Welcome to the DECA Update Session Welcome to the DECA Update Session. I am Lisa Cline, President of the Georgia DECA Board of Directors

This year’s theme is Ready for It This year’s theme is Ready for It. The logos are available for download on decadirect.org 2018-2019

Georgia DECA Board of Directors Position Location Lisa Cline President North Forsyth High School Sharon Shahan President-Elect Rockdale Career Academy Shayna Brown Southern Region Houston County High School Tywanda Mathis Eastern Region Sims Academy Halie Bissell NorthWestern Region East Paulding High School Leslie Austin Western Region Chapel Hill High School Shannon Aaron Executive Director Georgia DECA Linda Smith Program Specialist DOE Nancy Ruff GMEA President South Forsyth High School Bob Armbruster Board President DECA Foundation Walter Burgess Industry Certification Chair I would like to recognize our GA DECA Board of Directors, if you are present please stand.

Board Vacancies Eastern Region- 2018-2021 Western Region- 2018-2021 Application available online If more than 1 candidate from each region, the region will vote per survey monkey First meeting is at Fall LDC We do have 2 vacancies coming up this year. The board application is available online at gadeca.org under resources. Each region will vote on a representative if there is more than 1 candidate. The first meeting will be at Fall LDC.

CHAPTER CAMPAIGNS Membership GEW-success story does not have to be DECA Alumni Promotional Community Service Advocacy Enter and save as you go- new sets of examples are coming this summer! Be sure to read about the chapter campaigns on decadirect.org and in the Chapter Manual you should have received at the DECA Booth at the conference.

WorkWinWow September 20, 2018 Georgia FFA-FCCLA Center, Covington GA $25 per person Deadline to register is August 31st (early bird is August 24th) Professional Development for Advisors and Officer Training for Students This year we are combining advisor professional development and local officer training at WorkWinWow. This is a 1 day event for advisors and local officers. Be sure to register by August 31st. You will need to register as a new chapter on the registration site, it is not tied to membership so it probably won’t recognize your DECA membership log in. An agenda is located on gadeca.org

COMPETITIVE EVENTS PROGRAM UPDATE 2018-2019 We do have some changes to competitions this year. We will speak more about these at WorkWinWow and the Competition Workshop in September but wanted you to be aware of a few changes

GA DECA Competition Updates GA Only Testing- 6 events (keeping Middle School marketing test) Continuing Online Written Manuals Advisors working Competitions at State CDC will receive 1 free chaperone registration Region Winners and TDM Participants must score 60% or higher on State Test in January. TDM must score an average of 60% Integrated Marketing Campaign & Professional Selling Testing will take place in January. IMC Events must score an average of 60% We will continue to offer the Middle School Marketing Exam in September as part of our GA Only Testing Events We will continue to submit Written Manuals online We encourage all advisors to work competitions at State CDC, we will be providing 1 chaperone registration for advisors working Competitions. Please know that it does take a lot of people to work and we really need your help! Last year we started a minimum testing score for Region and State Testing. This year there is a little change- we won’t be looking at region test scores, all students who test at region will be allowed to role play at region. All region winners and those participating in the TDM, Integrated Marketing Campaign and Professional Selling events will test in January and must score 60% or higher in order to compete at State. For events with more than 1 team member, the team must score an average of 60% or higher. This means that students can do region events and if they do not win at region, they can do either TDM, IMC or Professional Selling in January.

Professional Selling & Consulting Events Rubric has been updated with new wording on criteria #8,#11, and #13 Please be sure to use the updated guidelines in the DECA Guide, Professional Selling & Consulting Events have an updated rubric. Don’t go off of last year’s rubric or projects

All Written Presentation Guidelines No wheeled carts, moving straps, only visual aids that can be easily hand carried will be permitted No alternate power sources allowed (like generators) Absolutely no food or drink There are several changes to Written Event Presentation Guidelines. Please be sure to read those and share with your students.

Penalty Point Checklist Do not have to double space major content All current 30 page projects are now changed to a maximum of 20 pages All current 5 and 11 page projects change to a maximum of 10 pages Must be printed single sided Everything must be typed, no handwritten, including charts and graphs No size rules with display boards The Penalty Point Checklist is updated. Read slide with changes.

Restructure of Marketing Rep Events- ADC, FMP, SEPP Specific outlines for Product, Service and Event Campaign Length is 45 consecutive days Rubric has been updated Integrated Marketing Campaign-Product Integrated Marketing Campaign- Service Integrated Marketing Campaign- Event Marketing Representative Events are now called Integrated Marketing Campaign Events. There are 3 categories- Product, Service, Event. May want to add any details you learned from Train the Trainer about these events

ONLINE MANUAL SUBMISSION Deadline for Manuals- January 25th Judges will have 4 days to review Feedback will be given electronically after State CDC Students will need to bring Executive Summary to State CDC and turn into the judge National DECA will pilot 1 chapter team event no later than 2020 ICDC We will continue online manual submission. You will have until January 25th to upload manuals to the online site. After State CDC you will be able to log into the site and see the scores and feedback from judges. We are requiring that students bring their executive summary to State CDC and leave it with the judge. National DECA is going to be piloting 1 chapter team event for online manual submission at ICDC either this year or next.

GA QUALIFYING TEST SCORE All Testing Events for State will have a 60% or higher qualifying score Region Testing will not have a qualifier this year All State Test Takers must score 60% or higher on the State Exam in January in order to compete at State CDC Read slide

State Role Plays Students participating in Individual Series Role Play Events at State CDC will complete 1 role play this year. The total score will be made up by: Role Play- 2/3 State Exam- 1/3 This year we will only have 1 role play at state for all individual and team role play events. The role play will count twice and the exam will count once.

Updated Professional Standards Form Every student must complete a Professional Standards form for each GA DECA Event Forms will now require a Student AND Parent Signature (no advisor signature) Students cannot possess/use/have knowledge of achohol or drugs Any student that violates the Professional Standards will be removed from the event and will forfeit the right to to attend any other DECA event. We have updated the professional standards forms for this year. Read slide

Shannon Aaron georgiadeca@gmail.com QUESTIONS? Shannon Aaron georgiadeca@gmail.com Shannon will be back from Maternity Leave the 2nd week of August, feel free to email her with any questions you might have. We hope to see you in September at the Competition Workshop and WorkWinWow.