ABOVE PHOTO: DECA district winners receive awards at a recent competition at UW-Stout. The 51st annual event for about 450 high school students will be held on campus Jan. 7.
University of Wisconsin-Stout will host the DECA District I Career Development Conference for the 51st straight year on Saturday, Jan. 7.
The event, organized and run by the UW-Stout Marketing and Business Education Association, is an applied learning experience for high school competitors and UW-Stout students.
The competition is from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Memorial Student Center, followed by awards. An orientation for judges begins at 9 a.m.
Approximately 65 regional business and marketing professionals are needed as volunteer competition judges. To volunteer, register online.
Nearly 450 student participants from 20 area high schools are registered. The schools are:
Altoona, Chippewa Falls, Eau Claire Memorial, Eau Claire North, Elmwood, Glenwood City, Holmen, Hudson, La Crosse Central, La Crosse Logan, Alma Center Lincoln, Melrose-Mindoro, Menomonie, Northwestern, Plum City, Sparta, Stanley-Boyd, Superior, Tomah and West Salem.
They will compete in 19 individual and eight team events. Students’ skills are tested in business services, marketing management, hospitality and tourism, marketing strategy, retail sales and services, sports and entertainment marketing, financial services, and entrepreneurship.
Winners and runners-up in each category advance to the State Career Development Conference competition Monday, Feb. 27, to Wednesday, March 1, in Lake Geneva.
“The conference concurrently prepares the university’s marketing and business education majors to become teachers while benefiting high school competitors,” said Professor Urs Haltinner, director of UW-Stout’s doctorate degree in career and technical education and an event coordinator.
DECA has 215,000 members in 3,500 high school chapters and 275 collegiate chapters.
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