A total of eight students from Sandy Creek High and Whitewater High schools have qualified to compete at the DECA International Career Development Conference based on their superior performance at the state-level competition.
The students are (Sandy Creek High) Amalia Rosales, first place, Professional Selling; Jessica Greene, third place, Personal Finance Literacy; Kate Weinhardt, third place, Hospitality Professional Selling; Nina Lum, seventh place, Selling Testing; Zachary Vinson, seventh place, Marketing Management; (Whitewater High) Dymond Moore, first place, Apparel and Accessories Marketing; Garrett Walraven, fourth place, Food Marketing; and Emma Fulton, fifth place, Retail Merchandising.
The Whitewater students are pictured above.
They will compete against more than 10,000 DECA students from throughout the nation during the competitive events program at the international conference that is taking place April 23-26 in Nashville.
DECA’s industry-validated competitive events are aligned with the National Curriculum Standards in the career clusters of marketing, business management and administration, finance, and hospitality and tourism. DECA’s flagship evaluation process involves students in both a written component such as an exam or report, and an interactive component with an industry professional serving as a judge.
