Rules | DIS

Every registered team will compete in the first round of the Stock Pitch competition consisting of their in-person submission of their report and 10 minute presentation along with a successive 5 minute Q&A from the judges. The teams will be scored on the basis of their report, presentation, and quality of their Q&A responses. The highest scoring 12 teams will advance to the semifinals to be held on the next day. It will consist of the exact same competitive process. The highest scoring five teams will advance to the finals held on the same day and will present in front of the entire competition participants and a panel of all the judges. From there, the top 3 teams will be selected and awarded. Case Study Rounds Every participant will be introduced to the case study for thirty minutes (including Q&A) on Day 1 and will be given thirty minutes to meet and be introduced to their respective teams and begin the brainstorming process. The competitors will have another hour during the morning of Day 2 to develop their solutions and practice presentations. During the first round of the Case Study presentations, each team will present to judges for ten minutes with an optional visual aid (slide deck) in-person and then engage in a five minute Q&A session. They will be scored based on their presentation and Q&A. The highest scoring 5 teams will advance to the finals to be held later in the day after Stock Pitch finals. They will also present in front of the entire competition participants and a panel of all the judges. From there, the top 3 teams will be selected and announced.

Teams competing in either competitions must be actively attending high school (no younger than 14, no older than 18 on the days of the summit) and not have earned a high school diploma before the summit’s end. Home-schooled students or equivalents studying to earn a G.E.D. high school diploma or equivalent are eligible to participate. Home-schooled students need not provide proof of home-school enrollment. Teams competing in the stock pitch competition are permitted to be composed of students from different schools. Teams for the Case Study competition will be organized into teams at random and do not need to be registered individually.

All participants in the summit are expected to treat all other participants with respect in interactions, in-person or digitally. During the course of the summit and its related events, there is no tolerance for threatening, discriminatory, unlawful, or otherwise inappropriate behaviour, and will penalize or eliminate as consequence for any such behaviour. These expectations and regulations extend to submitted materials. The competition reserves the right to request information for reasonable investigation to protect the integrity of the competition. The competition has good faith that all its participants will act in accordance with an unwritten code of honour and hold themselves to high professional standards. However, in any case of plagiarism, fabricated statements, any other form of deception, or obstruction of reasonable competition investigation will result in sanctions and other consequences. The competition defines reasonable investigations as prompted by undisclosed routine inspections (running reports through various AI detectors for preliminary tests as one example), reports from other participants, or quantitative or qualitative textual analysis revealing the presence of plagiarized work. The competition recognizes the flaws in existing AI detectors and does not make judgements solely based on one-off diagnostic tests but thorough and extended investigations.

Students are strictly prohibited from using any Artificial Intelligence programs whether to generate ideas, find sources, write competition submissions, or presentation scripts. Unsanctioned AI use, according to the above restrictions are heavily monitored for by the competition using a variety of diagnostic tests. Students or teams found to be in violation of these policies will face immediate disqualification.

Any companies selected for the Stock Pitch report and presentation must be a component of the Russell 3000 and publicly traded on an American public equities market at the report’s stated date of authorship.

The top three teams of the Stock Pitch competition will receive prizes of $500 USD per student for first prize, $250 USD per student for second prize, and $125 per student for third prize. The Case Study competition does not offer prizes for participants.