DECA Competition

DECA Competition Results

These past couple months Fox Valley Technical College’s Collegiate DECA has been very competitive on a state and national level. In February, nine members from the chapter went to Lake Geneva to compete at the state competition. While there, all of the members competed in two events, their main event and management institute. Members Ozzy Falcon, Hazel Reck and Emmanuel Servin placed top three in management institute. In their main events, all members placed in the top eight. This was a huge accomplishment for the club. This year only the top eight could qualify for nationals. In some of the categories there were over 20 people. Having all of our members get top eight and qualify for nationals was very exciting. We had three of our members get top three at state. Hazel Reck got third in Professional Sales and Ellizer Clune Cabigting and Brandon Gogolla placed third in Starting a Business: Entrepreneurship. This past April, all nine students that competed at state traveled to Washington D.C. to compete at the International Career Development Conference. In opening ceremonies, the club received the Executive Passport Award and Hazel Reck received the Gold Passport Award. The passport award means that the club and or individual are some of the most active in the nation. Besides competition, the students got to sight see the Holocaust Museums. This was a wonderful time for these students to learn more about a vast majority of subjects. After all of the competitions were done, the club sat through a very long final awards ceremony to find out some exciting news. Nick Hodge and his team placed first in Management Institute. Alexus Berndt and Tatum Barlow placed third in advertising campaign. Hazel Reck placed second in Professional Sales. Bringing home four top three plaques showcased Fox Valley Technical College very well. The members of FVTC DECA and advisor, Jeff Meverden, could not be more proud.