Jill’s Weekly DECA Emails

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!

 

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. 

 

Registration is at https://www.decaregistration.com/ut-flc.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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. 

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.

 

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

Hello Everyone,

Hopefully, all of you have had a great first few days of the school year. Lots of things for you this week.

 

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

 

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. 

Registration is at https://www.decaregistration.com/ut-flc.

 

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.

 

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.

 

The state officers have made a fantastic promotional video. It can be found at www.utahdeca.org on the home page.

 

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.

 

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!

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

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