Arroyo DECA Club Wins Gold and a State Office

DECA is an organization that supports students' professional and academic interests in marketing and business.

 DECA’s competitive events program directly supports its mission to prepare emerging leaders and entrepreneurs in marketing, finance, hospitality and business management.  It uses time-tested techniques that apply learning, connect businesses and promote competition to directly contribute to every student being college and career-ready.

Arroyo DECA, lead and advised by Christina Charlton, had a great showing at the Northern California Development Conference in San Ramon in early January and wanted to follow that up with a strong showing at the State career development conference in Santa Clara in early March—and Arroyo DECA did just that.

The following students were awarded top honors in their specific event category: Justin Kent won overall top eight in Apparel/Accessories Advertising Event, quite an achievement considering there were over 65 competitors in that event category. Team Andrew Olivera, Justin Kent and Sam Medina achieved top 10 honors in their event, Fashion Merchandise Promotion Plan. Juluo Decatur won sixth place overall for his honorable work in the Community Service Written Event.

Eden Area ROP and Arroyo DECA for the first time will have a student representative as a DECA State Officer. Jose Romero won as State Officer in charge of Chapter Development for California!  

Jose ran a very energetic and competitive campaign, supported by his Arroyo DECA Team, to win over a candidate from Rancho Bernardo High School in southern California. This was an incredible moment in the history of Arroyo DECA! Jose will have the opportunity to travel all of the next year to develop chapter programs through out the entire United States.  We are very proud of him!

Arroyo DECA wins “Gold”

Krystal Delatorre, Katrina Bernados, and Racelle Advincula won first place for Project Management Chapter Awards Program and Julissa Sandoval won Diamond Level membership for Arroyo DECA.  

Because of Arroyo DECA’s achievements at the state conference, we qualified for eight students to attend the International DECA competition in Orlando, Florida from April 29 to May 4. Students Jose Romero, Krystal Delatorre, Julissa Sandoval, Racelle Advincula, Sam Medina, Justin Kent, Juluo Decastro and Andrew Olivera are currently trying to raise funds to attend the International competition.

The trip is $1,200 a person and we are currently accepting donations of any amount. Any donation given to Arroyo DECA will be tax deductible. If you would like to donate to Arroyo DECA, please send your donation to Arroyo High School at 15701 Lorenzo Ave., San Lorenzo, CA 94580 and address the donation to Christina Charlton.

Arroyo DECA is proud of its achievements so far and is looking forward to your help to end our DECA year with a great time in Orlando, FL.