heh, was bored and decided to search for 'DECA' in the forums and found this really old thread. =) i decided to try to revive this thread to meet new people from DECA since it's this coming monday and tuesday. so anyone here in BF that are going to DECA provincials?
it's a high school marketing business competition. you're given a case/scenario, where you have to create a solution and explain certain aspects of the situation and solutions to a judge. you're given 30 minutes to read and prepare for the judge. the challenge is to come up with a solution, and meet the competencies of the case, and present to a stranger (judge) in a "professional" manner, so like... smooth, confident, and knowledgeable talking =\ then there's a multiple choice test of 100 questions. and the scores from both sections are totalled, and standings are given, and i believe it's the top 4 of each category (ie. sports and entertainment, travel and tourism, e-commerce, hospitality, food marketing, etc.) that get to compete in internationals. this year internationals is held in Dallas, Texas. Last year was florida i think.
Lol. I was at the MTCC writing my final exam while DECA people were down there moving around making noises. Haha.
lol yeah ^^" that must mean you go to Ryerson =) yeah =\ lots of hyper people >_> but i'm one of the quieter/more shy guys
whoa... I think I posted this in the other section lol how did it end up here and almost a year later haha =)
lol, that's 'cause i was bored and decided to see if there were any threads about DECA right before this year's provincials. AFTER i posted a reply, turns out you started it a year ago haha but yeah, wanted to have a chance to meet other BFers at DECA prov. but none replied
haha I see... I was in DECA last year, so I was curious to know if any other members were also in it... I'm in university now, so no more DECA =) my teacher is the president of DECA Ontario and she made majority of us go into the written events -___-'' there weren't a lot of people, so less competition how was it this year? same old? hehe =) oh how did you do?
iuno how was it this year cuz it's my first year. fun i guess, but we sat in the front (assigned seats right?) and the speakers were LOUD. and um... partner and i only got top 10 for e-commerce written exam. =\ my school did pretty well though i guess =\ my friends got 1st in sports & entertainment, 1st in Hospitality, top 10 overall in Travel and Tourism, and i think 3rd in the Hudson Bay Company comp. for gr. 9s.
Yeah I'm apart of DECA, but I'm doing a written event hehe so that's in February. I also joined DECA last year and it was pretty fun. It actually stands for: "Distributed Education Clubs of America"... But since it is now an international organization, they just use the initials. Maybe I'll see you guys next year at the next provincials. I'm from Pierre Elliott Trudeau High School btw.
written only? wow, i'd like to do that too, since our school is so good at written cuz they make us practice so mcuh X_X but iuno anything about the february one. i'm graduating this year, so no more DECA for me =( but i hear there's a uni version too >_> and i'm from The Woodlands School
lol really now? famous? last year as in 2004 - 2005? lots of nerds from last year's gr. 12s lol, aaron wong crazy beast at sciences with 2 music ARCTs and he went into Eng. Sci. at UT. this year did good too, first and second in something first in some bio event, and second in... something else
the university version is DEX... and the written event has much less competition, so if you get at least 70% you get to go to the US =) but top three of course lol
