Congratulations to the following chapters for being named finalists in the 2009-2010 Finish Line Challenge. Finalists will be flown to Indianapolis in February to meet with Finish Line executives and to present their ideas in person.
Nice job MASS-DECA! We have 15 of the 25 DECA Stock Market Game qualifiers representing the North Atlantic Region! All qualifiers are eligible to attend ICDC in Kentucky!
The good news keeps coming in for MASS-DECA! Congratulations to Apponequet DECA for having a team in the top 8 in DECA Dollars & Sense, Round 1! They are qualified to attend ICDC in Kentucky!
DECA/H&R Block Dollars & Sense Challenge
Dear DECA,
Eight teams recently qualified to move on to the national finals of the first ever H&R Block Dollars & Sense National Challenge and compete for more than $50,000 in college scholarships. These students went head-to-head against more than 2,400 teams nationwide to demonstrate their financial fitness. Tasks included managing a schedule, filing taxes, paying bills and managing credit cards.
The qualifying teams represent the following high schools:
Albert Campbell Collegiate Institute – Scarborough, Ont.
Apponequet High School – Lakeville, Mass.
Clements High School – Sugarland, Texas
Entrepreneurship Focus Program – Lincoln, Neb.
Frisco High School – Frisco, Texas
Homewood-Flossmoor High School – Flossmoor, Ill.
Kamiakin High School – Kennewick, Wash.
Mount Rainier High School – Des Moines, Wash.
If your students didn’t participate or didn’t qualify as a finalist in the first online challenge, there is still time to compete! A second challenge will run January 4-29, where an additional eight finalist teams will be selected. In addition to student scholarships, advisors to the top three teams will receive a $2,500 classroom grant.
To learn more or to register for the H&R Block Dollars & Sense National Challenge, visit hrblockdollars&sense.com.
Britney Gengel, the 19-year old Lynn University student from Rutland, MA who is missing in Haiti is a graduate of Wachusett High School and was a DECA member while at the high school. Please find below her short biography from the school’s newspaper website:
Britney Gengel aspires to be a journalist. She was born in Rutland, Mass. and graduated from Wachusett Regional High School in June 2008. Gengel is a communication major. During Gengel’s high school career, she was involved in multiple groups such as Best Buddies, Year Book Committee and DECA. Gengel is most proud of her accomplishment in DECA competitions where she placed in state finals. Gengel hopes to work in New York when she graduates from Lynn, and is very excited for her future.She has been featured on a local television station in her home town and enjoys being on television. She loves to cook and try to make new recipes and foods.
Britney was in Haiti with her school working with the Food for the Poor program. We continue to watch the internet and TV hoping for a positive report.
Congratulations to Apponequet DECA in Massachusetts! Jennifer Connor, Michael Malenfant, and Andrew Nelson, have been selected as one of the overall top three teams in the DECA/Finish Line Challenge. The reward for being a top three team is the opportunity for the students to present their ideas in person to Finish Line executives in Indianapolis, Indiana on February 2. Finish Line provides the travel & hotel for all three students and their Advisor, Mr. Frank Rosa.
The Finish Line Challenge involved conducting market research studies at Finish Line retail stores, developing recommendations for improvements and turning their findings into a five-minute YouTube video.
DECA & John Fistolera, the Director of Development at National DECA, were recently featured on FOXBusiness.com‘s recent segment on career education and financial literacy for youth.
Many of our advisors at the Fall State Leadership Conference attended the Bata Films workshop on the marketing promotion of “The Strip” movie premiere in Boston. Many advisors were very interested in doing a separate workshop for their area particularly as it relates to how to open the movie in their city/neighborhood. In order to show Bata Film’s thanks, they have decided to go one better in Massachusetts! They would like to offer you up to 50 free Invitations to the Premier for up to 4 or 5 separate schools (that’s 50 invitations per school) at the Kendall Square theater in Boston on December 4 at 1:30 pm which will include a special educational workshop right after the movie.
Topics to be covered in the workshop include:
1. Discuss career opportunities in the film production, marketing and distribution industry
2. How students can participate in the wider release of the movie in Phase II of our release which begins in January.
3. Understand how students can become interns with bataFILMS
All questions about how to sell tickets, what movie venues locally, etc will be answered in this workshop. Students and friends can be invited.
Please RSVP to Glyn Bryson below with your chapter name, how many will attend and what date/time you select for your participation asap. We may need to group some of the schools together in some of these events as tickets are limited.
I received this email from one of our MDA offices in Florida and just had to share — a great example of what this season is truly all about. Thank YOU for all you’re doing for MDA and our mission. Please know that your help is providing life-saving hope for our families all around the country. Happy Thanksgiving! ~ Brian “A Thanksgiving Story” Last week one of our local elementary schools held a “Turkey Trot” to raise funds for MDA to find treatments and cures for muscular dystrophy. One of the teachers called our office yesterday to share a truly heartwarming story that we wanted to share with you as part of our MDA family.
“Matthew, a 5-year-old boy, asked his mom if they could give $10 to help
find a cure for his classmate, Joey, who has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.
The mother told him that this year they were not able to give because his
father’s hours had been cut at work and money was tight. Matthew said he
understood but came back a few minutes later with the Christmas list his older
sister had helped him make. Three of the five toys on the list were crossed
off. He asked his mom if he only asked for 2 things, if they would be able to
help Joey. He said that he could always get presents next year, but that Joey
was sick right now. Joey isn’t able to walk and to play with the other kids and
he thought that if they gave $10 this year, that maybe next year Joey would be
better.”
We‘re so thankful that you continue to give of your time and resources, despite the current economic climate. In an uncertain time, one thing is certain – it is because of YOU that research is able to continue. Below is an MDA News Release about a clinical trial scheduled to begin in March 2010.
As we sit around our Thanksgiving tables this holiday, we will be giving thanks for so many of you, like our young friend Matthew, who have made sacrifices to keep hope alive.
wanted to let you know that National DECA is sponsoring the movie
premiere of “The Strip” presented by BATAfilms in Boston at Kendall
Square during the first weekend in December. Two RI DEX college members
have taken up the competitive challenge to fill opening weekend seats
with 1500 students. Could you please invite the MA DECA high school
chapters across the state to the movie premiere?
I believe the MA DECA chapter that sells the most tickets could win
$1000 towards their trip costs to ICDC or towards their educational
conference of choice split between the advisor & chapter team. For
competition details, contact RI DEX members Fei Chen at fchen@ccri.edu
<mailto:fchen@ccri.edu> , 508-840-1848 or Kevin Fraser at kfraser2@bryant.edu <mailto:kfraser2@bryant.edu> .
These RI DEX members are looking for some assistance in spreading the
word to the MA DECA chapters and to their friends. For tickets sales and
movie trailer can be found at http://www.batafilms.com/?Click=46
<http://www.batafilms.com/?Click=46> . MA DECA chapters should register
on the Fan Club link to track their tickets sales and to receive chapter
incentives.
I plan to attend the 1:30pm matinee showing on Saturday, December 5 with
some friends. It might be fun to get together afterwards for coffee. I
hope you will join us.
Happy Holidays!
Dr. Erin Wilkinson, DBA
Professor of Marketing
NSO Competitive Events Director
Johnson & Wales University
8 Abbott Park Place
Providence, RI 02903 ewilkinson@jwu.edu
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