More than 3,400 marketing/DECA students from 175 Washington state high schools recently gathered at the Meydenbauer Center in downtown Bellevue to compete for 302 competition invitations to the coveted DECA International Career & Development Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, April 26-May 2.
Inglemoor High took second place at the event with six firsts, six seconds, five thirds and 11 fourth-to-sixth-place wins.
During the three-day conference, students demonstrate individual and team marketing skills in one or more of the 40 business and marketing events. Students have been learning how to solve case studies as individuals (or as a team) or have written a business report on a specific business topic. In both situations, the young marketers were to develop his/her solution and then role-play the solution to professional business people. Of the 302 event invitations to the international competition, Inglemoor High earned 36 or 12 percent.
Here is the Inglemoor DECA international results by competition event:
1st place —
Megh Vakharia in Quick Serve Restaurant
Emmeline Vu and Brian Moran in Hospitality Services
Jordan Willis and Jordan Duffield in Travel and Tourism
Jordan Alfaro in Entrepreneurship Independent
Alex Yang and Stuart Wang in Advertising Campaign
Megan Rigby in Entrepreneurship Franchise
2nd place —
Lori VerMurlen in Auto Services
Rachel Grudt in Business Finance
Josey Buck in Hotel and Lodging
Lisa Malloy in Fashion Merchandising
Shane Buller and Kathleen Zhou in Buying and Merchandising
Winston Lee and Deepak Sharma in Financial Services
3rd place —
Garrett Lemieux in Human Resources
Jasmine Clark and Mac Abdi in Business Law and Ethics
Lauren Templeton and Michael Lewis in Marketing Communications
Brian Moran and Emmeline Vu in Hospitality and Tourism Operations
Megh Vakharia and Deepak Sharma in Sports and Entertainment Operations
4th to 6th place —
Sarah MacDonald in Professional Selling
SaraTari in Accounting
Ali Darvish in Hotel and Lodging
Hunter Mcdonald in Marketing Management
JD White in Restaurant and Food Service
Tanner Mills in Retail Merchandising
Marc Lotorto and Ben Baxter in Business Law and Ethics
Ryan Johnson and Brian Cullinan in Buying and Merchandising
Dan Holt and Jonanthan Meiusi in Marketing Communications
Dan Briggs and Janie Reid in Marketing Communications
Gina Lee in Hospitality and Tourism Professional Selling
Recognized on stage —
Taylor Lemieux
Joey Natale
Alex Fuller
Ricky Welch
Catherine Mooney-Myers
Erin McGuinness
Willa Zhao
Madison Brock
Jade Wy
Katie Skurski
Kelly Conroy
Emily Carpenter
