Last Updated: September 1st, 2025

The Basics

Our CircleIn rewards & contests provide students with incentivized ways of studying with their peers on CircleIn. Specific study actions completed on CircleIn provide points that students can earn and track in their Leaderboard. Each of our contests reward students based on their effort, skill, and merit in their performance on our platform.

In order to be eligible for our contests, you must abide by the following rules:

1. Complete designated, eligible action(s) as outlined in contest 
   • • • • See full points breakdown and eligible study actions here
2. Complete said action(s) within the designated time range or by the specified end date for that contest
3. Action(s) must comply with the CircleIn Community Guidelines, otherwise the user will risk disqualification. Please see full Community Guidelines here
4. Top earners have an increased chance of winning for contests that are not randomized or raffle based. For these contests, all participants will be put in order of who has completed the most contest related actions. This will determine who will be selected as winners. For all other contests, participants can and will be selected as winners at random or raffle based.

Our verification system will go through and validate the content of your action(s) after the contest duration ends. Selected winners are notified by email.

Ongoing Contests:

AI Studying, UberEats and MacBook Air

We are giving away $50 UberEats/DoorDash gift cards to 150 students (Tier 2), and the top student who also submits a 30-second video on how the AI Tutor helped them in class will take home a MacBook Air (Tier 1).

Contest Rules and Tracking:

General Requirements to Enter Tier 2 ($50 UberEats/DoorDash):

• A Minimum of 100 interactions with the AI Tutor during the contest period
• A Minimum 10 uses of AI Shortcuts (must use at least 1 of each)
• Submit 1 idea for a new shortcut (use the in-app feature on the shortcuts bar to do so)
  
• The more interactions & shortcut uses, the better
  
  

For Tier 1 (MacBook Air):

• Everything on Tier 2
• Submit a 30 second video on how the AI Tutor helped you in a class, and give very specific example(s). (Send to support@circleinapp.com, you will be required to sign a media release form since the video might be used for promotional and internal uses, so you must be ok with that.
• Email the video to your professor(s) so they also know how helpful the AI Tutor is, professors love to hear good news. FWD the email you send to support@circleinapp.com. Please let us know if you share the video to more people. The more you share, the better chances to win the MacBook Air.
  
  The 150 Winners from Tier 2 will be selected based on who has the most interactions and AI Shortcut uses. The Tier 1 Winner will be selected based on the criteria, their video, and how much sharing they did of their video.
  

Contest Start: September 1st, 2025

Contest End: October 19th, 2025 

Contest Winners Announcement: October 27th, 2025 

Concluded Contest and Promotions

Contest Rules and Tracking:  

Grand Prize #18: Experience CircleIn 3.0

We are giving away 3 Apple Macbook Airs and up to $3,000 more in prizes. The contest will take place between January 3, 2024 and February 28, 2024.  To be eligible to win, students must complete at least 3 quests and attend 1 webinar tour of CircleIn 3.0 and learn about our brand new student influencer program. (An email invitation will be sent out the first week of January. Students must also complete a product feedback survey after trying out the new app. A survey will be posted here and emailed to students. In the event of a tie, the winners will be selected from the list of eligible students that completed the first 3 steps and also had the most referral invited accepted and the most shared content created (Posts, Flashcards, Shared Notes, Resources combined).

Winners: Isabella H. University of South Carolina, Emma R. Vincennes University, 

Grand Prize #17: Shared Notes: Win Free Lunch

Contest Period:  11/14/2023 at 12:00 am to 12/01/2023 at 11:59 pm 

• The first 500 students who upload 5 photos of their lecture notes from classes taught during the contest period will win $15 to get a free lunch.

• The three students with the most positive peer reviews of their notes: thanks, shares, and bookmarks will win a $100. 

• In the event of a tie, if “Student A” has the most people who join the app from their invite link compared to “Student B”, then “Student A” will win in a tiebreak. 
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Grand Prize #16 Knowledge Transfer Contest Fall 2023

$10,000 total prize give away!   

Details: Contest applies to flashcards created from 10/24/2023 to 11/06/2023 only.

Grand Prize of 25,000,000 points ($500.00 value) will be awarded to the student who creates the highest number of high quality cards (must be a minimum of 50 and no SPAM to qualify).

1st Runner up Prize of 12,500,000 points ($250.00 value) will go to the student that has had the highest number of cards viewed and studied by other students. (must be a minimum of 50 and no SPAM to qualify).

2nd Runner up Prize of 12,500,000 points ($250.00 value) will go to the student that has the highest number of cards thanked by other students. (must be a minimum of 50 and no SPAM to qualify).

Honorable Mentions: The first 600 students to create a minimum 50 high quality flashcards on CircleIn during the contest period, will receive 750,000 points ($15.00 value). Flashcards must be applicable to a course you are actively enrolled in.  They also must be valid flashcards with meaningful data.  Any SPAM content will immediately disqualify the user from the contest. SPAM is defined as typing in meaningless data, letters or numbers to simply add a card that is useless to any student who would study the card.

Contest winners will be announced on November 10, 2023 and award points will be awarded within 7 days of announcement.

Grand Prize #15

Steps to complete:

1. Create 25 Flashcards to study.

2. Create 3 Private Notes to study.

We will credit students with $10 worth of points within the app that can then be redeemed in the Rewards Store.

(All created content must be done within an active registered course at your school. Spamming and cheating will immediately disqualify you from rewards.)

Grand Prize #14 - Win a PS5, Delta Airlines Gift Card, and more!

Begins Monday, August 29, 2022 and ends September 16, 2022 11:59pm PST. We will be selecting approximately 175 student winners. Winners will be announced on 09/23/22.

We love helping you succeed in your studies and giving back for all your hard work.