The DPC Competition is open to all Secondary Schools / Academies / Trusts (“education facility”) in the UK (including England, Scotland and Wales, excluding NI). 

Upon registering to enter, DPC will email a confirmation of receipt. School details will be added to the DPC database and will be communicated to regularly with competition-related information. Please follow the competition guidelines detailed in the entry pack sent to you. DPC Competition Entry guidelines can also be found here. Failure to follow the guidelines properly could mean your education facility’s entry is disqualified.

Registration for the DPC Competition will open to all appropriate education facilities on January 1st 2022 and will close on at midnight 31st March 2022. Any registrations received after the close date will not be counted. Please refer to the full Terms and Conditions.

Only 1 (one) entry per education facility will be accepted. Registration must be submitted by a member of the teaching faculty of the education facility and have an associated and verified email address to that facility. Entry submissions from outside an education facility and without a verified email address, will not be counted.

All registered schools will be reviewed by the DPC independent panel of judges, all of whom have unique and relevant credentials and have been selected based on their ability to provide a subjective and impartial judgement on entries. Their role will be to make the selection of schools eligible to create and submit an entry into the DPC competition. Details of the members of the DPC Judging Panel will be included on the DPC website early 2022.

Shortlisted Schools eligible to enter the competition will be notified by email to the original address provided by 6th April 2022.

DPC will only provide follow-up communication if your education facility’s entry has been shortlisted to enter the competition.

Please follow the competition guidelines detailed in the entry pack which will be sent at the time of being notified. Failure to follow the guidelines properly could mean your education facility’s entry is disqualified.

All competition entries must be submitted in the manner specified in the competition guidelines detailed in the entry pack by midnight 23rd May 2022. Any entries submitted after this date will not be considered by the judging panel.

The Final 20 (twenty) winning entries will be formally notified by a member of the DPC Judging Panel to the original email address provided at the time of entry by the 1st June 2022. Please refer to the Terms and Conditions for the Competition to ensure your school is eligible to take part.

The DPC Judging Panel’s decision is final and no correspondence or discussion will be entered into.