DECA Students Achieve Success

DECA Students Achieve Success

The Foothill DECA chapter attended this year’s first Career Development Conference (CDC), which took place at Livermore High School on Thursday, October 26th, 2006.

DECA, an Association of Marketing Students, gives high school students the opportunity to explore today’s business world and gain hands on experience with industrial professionals as they compete.

The goal of this event was to train students to compete at the District, State & International competitions that will be held later this year. Close to 200 students, from 5 local high schools, participated in 4 different events in the areas of Retail Merchandising, Restaurant and Food Service Management, Business Services Marketing & Marketing Management. As always, the competition was intense, so we would like to take this time to congratulate our winners:

Amy Crawford
Austin Abbruscato
Calem Tamayo
Danica Gragg
Erroll Jenkins
Jordan Friedman
Justine Lecco
Katie Johnson
Megan Ortisi
Nick Martell
Russell Takehara
Sarah Spiegel
Scott Tomlin
Stephen Yoshida

This success gives us tremendous momentum as we proceed to train and develop all of our Foothill DECA members for future competitions.
Our conference schedule is as follows:

Nor Cal Career Development Conference (Nor Cal CDC)
San Ramon Marriott
January 12-14, 2007

State Career Development Conference (State CDC)
Costa Mesa, CA
March 1-4, 2007

International Career Development Conference (ICDC)
Orlando, FL Must qualify to attend
April 27-May 2, 2007

DECA, is a national organization whose program of leadership and personal development is designed specifically for students interested in marketing, management and entrepreneurship. For more information, contact Tami Raaker at traaker@pleasanton.k12.ca.us