Collegiate DECA’s Corporate Challenges provide members opportunities to demonstrate the knowledge and skills learned in the classroom through innovative challenges in partnership with several corporate partners. Each challenge has a unique focus and specific set of required tasks.
Stock Market Game
Collegiate DECA offers two competitive rounds of the Stock Market Game, provided by the SIFMA Foundation. The Collegiate DECA Stock Market Game challenges teams of one to three Collegiate DECA members to work together to build and manage a high-performing investment portfolio of stocks, bonds and mutual funds. Participants in the Collegiate DECA Stock Market Game develop and manage a virtual investment portfolio. The challenge is conducted online and calls teams of Collegiate DECA members to test their investment acumen against each other. The goal of the competition is to increase the value of the beginning portfolio, while maintaining a diversified mix of stocks, bonds and mutual funds.
Virtual Case Simulation
Within this competition simulation, participants will take on the role of a restaurant entrepreneur and are in charge of opening, setting up, marketing and operating a new restaurant. The goal is to make the restaurant as profitable as possible. Participants will be limited to opening one restaurant and they will not be able to relocate the restaurant. The restaurant’s success will depend largely on the participant’s ability to focus on a particular target market and serve it well.
