Congratulations are in order to the following Caribou Marketing/DECA students for winning first-place trophies at the 41st State DECA Conference, held at the Wyndham Hotel in South Portland earlier this month: Philip St. Peter and Eric Brown, Financial Analysis Team Decision-Making event; Lauren DeMerchant and Jerry Ferszt DePriest, Buying and Merchandising Management Team Decision-Making event and Seth Sager, Automotive Services Individual Event Series. These first-place winners will be attending the International Career Development Conference in Anaheim, California, in late April.
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2009 State DECA winners from Caribou High School are in front, from left, Jerry Ferszt DePriest and Lauren DeMerchant. In back are Philip St. Peter, Eric Brown and Seth Segar.
The Maine DECA Conference was hosted by the Maine Marketing Education Association. DECA students from Marketing Education programs across the state competed in competency-based role-plays and written exams.
The students studied a variety of different areas such as advertising and display, finance and credit, apparel and accessories; general merchandising, automotive services marketing, hospitality, tourism; sports and entertainment marketing; and food marketing and restaurant management.
During the competition, each student participated in two role-play situations, which tests the student’s skills in areas of human relations, economic knowledge, buying and pricing, selling, and advertising and display.
Second-place trophy winners include: Dan St. Peter, Automotives Services Series; Cortney Therrien, Quick Serve Restaurant; KC Dufour, Sports and Entertainment Services; Chris Nadeau and Trevor Beaulieu, Financial Analysis Management team event; Taylor Willette and Janelle Kernan, Travel and Tourism team event; and Mike Boucher and Evan Susee, Sports and Entertainment team event.
Third-place trophy winners are: Meg Bosse and Kylie Chapman, Travel and Tourism team event; and Courtney Hamlin and Emily Keaton, Hospitality Team Event.
Other Marketing students participating were Deavin Gustafson, Victoria Dorman, Cameron Anderson, Kate Bell and Amanda Cyr.
Jane Umphrey is advisor to the Caribou High School DECA students.
