Byesville Rotary

Meeting time: Friday 7:00 am--8:30 am.

Location: Stop Nine Senior Center at 60313 (GPS use 60299) Southgate Road, Byesville .

Club officers 2023--2024

President--Chuck Fair

President Elect/Vice President--Shana Fair

Treasurer--Tanya Hitchens

Secretary--Jordi Harding

Membership Chairs--Jordi Harding, Lisa Groh

Board members:
Shana Fair--term ends June 2025
Jim Bacos--term ends June 2024
-Jan Wilson-term ends June 2026


Saturday, October 6, 2018

Meadowbrook DECA team aims for win in international competition





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.

Connect with #ByesvilleRotary at: www.Byesvillerotary.blogspot.com , Twitter Byesville_Club, or Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Byesville-Rotary/256548047818283. 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 meeting. #6690


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