Rules 

It's easy to participate!

NEW Teacher-Related Rule:

Teams must be proctored by school personnel and the on-line tests be completed during school hours (including before school and immediately after the school day closes) in order to be eligible for consideration for invitation to the state finals. Contact Joy Joyce with questions.  jljoyce@uic.edu

Student Eligibility Rules:

1) Students must be enrolled for credit in a qualifying public high school, private high school, or home-based high school course at some time during the current academic year. 

2) Students who have taken or are taking economics courses for college credit from a post-secondary instructor are not eligible to compete. 

3) Students who have taken more than one semester of economics at any time must compete in the Adam Smith Division. 

4) No student is permitted to compete in the David Ricardo Division for more than one year. Any returning student who has already participated in the National Economics Challenge (at the state level or higher) must compete in the Adam Smith Division in subsequent years, regardless of previous or current coursework. 

5) Home-schooled students must compete in the Adam Smith Division.

6) To be eligible for the state finals, teams must be proctored by school personnel and complete the testing during school hours (including before school and immediately after the school day closes).

 

Resources

Over thirty lessons have been posted by the COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION on EconEdLink under "collections.'

https://econedlink.org/resources/collection/national-economics-challenge/