So I’m thinking of doing an IMCP for comp and have a good idea for a product but there is one thing stopping me and that’s the fact that the product hasn’t officially been released yet and doesn’t even have a announce date yet. It is planned to released late 2026- early 2027. Can I still use it if it hasn’t released?
I’m genuinely confused about why I didn’t place t10 despite having relatively strong component percentiles...
Worked very hard on FCE this year, I know I screwed up on the exam but was I remotely close to T20? Please feed my delusions 😛
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Hi all, my prepared events mentoring applications for the 2026-2027 are up. I do not mentor for roleplays. My mentoring will be entirely free for the upcoming season, but I'm limiting the number of projects I take on. This will be my fourth season mentoring, and I have extensive experience mentoring students to glass. Applications close July 18th at 6am PST sharp.
Five groups will be selected for free mentoring for the entire DECA season, and will get access to:
- Weekly homework pathways tailored for their project
- Bi-weekly virtual mentoring sessions
- An invite-only Discord server for resources and mentoring
- Weekly overall skill workshops hosted in the Discord server for all mentees
Mentoring will begin in September and run through the rest of the season, or whenever a project fails to proceed further.
Only fifteen applications will be selected to move forward for an interview session. I am a busy person, and unfortunately, I have to limit my mentoring availability to only students who are willing to put in the work. I will not add additional free or paid spots throughout the rest of the season.
This application is roughly 35-45 questions long, depending on which event category you are picking. It can take anywhere from 15 minutes to 25 minutes.
If you have questions about this mentoring opportunity, you're welcome to DM me. We can set up an inquiry call or email chain to discuss.
Apply here: https://forms.gle/SmfS1TCjyGzJ33TU6
How did this even happen 💀. Suspect my low score was because I was the 2nd to last person to do my Roleplay, this was for BSM. (Don't ask why I got a 0 on the Marketing Questions on my Test)
If you come Top 2 in your region for any specific VBC event during Round 1, do you also need to come Top 2 during Round 2? Or is it just that if you come Top 2 in just either one of those rounds you go to ICDC?
Hello! I've been starting on my written event and have wrote some stuff. I wrote everything by myself, and AI detectors are still flagging my work. This is my first time doing a prepared event and I dont have resources from my school so please help. Do they scan for AI at provincials? Will I have to rewrite it to make it more human?
Here me our real quick though. I feel like the events we have aren't really that reflective of actual business presentations/events compared to other preprofessional clubs at the high-school level.
Deca has probably the BEST atmosphere and overall organization of any high-school club especially with its position at the global stage and how competitive everything is overall, this is just all critique of mine.
I feel like we desperately NEED more technical events and prepared events that don't just emulate roleplays in a sense. For example, I feel like there's not really a time in the sectors that would employ DECA competitors (Think of Tech, finance, IB, Consulting, Law) where you would need to create a case study sort of presentation on the spot. I DO feel like this problem is solved in Team Decision Making Roleplays as you do get enough time, but for technical roleplays like ACT 10 mins in nowhere near enough to create the visuals you need.
Compared to other clubs like BPA or FBLA that have events like financial math or economic research, DECA kinda lacks.
Overall, DECA > other clubs in the sense of competition and community, but other clubs edge us in their event offerings and how it prepares you for careers.
LMK yalls thoughts
the lion does not concern himself with a 46th percentile roleplay
Just got my ICDC score report back for Entrepreneurship role play and something feels really off. During the role play my judge looked engaged the whole time, I hit the PIs, communicated my idea clearly, created an incredibly unique idea, and at the end he literally told me I did fantastic. In my eyes it was the best role-play I had ever given. Then I check my score report and he gave me "no value" on most criteria, 51% overall, 4th percentile. Has anyone experienced something similar? Is there a formal process to request a score review or flag a discrepancy at the ICDC level? Who should I reach out to (my chapter advisor, state advisor, or DECA directly)? Any guidance would help a lot, or am I just coping (but I REALLY REALLY thought he took it well and that I delivered it excellently
Imma buy a football club and rebuild it but from the past, basically real life FIFA.
I’m doing Macclesfield Town, which got liquidated due to debts.
All of this will be set in summer 2020 btw so I can save the club, is that allowed?
I already know i’ll make a plan to solve any insolvency events, a 10 year plan and a new statement as owner but what else should I include? I doubt many people have done this before
Okay so I’m really confused bc I got my score sheet back and saw that I got an 86 on my test and was 50th percentile but my friend who got top test score in my category got an 89?? How does that even work I don’t think it’s possible for around half my category to get a test score within 3 points of each other
The 2.59% in Marketing 😭😭😭 I got a 92 and 96 on my roleplays at provincials, so I guess the differences in scoring levels are much greater than I thought!
Icdc has been alternating through the SAME locations forever. It’s always Atlanta, Orlando, or Anaheim, and all of them are in the US. It’s about time that icdc be hosted in a different country, so what better a location than port-au-prince? As the capital of Haiti, port-au-prince is a tourist city with a strong economy and great business connections, acting as the perfect venue for icdc 2027. Let’s push this so that deca inc acts accordingly and hopefully, we’ll have icdc in port au prince in 2027 🤞🤞
I did BMOR this past ICDC.
I don’t quite know if “unfair” is the right word to describe this. But this just doesn’t feel right.
For my strategic plan, I spent three months designing it, and sent it out to the CMO of the company I wrote about. They even implemented parts of the strategic plan into their workflow after I designed it, and gave me data on the performance which I implemented into the forecasted growth in the financial section. Yet, I’m not sure how my strategic plan did so poorly on the written portion.
I got a 60/60 on the paper at the state competition with beaming comments specifically about my strategic plan, and all of the marketing professionals that have read my paper have said it’s rock solid and matches perfectly with the CSR theme.
In addition, all of the other sections on the written portion were around the 40th %ile and were at meets/exceeds expectations.
I followed each part of this rubric to a T when designing my plans, along with the paper and presentation itself (in the presentation I placed near the 75th %ile on every criteria except for one but I understand why I got that grade much more)
Although I’m a senior and am moving on from DECA, I can’t help but wonder how this could have happened to this section specifically. Anyone get graded similarly?
Hey everyone, I'm a high school student trying to get better at digital marketing and content creation. I've been doing a lot of reading but feel like I'd learn way faster by actually talking to someone who's doing it.
If there are any other high schoolers here who have experience in marketing, content, or social media growth, I'd love to just hop on a quick call and swap ideas. Not looking for anything formal, just a conversation with someone who's figuring it out too.
doesn't need to be long; even 15 minutes would be helpful.
I mean, presentations and roleplays and all that are fun, but AI and technology are the future. DECA needs to innovate. It's been stuck in its old ways with spoken word and physical presentation for far too long. If DECA becomes just VBC, everybody becomes way cooler, they gain more valuable life skills, and we all become so auraful. This is 100% serious not satire. If you are trying to joke don't comment on this.
