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Quincy High DECA does it again
Six QHS students to marketing club’s international meet in Orlando
For the fourth year in a row, the Quincy High School DECA club has earned a spot at the international DECA competition under the leadership of Nicole Monroe.
“I told them not to break the streak this year,” joked Monroe.
DECA, which stands for Distributive Education Clubs of America, encourages competition in the area of business and marketing. It is also a group of QHS go-getters who competed with their presentations at the DECA state championship in early March, and qualified for the international competition to take place in Orlando, Fla. on April 27. The qualifiers include the team of Shantel Lawrence, Mariana Vasquez and Valeria Ramirez and the team of Jorge Montano, Jackelyn Hidalgo and Efren Alvarado.
“We’re putting Quincy on the map,” said QHS senior, Jorge Montano.
Monroe explained that the students qualify only if they are enrolled in business courses. Once the students join DECA, they take on a special project to present a business model, or they put together an outline of DECA club regulations. The Lawrence, Vasquez and Ramirez team put together a detailed scrapbook expounding on the activities of DECA and their involvement in the community. The limitation of the project was 90 pages, of which they filled every one.
“When we went to state competition, we had to hand over our binder, or “CAP” book, to have it examined and corrected. They put post-its where there are mistakes or corrections to be made, and we had none,” said Lawrence.
The CAP book was a culmination of months of work split up by the three senior students on the first team. Vasquez outlined DECA membership standards in the first section, while the third and fourth sections relating to DECA’s community service were completed by Ramirez, and the final part describing and outlining DECA activities was done by Lawrence.
“We have to have proof of everything we do in our club,” said Vasquez.
The other group of three who qualified for international competition focused on attaining the highest level of competition, and chose a “gold level” project.
“We didn’t know what we were getting ourselves into,” said Montano.
Montano was joined by Hidalgo and Alvarado in the painstaking task of putting together a business manual.
“We covered everything from accounting, to the layout of the store, to schedules and security measures,” explained Montano.
Monroe said she is very proud of her students. The six students will be competing against some 16,000 kids from around the world in Orlando.
“It will take at least $2,400 per student to make the journey a reality,” said Monroe.
Currently the DECA club is falling a little short of money due to the fact that they are so good at what they do. They already spent much of their budget on going to state.
For more information on how to help, please contact Monroe at Quincy High School at 787-3501.
