DECA

DECA prepares emerging leaders and entrepreneurs for careers in marketing, finance, hospitality, and management in high schools across the globe.  Pre-requisite: one business course.

Club Advisor: Mr. Corey Guerra

posted 4/26/18

We have come to the end of another year of Weston DECA and this one was one of the best.  The students have recently finished at the International Career Development Conference in Atlanta.  20,000 students and advisors descended upon the city for 5 days of competitions and academies.

Weston took nine students (the most ever) and had 6 students competing in events.  Of those students we had the team of Alex Tager and Preston Wong make it to the finals in their category, Hospitality Team Decision Making Events.  This means that they finished in the top 20 out of over 200 teams!  Every year we have grown as a club and this year’s group has set the bar high for next year. Below are the students that attended the conference.

Alex Tager and Preston Wong                     Hospitality Team Decision Making

Cameron Brisky and Arianne Dhar          Buying and Merchandising Operation Research

David Huang                                                       Financial Consulting

Ella Davis                                                             Start Up Business Plan

Courtney Burrow                                             Aspire Leadership Academy

Dan Arbel and Sophia Hoaglund                 Thrive Leadership Academy

posted 3/11/18

Business Growth Plan	Sofia Scully-Power		6 place
Buying and Merchandising Operations	Cameron Brisky, Arianne Dhar		3rdplace
Buying and Merchandising Operations	David Dangond, Tyler Morris, Dhruv Sumathi		7thplace
Community Service Project	Liz Habermeyer, Elaina Lorusso		18thplace
Financial Consulting	Arda Cataltepe		4thplace
Financial Consulting	David Huang		9thplace
Financial Services Team Decision Making	Nikki Liu, Vavara Plotnichenko		26thplace
Franchise Business Plan	Anthony Yang		15thplace
Hospitality and Tourism Professional Selling Event	Sophia Hoaglund		5thplace
Hospitality Services Team Decision Making	Alex Tager, Preston Wong		4thplace
Independent Business Plan	Courtney Burrow		6thplace
Independent Business Plan	Kelcie Levin, Devon Parker, Whitney Sins		7thplace
International Business Plan	Joy Mahoney		12thplace
Marketing Management Team Decision Making	Ben Goldstone, Patrick Rhatigan		10thplace
Principles of Business Management and Administration	Neil Malur		20thplace
Principles of Marketing	JD Bartholomew		11thplace
Professional Selling Event	Dan Arbel		9thplace
Start-Up Business Plan	Ella Davis		2ndplace

posted 12/15/17

When you see them be sure to congratulate the following students on their DECA competition on December 13, 2017.

 

Ben Goldstone and Patrick Rhatigan             1^st place       Management Team Event

Neil Malur                                                           1^st place Principles of Business Management 

Ella Davis                                                             2^nd place           Start up Business Plan

Nikki Liu and Vavara Plotnichenko                3^rd place            Financial Team Event

JD Bartholomew                                                 6^th Place         Principles of Marketing

Dhruv Sumathi and Tyler Morris                    6^th  Place            Innovation Plan

Alex Tager and Preston Wong                         6^th Place              Hospitality Services Team event

Daanish Qureshi and Edward Wu                   7^th Place           Innovation plan

Tessa Lank, Jamie Trodden and Skylar Wolf 7^th Place         Fashion Merchandising

David Dangond                                                   9^th Place                 Innovation Plan

Juliet Casey and Stella Alphas                          10^th Place             Innovation Plan

Daniel Lydon and Joseph Kydon                      10^th Place             Travel and Tourism Team event    

 

There were over 600 students from 10 different schools at the competition and the students had been working for several months to prepare.  This is the first round of competition and because they finished in the top 4 of their event, Ben, Patrick, Neil, Ella, Nikki and Vavara have qualified for the State DECA competition in March.

Congrats to them all!

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We are in full swing with our preparation for the first DECA competition.  We have 28 students attending the district competition on December 14, 2017.  If they finish in the top 4 of their events they will qualify for the State competition in March of 2018.  We have several students doing testing and role play categories and other doing written projects such as Fashion Merchandising campaigns, and Entrepreneurship projects.