The Diamond
Volume 2; Issue 5 February 2014
2 days unitl ….. SCDC Venture 2014 President’s Message:
In This Issue:
President’s Message
Spirit Award
ACDC ENVISION Highlights
SBE
Chapter Campaigns
I can’t express how proud I am to see you all excel, envision and venture into success at our Area 5 conference. Whether you placed as a semi finalist and qualified to SCDC 2014 I hope you all took something from the conference to better yourself as a student, citizen and leader. I would like to take the time to congratulate all 250 members who will representing Area 5 at SCDC while competing for a spot to compete with the best of the best at ICDC Atlanta 2014. I would also like to announce that we will be taking an Area 5 photo at SCDC 2014 with our Area conference t-shirts, so make sure to bring them or to purchase one if you haven’t! I can’t wait to see you all Venture at State this year! - Wendy Menchu-Lopez | Area 5 President
Auburn High—Auburn Mountainview—Auburn Riverside—Decatur—Enumclaw— Federal Way—Global Connections— Highline—Kent-Meridian—Kentlake— Kentridge—Kentwood—Mount Rainier—Puget Sound Skills Center – Tahoma —Thomas Jefferson—Todd Beamer—White River
Area 5 Chapters
Congratulations to all 250 members that have qualified to SCDC Venture 2014!! Way to go Area 5!!
Miracle $293.98 was raised during Minute our area miracle minute for the RMHC!!!
Spirit Award
Congratulations to Global Connections for winning the spirit award for the second year in a row!! The race was really close with only 5 points ahead of the runner up. The spirit award count for the school year of 2014-2015 will begin once again in March!! Will it be your chapter taking the trophy home at next years ACDC?
Congratulations to the following chapters who have achieved Thrive level in the DECA inc. Chapter Campaigns and have receive 3 allocations for the ICDC Atlanta 2014 along with the chapters that received achievement level recognition. Way to represent Area 5!! Thrive Level (Chapter Campaign):
Auburn High School DECA
Highline High School DECA
Achievement level (Membership Campaign):
Mount Rainier High School DECA
We proud to announce that 9 chapters from Area 5 have successfully certified in any of the three School Based Enterprise (SBE) levels.
Gold certification: (qualified to ICDC)
Gold Re-certification: (qualified to ICDC)
Auburn Riverside High School DECA
Auburn High School DECA
Federal Way High School DECA
Decatur high School DECA
Tahoma High School DECA
Kentwood High School DECA
Thomas Jefferson High School DECA
White River High School DECA
Silver certification:
Global Connections High School DECA
Area 5 officer team 2013-2014 -Area 5 President:
Wendy Mechu-Lopez (AHS) -Area 5 VP of Community Service: Calli Millang (ARHS) -Area 5 VP of Social Media: Merissa McFarland (KLHS)
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