Pottstown Students Get Business Skills on DEC-A

All the Pottstown High School students who competed in the recent DECA conference.

Under the direction of marketing teacher Kevin Pascal, and Co-Advisor Anita Santangelo, 42  students who are members of DECA (an association of marketing students) at Pottstown High School participated in the 66th  Annual District 8 Career Development Conference in King of Prussia last month.

Of those, 24 students will be competing at the DECA state conference in Hershey, Pennsylvania.  The competition involved students taking a 100 question content based test and situational role play.  

And here are the 24 winners from Pottstown

The top six contestants in individual categories and the top four teams in team events move on to the state competition held in Hershey, Pennsylvania.  Students’ role playing is judged on how well they adjust to the various business situations that are presented to them.  

Award winners included:  

Michael Baker	Business Law and Ethics Team	2nd Place & Highest Role Play
Emmanuel Toussaint	Business Law and Ethics Team	2nd Place & Highest Role Play
Lanea Crawford	Apparel and Accessories Marketing	4th Place
Zoe Wallace	Business Services Marketing	4th Place
Martin Metzger	Accounting Applications	3rd Place
Danielle Slody	Retail Merchandising	2nd Place & Highest Role Play
Emily Jerdon	Accounting Applications	5th Place
Jenn Hainsey	Hospitality Services Management Team	3rd Place
Destyn Snyder	Hospitality Services Management Team	3rd Place
David Hicks	Hotel and Lodging Management	6th Place
Eddie Butler	Sports and Entertainment Marketing	6th Place

Courteney Parry	Human Resources Management	3rd Place & Highest Role Play
Julian Weber	Buying and Merchandising Team	2nd Place & Highest Role Play
Emily Weber	Buying and Merchandising Team	2nd Place & Highest Role Play
Gianna Epps	Principles of Finance	3rd Place
Emilie Lineman	Principles of Finance	2nd Place & Highest Test
Br’anna Williams	Principles of Hospitality and Tourism	6th Place
Rachel Lees	Principles of Hospitality and Tourism	4th Place
Mitchell Aquino	Principles of Hospitality and Tourism	3rd Place
Gi’ovannah Mitchell	Principles of Marketing	3rd Place
Cody Young	Rest and Food Service	6th Place
Demitri Douglass	Sports and Entertainment Marketing	4th Place
Gabe Francis	Travel and Tourism Marketing Management Team	2nd Place & Highest Role Play
London Aquino	Travel and Tourism Marketing Management Team	2nd Place & Highest Role Play
Zoe Wallace	Female Modeling	2nd Place
Michael Baker	Male Modeling	2nd Place
Emmanuel Toussaint	Male Modeling	6th Place
Eddie Butler	Male Modeling	1st Place

DECA is the only Career and Technical Student Organization operating through the nation's schools to attract young people to careers in marketing management and entrepreneurship.  

Its purposes are to develop respect for education which will contribute to occupational competency and to promote understanding and appreciation for the responsibilities of citizenship in our free enterprise system.