Press release from the Distributive Education Club of America:
Each year, DECA recognizes leading chapters that have built strong local programs focused on serving an exceptional number of members, advisors, alumni and business partners. These chapters and individuals dedicate their year to academic and career preparation, community service projects, membership recruitment, school outreach activities and other DECA-related endeavors. The chapter’s advisor and student leaders have demonstrated extraordinary commitment to DECA.
DECA’s membership campaign is designed to help chapters grow by making the DECA experience available to more student members, keeping alumni involved and engaging professional members such as administrators, teachers, parents and business partners. DECA’s promotional campaign provides chapter members an opportunity to share with their school and community what DECA is all about and how their chapter is making a positive impact on its members and community. DECA’s ethical leadership challenge educates the local school and community about the importance of ethics through a PSA video, school outreach activities and community outreach activities. In DECA’s community service campaign, chapters held a community service activity, engaged at least 75% of its members, and created at least one form of publicity or promotion.
“Our students here at Decatur High School are embracing and building on their diversity while striving for their personal best. It is important that the students that I serve understand the team mentality and are confident in making unprecedented strides forward. These students deserve every opportunity to excel and that’s what I strive to provide,” said Brittany Tanner, Decatur High School DECA Advisor and Business Education Teacher.
Of the 3,000 DECA chapters, only 450 chapters earned recognition in DECA’s chapter campaigns and only 775 chapters earned recognition in DECA’s membership campaign.
For more information about DECA, visit http://www.deca.org.