Granada Hills Charter DECA Chapter Attends California DECA State Career Development Conference

Members of the Granada Hills Charter (GHC) chapter of California DECA joined over 3,000 high school business, finance, hospitality, and marketing students at the annual association career development conference held February 27- March 2, 2025 at the Anaheim Marriott in Anaheim, CA.

The following students received recognition of individual ability and achievement at the association level: Destiny Arroyo, Christopher Bonilla, Christina Chavez, Alyssa Chen, Julie Dupont, Aziz Essio, Alisha Le Montree, Sneha Malhotra, Katherine Ong, Elianna Sogomonov, and Anahit Zubrinskaya.  

These students will advance to international level competition at the DECA International Career Development Conference that will be held April 26-29, 2025, in Orlando, FL.

Students also qualified in events in the following areas:

• 3 students finished in the top 4 in the entire state of California for their competitive events in Personal Financial Literacy and Community Awareness Project
• 2 students are competing in an event based on their School-Based Enterprise report in partnership with SPD2/"Morning Brew for the Crew"
• 1 student qualified for being #2 in the Western Region for the online Virtual Business Challenge competition: Retailing
• 4 students were invited to the Leadership Academy for achieving Gold Level Chapter Awards and Chapter Campaigns reports.

As an integral part of the classroom curriculum, DECA’s industry-validated competitive events are aligned with the National Curriculum Standards in the career clusters of marketing, business management and administration, finance, and hospitality and tourism. DECA’s competitive events directly contribute to every student being college and career-ready when they graduate from high school. More than 150 business professionals evaluated the members’ performance in the format of role-plays, case studies and prepared presentations.

The students did a fantastic job at the conference and it is extremely impressive to have 10 qualifiers to go to the National conference at ICDC. The student’s hard work throughout the year has definitely paid off.

For more information about DECA, visit www.deca.org.

About DECA, Inc. DECA is a career and technical student organization that prepares emerging leaders and entrepreneurs with a career interest in marketing, finance, hospitality, and management. DECA enhances the preparation for college and careers by providing co-curricular programs that integrate into classroom instruction, apply learning, connect to business and promote competition. DECA student members leverage their DECA experience to become academically prepared, community oriented, professionally responsible, experienced leaders. DECA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with nearly 260,000 members in 4,000 high school and college chapters in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Germany.