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Pacific High School DECA's Dog of the Year raises
money
Pacific High School DECA held a school wide contest to pick the DECA
Dog of the Year for 2005-2006 from January 23-February 2. Students
and faculty at PHS entered pictures of their favorite dog for $1.00
for the chance to win the DECA Dog of the Year honors. The winner
“Oliver” (a Lab/Great Dane mix) took a victory lap around the
school with the principal during morning rounds as well as had his
picture displayed on the DECA wall of fame. All of the proceeds from
the contest were donated to The Franklin County Humane Society.
Pacific High School "Races Into Reading"
at Truman Elementary
The
Pacific High School DECA Chapter started their new service project,
“RACE Into
Reading
– Reading About Career
Experiences” with
Truman
Elementary School
’s second grade on January
30.
RACE Into Reading encourages
elementary students to learn about a variety of career opportunities
and allows DECA members to develop leadership skills and serve as
positive role models for elementary students.
At the conclusion of the reading
program each second grade student received a certificate of
participation as well as a brand new Scholastic reading book donated
by the Pacific High School DECA.
Pacific High School DECA opens "DECA Delights"
After much anticipation, Pacific High School DECA is finally opening
their coffee shop "DECA Delights." The store is open in
the mornings in the commons area utilizing the Sports Club sales
booth. Partnering with the Sports Club created the opportunity to
operate a school based enterprise and raise much needed funds for
the PHS DECA chapter. The chapter offers RONNOCO products such as
coffee, cappuccino, hot chocolate, caramel steamers, flavored coffee
and tea. As the chapter members operate the store, they learn about
responsibility, inventory control, cost analysis, salesmanship,
promotion and just plain getting up early in the morning.
Wentzville Holt Underclassmen
are “JUMP”ing into DECA
By Liz Menne
Wentzville
Holt has had an overwhelming amount of students wanting to join DECA;
the only problem is they are ineligible to join because they are not
old enough to enroll in a marketing class. The Social Intelligence
committee was given the charge of increasing awareness to younger
students about DECA. The committee took this charge one step further
and created JUMP.
JUMP,
Joining Upperclassmen in
the Marketing Program, meets once every two months. At these socials, the
underclassmen gather to learn about the insides of DECA, hear
updates about our DECA chapter happenings, and socialize with
upperclassmen who are involved in DECA. This activity has helped
many underclassmen understand DECA and many sophomores are leaning
to participate in DECA during their junior or senior year.
The first JUMP social was tagged with the theme “Do not be scared,
JUMP in!” The committee planned social including a few Halloween
activities, provided information about DECA, showed a video about
Wentzville Holt’s big civic consciousness project for Unlimited
Play, as well as provided great snacks. This social was a big
success and attracted a lot of attention from students across Holt.
JUMP’s beginning membership was around sixty-five, and now the
numbers have reached to over one hundred. Sara Bumb, the committee
manager, said the first JUMP social turned out great and the
committee can not wait until the social in December.
Pacific High School DECA hosts Community Book Fair
Pacific High DECA hosted a special “Clifford Family Event”
on December 2nd and 3rd as part of a 50% off
Scholastic Book Fair. Students, teachers, and members of the
community were invited to meet Clifford The Big Red Dog, get their
picture taken with Clifford and search for buried bones, join
Clifford for “Story Time”, and also enjoy cookies with Clifford.
Proceeds from the fair will be used to implement a reading program
for 2nd and 3rd graders called “Race Into
Reading”.
Center
High School DECA hosts Pre-Thanksgiving Dinner
The Center High School DECA Chapter planned and prepared a
Pre-Thanksgiving Dinner for area families in the Center
Community. The students sought donations, prepared food,
worked in teams and also presented a slide show about the DECA
Chapter. Although the turnout wasn't what was hoped,
everyone who came to the dinner had a wonderful time and were
very thankful to the DECA members.
Wentzville Holt DECA Supports Unlimited Play
Last year, the Wentzville Holt DECA chapter raised over
$6500.00 by having students and the community team up for a
Walk-A-Thon. The money raised was donated to Unlimited Play, a
fully accessible playground for children of all abilities.
This playground is currently under construction in our local
community. To follow up and continue to support Unlimited
Play, this year the students have decided to do a DECA-tho-lon,
which will consists of ten fundraisers to go towards our
cause: The ten fundraisers students have implemented include:
-
Sold the
Unlimited Play rubber bracelets in our school store.
-
Sold Smore's at
Wentzville Holt’s Homecoming Bonfire.
-
Date a DECA
during lunch. Students buy chances to get a date with a
DECA member and a candlelight dinner is served during
lunch, which is donated pizza from Pizza Hut.
-
Held a Sumo
wrestling day, in which students bought the chance to
become a Sumo wrestler and challenge another Sumo
wrestler.
-
Sold paper
ornaments to decorate the school cafeteria tree: pumpkins
for October, fall leaves for November, and snowmen for
December and January
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Face painting at
all the home football games
-
Cell phones for
cents-collecting old cell phones and turning them into the
funding factory for money.
-
Turkey leg
contest-pictures will be taken of male teachers and senior
boy legs, the students will vote on the best turkey legs.
The loser will shave their legs at the next winter sports
assembly.
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Stamp-A-Thon
–Send self addressed stamped envelops out to friends and
family members from our Advanced Marketing students asking
for donations for Unlimited Play.
-
Link together
for Unlimited Play-held a contest among all the Marketing
Classes to link together for Unlimited Play. The links
were then stretched across the school commons area. These
links will be taken to the State CDC where we will link
together with other Missouri DECA state schools.
Leigh Stephenson
featured in Louie Magazine
Missouri DECA President Leigh Stephenson of Pattonville High
School was featured in the Nov. 7, 2005 issue of Louie Magazine.
Click here
(http://www.louiemag.com/article.asp?article_id=137)
for a web version of the article.
Pacific DECA organizes stream clean up
The Pacific DECA Chapter participated in the Brush Creek Clean Up at
the Pacific city park on November 5th. Over 85 volunteers
participated in this community event that filled a huge construction
size dumpster (20 yard) to the top donated by IESI. Participants
reclaimed over 15 tires which Tri-County Firestone deposed of for
the effort. The stream clean up was a well-organized community
project put together by the Pacific High School DECA organization,
the Department of Conservation and the Pacific Chamber of Commerce.
All volunteers that helped not only had fun in the process but they
also helped their community. Several clubs and groups were
represented at the clean up. PHS/DECA, FBLA, Key Club,
CAP/Kaleidoscope, Environmental Science, Middle School Science, and
the Sports Club. Pacific DECA thanks all the students, advisors, and
parents that helped in the Brush Creek Clean Up.
Missouri DECA collects over
$3,715 for "Each One, Reach One"
Missouri DECA members collected over $3,715.00 at the Fall
Leadership and State Officer Election Conference on October 16, 2005
to contribute to National DECA's "Each One, Reach One"
campaign. Missouri DECA President for 2004-2005 Tera Loyd presented
the check to Tyler Altrup, Central Region Vice President for Delta
Epsilon Chi for 2005-2006 and Missouri Delta Epsilon Chi member at
the conference. We sincerely thank the following contributing
schools: Blue Springs, Cape
Girardeau, Carthage, Caruthersville, Diamond, East Newton, El Dorado
Springs, Franklin, Kirksville, Lamar, Lee's Summit North, Lee's
Summit West, McDonald County, Neosho, Nevada, North Central Career
Center, Odessa, Park Hill South, Pattonville, Pleasant Hill,
Savannah, Seneca, St. Joseph-Central, St. Joseph-Lafayette, Union,
Webb City, Wentzville Holt.
Pacific DECA and FBLA win float competition
DECA and FBLA joined forces to enter a float in the Pacific High
School Parade on October 8, 2005. The parade theme was “Go for the
Gold”. The two organizations came up with the idea for the float
when Mrs. Pfeiffer pulled the old DECA Indian out of her storage
closet. About 10 students from each club participated in assembling
the float and passing out candy and gold football beads to kids
along the parade route. The announcement for the float winners was
delayed until the pep assemblies the following week at Pacific High
School and to most people's surprise, the DECA/FBLA float won. The
advisors Mrs. Pfeiffer/DECA and Mrs. Colter/FBLA accepted the award
and joked about how they were going to saw the plaque in half.
History was made at Pacific High School when a club/organization won
the first place prize and not the senior class.
Rolla DECA members travel to
Beverly Hills to present $26,454 check to the Muscular Dystrophy
Association
Rolla
DECA members Tiffany Davis and Sarah Henne, and advisor Rob Eckhoff
presented a check for $26,454 at the National MDA Telethon at the
Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. Davis and Henne
have served as the MDA chairpersons in Rolla for the past two years.
Both girls have used the MDA as their DECA project for competitions
at the local, state, and international levels. They have been
recognized the past two years at the International Career
Development DECA Conference as being number five and number three,
consecutively, for the most money raised in the nation by a high
school DECA chapter. Davis and Henne were seen on 193 television
stations around the world on Monday morning, September 5, presenting
a check to Billy Gilman, National Youth Ambassador for MDA.
Lex La-Ray Technical
Center DECA designs advertising campaign used by Lafayette Regional
Health Center
The Marketing Education students of
Lex
La-Ray
Technical
Center
in
Lexington
,
Missouri
, had a remarkable opportunity to connect with industry by designing
and presenting advertising campaigns to the
Lafayette
Regional
Health
Center
. Pam Johnson, Director of Marketing and Public Relations for the
Health Center is a member of the Lex La-Ray Marketing Advisory
Committee and extended a challenge to the Marketing and Advanced
Marketing students to design an advertising campaign to promote the
Health Center’s move to all-private patient rooms.
Each
group of students was required to create a slogan, and write and
design a billboard, direct mail flyer, newspaper advertisement, and
a 30-second radio spot. Students also researched the cost of each
advertising medium and developed an advertising budget for their
campaign.
Students
presented their campaigns to Mrs. Johnson and Lafayette Regional
Health Center CEO, Bret Kolman. Mr. Kolman and Mrs. Johnson then
reviewed the presentations and chose designs that were included the
Health Center’s promotion for their newly designed all-private,
patient rooms. Student
designed billboards are now installed in four locations in Lafayette
County, slogans and designs are on posters in doctor’s clinics and
were included in the direct mail flyer, and radio spots are airing
on local radio stations.
In an effort to connect
with the local business community, Mr. Kolman arranged for a group
of students to present their campaign at meetings of the
Lexington
and
Odessa
,
Missouri
Rotary Clubs. Because of these opportunities, the
Technical
Center
has been contacted by two other local businesses to design
advertising and promotional materials.
Cheryl Kintz, Marketing Instructor at Lex La-Ray, credits
these real-world experiences for increased student involvement and
interest in career and technical education. “Students derive
intense personal satisfaction every time they hear their radio spots
on air and drive by their bill boards.”
As Julie Neer and Jacey
Waterman, seniors at
Lexington
High School
state, “It is so cool to drive down the road and see our billboard
and tell people, “We designed that!’”
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