District Instructional Areas Announced

DECA provides the primary instructional area(s) assessed in each of the district-level scenarios to help advisors and members prepare for district competitions more effectively. 

SBE Week 2022

This year's #DECASBEWeek takes place on October 3-7. Show off your chapter's school-based enterprise by sharing photos or videos corresponding to daily themes. 

NEW! DECA at the Bell

DECA has partnered with BusinessU to create a new

role-play prep series! “DECA at the Bell” is an interactive,

video-based series. It includes role-play prompts aligned to Performance Indicators. DATB is now live and free to all DECA advisors. 

DECA Membership Assistance Program

The membership assistance program will provide financial support to help students who cannot afford to participate.

Please complete the application and you will be notified if approved. Note that the % of support is based on F/R lunch and will be paid to the chapter after November 15, 2022. 

FLC Business Pitch Competition

Students eager to begin the competition season are encouraged to participate in the Business Pitch Competition at FLC! Teams of 1-3 will present on their proposed business, product, or service, to a judge.

Piper Sandler Survey Extension!

Piper Sandler has extended the deadline for the Fall Take Stock with Teens Survey to this Friday, September 23. We encourage you to utilize this in your classroom, the survey should take ~30 minutes to complete. Your students’ participation is very important as Piper Sandler would love to gather more data from the great state of WA!

SBE Ready!

Plan ahead to highlight and showcase your SBE on campus and in your community. 

Looking for Certification and Competition Guidelines? Look no further:

DECA Direct articles to get your started:

 - SBE Chapter Certification Guidelines

 - A Student's Guide to Starting a School-Based Enterprise

Leadership Resources: One-Day Officer Retreat!

In Unit 2.2 of Teach DECA, there is a complete toolkit for hosting a Chapter Officer Retreat. Use this one-day event to get your officers revved up and ready to lead!

Business Operations

Research Events

Competition Expertise and Support for Advisors

The Business Operations Research Series will take advisors through:

1) Integrating the Business Operations Research events into a Marketing Information Management

instructional unit for a grade.

2) Strategies for conducting both primary and secondary research based on this year's topic.

3) Developing each section of the project according to the DECA guidelines.

Each virtual workshop is 15-20 minutes and will be posted to Teach DECA.

To Open or Not to Open... on Sundays

Step into the role of general manager at Johnson Family Elite, a local automobile dealership that sells both new and previously-owned Elite vehicles. The owner of the local dealership is considering a change to the days the business is open and would like you to analyze the benefits and consequences of the change and make a final decision. 

Learn DECA

Password Change

Learn DECA is a competitive event resource exclusively for Washington DECA members and advisors.

Access Learn DECA using this password: Launchwadeca

Password is case sensitive

SBE Guidelines

The chapter certification guidelines and competition guidelines for the 2022-23 school year are now available.

Nutritional Standards

The USDA released a tool to help school staff determine if certain foods meet the nutrition requirements to be sold in school fundraisers and students stores on campus.