Mission
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
What’s New?
Tuesday marked the official end of the 2018-2019 DECA season with the International Career DECA Conference held in Orlando. Over 21,000 students and advisors that attended this annual conference with students all over the globe. DECA is a business organization for high school students that prepares emerging leaders and entrepreneurs for careers in marketing, finance, hospitality and management in high schools and colleges around the globe.
Weston had 9 students attend the confernce to compete or attend leadership academies.
JD Bartholomew, Preston Wong, Daniel Lydon, and David Huang attended a two day leadership academy where they spent time networking with fellow students, gained leadership skills and learned more about entrepreneurship.
Neil Malur competed in the Business Finance category and John Lian competed in the Personal Financial Literacy event.
We also had Alyssa Azzam, Isaac Levine, and Gillon Lim compete in the School Based Enterprise Event.
Overall there were over 40 students who competed in DECA events this year at Weston. Each year we see the club grow and the hard work the students put in shows with their success in these categories
Congrats to the members of Weston DECA who competed in the Massachusetts DECA 60th annual Career Development Conference this past weekend. Weston took 29 students to the conference which was our most ever! We had six of the events that competed and place in the top 10 and of those events, Neil Maulr qualified to compete in the International Competition in April! In addition David Huang was elected to be a State Officer for Mass DECA for the next school year. He was one of six others who will hold that position. These students competed in their respective categories ranging from Financial Consulting to Business plans. Below are their results.
This is the 6th time in eight the years of Weston DECA students have qualified for the International Competition.
Corey Guerra Business Teacher DECA Advisor
| Business Finance | Neil Malur | 2nd place |
| Principles of Finance | Kara Walp | 9th place |
| Buying and Merchandising Operations | Arda Cataltepe, Tyler Morris, Dhruv Sumathi | 13th place |
| Entrepreneurship Series Event | Alex Tager | 19th place |
| Financial Consulting | Aden Walker | 31st place |
| Financial Consulting | David Huang | 12th place |
| Financial Services Team Decision Making | Nikki Liu, Vavara Plotnichenko | 13th place |
| Franchise Business Plan | Max Lohse, Jackson Rogers | 7th place |
| Hospitality and Tourism Professional Selling Event | Preston Wong | 19th place |
| Hospitality Services Team Decision Making | Harry Tager, Ben Zeng | 12th place |
| Independent Business Plan | Joseph Lydon, Daniel Lydon | 10th place |
| Innovation Business Plan | David Dangond | 8th place |
| International Business Plan | Joy Mahoney | 24th place |
| Marketing Management Team Decision Making | Ben Goldstone, Patrick Rhatigan | 14th place |
| Marketing Management Team Decision Making | Sam Berbeco, Mikkel Hersum | 34th place |
| Personal Financial Literacy | John Lian | 6th place |
| Principles of Hospitality and Tourism | Kara Walp | 9th place |
| Principles of Marketing | Alexander Georgakopoulos | 40th place |
| Retail Merchandising | JD Bartholomew | 19th place |
| Start Up Business Plan | Kimya Jalinous | 27th place |
Congratulations to Weston DECA for a successful District Competition. Thirty students competed in the District IV competition on December 13, 2018 and their results are below:
Neil Malur 1st place Business Finance
Harry Tager and Ben Zeng 1st place Hospitality Team event
Ben Goldstone and Patrick Rhatigan 1st place Management Team Event
David Dangond 2nd Place Entrepreneurship Innovation Plan
Kara Walp 2nd place Principles of Hospitality
David Huang 3rd place Financial Consulting
Nikki Liu and Varvara Plotnichenko 3rd place Financial Service Team Event
Sam Berbeco and Mikkel Hersum 3rd place Management Team Event
JD Batholomew 3rd place Retail Merchandising
Kimya Jalinous 3rd place Business Start Up plan
Aden Walker 4th place Financial Consulting
Joy Mahoney 4th Place International Business Plan
Alex Tager 5th Place Entrepreneurship Series Event
Alina Hooper and Caitlyn Rhatigan 5th place Hospitality Team event
Alexander Georgakopoulos 6th Place Principles of Marketing
Becca Abrams, Sofia Agredo and Kay Cochran 6th place Business Start Up plan
Will Middlezong 7th place Principles of Finance
Lauren Berry and Sage DeBiasi 14th place Management Team Event
Omid Esmaeili and Michael Riggio 15th place Travel and Tourism Team Event
Xava Abraham and Samantha Driscoll 16th place Hospitality Team event
There were over 600 students from 12 different schools at the competition and the students had been working for several months to prepare. This is the first round of competition and all of the students/teams who finished in the top 5 of their events have qualified for the State DECA competition in March.
Congrats to them all!
