DECA

Meeting Times & Location

Room: G214

After school: Wednesday

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Twitter: @DarienDECA

Instagram: @deca_darien

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DARIENDECA

Club Information....

High School Programs - DECA IncDECA's high school members benefit from activities in DECA's Comprehensive Learning Program.

Competition Date & Time

Month: March Competitions

Location: Hartford

Subjects to Compete in...

2021

March 2nd 2021: DECA Competition Virtual Video's at DHS

2019

Darien’s DECA Club gears up for state competitionSixty-five students in Darien High School's DECA Club are putting the finishing touches on their business plans, ideas, and research. They'll be presenting all of those, and more, on March 5 when they compete against 40 other DECA Clubs at the Connecticut State Competition at the Aqua Turf Club in Plantsville. The students have been preparing since the beginning of the school year to compete in this event, according to Claudia Gray, a business education teacher at Darien High School, and DECA program adviser.

Resources...

2018

Seven DHS Members of DECA Business Club Qualify for National CompetitionExcelling in the areas of finance, food, and sports, Darien High School DECA Club members made their mark at the recent 2018 DECA state competition. Overall, 80 DHS students competed at the Connecticut State DECA Conference in the areas of finance, business management, marketing, and human resources. Over 1,100 students competed from high schools all over Connecticut. DHS […]

2017

2017 Paul Hager - 2nd Place

Restaurant and Food Service Management. - Darien High School

2015-2016

The Business, Marketing and Entrepreneurship Club, Distributive Education Club of American, known as DECA, had a great official first year at Darien High School. DECA is a national business club organization that sponsors business industry-validated competitive events that are aligned with the National Curriculum Standards in the career clusters of marketing, business management and administration, finance, and hospitality and tourism, according to the organization. DECA’s flagship evaluation process involves students in both a written component such as an exam or report and an interactive (role play) component with an industry professional serving as a judge.

In 2015-2016, 100 students officially joined DECA with membership dues paid to DECA National, Connecticut and Chapter levels with business teacher, Claudia Gray as their advisor. The members met on Wednesday or Thursday mornings to plan for the spring state competition with nine senior students on the DECA Leadership Team. 68 DECA club members competed at the DECA state competition held in March 2016, up against over 1,000 DECA members from various high schools around the state.

Seven students from Darien High School attended DECA’s International Career Development Conference (ICDC) from April 24-28th. The conference and competition included top performing students from all fifty United States, U.S. Territories and nine foreign countries with over 18,000 DECA members attending. Students from DHS attended workshops and participated in the organization’s competitive events program which is designed to simulate real-life business scenarios and test students’ academic understanding and skills development. Five students that placed in the top three of their category at the state competition, competed at ICDC. After placing first at the Connecticut state competition, Paige Adams placed in the top ten internationally!

Darien DECA Club excitement is already brewing for next school year. A 16 member leadership team has been established with multiple roles to further develop our community service and DECA campaign events. We look forward to the many students that have expressed interest in joining DECA next school year following our first official year at Darien High School.