Hello DECA Advisors,
 
It has been so fun seeing all the fun things you are doing for DECA Month! Keep sending in pictures!
 
DECA-RATE A DOOR CONTEST
We received so many pictures this year of decorated doors! So fun! The winner of the DECA-RATE a door contest is West High School! Congratulations West High! You will receive a $25 gift card to Smith’s. 
 
DECA MONTH
Be sure to be working on your DECA BINGO! You have the entire month to work on it. Remember, to be considered for Chapter of the Year, you must participate in DECA BINGO.
 
Students can submit pin designs for ICDC. All designs must be sent to me by Friday, November 15. The winner will receive a $25 gift card. It is also a square on the DECA BINGO.
 
There is also a square on DECA BINGO for friendship bracelets. If you make friendship bracelets, send a picture to me, or send one to me. We are thinking of doing something with friendship bracelets at state. I am just trying to get some ideas.
 
MEMBERSHIP
We have 16 schools that have 50+ members! The lead advisor from the following schools will receive a Utility Tote from Thread Wallets! Congratulations!
Alta – 111 members
American Fork – 62 members
Bingham – 55 members
Bonneville – 55 members
Brighton – 91 members
Career Tech – 63 members
Copper Hills – 50 members
Corner Canyon – 167 members
Farmington – 93 members
Fremont – 55 members
Herriman – 59 members
Mountain Ridge – 59 members
Olympus – 50 members
Tooele – 58 members
Uintah – 56 members
Weber – 113 members
 
Utah DECA’s current membership total is 2,088! That is an increase of 142 members from this date last year. Keep recruiting! Let’s reach our goal of 3,000! Remember that alumni and professional members also count in this total. Consider recruiting professional members for your chapter.
 
REGION COMPETITION
Please plan to attend one of the Region Competition meetings next week. There are several changes for region this year and we want to make sure that each advisor has all the information and that all your questions get answered. The meetings will be over zoom. You only need to attend one meeting. We will keep it to less than 30 minutes.
 
Wednesday, November 13 – 3:00 pm
Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 820 1859 9970
Passcode: 309539
 
Thursday, November 14 – 3:00 pm
Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 846 8567 5922
Passcode: 789124
 
Start working on recruiting judges for the region competition. Please remember that you will need 1 judge for every 6 students that you bring to region. Please send the links for judges to sign out to all your friends, non-friends, random business professionals, businesses you want to be friends with, former students, CTE coordinators, etc. I am sure I could make the list go on and on, but you get the point. 🙂
 
Judge Links
Southern Region – December 1 – Utah Tech – https://forms.gle/FPhsmY8qdMso9yT18
Northern Region – December 10 – Weber State – https://forms.gle/pUYjBTq17WUY7tfd6
Central Region – December 13 – BYU – https://forms.gle/BsuDPkDj1CaPaTdn8
Salt Lake Region – December 16 – SLCC – https://forms.gle/sFm7vrtmMLk1qYQb9
 
JAZZ NIGHT
Evidently the link to the Jazz Night did not work. Here is a longer link that should work for you,
Please order your tickets soon to get the best price.
Happy first day of DECA Month!!! I hope that this month is exciting for you and your students. Here are your weekly announcements.
 
MEMBERSHIP
Today is the last day to submit for the membership incentive. Any school that has 50+ members submitted by today, their advisor will receive a surprise! The members can be students, advisors, professional members, or alumni. Be sure that you have hit the submit button on the National DECA membership website. Payment does not need to be received by today. However, please get payments sent in soon.
As of today, we have 1,920 Utah DECA members! Awesome! Keep recruiting!
 
DECA MONTH
The DECA-Rate a Door Contest has begun! Please submit your entry on our Instagram (ut_deca) or send a picture to Jill by 3:00 on November 5. The winning chapter will receive a $25 gift card to Smith’s. It also counts as a square on DECA BINGO.
 
Be sure to be working on your DECA BINGO! I have attached the DECA BINGO card again. It is also on our website.
 
Students can submit pin designs for ICDC. All designs must be sent to me by Friday, November 15. The winner will receive a $25 gift card. It is also a square on the DECA BINGO.
 
There is also a square on DECA BINGO for friendship bracelets. If you make friendship bracelets, send a picture to me, or send one to me. We are thinking of doing something with friendship bracelets at state. I am just trying to get some ideas.
 
REGION COMPETITIONS
All the information for the Region Competitions was sent out yesterday. Please be sure to read that entire email for all the competition information.
 
JAZZ NIGHT
We will have our Utah DECA Night at the Utah Jazz on January 15. Students will be able to shoot free throws starting at 1:30. A guest speaker will be there at 2:00. Early entry into the Delta Center to watch warm-ups will be at 4:45. The game will start at 7:00 pm against the Charlotte Hornets. Tickets can be purchased at www.utahjazz.group/utahdeca 
Please order your tickets as soon as possible. Best prices and seats are available now.
 
Have a great week everyone!
Advisors,
November is DECA Month! I wanted to get this out to you before November so that you can start making plans! We are changing a few things this year. Instead of weekly activities this year, we are just going to do the DECA-RATE A Door Contest and the DECA BINGO. We encourage you to add as many events as you would like for the month of November.
 
DECA-RATE A DOOR CONTEST
Decorate classroom doors to show your chapter’s DECA spirit. If participating in the contest, the door must be decorated by November 5. Submit your entry on our Instagram (ut_deca) or send the picture to Jill by 3:00 on November 5. The winning chapter will receive a $25 gift card to Smith’s. It also counts as a square on the DECA BINGO.
 
DECA BINGO
We are doing DECA BINGO again this year. The DECA BINGO card is attached. Throughout the month, your DECA chapter can work to get a BINGO, a DOUBLE BINGO, and/or a BLACKOUT. DECA BINGO participation is a requirement for Chapter of the Year (Chapters do not have to receive a BINGO or BLACKOUT, but must show that they did things for DECA BINGO).  For DECA Chapters to show that they have completed a BINGO, DOUBLE BINGO, and/or BLACKOUT, they must submit the following:
 
BINGO – Submit a short description of each of the activities completed that got a BINGO (horizontal, vertical, or diagonal). Submit at least 3 pictures. Submissions must be emailed to [email protected] by December 4. (For Double BINGO, do 2 submissions. One for each of the BINGOs).
BLACKOUT – Submit a short description of each of the activities completed a BINGO BLACKOUT. Submit at least 12 pictures. Submissions must be emailed to [email protected] by December 3.
 
Chapters completing a BINGO will earn a sticker for all members.
Chapters completing DOUBLE BINGO will earn two stickers for all members and a $25 gift card for the chapter.
Chapters completing the BINGO BLACKOUT will earn 3 stickers for all members, and a $50 gift card for the chapter. 
 
For some of the BINGO squares, chapters might have to get pretty creative. I can’t wait to see everything our chapters come up with! 
 
ICDC PIN DESIGNS
Students can submit pin designs for ICDC. All designs must be sent to [email protected] by Friday, November 15. (Yes, this is a square on DECA BINGO).
 
We hope that everyone gets involved and has a fun time for DECA Month. If you have questions, please let me know.

DECA BINGO 2024 (BINGO CARD DOWNLOAD)
Hello DECA Advisors,
I know some of you just got back from Fall Break and some of you are heading into Fall Break. I hope that all of you get a relaxing break whenever it is for you.
 
Here are the things I have for you this week.
 
MEMBERSHIP
Our current membership is 1,808 members! That is an increase of 224 members from this date one year ago. Great job! Keep recruiting!!!
 
Remember that our next membership incentive is November 1. Any DECA chapter with 50+ registered and submitted members will receive a prize for the lead advisor. It will be a great prize! You know you want it. 🙂
 
DECA MONTH
November is DECA Month. Tomorrow I will be sending out all the details for the activities happening for DECA Month. 
 
WEBER BIZ
Registration for the Weber Biz Competition is due Friday, October 25. For more information, please go to https://www.weber.edu/goddard/WeberBizInvitational.html
 
JAZZ NIGHT
We will have our Utah DECA Night at the Utah Jazz on January 15. Students will be able to shoot free throws starting at 1:30. A guest speaker will be there at 2:00. Early entry into the Delta Center to watch warm-ups will be at 4:45. The game will start at 7:00 pm against the Charlotte Hornets. Tickets can be purchased at www.utahjazz.group/utahdeca I have attached a flyer. Please order your tickets as soon as possible. Best prices and seats are available now.
 
JUDGES
Next week we will be sending out information regarding judges for the region competitions. Please start recruiting judges.
 
REGION COMPETITIONS
There are several changes happening this year for region competitions. Students will be allowed to compete in two different events. Testing will be done before region. Tests will be area specific. More judges will be needed. Information for all region competitions will be sent out next week.
Hello DECA Advisors,
I hope that everyone has had a great week. I know that several of you are currently at the UVU Invitational. I hope that all of your students have a great experience! Thank you UVU for hosting 600 of our DECA members!
 
Here are a few things for you this week.
 
MEMBERSHIP
Our current state membership is 1,613 members! That is an increase of 270 members from this date a year ago! That is incredible! Keep recruiting. We are over halfway to our goal.
 
TEEN ENTREPRENEURS
During our Fall Leadership Conference, Calvin Barnum, presented about the Teen Entrepreneur Support Center. Attached is a flyer. Please share with your students. They can use the QR code for more information.
Also there is a flyer for the Teen Entrpreneur Pop Up Market which is on December 7th from 4:00 – 7:00 pm. Please share with your students. There is a QR code to reserve a spot.
 
JAZZ NIGHT
We will have our Utah DECA Night at the Utah Jazz on January 15. Students will be able to shoot free throws starting at 1:30. A guest speaker will be there at 2:00. Early entry into the Delta Center to watch warm-ups will be at 4:45. The game will start at 7:00 pm against the Charlotte Hornets. Tickets can be purchased at www.utahjazz.group/utahdeca. I have attached a flyer. Please order your tickets as soon as possible. Best prices and seats are available now.
 
USU INVITATIONAL
I know many were surprised to see that USU closed reigstration early. They reached 986 students which is over their capcity. They will be reaching out to individual schools, who have not confirmed yet, to confirm numbers. At last count there where 4 schools placed on the waitlist. Please confirm your numbers as soon as possible to allow opportunities for other schools.
The amount of students planning on attending the Aggie Invite has brought forth several concerns. They are worried about finding enough judges. They sent a link to all schools attending to help with judges. If you have more than 1 advisor attending, please support USU and have one advisor judge. It is a great learning tool to judge so that you can better prepare your own students.
Also, please be sure to monitor/chaperone students while at the invites. These schools put the events on for us, and we do not want one group of students to ruin it for all students.
 
INVITES
Both the UVU and USU Invites are huge this year. Both schools were surprised by the amount of interest, which I am not. We all love competitions, and more opportunities for our students to compete. In our next board meeting, we will be talking about invitationals, and maybe some options. Please remember that these colleges do these events for us. They are in charge of them. They do everything. We simply advertise for them. They love doing this for our students, and are working to figure out the best ways to make it happen. We appreciate that they are willing to do this for us. While you may not agree with everything they are do, I do ask that you and your students remain respectful towards them, and share a big thank you to them for all they do for members of Utah DECA.
 
WEBER BIZ CASE COMPETITION
Speaking of invites, here is another opportunity for your students. The flyer is also attached.
From Weber…
 
I just wanted to make sure you know about our upcoming Weberbiz Case Competition!
 It will be held on November 6th at the Ogden Campus, and we are excited to announce that we will have 3 business cases this year from Tab Bank, Roosters Brewing, and Greentech Renewables.
As in years past we will be  awarding $10K in scholarship money, lots of cash, and prizes to not only the 1st-3rd place winners of each of the 3 cases, but also to winners of our second chance activities, which will take place after the initial presentations. We’re planning an excellent day, full of competition and fun, led by our Goddard Student Ambassador team (many of whom are former high school students from the Weber and Davis County areas).
 
I will be sending out more information to teachers and schools over the coming weeks, but wanted to make sure you were aware and ask for any help you could give in spreading the word. We would love to get as many schools as possible out to the competition. Last year we had schools from as far North as Southern Idaho and as far South as Whitehorse HIgh School on the Navajo Reservation. It was so great to see all of those students come together here to compete.
 
Thanks so much, and please let me know if you have any questions at all. Below is the link to our webpage, and attached is a flyer with a bit more information.
 
 
Eliza Fry
Marketing Manager
Goddard School of Business & Economics
Weber State University
(801) 626-7397
 
 
DECA MONTH
We will start advertising our plan for DECA Month after Fall Break. Stay tunned for all the activities planned.
 
Wow! That was more than I had planned. I hope that you have a great weekend!
 
Jill
Hello DECA Advisors,
 
I hope that all of you are having a great week! Lots has happened this week. I hope those schools that attended the RSL game had a great time! Thank you to RSL for hosting us.
 
LEADERSHIP TRAINING ACTIVITY COMPLETERS
Congratulations to the following schools for completing the Leadership Training Activities by October 1:
American Fork, Herriman, Hillcrest, Olympus, Mountain Ridge, Uintah,  and West.
I will reach out to each of the advisors for the $25 gift card.
If you didn’t complete everything by October 1, keep working on it. It will be a BINGO square on the BINGO card for November.
 
MEMBERSHIP
Congratulations to the following school who all have 20+ members as of October 1. The stickers have been ordered and will arrive next week. I will send them out as soon as I get them.
Alta, American Fork, Bingham, Bonneville, Bountiful, Brighton, Career Tech, Cedar Valley, Copper Hills, Corner Canyon, Davis, Farmington, Fremont, GTI, Herriman, Hillcrest, Hunter, Jordan, Layton, Mountain Crest, Mountain Ridge, Olympus, Pine View, Pleasant Grove, Riverton, Rowland Hall, Skyline, Skyridge, Syracuse, Tooele, Uintah, Weber, West, and Whitehorse. (If I missed your school, please let me know.)
That is AMAZING!!! Our largest chapter right now is Corner Canyon with 167 members! We have 7 schools with over 50 members! Wow!!!
Utah DECA’s total membership is 1,173. We currently have 39 more members than this time last year. Keep it up! Remember our goal is 3,000 members! We can do it!
 
Our next membership incentive is November 1. Any chapter with 50+ submitted and paid members, will earn an amazing prize for the lead advisor! 
 
INVITATIONALS
UVU Invite is October 11. Aggie Invite is October 29. SNOW is November 7. Please refer to the emails about each of the invites. If you have questions, please reach out to the school.
The invites are a great opportunity for our students. 
 
DECA MONTH
November is DECA Month. Stayed tuned for all the activities we have planned. 
 
DECA WEBSITE
There are lots of great things available on the DECA Website (www.deca.org). At https://www.deca.org/advisor-resources/use-role-plays-and-case-studies-in-the-classroom teachers are given resources to help them to incorporate DECA role plays into the classroom. You might want to take a look. Maybe you will want to use one of their ideas, or it will spark a new idea for you. Remember there are sample events for each competition on the website.
 
Have a great week!
 
Jill
Hello DECA Advisors,
I thought I would spice it up and send the email earlier this week. 😁Actually, I just wanted to make sure that you have enough time before October 1 to get things done.
 
FLC POWERPOINT
I have attached a basic PowerPoint from FLC. It was the key information that was shared.
 
MEMBERSHIP GOALS
      OCTOBER 1 – 20+ registered and paid members. Chapters will receive stickers for all members. 
      NOVEMBER 1 – 50+ registered and paid members. The chapter advisor will receive swag. It will be good.
      FEBRUARY 1 – Membership recognition awards will be given for various membership, including chapters with 50+ members and chapters with large percentage growths
Currently, we have 1, 098 members of Utah DECA! We are off to an amazing start!
 
LEADERSHIP TRAINING ACTIVITIES
Just a reminder that if your chapter is planning on completing the Leadership Training Activities for a gift card, they must be completed by October 1. The form must be submitted by 11:59 pm on October 1. The form can be found at https://forms.gle/JyR2JrR7gZfdK3wv7
If you would like more of the DECA Friendship Bracelets to hand out for the activities, let me know.
If you do not complete the Leadership Training Activities by October 1, your chapter can still do them. It will be on the DECA BINGO card in November, so you would already have that completed.

A digital copy of the Leadership Training Activities can be found on the Resources Tab on the Utah DECA website. https://utahdeca.org/resources/
 
FINANCIAL LITERACY NIGHT PROJECT
The Utah Financial Empowerment Coalition is sponsoring the Financial Literacy Night Project. This can be used for a Financial Literacy Project. Or you can do a Financial Literacy Project that is different than this one. They presented at FLC. It is included in the FLC PowerPoint. Details are also on JumpStarts website at https://www.utahjumpstart.org/community-nights . If your chapter wants to participate, please use the QR code in the PowerPoint to sign up. They will be providing money to the Top 3 winners in their competition.
 
RSL GAME
If you are planning on attending the DECA Night at RSL please get your tickets ASAP. The link for tickets is https://seatgeek.com/real-salt-lake-tickets/mls/2024-10-02-7-30-pm/6328405?sgo_ac=DECA. The game is October 2 at 7:30 pm. 
 
UVU INVITE
Registration for the UVU Invite is open. Register soon at https://www.uvu.edu/woodbury/marketing/marketing-invitational.html
For information about this invite go to Marketing Invitational | Marketing | Woodbury School of Business | Utah Valley University (uvu.edu) It looks like it will be amazing!
 
AGGIE INVITE
Registration for the Aggie Invite will open on October 1.
Hello DECA Advisors,
 
Hopefully we have everyone registered for Fall Leadership Conference. We will have around 800 students in attendance! That is amazing! I think this could be one of our best conferences! I will be sending out all the details on Monday. Please watch for that.
 
A few other things for you.
 
RSL DECA NIGHT
They are anticipating the RSL game to sell out on October 2. If your students want to go, please get tickets asap. The link for tickets is https://seatgeek.com/real-salt-lake-tickets/mls/2024-10-02-7-30-pm/6328405?sgo_ac=DECA.
 
UTAH JAZZ DECA NIGHT
The DECA Night at the Utah Jazz will be January 15. More information to come.
 
UVU AND AGGIE INVITE
Everything we know about the UVU and AGGIE INVITE has been sent to you. The information is also on our website. Please be sure to read through all the information. We love that these universities want to do invites for our students. We want to be sure to follow their procedures.
Hello DECA Advisors,
I waited to send this email until after the DECA Advisor Training, to share some of the things we did. It was great having so many DECA Advisors at the training. Advisors helped advisors! It was great. Ideas of many different kinds were shared. I hope that everyone who attended, got something to help them. Once I have all the documents from the training, I will send them out. I think it is going to be a fantastic year!
 
FALL LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE
Registration for FLC is due on Thursday, September 12. Please get your registration in on time.
We have finalized the breakout sessions. They are:
1. Bucked Up
2. Valhalla Strength Gym
3. Open Ed – formally My Tech High
4. Teen Entrepreneur Support Center 
5A. Boyd Mattheson host of KSL Inside Sources (sessions 1 and 2 only)
5B. Fomba Nation  – Car Wraps and Customization (sessions 3 and 4 only/parking lot)
6. BYU Sports Marketing and Fan Experience
7. DECA State Officers
8. What the Hecka is DECA – Gig Griffth
9. Professional Sales – Weber State – Interviews and Selling Yourself
10. Role Plays 101 – Randy Kammerman
We will have 10 different ones to choose from. Please encourage your students to split up so that someone from your school goes to each one so that they can come back and share.
 
The agenda:
7:45-8:10- Registration – The Barn @ Thanksgiving Point
Breakout Sessions will be at the Megaplex @ Thanksgiving Point
8:15-8:45 – Session 1
8:45-8:50 – Break time
8:50-9:20 – Session 2
9:20-9:25 – Break time
9:25-9:55 – Session 3
9:55-10:00 – Break time
10:00-10:30- Session 4
Leave Megaplex
10:45 – General Session – The Barn @ Thanksgiving Point 
      – Closing Speaker Steve Starks, CEO Larry H Miller Company
      – State Officers
      – Leadership Bags
12:30 – FLC Dismiss
Lunch on your own
12:30 – 3:00 – Chapter planning time (If schools want to stay and do planning time, they are welcome to stay in the barn. I know several districts have to leave due to transportation issues.) 
Cost for the conference is $40 per attendee. Includes conference, conference activities, and DECA swag. Students must be registered with National DECA to register and attend the Fall Conference. 
 
 
Dress code for FLC is Business Casual or DECA/school shirts and jeans or nice pants. No shorts. Due to all the different activities, we feel this is appropriate dress.
 
REGION COMPETITIONS
We have finalized all region competitions.
Southern – December 6 – Utah Tech
Northern – December 10 – Northern Region
Central – December 13 – BYU
Salt Lake – December 16 – SLCC
More information to come about regions.
 
RSL NIGHT
Utah DECA at RSL will be on October 2 @ 7:30 pm. It is against Minnesota United. The link for discounted seats is below. A panel with RSL wil be held after the game. Yes, it will make for a late night. They are unable to do it before the game. More information to come about the panel. 
They anticipate this game to sell out. Buy your tickets now!
 
You will be hearing from me soon! Have a great Monday everyone!
Hello Everyone,
Happy almost long weekend! Hopefully, you will be able to do so fun and relaxing things this weekend. Here are our things for the week.
 
ADVISOR TRAINING
Registration closes at 5:00 pm tomorrow for the advisor training. If you have not registered, please do so asap.
The advisor training is Friday, September 6 from 8:30 am – 3:00 pm at the Mountain American Corporate Office Building. Both DECA and FBLA are invited. This is for new and experienced advisors. 
It is free for all affiliated advisors and will cost $40 for anyone that is non-affiliated. So, get your name on your memberships!
I have attached a flyer with information.
To register for the event please go to https:////bit.ly/3kknz5Y
I hope to see lots of you there. It is a great place to connect with other advisors, and hopefully walk away with helpful ideas.
 
Also, a heads up, (if you register you will receive an email after registration closes about this) we are asking that any advisor coming with 3 or more years experience do a teacher share. Bring one thing that you do or helps you in DECA to share with everyone. We want to keep each on short, 3 minutes or less. So be thinking of something you could share. New advisors can share something if they wish.
 
FALL LEADERSHIP
We are excited for our Utah DECA Fall Leadership Conference. It will be Wednesday, September 18 at Thanksgiving Point. Here is the agenda for FLC:
7:45-8:10- Registration – The Barn @ Thanksgiving Point
Breakout Sessions will be at the Megaplex @ Thanksgiving Point
8:15-8:45 – Session 1
8:45-8:50 – Break time
8:50-9:20 – Session 2
9:20-9:25 – Break time
9:25-9:55 – Session 3
9:55-10:00 – Break time
10:00-10:30- Session 4
Leave Megaplex
10:45 – General Session – The Barn @ Thanksgiving Point 
      – Closing Speaker Steve Starks, CEO Larry H Miller Company
      – State Officers
      – Leadership Bags
12:30 – FLC Dismiss
Lunch on your own
12:30 – 3:00 – Chapter planning time (If schools want to stay and do planning time, they are welcome to stay in the barn. I know several districts have to leave due to transportation issues.) 
Chapters will each get a leadership bag to complete activities by October 1. Each bag will contain leadership activities/assignments for your officers/members to complete. If everything is completed and submitted by October 1, your DECA chapter will receive a $25 giftcard to celebrate. More information to come at the conference. You can use the chapter planning time at The Barn or time your leaders/members set aside to work on the items.
 
Cost for the conference is $40 per attendee. Includes conference, conference activities, and DECA swag. Students must be registered with National DECA to register and attend the Fall Conference. 
 
 
Dress code for FLC is Business Casual or DECA/school shirts and jeans or nice pants. No shorts. Due to all the different activities, we feel this is appropriate dress.
 
I have attached a flyer and a release form for FLC.
 
RSL NIGHT
Utah DECA at RSL will be on October 2 @ 7:30 pm. It is against Minnesota United. The link for discounted seats is below. A panel with RSL wil be held after the game. Yes, it will make for a late night. They are unable to do it before the game. More information to come about the panel. I have attached a flyer.
 
DECA BOARD
We have our first Utah DECA Board Meeting last night. The DECA Board President for this year is Nate Reese. The secretary is Kaitlyn Larsen. The minutes will be posted on the Utah DECA website by next week. Talk to your region reps. Ask them questions. We are all here to help you.
 
WELCOME BACK BOXES – NATIONAL DECA
I received my box yesterday. National DECA did a great organizer for everyone. Hopefully, it will help you through the year. They hope to have them all out by the middle of September. If you have not received it yet, be patient. It is coming.
 
If you haven’t been to the National DECA website. Go! Especially check out https://www.deca.org/classroom and https://www.deca.org/brand. I think you will find some helpful resources.
Have a great week everyone!
Hello Everyone,
Hopefully, all of you have had a great first few days of the school year. Lots of things for you this week.
 
ADVISOR TRAINING
We will be having a DECA and FBLA combined advisor professional learning conference on Friday, September 6 from 8:30 am – 3:00 pm at the Mountain American Corporate Office Building. This is for new and experienced advisors. 
This will be free for all affiliated advisors and will cost $40 for anyone that is non-affiliated. 
I have attached a flyer with information.
To register for the event please go to https:////bit.ly/3kknz5Y
 
FALL LEADERSHIP
We are excited for our Utah DECA Fall Leadership Conference. It will be Wednesday, September 18 at Thanksgiving Point. Here is the agenda for FLC:
7:45-8:10- Registration – The Barn @ Thanksgiving Point
Breakout Sessions will be at the Megaplex @ Thanksgiving Point
8:15-8:45 – Session 1
8:45-8:50 – Break time
8:50-9:20 – Session 2
9:20-9:25 – Break time
9:25-9:55 – Session 3
9:55-10:00 – Break time
10:00-10:30- Session 4
Leave Megaplex
10:45 – General Session – The Barn @ Thanksgiving Point 
      – Closing Speaker Steve Starks, CEO Larry H Miller Company
      – State Officers
      – Leadership Bags
12:30 – FLC Dismiss
Lunch on your own
12:30 – 3:00 – Chapter planning time (If schools want to stay and do planning time, they are welcome to stay in the barn. I know several districts have to leave due to transportation issues.) 
Chapters will each get a leadership bag to complete activities by October 1. Each bag will contain leadership activities/assignments for your officers/members to complete. If everything is completed and submitted by October 1, your DECA chapter will receive a $25 giftcard to celebrate. More information to come at the conference. You can use the chapter planning time at The Barn or time your leaders/members set aside to work on the items.
 
For the breakouts, this is what I have so far confirmed:
Room 1 – What the Hecka is DECA 
Room 2 – DECA Leadership – State Officers
Room 3 – Fan Experience – BYU Sports Marketing and Fan Experience Team
More to come! We are planning on 8 total sessions to choose from. Students will pick 4 breakout sessions in the morning to attend.  
 
Cost for the conference is $40 per attendee. Includes conference, conference activities, and DECA swag. Students must be registered with National DECA to register and attend the Fall Conference. 

 
Dress code for FLC is Business Casual or DECA/school shirts and jeans or nice pants. No shorts. Due to all the different activities, we feel this is appropriate dress.
 
I have attached a flyer and a release form for FLC.
 
CALENDAR UPDATES
We have added a few things to the calendar, so I have attached an updated calendar. I waited to send this to hopefully have Salt Lake Region, but we are still working on it. Hopefully, next week.
RSL DECA Night – Wednesday, October 2
Central Region – Friday, December 13 at BYU
We will have a Jazz Night in January. I will have the exact game in a couple of weeks. They are setting up group ticketing now.
 
PROMOTIONAL VIDEO
The state officers have made a fantastic promotional video. It can be found at www.utahdeca.org on the home page.
 
WELCOME BACK BOXES – NATIONAL DECA
All of you should start receiving you This is How We DECA Boxes this week. National DECA added an organizer to the box, which took longer to print. The box includes the DECA Guide, posters, the organizer, and other things. They are sent to your school from National DECA. Hopefully, you will all have them within the next couple of weeks.
 
MEMBERSHIP
Everyone planning on attending the Fall Leadership Conference, must be a registered member of DECA. National DECA membership is open. You can go in and update your information and start getting students registered now. https://membership.decaregistration.com/deca#
 
Have a great week everyone!
Jill
Welcome Back DECA Advisors!
We are so glad that all of you are back. I hope that you had a fantastic summer. I hope this school year is the best one yet.
I have a few things to get you started. Lots more to come!
 
ICDC – NEWS – BE SURE TO READ
As many of you already know, because we talked about it at the Summer Conference, Utah DECA will no longer be purchasing flights for ICDC. USBE has asked us not to do them. This means that districts/schools will be on their own for flights and ground transportation for ICDC. Please be sure to talk to your district leaders before you purchase your own flights so that you are following your district policies. Utah DECA will still be doing all hotel accommodations. National DECA requires that all ICDC participants stay at the assigned hotel and that the hotel’s reservations (everything involved with the hotel) is done through the State Advisor. After state, I will still send out the hotel list and do the room assignments.
 
I think many of you will be happy with this announcement. Our hotel for ICDC is Cabana Bay at Universal Studios. While I was at the State Advisor’s training last week, I meet with the hotel reps and had a tour of the hotel. I think everyone will love it.
 
Well, now that I started with end-of-year stuff, let’s go back to the beginning.
 
UTAH DECA CALENDAR
I have attached an updated calendar for the year. This is also on our website. It will be updated as we add things. We hope to finalize Salt Lake Region next week and Central Region by the first week in September.
 
ADVISOR TRAINING
We will be having a DECA and FBLA combined advisor professional learning conference on Friday, September 6 from 8:30 am – 3:00 pm at the Mountain American Corporate Office Building. This is for new and experienced advisors. 
This will be free for all affiliated advisors and will cost $40 for anyone that is non-affiliated. 
I have attached a flyer with information.
To register for the event please go to https://bit.ly/3kknz5Y
 
FALL LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE
The Fall Leadership Conference will be held on September 18 at Thanksgiving Point. We will begin at 8:00 am. We will be finished by 1:00 pm. Schools will have the option to stay and use The Barn at Thanksgiving Point for planning purposes until 4:00 if they want to. We will be sending back with each school a bag of items to complete. More information to come on Monday! It is going to be a great Fall Conference!
 
I hope all of you have a great school year this year!
 
Jill