Advisor: Ms. Connell

What Is DECA?

• Where can you go to have fun, have a positive effect on your community and learn - all at the same time? DECA
• Where can you go to learn about marketing, starting your own business, getting involved in e-commerce, the ins and outs of international business? DECA
• Where can you tap into $250,000 of awards and scholarships from major U.S. corporations? DECA
• Where can you get those leadership skills that will give you a head start toward a real career? DECA
• Where can you enter your class projects into a competition that could lead you not only to applause but to self-confidence and usable skills? DECA
• How can you travel to conferences designed for sharp, ambitious teens like you? DECA
• Want to learn how to associate with businesspeople and network your way into the future? DECA

For over 55 years DECA, the association of marketing students, has been leading talented young people just like you toward real careers and lifetime skills. These days, DECA is more than keeping pace. Our Competitive Events Program amplifies what you learn in the classroom and even includes the Virtual Business Challenge - a business management simulation - and the 7 UP Challenge Web design event.

Are you interested in sports and entertainment marketing, in the travel or hospitality business, in fashion, in a retail career, in advertising, in the restaurant trade?  Activities and skills in these and any other marketing specialty are available to you in DECA. And along the way you'll make friendships that will last forever.

Students who are interested in joining the Whitnall DECA Chapter are required to register for a marketing course.  DECA is considered a co-curricular organization.  Membership is open to grades 9-12.  All chapter meetings are held once per month, September through May, on the second Monday of the month.  DECA officer meetings are held every Monday.