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DECA Updates for 2014-2015
Welcome New DECA Advisors!
Our Mission
• DECA prepares emerging leaders and entrepreneurs for careers in marketing, finance, hospitality and management in high schools and colleges around the globe.
Guiding Principles
Our guiding principles explain how we fulfill our mission by addressing what we do and the outcomes we expect. DECA enhances the preparation for college and careers by providing co-curricular programs that integrate into classroom instruction, applying learning in the context of business, connecting to business and the community and promoting competition. Our student members leverage their DECA experience to become academically prepared, community oriented, professionally responsible, experienced leaders.
Attributes and Values
• Our attributes and values describe DECA's priorities and standards. We value competence, innovation, integrity and teamwork.
Who Can Join?
• DECA members can begin their experience as early as the ninth grade by enrolling in a marketing, finance, hospitality, business management or entrepreneurship course.
• They can retain their membership in DECA as long as they are actively pursuing courses in one of the content areas
PREPARING EMERGING LEADERS AND ENTREPRENEURS
By leveraging their DECA membership, members can become:•academically prepared for college and careers in marketing, finance, hospitality or management•community oriented by gaining an appreciation for the benefits of service and their potential impact on the community and world•professionally responsible with ethics, integrity and high standards•experienced leaders by practicing key leadership skills such as goal setting, consensus building and project management.
BHS DECA
• Local, State, and National Dues:– $30 includes (t-shirt)– Deadline Sept 12th
– $10 Late fee after Sept 12th
Fall Rally• Friday, October 10th• Agenda:
9:30am-10:00am Registration10:00am-11:30am General Session/Keynote 12:00pm Lunch (on your own)1:00pm Fair Rides Open1:00pm DECA Theme Speech
Competition (open to spectators)
Fall Leadership Development Conference• October 23-24, 2014 (Renaissance Waverly,
Atlanta, GA)– Pre-Conference Workshops– Leadership Villages– Statesman Test (no charge!, must score
90%)– Membership Recruitment Competition 1st Place- Plaque & 1 ICDC Slot 2nd Place- Plaque & 1 ICDC Slot 3rd Place- Plaque & 1 ICDC Slot– Leadership Workshops– VIP Reception for Legislators and Special
Guests
Sports Events
• Business of Baseball- Tuesday, September 23, 2014
• Day with the Atlanta Falcons- Sunday, November 30, 2014
• Atlanta Hawks Marketing Series- TBD
Georgia Only Testing Events• November 13-19, 2014• Online Testing, Top 10 earn slots to ICDC• Cost- $5 per student• At Home School, Students test only
once, limit 1 test per student• Tests
– Advertising Services– Buying & Merchandising– Entrepreneurship– Free Enterprise Economics– Marketing Math– Selling
Region Competition• Online Testing January 15-21, 2015• Testing opens 8am on January 15th and closes
at 5pm on January 21st• Region Hosts will receive results by 8am on
January 22nd
• Region Competition- January 22,23, or 24• Events- Principles, Individual Series, and
Personal Financial Literacy (new), Job Interview, Business Speech
• Role Plays will take place at Region Competition.
• Need Region Hosts• Cost- $8 for state fee plus region fee
State Online Testing
• January 27-29, 2015• Results will be sent out before State
CDC Early Bird Deadline• Events:– Principles of Business & Admin (Top 20)– Individual Series (Top 20)– Team Decision Making (Top 15)– Marketing Representative Events– Professional Selling & Consulting– Personal Financial Literacy (Top 20)
State CDC• February 26-28, 2015(Hyatt
Regency Atlanta)• Schedule Same as Last year• New: Administrator Day• State CDC website page will be
available by August 1st.• New Penalty Point Checklist
ICDC• April 25-28, 2015• $120 Registration Fee• Hotel information and details
will be given at Fall LDC & Power Up
