CTE Month® Poster Contest

2025 submissions are closed

ACTEAZ is proud to celebrate the incredible talent and creativity displayed in this year’s CTE Month Poster Contest! We want to extend a heartfelt thank you to each of you for your participation. Our panel of judges was truly impressed by the incredible skills in all of the submissions. Your creativity and passion are a testament to the bright future of CTE! 

And the prizes go to:

First Place
Mitchell Spiegel
Dysart Unified School District

Second Place
Hannah Ouzts
Buckeye Union High School District

Third Place
Azalea Penate
Apache Junction Unified School District

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:

For student release forms, click the buttons below to download: