Pictured:
DECA students working on: Fashion Merchandising” project. Avery Poland and “Fashionable
on Time” team—Sydney Farley and Maggie Johnson.
Cathy
Hesson, advisor of the Meadowbrook DECA (Distributive Educational Clubs of America),
informed Byesville Rotary that Meadowbrook DECA teams are preparing for an
exciting and challenging year.
Sidney
Farley and Maggie Johnson, members of the “Fashionable on Time” DECA team,
placed 11th in the International division in the 2017-2018
competition. This year, their goal is to improve their placement in the final
standings.
They
use SIMs to sharpen their skills. The SIMs program provides real-world situations
requiring students to make decisions as if they were actual business owners. The
students must step though every action they would need to make as a business
owner. Today, Sidney and Maggie are identifying potential locations for their
retail clothing shop and deciding which location is best for their business.
They choose to focus on a site in a mall.
Sydney
and Maggie explained the program requires them to be aware of current trends in
fashion including details like the latest color trends. They will need to
purchase or design items to be sold in their store and to manage their
inventory. Later in the year, they will also have to make decisions about when
to place items on sale, what items to put on sale, and how much to mark the
items down. How wisely they make these decisions and how successful their store
becomes will be reflected in their final score.
Hesson
explained DECA is an international association of high school and college
students interested in careers in business, finance, hospitality, and
management. The DECA program prepares students to become leaders and
entrepreneurs in their chosen field of business. The Meadowbrook club focuses
on business marketing and personal financial literacy. Students are given a
real-life business problem and challenged to use critical thinking skills to
solve the problem.
DECA
holds competitions between students. These events are considered part of the
curriculum, are industry-validated, and aligned with the National Curriculum Standards in the business career
clusters. The competition combines a written component such as an exam or
report and an interactive component with an industry professional serving as a
judge. Hesson is proud of how well her students have done in
competitions. In past years, one student placed 2nd in the
international accounting competition and a 3-student team ranked 7th in
international competition in personal finance.
Hesson’s
students begin preparing as soon as school starts to be ready to compete in
competitions held in December and January. Sidney and Maggie stated that they
spent a lot of time outside of class readying themselves for last year’s competition.
They expect to do the same this year.
Hesson
stated the Meadowbrook DECA club has been active for 15 years. The club is part
of the DECA High School Division and one of 3,500 high school clubs with a
total of 200,000 students. During their competitions, Meadowbrook DECA members
will be competing against the best of 200,000 DECA members.
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The club meets 7:30 am, Tuesday at the Stop Nine Senior Center at 60313 (GPS
use 60299) Southgate Road, Byesville. Walk-ins are welcome at the club’s
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