Evaluation forms for ALL competitive events in DECA’s Competitive Events Program have been updated. Outlines for Prepared Events have also been updated.
Competition for the three Integrated Marketing Campaign competitive events (Event, Product, and Service) will now start competition at the District Conference; students will need to qualify to advance on to the State Conference.
Pitch decks needs to be uploaded one week prior to your District Conference date.
A non-refundable, required $25 application fee is required for each submission. An invoice will be automatically generated and emailed to the chapter advisor. Payment must be received in order to complete the Certification or Re-Certification process.
The use of Adobe Express as part of the DECA Chapter Campaigns submissions is required. For the Promotional Campaign, Adobe Express must be used for one outreach activity. For the Community Service Campaign, Adobe Express must be used for the form of publicity or promotion. Adobe Express for Education is available to all DECA chapters; ask your DECA Advisor for access.
Michigan will be piloting a new event: AP Business Challenge. Teams of 1-3 will compete at the State Conference to qualify to compete at the International Conference.
It is a sales-pitch much like Shark Tank. Students must be enrolled in or have completed AP Business to be eligible to compete in this event. More information will be posted in the late fall.
Principles Events
Open only to first year members who are not Seniors
Professional Selling & Consulting Events
Individual Series Events
Team Decision Making Events
District Prepared Events
Business Operations Research Events
Project Management Events
Entrepreneurship Events
State Conference-Only Events
Refer to the event’s guidelines for complete information on the qualifying process.
All students must be submitted DECA members before registering for any competition or conference. Membership invoices must be paid by February 15th to be eligible to compete and attend at the International Conference.
All students must be registered for the conference through the Chapter Registration Portal prior to the posted deadline.
Michigan DECA has a policy that limits the number of students each chapter can register in each event. Please refer to the link to the right for more information.
DISTRICT CONFERENCE
STATE CONFERENCE
In-person testing at the State Conference will take place during the event orientation. The three Integrated Marketing Campaign events will take their test on Friday at 10:00am.
For competitors with a school-related reason for not attending the orientation on Thursday, there will be makeup test times available on Friday at 10:00am or 3:00pm. Chapter Advisors will need to submit the form to request a reschedule of testing for each competitor.
All competitors must have a photo ID.
CHANGES AFTER DISTRICT CONFERENCE ONLINE TESTING
After online testing, all event changes must to be to an event that takes the same test as the one taken (i.e., Professional Selling to Retail Merchandising), or to an event that does not have a comprehensive exam (i.e., one of the five pitch deck events).
TEAM DECISION MAKING EVENT CHANGES
PREPARED EVENT CHANGES
Once qualified, team members may NOT be substituted between the District, State, and International Conferences.
Teams are allowed to have members drop out of the competition, with the remaining members allowed to compete at the District, State, or International Conferences.
DECA offers eight Virtual Business Challenges (Accounting, Entrepreneurship, Fashion, Hotel, Personal Finance, Restaurant, Retailing, Sports) though Knowledge Matters. There is also the Stock Market Game, and several other online Challenges.
Michigan DECA does not offer competition for these online events at the District or State Conferences.
Students who are named as qualifiers in these events will proceed directly to the International Career Development Conference, through the process established by DECA Inc. These students will not attend the District or State Conferences unless they are competing in another event.
Students CAN compete in the online events and also compete in any event at the District and State Conferences.
If students qualify for competition at the International Conference in the online event, and also an event at the Michigan State Conference, then a choice will need to be made, as they cannot do both at the International Conference.
