DECA Success at State
DECA poses in front of their logo.
Congratulations to Conifer High School’s DECA Chapter for an incredible year! If you are not familiar with DECA, it is an international association of marketing students that is 220,000 members strong with competitions at the local, state and international levels. This year, Conifer DECA has set a number of personal records, including the highest % of State Qualifiers from our District Conference, more than doubling the number of students who qualified for ICDC, District recognition for the most community service hours, recognition from National DECA for the growth of our chapter membership, and teacher/ advisor Amber Hall was recognized as the New Marketing Teacher of the Year for Colorado DECA.
We are especially proud of the 15 Conifer High School DECA students whom just returned from a 5-day trip to Anaheim, California to represent our Conifer community as they competed in their qualifying events with 15,000 other DECA students from around the globe in the International Career Development Conference (ICDC). At ICDC, each event consisted of 140 to 350 competitors who all had to qualify in the top 5% of competitors in order to compete at the international level. Conifer DECA’s competitors and results are:
• International Top 10 in Sports & Entertainment Promotion Plan
o Elle Hickman
o Alissa Searcy
o Nicholas Faraco-Hadlock
• Top Performers for test scores – Fashion & Merchandising Promotion Plan
o Kendall Benton
o Merisa Trujillo
ICDC Competitors
• Business Law & Ethics Team Decision Making– Jake Esposito & Mia Miller
• Sports & Entertainment Team Decision Making – Mason Meyer & Abe Martin
• Buying & Merchandising Team Decision Making – Piper Richey & Rachael Long
• Food Marketing – Ryan Dean
• Travel & Tourism Decision Making – Jake Borchard
• Innovation Plan – Jon Tyus & Austin Brown
Thank you Conifer DECA for representing our community so well as competitors and as considerate, mature and professional young adults. Thank you to our Conifer community for your support and encouragement of our students. For additional information about the Conifer High School DECA program, please contact Amber Hall at [email protected].
