Have you ever wanted to learn more about entrepreneurship but didn’t have room in your schedule to take the class? Well thanks to our DECA club sponsor Mrs.Brown you can. DECA, also known as Distributive Education Clubs of America, is a club at MHS directed towards leadership and entrepreneurship. 

I interviewed one member from the club, Regan Dehoff. While interviewing Regan, I learned that she has been in the club since sophomore year and she enjoys getting to learn more about things like leadership. ¨ DECA is important to me because I get to try new things and meet new people so it’s always fun to try a new category when I compete at DLC,” Dehoff said. According to Dehoff, DECA is not a hard club to love. 

If you’re wondering why this is important, here are a few reasons. One reason is it looks really good to have a leadership role on your college applications and being in DECA means that you’ve already had experience and learned about it. Two, if you’re looking to start your own business, DECA would be a great place to learn more about it because of the entrepreneurship perspective. Third and final, it’s a great place to learn things about professional responsibility. 

For example, if you over book an inn that you’re running, you will have to talk to a customer about it if they are raising their voice at you. You’re still going to have to be professional about it. You can learn how to deal with all of these things in DECA. 

Overall, I would say there is a very clear reason this club is so popular, with over 300,000 members across the US. DECA has been running since 1946 and was founded by Chris Kimbell and Michael Wayne in Reston, VA . This club has helped our students grow in so many ways so thank you to Mrs.Brown for running DECA and all of our DECA members for making the club into what it is today.