March 28, 2024

2019 State DECA Competition Results

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We are excited to announce nine Dighton Rehoboth Regional High School DECA members competed at the 2019 Massachusetts State DECA Career Development Conference on March 7-9, 2019 at the Copley Marriott and Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA.

DECA is a marketing organization for high school students and is run as an extracurricular activity at the high school. Any student who has taken or currently enrolled in a Business, Finance, Economics, Accounting, and/or Marketing course is eligible to compete in over 70 industry related content areas in District, State, and International competitions. Students must qualify from each competition in order to move on to the next level of competition.

We started the year with 26 students, competing at the District 2 competition held in January, 2019. Nine of our DECA members qualified to move on to States, where they had a second opportunity to compete in their same content areas again. At the State competition, our DECA members competed against 3,000 plus students from all over the state of Massachusetts.

We had two students from Dighton Rehoboth Regional High School recognized as top 10 participants and make it to the stage at the final awards ceremony. Receiving a top 10 place in Accounting Applications was Sebastian Myers. (Pictured below) Sebastian is currently studying Accounting with veteran Business Teacher, Patricia Madsen. Sebastian was awarded a plaque recognizing his achievement in his event. The second student recognized for her achievement at the awards ceremony was Emerson Maccarone. Emerson received a 3rd place trophy for her event, Apparel and Accessories Marketing. (Pictured) With her 3rd place finish, Emerson is now eligible to compete at the International level in late April in Orlando, Florida. The International Career Development Conference will have over 13,000 students competing in events from every state and 9 foreign countries. The events will be held at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida.

Tuesday night, Mr. Barry Cowgill attended the Dighton Rehoboth Regional School Committee meeting to announce the success of our students at the State DECA competition and requested approval from the committee to be able to attend the International competition. Approval was granted by the committee with messages of congratulation and wishes of good luck.

Due to the quick turn around time of the trip and coordinating airplane tickets, hotel reservations, and registration for the event. Dighton Rehoboth DECA is looking for support from the community to help raise funds to off-set the costs of the trip. DR DECA has set a goal of raising $2,000 to help defray the parent’s and district’s costs of this rewarding trip and experience for Emerson Maccarone and the DR DECA program. If you would like more information on how you can help or would like to make a donation to the school, contact Barry Cowgill at bcowgill@drregional.org or contact the school directly at 508-252-5600. We appreciate and thank you for any and all support.

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