CTE Month® Poster Contest

Submission deadline: January 15th 2025

Show us how Career and Technical Education (CTE) is shaping your path to success! Enter our poster contest and showcase the power of hands-on learning, skill development, and future-ready careers.

Posters must be submitted by January 15th 2025 and emailed to [email protected]. Winners will be announced February 6th, 2025.

Make sure to read through out Poster Contest Rules pdf BEFORE you submit your poster submission.

To download the poster contest rules and CTE Month logo, click the buttons below.

Who Can Enter:

The contest is open to secondary and postsecondary CTE students in all CTE courses. Students can only enter as an individual.

Poster Requirements:

  • All digital photography must be original work. This includes vector or graphic work.
  • You must incorporate the CTE Month logo into the poster. The logo must be an exact reproduction of the graphic provided, can be used in color or black and white, and may not be reproduced smaller than 125 screen pixels in diameter. To download the CTE Month logo, go to www.acteonline.org/cte-month/
  • You must incorporate BOTH of the following messages into your poster: “Our lives are empowered through CTE.” “Learn more at www.acteaz.org.”
  • Use no other web addresses or logos in the poster.
  • Poster must be 18 (W) x 24 (H) inches.
  • Anyone featured in the poster must have a signed release form on file. Students under the age of 18 must have a parent’s or guardian’s signature on the release form. All forms must be submitted for the poster to be accepted. If forms are not submitted, the entry will be disqualified.

Poster Policy: ACTEAZ retains the copyright on any submitted material and reserves the right to use the material in any way or format it sees fit. ACTEAZ is not responsible for lost, damaged, incorrectly encoded, incorrectly uploaded, mislabeled or misdirected entries. Entries will not be returned and will become the property of ACTEAZ. Poster entries cannot be used for any commercial activity.

Grand Prize:
$300 awarded to Student
Poster will be publicized on ACTEAZ media outlets
Poster will be shown at the 2025 Arizona CTE Summer Conference

Second Place:
$200 awarded to the Student
Poster will be publicized on ACTEAZ media outlets

Third Place:
$100 awarded to the Student
Poster will be publicized on ACTEAZ media outlets

Winners will be announced February 6th, 2025. 

Download the contest rubric below:

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