Help Adwave get to Austin! 🌊🌊🌊

We’re Adwave, the student-run American Advertising Federation chapter at UC San Diego, and for the first time ever, our 34-person team made top-8 in the country at the National Student Advertising Competition (NSAC)! Our client this year for is the NFL and we need your help to get us to Texas.

NSAC isn't a course at UCSD. Every hour (and many late nights) our designers, strategists, creatives, and marketers poured in has been on their own time, purely for passion about advertising, business and the team.

All of this comes to a head on the Admerica stage in Austin on May 28th. The team behind our nine month long, top-8 campaign belong in that room, and anything you can give helps put us there to represent UC San Diego on the national stage.

If you’re a UC San Diego alum, a parent, someone in the ad industry, or a local business that wants to back ambitious students across disciplines, anything moves us closer to Austin. Sharing this page with people who’d want to know we made it this far does too.

– Your 2025-2026 Adwave team at UC San Diego

Adwave's NSAC 2026 Funding