DECA Competitive Catagories
Deca offers over 60 different competitive competitions and is split into 5 main categories, Marketing, Hospitality+Tourism, Finance and Management.
Odobe Food Truck Challenge
The Adobe Food Truck Challenge provides an opportunity for participants to develop a comprehensive food truck concept that includes branding, truck design, menu creation, and social media marketing. Create your concept using Adobe Express tools, submit your project components on the website template, and present a summary of your concept in an up to 60-second video. Each entry will be composed of 3-4 members of a DECA chapter.
Odobe Personal Branding Challenge
The Adobe Personal Branding Challenge provides an opportunity for participants to develop a comprehensive personal brand that includes a logo, résumé and personal vision statement. Create your concept using Adobe Express tools and submit your project components on the website template.
Role Play + Case Studies
DECA's role-play and case study events involve a multiple-choice career cluster exam and a role-play or case study provided on-site with a judge. They are classified by industry and career cluster. See the DECA Guide for exact offerings and guidelines.
Principles of Business Administration Events
Principles of Business Administration Events are for individual first-year DECA members. The member is asked to explain several core business concepts.
Individual Series Events
Individual Series Events are individual member events that pose business challenges with role-plays set in specialized career areas.
Team Decision Making Events
Team Decision Making Events challenge a team of two participants to analyze a case study in a specific career area and develop a solution.
Personal Financial Literacy Event
The Personal Financial Literacy Event is designed to measure members’ ability to apply reliable information and systematic decision making to personal financial decisions.
Prepared Events
DECA’s prepared events require a written project as well as a prepared presentation, and some require participants to take a career cluster exam. All of these events should be started early in the school year because of the preparation involved. See the DECA Guide for exact offerings and guideline
Business Operations Research Events
Business Operations Research Events challenge members (individually or in teams of up to three) to design and conduct research to present findings and a strategic plan on a topic that changes annually.
Project Management Events
Project Management Events encourage members (individually or in teams of up to three) to use project management skills to initiate, plan, execute, monitor and control, and close a project.
Entrepreneurship Events
Entrepreneurship Events allow members (individually or in teams of up to three) to explore entrepreneurship at a variety of stages.
Integrated Marketing Campaign Events
Integrated Marketing Campaign Events challenge members (individually or in teams of up to three) to develop an integrated marketing campaign in a specific category.
Professional Selling and Consulting Events
Professional Selling and Consulting Events allow individual participants to demonstrate knowledge and skills needed for a career in sales or consulting.