Competitive Events
STAR Events
STAR Events (Students Taking Action with Recognition) recognize members for proficiency and achievement in chapter and individual projects, leadership skills, and career preparation. STAR Events offer individual skill development and application of learning through cooperative, individualized, and competitive activities.
Proficiency Events
Proficiency Events are competitive events exclusively for Texas members. Winners at the regional conferences can only advance to the state level. Proficiency Event winners do not advance to national competition.
Top 5 winners in STAR and Proficiency Events with scores of 60 or higher at the Region Conferences advance to the State Leadership Conference.
Texas FCCLA Competitive Event Guidelines
Use the Texas FCCLA Competitive Event Guidelines for all general Texas competitive event policies, Texas Baking and Pastry rules, Texas Culinary Arts rules, and Texas Proficiency Event rules.
All other STAR Event rules can be found in the National FCCLA STAR Events Guidelines in the FCCLA portal under the Resources tab.
Number of Competitive Event Entries Allowed (based on chapter size):
Lead Consultant Resources
Lead Consultant Orientation
Lead Consultant Orientation Quiz
Competitive Event Scholarships
Certain competitive events offer scholarships to participants. A full list of the scholarship-eligible events can be found at the competitive event scholarships page linked above.
Competitive Event Resources
FCCLA Student Portal (online project summary form must be completed here)
Texas FCCLA Competitive Event Advisory Team Interest Form (Deadline: March 1)
Volunteer Policy
Competitive Event Schedules
Tentative Schedules: Tentative competitive event schedules will be released by the beginning of January, however, entries should be prepared for their competition time to change on the final schedule (once dropped entries are removed). If a level of an event has too many entries to fit in one day’s schedule, multiple stations may be used and standard deviation will be applied to the scores to determine placements.
Per the Competitive Event Guidelines, schedules will not be altered on request after they have been posted online.
Mandatory Online Competitive Event Check-in will be electronic via the DLG registration site. Check in instructions are in the resources section above. Mandatory online competitive event check-in will now be open from 9:00 a.m. CST Monday to 11:00 a.m. CST Tuesday on the week of your conference. Exception: State check in will be open from 9:00 a.m. CST Monday to 9:00 a.m. CST Tuesday. An e-mail will also be sent to chapter advisors with the instructions. Check in will be open for 24 hours (until Wednesday at 9:00 a.m.) Advisors must log in and respond for all of their entries within that time. Failure to do so will result in the entries being marked as no-shows and the entries will be unable to compete. Drops: Advisors will notate any dropped entries during the online check-in process by selecting that the dropped entries will no longer be competing. Advisors no longer need to send drops via e-mail.
Final Schedules: Following the end of the competitive event check in time, final schedules will be updated online to remove any dropped entries. Final schedules will be updated by the day before competition and advisors will be notified once they are updated. Region Thursday schedules will be updated first. In the event of a drop, ALL entries will be moved up (competition days will not be changed and levels will not be mixed, but the competition time may be altered on the originally scheduled day). Entries should be prepared for their competition time to change.
Day of Drops/No-shows: If there are any drops/no-shows on the day of competition, advisors may be contacted to see if their entry can come earlier to fill in the gap, but there are no penalties if not.