Pottstown High School DECA Wins Big at Districts

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Pottstown High School's DECA team included many champions at the District 8 Annual Competition Dec. 17.

Blogger's Note: The following was provided by Pottstown School District.

Pottstown DECA's medal winners.

Members of Pottstown High School DECA participated in the 68th Annual District 8 Competition held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in King of Prussia, On Monday, Dec. 17. 

Of the 31 who participated, 12 earned a spot to compete at the State competition to be held in Hershey, Pennsylvania in February.

Pottstown High School teachers Lyndsay Hashem and Kevin Pascal are the DECA team sponsors.

Destyn Snyder

Students took a 100 question content-based test and completed a situational role play. 

The top six contestants in individual categories and the top four teams in team events moved on to the state competition.

London Aquino

District 8 is quite competitive, with DECA members from The Hill School, Norristown, North Hampton, Owen J. Roberts, Pottsgrove, Spring-Ford and Pottstown competing.   
Destyn Snyder, a senior at PHS, not only earned the highest role play score in the Sports and Entertainment category, he earned First place in the category.  

 London Aquino, a senior earned the highest test score in the Human Resource Management category and placed Fourth in her category.

Pottstown Award Winners

Name	Event	Place
Nada Elgendy	Principles of Business Management & Administration	4th Place
Brionna Williams	Principles of Business Management & Administration	5th Place
Iyesha Belgrave	Principles of Hospitality and Tourism	5th Place
Mackenzie Moser	Principles of Marketing	4th Place
Kishan Patel	Accounting Applications Series	3rd Place
CyeNyla Hall	Accounting Applications Series	4th Place
Julia Reisner	Entrepreneurship Individual Series	6th Place
Jen Hainsey	Hotel and Lodging Management Series	5th Place
London Aquino	Human Resource Management	4th Place
Mitchell Aquino	Marketing Communications  Series	4th Place
Alix Stewart	Restaurant & Food Service Management	5th Place
Destyn Snyder	Sports & Entertainment Marketing Series	1st place

DECA prepares emerging leaders and entrepreneurs for careers in marketing, finance, hospitality and management. DECA enhances the preparation for college and careers by providing co-curricular programs that integrate into classroom instruction, apply learning, connect to business and promote competition.