In case you missed your last opportunity to take a bite out of the Big Apple, DECA (formerly known as Distributive Education Clubs of America) is throwing yet another three-day bash this coming weekend. It’ll be the second of three, and it’ll offer you the fleeting chance to get in on some of that NY attitude you’ve seen so much of on Law & Order.
DECA hosts three New York conferences a year—among various other conferences—which attract high school students interested in marketing, management, and entrepreneurship to the promise and shine of Liberty City. The weekend conference grants students an “insider’s perspective into marketing techniques used by businesses that are unique to the Big Apple.”
And it’s not a do-or-die timeline. You’ve got three opportunities every year, this year being November 18-22, December 2-6, and December 9-13.
Dubbed “The New York Experience,” the conference percolates with some fine-tuned education and fun, featuring mornings spent mingling with a few of NY’s finest marketers, and evenings spent wandering the holiday-decked streets of America’s finest city—all the while rubbing shoulders with your uproarious classmates and jolly-smart peers. Much like the five o’ clock bus, it’s not to be missed.
On this year’s schedule, you’ll flip-flop your mornings between touring Madame Tussauds halls of wax figurines and soaking up a behind-the-scenes look at NBC studios located right there at 30 Rockefeller. You’ll finish up the day laconically watching the faint steam swirl off your hot cocoa while taking in a blistering rendition of Radio City Music Hall’s Christmas Spectacular. Best of all, you’ll leave with a bagful of schwag and no less than a hundred new Facebook friends who’ll just be the beginnings to a fully lit-up connections grid.
DECA is no newbie organization. In fact, it’s been around longer than our current president, space travel, and rollerblades. With high school associations in all 50 states, DECA is a great introduction into the field of marketing and a gemstone for the college application packet.
In addition to hosting conferences, the organization’s chapters reach out to their local communities as leaders and supporters. From helping the Muscular Dystrophy Association in Wyandotte, Michigan to fundraising for troops and veterans in Olentangy, Ohio (try saying that five times fast). It offers competitions, conferences, leadership experience, opportunity, and more networking than Verizon.
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