As a nonprofit, Go For Glass (GFG) has been expanding beyond free DECA study resources and is now launching a fundraising initiative aimed at Washington chapters. We're looking for chapters who want in!

The current vision is that students will run clothing pop-up boutiques, and GFG will provide mentorship tied to DECA project management learning for the entire chapter. This project may change slightly based on decisions by the chapter, and we're open to ideas! :)

What Go For Glass Will Provide
- 1,500+ free clothing items to start inventory
- On-loan racks, fixtures, and setup materials
- Guidance on running pop-up boutique events
- Personalized mentorship on operations, planning, marketing, and execution from a retired Microsoft Program Manager
- Access to free PM-focused DECA workshops connected to the fundraiser

Go For Glass would continue procuring inventory through donations and thrifting efforts. Go For Glass is a nonprofit and will require no financial investment from chapters looking to get involved- our only goal is to help chapters afford travel costs for conferences and state while also giving the skills needed to qualify for ICDC and funds to help students get there!

Mentoring
- Go For Glass’ founder, Lorelei Rosser (Hi, that's me, u/ubiquitousuguisu), will run workshops aimed at teaching the skills to collectively build an ICDC worthy PM paper. 

During this project, students can:
- Consider adjacent DECA projects that may also qualify for free mentoring
- Build their own DECA PM paper alongside the evolution of this one
- Use the experience to strengthen future DECA projects

Of the students I mentored just this season, only those with low test scores did not qualify for international competition.
My mentees earned at ICDC:
- 9 Top-5 placements
- 3 Glass, including 2 in first-place

My expertise even had me judging for both WA State and ICDC, and I look forward to getting to see your chapter at State Conference!

Confidence Closet

This initiative was an idea born from our existing Confidence Closet program, which provides free professional attire to DECA students. The location for next season’s closet event will likely be one of these fundraising chapters since our racks and fixtures will already be there.

More info:
Go For Glass – The Confidence Closet

Who We’re Looking To Partner With
We’re prioritizing chapters with:
- Fewer resources or less experienced advisors
- Other hardships that put them at a disadvantage
- Strong student enthusiasm
- Advisor support for logistics/financial oversight
- Location: lower driving distance & ideal buyer markets

Interested?
Talk with your advisor and chapter and then contact us.
Email: goforglassofficial@gmail.com
Subject: WA Fundraiser
Include:
- School name + DECA area
- Advisor name and email address
- Chapter size
- Age of chapter
- # of ICDC qualifiers last year
- Estimated number of students willing to commit time and effort
- Level of involvement your advisor can absorb

At a minimum, your advisor would need to sign-off on logistics, handle facilities requests and be responsible for the money.

Many advisors are volunteers, so students should not expect them to commit to anything more. Please, please, please talk to your advisor before signing them up for more work!

For a larger chapter, likely < 20hr avg. per student for 2 events will be required for you to pull off the project. For a smaller chapter hosting a smaller event, you can probably expect closer to <12hr avg. per student.

We will finalize a decision by the end of May so that market research and advertising to the school’s student body can happen before summer.

As always, please feel free to email us any questions! :)

Due to the increased activity relating to VBC posts, I will be removing posts as spam. The three posts made in the last 40 minutes will not be removed, but all subsequent ones will be. Please leave your very entertaining VBC arguments in this post's comments.

In my opinion, 20-pagers should consider adding a QR code in the appendix that links to their SSOT in the future.

With so many papers being flagged for AI this season, whether it was deserved or not, students may benefit from having clear proof that their project was human-made. A strong SSOT includes notes, recordings, drafts, meeting records, project stages, timestamps, and stakeholder sign-offs, etc. It creates a paper trail that shows your work was built over time.

You should create an SSOT regardless. I won't lie; it's a lot of work to replicate it at the end of your project, so make it throughout the course of your project. It also pulls double duty by protecting your academic integrity/reputation and makes it easier to reference specific work later for LinkedIn/resumes.

Since SSOTs can be confusing if you have never made one before, I put together a basic checklist. I use an SSOT for every major college project, so I adapted my personal system for DECA events. Hope it helps!

SSOT Guidelines

As a mentor for the last three years, I've slowly accumulated a lot of wisdom about Prepared Events. I'm working on creating event guides for each category, but I'm curious what students specifically want the most help on.

Before any super common requests get made:

- Yes, these will each have donated student materials and examples, so don't worry. I'm getting those lined up. :)

- These will probably be 50 pages minimum per category (IMC, PSCE, OR, PM, ENT) so each category will have a lot of content beyond the basics

- I will do some limited explanation on visuals and such, but a lot of it will be category-specific (Competitive analysis graphs for ORs or ENTs, for example) to avoid being redundant

This is probably a strange post, but I figured this might be the right place to ask.

My nonprofit is collecting business casual and professional wear donations for a Confidence Closet event. We clean and organize donated items, then distribute them for free to low-income DECA and FBLA students in Eastern Washington.

This morning, we received a large donation that included several beautiful older leather padfolios and folders from the University of Washington, including one marked with the University of Washington School of Business.

Because the items are branded with an organizational logo, they probably are not the best fit to distribute directly to high school students through the Confidence Closet. At the same time, they are in good condition and seem like the kind of thing someone with a UW connection might actually appreciate.

I currently attend UWB, so I would love to find a thoughtful home for them instead of letting them sit unused. Does anyone know if there are alumni groups, faculty, departments, collectors, or student organizations that might want older UW School of Business materials like this?

I am mostly trying to make sure these end up with someone who would value them.

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Y'all, judging is HARD. We can't give duplicate scores, and that means that yes- some people got points lower than I felt they earned on a standard rubric. Rankings had to be made, and then points were adjusted to meet that. Judging presentations for ICDC was incredibly hard. Out of the 20 groups I judged, I probably spent 30 minutes just weighing the top 10 and their rankings over and over again.

You are totally welcome to be frustrated by your ranking, but a lot of judges (especially in the prepared events side) put significant time and thought into your score. Also, your score is likely deflated from what you've actually earned because we cannot give duplicate scores.

Ngl, judging ICDC was a blast. Highly encourage it for anyone thinking about it in the future! Met some fantastic industry professionals and was networking for internships across the country.✌️