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DECAcated

Madie Blais
Staff Writer

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Juniors Dani Brake, Leah Calitri, and Caileigh Burke at DECA States.

On March 12th DECA, WA’s business club, headed to Boston to compete at states. The three day competition produced the best results Westford Academy has ever seen.

Thursday and Friday over 170 WA DECA students competed in role plays, presentations, and tests against all other Massachusetts DECA students who qualified for states. This year the club has beat every record that it had, winning a record amount of trophies, scholarship money, and places at nationals.

“Last year Mr. Gagne and I talked and we had our best, most successful year ever, and looking at our roster and all the upperclassman from last year that were graduating we figured we’d never be able to duplicate it again. And then we had a lot of underclassman this year, we had no expectations, and the kids ended up beating last years numbers; it was kind of outrageous.” said advisor to the DECA club, John Rogers.

Westford Academy brought 177 students to states to compete, the biggest group that WA has ever brought. Students competed with about 2,500 others for a spot at Nationals in Orlando. 34 students, the most ever, have made it to compete at ICDC, International Career Development Conference, in Orlando, Florida where over 17,000 students from all over the world are expected to attend.

WA DECA students took home 30% of all the awards in events that were competed in. Eight of those students made a combined 5,100$ in scholarship money.

Another big accomplishment was two state officers voted into office this year, junior Kyle Pilachowski, who ran for his second year, and sophomore Ankeeta Patil. Only once before has a school had two students as state officer at once.

Students going to Nationals

Last Name First Name Partner Name Grade Individual and Team (2) Role Play Events
Agrawal Anant 11 Human Resources Mgmt Series—HRM
Agrawal Aishwarya 10 Marketing Management Series—MMS
Blais Madison 11 Leadership Academy
Burke Caileigh Leah Calitri 11 (2)Mktg Communications Team—MTDM
Calitri Leah Caileigh Burke 11 (2)Mktg Communications Team—MTDM
Chaloori Pranav 10 Food Marketing Series—FMS
Ding Jerry 9 Principles of Business Mgmt—PBM
Donescu Victoria 9 Principles of Business Mgmt—PBM
Eddy Colin 11 Retail Merchandising Series—RMS
Ellis David 11 Accounting Applications Series—ACT
Fleischer Zachary 11 Quick Serve Rest Mgmt Series— QSRM
Gillett David 11 Leadership Academy
Harkness Joe 11 Business Services Marketing Series—BSM
Hu Gary 11 Business Services Marketing Series—BSM
Jani Eashan Kyle Ryan 12 (2)Sports & Enter. Marketing Team—STDM
Jung Hannah 12 Professional Selling Event – PSE
Kagalavadi Trisha 10 Business Finance Series—BFS
Makhija Prateek Iman Zarrinkoub 11 (2)Travel & Tourism Team—TTDM
Patil Ankeeta 10 Apparel & Accessories Mktg Series— AAM
Pilachowski Kyle 11 Hotel & Lodging Management Series—HLM
Porter Andrew 11 Financial Consulting Event — FCE
Prasath Sneha 9 Principles of Hospitality & Tourism—PHT
Rastogi Chinar 11 Business Finance Series—BFS
Ryan Kyle Eashan Jani 12 (2)Sports & Enter. Marketing Team—STDM
Shao Andy 11 Principles of Finance—PFN
Sheth Nihar 10 Business Finance Series—BFS
Srivastava Varun 10 Principles of Marketing—PMK
Vellal Adithya 9 Principles of Finance—PFN
Wang Edward 12 Accounting Applications Series—ACT
Wu Emily 11 Rest and Food Service Mgmt Series—RFSM
Zarrinkoub Iman Prateek Makhija 11 (2)Travel & Tourism Team—TTDM
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