Hey California DECA, we are so excited to announce the start of the #CAGOLD Scholarship. As DECA members around California seek to explore their interests and compete at conferences, financial situations should not be the limiting factor preventing them from participating. This scholarship will be provided to qualifying individuals in order to help cover a portion of the travel and/or conference costs to SCDC.

It will be offered to students who exhibit a demonstrated need through the chapter advisor and an application consisting of a few short answer questions. In order to apply, you must fill out the application questions and have your advisor complete the advisor checklist and the advisor nomination questions. 

California DECA will provide 6 needs-based scholarships (depending on the amount of funds raised) to go towards subsidizing the fees for attending SCDC, including registration, travel, and lodging. The money will be raised through several methods: conference registration funds, alumni donations, restaurant fundraisers, and company sponsorships.

Here is the link to apply: leadable.info/CAGOLD

Hey California DECA! DECA has released their results for Round 1 of the Virtual Business Challenge, and we’re proud to say that California had a winner in EVERY event, even sweeping half! Now let’s recognize our VBC winners!

VBC Accounting

Washington HS – Chandler/Rameshkumar/lyengar

The Harker School – Ramachandran

VBC Entrepreneurship

BASIS Independent SV -Wang/Zhi/Sun

VBC Fashion

Granada Hills Charter – Snell/Jenne

VBC Hotel Management

Lynbrook HS – Su/Dasari/Yuan

VBC Personal Finance

Mission San Jose HS – Wang/Zhang/Lee

Granada Hills Charter – Haddad

VBC Restaurant

Lynbrook HS – lyer/Goel

BASIS Independent SV – Vasantha

VBC Retail

Washington HS – Patel/Patel/Nawal

BASIS Independent SV – Paul/Singh/Tang

VBC Sports

Washington HS – Espinoza/Ip

BASIS Independent SV – Baldua

Congratulations to all our VBC finalists – CADECA is proud of you, and we’ll see you at ICDC!

 Hey California DECA! We are excited to announce our very first Member of the Month from October: Gary He from Westview High School. Gary is in charge of chapter communications. Gary is hard-working, dependable, outgoing, and considerate of others. He plans ahead of every meeting and is very well at summarizing the meeting minutes for students who may have missed the meeting for various reasons. He is always looking for a way to help others and takes initiative to help his chapter members feel welcome and included in meetings. As his advisor, Mrs.Chappell-Brown describes, “He is a natural leader, he takes charge of Club Communications, he is dependable and shows up to every meeting, and he is helpful to me as the club advisor so I don’t have to worry about sending out emails to the membership.”