The DECA Facts...

Marketing Education functions as a vital link between students, schools, and industry to create an environment conducive to developing goal-oriented individuals.

Marketing education teaches interpersonal and leadership skills, foundations and functions of marketing, and supervisory and entrepreneurial skills.

Its purpose is to generate a workforce capable of meeting the technological challenges of the future through classroom instructions, worksite learning, and DECA.

THE DECA DIAMOND & ITS MEANING

The DECA Creed

I believe in the future which I am planning for myself in the fields of marketing and management, and in the opportunities which my vocation offers.

I believe in fulfilling the highest measure of service to my vocation, my fellow beings, my country and my God--that by so doing, I will be rewarded with personal satisfaction and material wealth.

I believe in the democratic philosophies of private enterprise and competition, and in the freedoms of this nation--that these philosophies allow for the fullest development of my individual abilities.

I believe that by doing my best to live according to these high principles, I will be of greater service both to myself and mankind.