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In 1979, the first statewide competition was held, [16] and just over two years later, the newly formed United States Academic Decathlon Association held the first national competition in April 1982 at Loyola Marymount University in California—200 high schools from 16 states and the District of Columbia competed for the chance to attend.
DECA Inc., formerly Distributive Education Clubs of America, is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit career and technical student organization (CTSO) with more than 297,000 [1] members in all 50 U.S. states, Washington, DC; Australia, Canada, China, Germany, India, Mexico, Poland, Puerto Rico, Spain, and Vietnam. The United States Congress, the United ...
However, the competition's founder, Dr. Robert Peterson, was inspired by the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. He hoped to make Academic Decathlon an international event, [8] and so at the 1984 Nationals, Canada, Mexico, and New Zealand fielded teams in addition to teams from 32 U.S. states. [9]
DECA is a nonprofit organization that prepares high school and college students for marketing, finance, hospitality and management careers. Competitions help prepare students for a career ...
This was the first time Cheboygan's Distributive Education Clubs of America students had been able to compete since March of 2020. Cheboygan students perform well at DECA competition Skip to main ...
Marion Harding's chapter of Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA) is raising awareness about the benefits of career and technical education.
Career and technical student organizations (CTSOs) are vocational organizations primarily based in high schools, colleges and career technology centers.. Often, on the state level, they are integrated into departments of education or incorporated as nonprofit organizations.
DECA, or Distributive Education Clubs of America, is a youth organization that involves high school students from a number of different areas and gives them experiences in the world of business.