Justin McGlamry

Participated In The DECA

Regional Competition In 2009
Justin McGlamry

completed his high school

from White Knoll situated in Lexington, South

Carolina.

While

studying

in

the

school,

he

participated in the DECA Regional Competition in

2009. He was greatly appreciated by his peers,
seniors, juniors, and the faculty of White Knoll for
his achievement. Earlier, the organization, DECA
was known as Distributive Education Clubs of
America and Delta Epsilon Chi, whereas, these
days, on the college level it is called Collegiate
DECA. It is an international association of college
as well as high school students and teachers of
management, marketing, and entrepreneurship
in finance, business, marketing sales and service,

and hospitality.
This organization prepares entrepreneurs and
leaders for education and careers in marketing,
management, hospitality, finance, and additional
business areas. It is counted amongst the top ten
organizations listed as Career and Technical
Student Organizations by the US Department of
Education.

Justin

McGlamry

provides

information about the competition hierarchy of

the DECA, which includes Regional (in a few
areas, it is called District or Area Competition),
Provincial Competition (Canada), or SCDC (State
Career

Development

Conference),

and

ICDC

(International Career Development Conference).

A few of the other conferences at the high school
level include:
Ultimate DECA Power Trip

 Central Region Leadership Conference (CRLC)

Western

Region

Leadership

Conference

(WRLC)
Innovations and Entrepreneurship Conference
Emerging Leader Summit (formerly WROTC &
SOLT)
New York Experience
North Atlantic Region Leadership Conference
(NARCON)
State Competitive Conferences (SCC)
Southern

Region

Leadership

Conference

Entertainment

Marketing

(SRLC)
Sports

and

Conference

Justin explains that DECA is divided into 4

divisions, which include High School, Collegiate

DECA, Alumni, and Professional. The goal of the

organization is to enhance education as well as
career opportunities for students who wish to
pursue

their

management,
include

more

careers
and
than

in

entrepreneurship,

marketing.
220,000

Its

members

advisers

and

students across the US, Mexico, Canada, Guam,

Puerto Rico, Hong Kong, The People's Republic of
China, South Korea, Spain, Germany, Turkey, and
Japan. The Executive Officer Teams of DECA
include one President and 4 Vice Presidents.
Every year, a new team of officers is elected at
the

International

Career

Development

Conference by voting representatives from every

corner of the world.

In 2009,

Justin McGlamry was also conferred

a William Long Scholarship Award, and with the

help of this scholarship, he attended Midlands

Tech to pursue his Civil engineering.