Richland Community College Marketing Plan Invitational CDE

Richland Community College is hosting a virtual Marketing Plan Invitational CDE on April 25th, 2024. There will be an informational meeting on January 24th at 3:30 for any teacher interested in learning more about the CDE and the contest itself. Intent to compete in the contest needs to be submitted to Dave Shiley (dshiley@richland.edu) by March 20th. Contact Sean Welch (swelch@illinoisffa.org) for more information about the interest meeting and the Zoom link. 

Important Dates to remember:

• Zoom Meeting with Host & Advisors: January 24, 2024 3:30PM 

• Marketing Plan Intent Due March 20, 2024

• Written Plan Due to Richland by April 11, 2024

• Live Presentation via Zoom or Other Video Platform on 4/25 by appointment set by Richland

The Official National FFA Marketing Plan Handbook is attached below. Important rule changes for the Invitational CDE are listed below:

• Updates to the Written Plan emailed to Richland by 4/24 (see page 5 under presentation)- 1 pager 

• No easels, tripods, etc. 

• Virtual Event Rules- must be able to support Zoom or other virtual conference platform

• Visual Aides are only to be a slide deck (i.e. PowerPoint, Google Slides, Canva, etc)

• Teams should select an actual local agribusiness, either an existing or start-up enterprise, that serves the community and decide on the product or service for the marketing plan. Teams should work with an off-campus organization. They can not use their chapter as a client

Any other questions? Contact:

• Sean Welch (swelch@illinoisffa.org)

• Kirsten Wyatt (kwyatt@pblpanthers.org) 

• Dave Shiley (dshiley@richland.edu)