
This is the first year Prospect has engaged in DECA, mostly prompted by Beer, whose father runs the DECA program at Maine South High School. Business education teachers Paul Hennig and Cathy Fortuna were happy to be the advisors for the new club, in order to enhance the preexisting business curriculum at Prospect.
According to deca.org, the DECA mission statement is to prepare “emerging leaders and entrepreneurs for careers in marketing, finance, hospitality and management in high schools and colleges around the globe.” The participants at each competition take an economics test before going into their individual events and role-playing face-to-face with a qualified judge from the professional business field.


In order to get the chance to win a medal, the team practices once a week by using prompts supplied by DECA and taking previous economics tests.
To see a list of DECA events, for each student participates in a different one, click here.