All Things Magical and Sparkly: Hey Y'all! Its DECA States Time!

I have returned!!!!!

I'm sorry I was away last week at my favorite part of high school ever, DECA!

First off, I'd like to start by saying my experience in DECA has been amazing and by far the best part of high school, it has boosted my confidence and exposed me to something I love, making it my future career! Before I ramble about my activities, I would like to tell you a little bit about what DECA is and then I'll tell you why I'm so excited!!

Okay, so DECA stands for Distributive Education Clubs of America and its been around for decades. However, DECA is actually a club in high school that competes against other schools in a business-situation competition. In order to participate in a DECA competition, you can do a combination of things, but for majority of the competitors you take a business cluster exam and you act out a role-play in a sector of business. The other popular activity is to write an 11 or a 30 page paper about your sector of business that you chose, do an activity involving it, and present it to a judge.

Specifically, for the past few years I've been participating in two events, one being Marketing Communications Team Decision Making. This event involves taking a marketing cluster exam and prepping and acting out a role-play with a partner. The other event I've been participating in is the Entrepreneurship Promotion Project, which is a written 30 page paper and a presentation of the paper and activity that I did for it.

This year has been so awesome though because I won at the state competition in both events!!! Which means I'm going to nationals for DECA in Nashville to compete!!!!! However, my dilemma is that you aren't allowed to compete in both events at the national level, so I had to chose one.

I went with my gut and decided to pursue my paper presentation. I poured my heart and soul into this paper and I couldn't abandon it. I placed higher for the paper event rather than the role-play event anyway, so I feel as though I maybe would have a greater chance at scoring pretty well.

But yes, that was where I was last week. I can't believe its my last states competition, but I'm also so excited for the ICDC competition in Nashville!