Students from UCF set the highest standard as finalists at Collegiate DECA\u2019s Florida state competition. These students will travel to Washington the week of April 22 to compete at the DECA International Conference as members of the Florida state team. <\/p>\n
The 24 students competed across a wide range of categories, many of whom placed in the top three spots in multiple categories.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m so proud of this group of students,\u201d said Dr. Carolyn Massiah, marketing professor at the University of Central Florida. \u201cStudents who compete in Collegiate DECA get a chance to role-play real business scenarios with real business professionals as their judges. This is the ideal environment to apply what they\u2019ve learned in the classroom and to reassure them that they\u2019re prepared for life after the college classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n
The UCF Collegiate DECA team is led by Dr. Carolyn Massiah who will be named Florida faculty advisor of the year at the international conference. <\/p>\n
The results are as follows:<\/p>\n
Business Ethics<\/strong><\/p>\n Business-to-Business Marketing<\/strong><\/p>\n Entrepreneurship \u2013 Starting a Business<\/strong><\/p>\n International Marketing<\/strong><\/p>\n Marketing Management<\/strong><\/p>\n Professional Sales<\/strong><\/p>\n Sales Management Meeting<\/strong><\/p>\n Sports and Entertainment Marketing<\/strong><\/p>\n Accounting<\/strong><\/p>\n Banking and Financial Services<\/strong><\/p>\n Fashion Merchandising and Marketing<\/strong><\/p>\n Hotel and Lodging<\/strong><\/p>\n Restaurant and Food Service<\/strong><\/p>\n Retail Merchandising<\/strong><\/p>\n Travel and Tourism<\/strong><\/p>\n Collegiate DECA is the college division of DECA, an international organization that helps cultivate student leadership in areas such as marketing, management, entrepreneurship, advertising, sales, hospitality and other business and marketing related areas. You can find out more about UCF DECA by visiting the UCF College of Business website.<\/p>\n Established in 1968, the UCF College of Business Administration offers degrees at the bachelor\u2019s, master\u2019s, doctoral, and executive levels. All programs, as well as the Kenneth G. Dixon School of Accounting are accredited by AACSB International \u2013 the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.<\/p>\n The college provides high-quality academic programs designed to give students a competitive advantage in the world of business now and in the future. As such, the college establishes partnerships with some of the nation’s most innovative leaders to model new and best practices that harness evolving technology. In addition, the college promotes a unique culture of engagement, risk-taking, cross-disciplinary collaboration and data-driven decision making in an effort to ensure students are well prepared to enter a dynamic marketplace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Students from UCF set the highest standard as finalists at Collegiate DECA\u2019s Florida state competition. These students will travel to Washington the week of April 22 to compete at the DECA International Conference as members of the Florida state team. The 24 students competed across a wide range of categories, many of whom placed in the top three spots in…","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":58444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[4,31,27],"tags":[],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-58434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-college-of-business-administration","category-student-life"],"yoast_head":"\n