Is your school ASLA’s most dedicated? Prove it. 🏆

Rally your classmates, top the leaderboard, and win a pizza party for your chapter. Students join ASLA free!
By Lydia Thompson, Assoc. ASLA
Chapters Education Students
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What it is

Inspired by the school spirit student chapters brought to the Alumni Tailgate at ASLA 2026 in Los Angeles, the ASLA Student Membership Competition challenges schools to see whose students show the strongest support for ASLA. Every landscape architecture program, and related program, is automatically entered.

Deadline: The competition closes Friday, November 20, at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time.

Why students should join

ASLA Student membership is free. It connects students with peers and professionals across the country, opens up internships and jobs on ASLA JobLink, and sets up an easy path to Associate membership after graduation. Students in related programs, like architecture, horticulture, and environmental science, can join as Student Affiliate members. Joining takes less than five minutes at join ASLA.

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How to spread the word

The Student Membership Competition page has ready-made graphics for student chapters. Use them as they are, or customize them in Canva with your school's photos and logo:

  • Instagram Story and Post: Add the sign-up link and tag ASLA.
  • "How It Works" graphics: A quick explainer of the rules, in post and story sizes.
  • Email Header: Add it to your chapter's emails and newsletters.
  • Email Signature Banner: Promote the competition in every email you send.

Professionals can help, too. Support your alma mater by telling faculty and students at your school about free ASLA Student membership and Student Affiliate membership. Then point them to the competition page.

How to win

There are two prizes, and each winning chapter gets a pizza party.

🏆 Top Student Chapter
The highest percentage of a program's landscape architecture students who are ASLA Student members. Because it's measured against program size, small programs have just as good a shot as large ones.
🏆 Top Affiliate Recruiter
The most Student Affiliate members recruited by a school's landscape architecture program from related programs at the same school.

Standings will be posted on @nationalasla and @labash on Instagram. Full rules are on the competition page.

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