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Cypress Bay DECA Is Back In Business and Bigger and Better Than Ever BY JOHN DUKA
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he COVID-19 Pandemic has changed just about everything this year. Kids are staying home from school and businesses have been forced to create new business models just to stay alive. Cypress Bay High Schools’ chapter of DECA, however, has flourished. With approximately 900 members, Cypress Bay has the largest DECA chapter in the world. DECA is organized into two unique student divisions each with programs designed to address the learning styles, interests, and focus of its members. The High School Division includes 220,000 members in 3,700 schools. The Collegiate Division includes over 5,000 members in 215 colleges and universities. The organization prepares emerging leaders and entrepreneurs for careers in marketing, finance, hospitality, and management. Cypress Bay’s DECA chapter focuses on creating emerging leaders. Cypress Bay’s chapter activities that help engage members in leadership, team-building, and professionalism have had to take place virtually, but the chapter’s leaders have found new ways to reach members and adapt to this online world. “In August, at the start of the remote learning school year, Cypress DECA advisors gave me and the rest of the Executive Council members a virtual
leadership training,” commented Executive Council member, Isabella Eaton, “that guided us through new communication platforms like Slack and Trello, but focused on our chapter goal this year, ‘Rethinking Innovation.’” The Cypress Bay DECA chapter has been incredibly successful over the years, with more than 300 state winners at the Florida DECA competition. The program offers members and chapter officers the oppor-
tunity to learn about their own personal strengths and weaknesses in a structured environment. Their COVID-19 related training has empowered them to continue to develop their leadership skills. DECA Inc. is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit student organization with more than 225,000 members in all 50 United States, Canada, Guam, Puerto Rico and Germany. The United States Congress, the United States Department of Education and state, district and international departments of education authorize DECA’s programs.
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