance indicator. It is also an excellent time to ask questions or bounce ideas to improve your performance for next time.
Starting at the 2025 ICDC, examinations for individual case studies competitors will be held at ICDC and not online like previous years. Please see the latest news from DECA Direct about the change.
Schedule
| Deadline | What’s Happening |
|---|---|
| 02/23/2025 | ICDC Registration Deadline and either flight purchase emailed to deca@unlv.edu or $150 deposit. |
| Week of 02/25/2025 | Workshop #2 – How to Train on Your Own (Virtual) |
| Week of 03/04/2025 | Competition Camp #1 – Camp with Competitors as Judges (In-Person) |
| 03/04/2025 | $200 Deposit |
| Week of 03/11/2025 | Competition Camp #2 (In-Person) |
| 03/15/2025 | Prepared Events – First Draft Ready for Alumni Review |
| 03/10/2025 – 03/19/2025 | National Deadline – Submission of Prepared Events |
| Week of 03/18/2025 | Workshop #3 – Exam Training |
| 03/21/2025 | $200 Deposit |
| Week of 04/01/2025 | Mock ICDC & Travel Meeting |
| 04/04/2025 | Final Payment Submissions |
Payments
Payments can be made via below through Paypal or can be venmoed/ or written a check. Please reach out via deca@unlv.edu to receive more details.