CCSU extends DEX streak

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CCSU extends DEX streak

The longest "winning streak" in Clayton State history is alive and well.

For at least the 10th straight year, Clayton State Delta Epsilon Chi students cleaned up in their Georgia state competition, and are going on to the national competition.

Delta Epsilon Chi is the international professional association for college students interested in careers in marketing, management, merchandising and entrepreneurship. Clayton State's DEX Chapter was founded in 1985, and starting winning state competitions without a break no later than 1996. In this year's recent Georgia State Career Development Conference there were 106 students competing in 14 categories, with the top three presentations in each category going on to the national competition,�the National State Career Development Conference, coming up May 4-8 in Anaheim, Calif.�Three hundred schools and 2,000 students are expected to compete.

"I had a good group of kids that practiced with me weekly," said the current keeper of the winning streak, Associate Professor of Technical Studies and DEX advisor Dr. Russell Casey. "In fact, in the last two weeks several of us left campus at around one in the morning on several days.

"The students had to compete with fictitious case studies in their discipline with a judge from industry, and some of the students had prepared business presentations that they presented to others in industry."

In all, six Clayton State students brought back first place awards... Shaun Washington (Fulton County), Entrepreneurship; Reginald McCaw (Ellenwood), Web Design; Shawona Willis (Riverdale), Human Resource Management; Jerome Hawkins, (Riverdale) E-Commerce; Terry Gallagher (Jonesboro), Advertising; and Jasmine Walker (Jonesboro), Design Presentation. In addition, Niya Brown (Ellenwood), took second place in Retail Management, and will also represent Clayton State at the Nationals.