BCA DECA Competitions

INSTRUCTIONS

Individual Series Events

DECA’s individual events effectively measure students’ proficiency in those skills identified by occupational practitioners as essential to success in a given occupation. Participants receive recognition for achievement in each event and in the series as a whole.

Management Team Decision Making

The Management Team Decision Making Events provide an opportunity for participants to analyze one or a combination of elements essential to the effective operation of a business in the specific occupational area. These elements may include, but are not limited to, financial management, personnel management, merchandise management, marketing issues, security issues, etc. The business situation to be analyzed will be presented as a case study.

Marketing Research Events

The Marketing Research Events provide an opportunity for participants to demonstrate skills needed by management personnel.

Written Chapter Team Events

The Community Service Project is a chapter project that provides an opportunity for chapter members to develop a better understanding of the role civic activities have in society, to make a contribution to a community service or charity, and to learn and apply the principles of the numerous components of marketing management. The purpose of the Community Service Project is to provide an opportunity for the chapter members to demonstrate the skills necessary in planning, organizing, implementing and evaluating a community service project. The project may be conducted anytime between the close of the previous state conference and the beginning of the next state conference. The project requires DECA chapter members to develop a manual on the procedures of planning, implementing, coordinating and evaluating the project.

Marketing Representative Events

Business Management & Entrepeneurship

Special Activity

Online Activity