North Paulding DECA - Region 3 Winners!

NPHS DECA Chapter left its mark this week as Region 3 overall champion! As an integral part of the classroom curriculum, DECA's industry-validated competitive events align with the National Curriculum Standards in the career clusters of marketing, business management, administration, finance, and hospitality and tourism. DECA's flagship evaluation process involves students in both an exam and an interactive component with a professional from the industry serving as a judge. DECA's competitive events directly contribute to every student being college and career ready when graduating high school. North Paulding DECA has been runner-up or overall champion in their region for ten of the past eleven years. This year they had a total of 27 competitors' places and will advance to the state competition in late January. Including 9-1st place, 6-2nd place, 7-3rd place, and 5-4th place winners with fifteen of them being first-year members.