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Activate Your Chapter Early for Exclusive Competitive Event Benefits
Activate your chapter by September 30, 2025 to receive a free digital download of competition resources to help your chapter prepare for competition this year.
8 Ways To Use the Membership Video for Back-to-School Recruitment
Discover eight ways members are using the 2025-26 DECA membership video during their events and meetings this back-to-school season and get ideas for your own chapter!
4 Strategies to Elevate Your DECA Association or Chapter Brand
A strong brand not only attracts new members but also energizes current ones, engages partners, and positions your chapter or association as a leader in preparing emerging leaders and entrepreneurs.
Meet the 2025-2026 DECA Content Creators
The DECA Inc. Communications team is excited to announce the 2025-2026 DECA Content Creators! Team members will help grow the DECA brand by showcasing their unique DECA experience.
From Small Chapter to Big Impact
Learn how to grow your small chapter while building strong connections, creating meaningful opportunities and turning your size into your greatest advantage!
How to Host the Ultimate First DECA Meeting: Engage, Excite, Enroll
Your first DECA meeting sets the tone for the year. Start with energy, make leadership personal and get everyone moving. When members feel connected and excited from day one, they'll want to stick around.
Go The Extra with DECA's Membership Recruitment Toolkit
Ready to Go The Extra this recruitment season? We've got you covered with DECA’s Membership Recruitment Toolkit, packed with resources to help your chapter succeed this back-to-school season!
Case Study of the Week: College is Expensive!
Step into the role of a financial advisor meeting with a new client. The client wants you to explain financial responsibilities that should be of concern at this stage in life.
DECA AT&T Project 2024-2025: Impactful Mentorship Opportunities
Through a decade-long collaboration with AT&T, the DECA AT&T Project continues to prepare students for life after high school by providing AT&T mentors and college and career readiness experiences.
Advisor Best Practice Spotlight of the Week: Zach Lisella
Zach Lisella of Northern Highlands Regional High School in New Jersey is our first DECA Advisor Spotlight of the Week! Check out Mr. Lisella's innovative competition preparation methods for helping his members get on stage and win big.
DECA Advisors - Show Us How You’re Going the Extra!
We want to see how your chapter is setting up for success this year using the Go The Extra theme and the competitive events resources from your back-to-school box.
Unpacking Teen Trends: Fall 2025 Taking Stock with Teens Survey
The 2025 Fall Piper Sandler Taking Stock With Teens Survey is now available for use in your classroom!
DECA Announces the 2025-2026 Membership Theme: Go The Extra
As emerging leaders, you know that success is more than just meeting expectations—it’s about exceeding them. This year, we dare you to Go The Extra—the extra mile, the extra step, the extra level on the path to achieving your college and career goals.
Congratulations to DECA's 2024-2025 Scholarship Recipients
DECA is pleased to announce the 2024-2025 scholarship recipients. Each year, DECA and its corporate partners award over $200,000 in scholarships to DECA members. Congratulations to this year’s recipients!
Case Study of the Week: Beyond the Regular Product Collection
Step into the role the owner of Beyond, a luggage and travel accessories brand. Your business partner wants you to propose two different special collections that Beyond can create.
Case Study of the Week: WHO CARES ABOUT MY CREDIT SCORE?!
Step into the role of a financial advisor. A client does not understand why a credit report and credit score are needed to secure an automobile loan and needs you to explain.
What to Know About the Consumer in 2025
Last year, consumers proved their resiliency yet again, demonstrating a willingness and ability to spend in the face of inflation, higher interest rates and more. And looking ahead, consumers continue to face an uncertain environment.
Congratulations to the 2024-2025 Leadership Passport Recipients
Congratulations to the 2024-2025 Collegiate DECA Leadership Passport Program recipients! The Collegiate DECA Leadership Passport Program encourages associations, chapters and individual members to plan activities and participate in events that enhance the experiences of members.
Case Study of the Week: Pausing Operations to Strengthen Customer Service
Step into the role of an operations assistant for Blue Ribbon Gifts. A customer service employee wants you to explain how a pause in order fulfillment can be communicated as positive customer relations to those complaining.
Collegiate DECA Stock Market Challenge Experience
This year, I participated in the Stock Market Challenge, an experience that both challenged and enhanced my understanding of finance. It allowed me to apply what I've learned in the classroom to real-world scenarios while playing a pivotal role in shaping my career aspirations.
Case Study of the Week: Elevating the Customer Experience During Air Travel
Step into the role of the director of customer experience for Royal Airways. The chief marketing officer wants you to create a customer amenity kit for both domestic and international flights that will elevate the customer experience.
Passing the Torch: How to Ensure a Smooth Leadership Transition for your Chapter
Now is the time to begin selecting our division’s next leaders. Whether you are a chapter president passing down the gavel or serving on a chapter election committee, the decisions made during this stage are crucial to future chapter success.
Gear Up to Be The One at Collegiate DECA ICDC
San Francisco’s calling! The Collegiate DECA International Career Development Conference lands at the Marriott Marquis, April 5-8, 2025, bringing together Emerging Leaders from around the world.
The Connection between Cybersecurity and Leaders of Tomorrow
While we focus on the soft skills to become emerging leaders, we forget that those skills relate to cybersecurity in various ways. Hear from a student leader who has shown the benefits of having leadership and cybersecurity experience together.
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Women's History Month Discussion with Emerging Leaders
Three emerging leaders sit down with AT&T to discuss the importance of women's history month.
Developing an Entrepreneurial Mindset
What do you think Shark Tank’s Lori Greiner, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, and Beats Electronics founder Dr. Dre have in common?
Stukent Social Media Challenge 2021 Winners Announced
Over 1,500 individuals participated in this year's Stukent + DECA Social Media Challenge. Participants tested their social media marketing skills by managing a $5,000 weekly budget in simulated ad dollars for a fictitious, global bag company. Here are the top 29 performers!
Getting that ‘A’ for any College Paper
Writing is one of the most important skills you’ll learn during your college career. You’ll write research papers, essays, short answers and so much more. Proper grammar, diverse sentence structures and organized paragraphs are vital to your success and will excel at the University of Wyoming College of Business.
Case Study of the Week: Should Hospitality Services Be Open To The Public?
You are to assume the role of general manager at The Lodge at Creek City. The owner of the property wants to offer pool memberships to community members and wants you to determine the terms of the memberships that will not negatively affect guests.
The Profit’s Marcus Lemonis to Keynote #DECAICDC
DECA is pleased to announce Marcus Lemonis will deliver the keynote in an interview format during the 2021 DECA Virtual International Career Development Conference.
Case Study of the Week: Deliver Rootville Wants Food Time to Go Local
You are to assume the role of the owner of Deliver Rootville, a small business that provides delivery services to the community of Rootville. You will be meeting with the owner of an independent grocery store to propose an exclusive business relationship.
Is It Time to Get Out of Your Comfort Zone?
Choosing which school to attend can be a complex decision, full of tough choices. Will you stay close to home, or study abroad? Stick with your friends, or forge your own path?
Broaden Your Perspectives Abroad
Do you find yourself daydreaming in class about taking a long vacation? Study abroad is a unique opportunity offered to hundreds of thousands of university students annually, allowing them to travel to another country while still earning credits towards their degree.
Welcome to the Reimagined DECA Direct Online
The new DECA Direct Online is everything you want and everything you need – all in one place!
Celebrate the Good Times
Being a leader, it is natural to constantly be on-the-go finding new ways to innovate and new goals to accomplish. However, it is still important to recognize and reward yourself and those around you. It’s important to celebrate!
The College Application Portfolio: Brand "Me"
It's your senior year and you’ve sorted through dozens of emails, mounds of catalogs and texts. You’ve identified one college or university as the launching pad for your career in marketing communications, but how will you land a coveted position in their next freshman class?
