High School Competitive Events

DECA’s competitive events can be grouped into three broad categories— role-plays and case studies, prepared events and online simulations. Within each category and type of event, DECA offers a variety of options in each of the four career clusters — marketing, finance, hospitality and management — as well as entrepreneurship and personal financial literacy.

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.

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.

The 2024 -2025 DECA Guide is available here.

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.

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.

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.

Individual Series Events

Individual Series Events are individual member events that pose business challenges with role-plays set in specialized career areas.

Oklahoma’s FREE Online Practice Tests

Click here to access the website used for Oklahoma’s free online testing available to all Oklahoma DECA members. An email has been sent to Advisors with login information. (Testing opens on September 1st)

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.

Entrepreneurship Events

Entrepreneurship Events allow members (individually or in teams of up to three) to explore entrepreneurship at a variety of stages.

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.

Reminders

Events Per Student (all divisions):

Students may compete in up to two (2) competitive events with only one of those events being a team event.
- Acceptable event combinations per student:
  - 1 individual event & 1 team event
  - 2 individual events

Registration for competitive events is completed during the Career Development Conference registration period. Please refer to your BMITE Important Dates for more information.

Collegiate Competitive Events

Collegiate DECA members compete for top international honors in one of 25 different competitions. Collegiate DECA competitive events recognize student achievement, provide opportunities for traveling to conferences and networking with peers. The Collegiate DECA Competitive Events Program is recognized for helping to prepare students for their professional careers. Collegiate DECA members are evaluated by business and industry professionals in all Collegiate DECA competitive events.

The 2024 -2025 Collegiate DECA Guide is available here.

Team Case Studies

Collegiate DECA’s Team Case Study Events effectively measure the student’s proficiency in the knowledge and skills identified by business and industry professionals as essential to success in a given career. The team of two students is given a description of a specific situation that measures skills, knowledge and attitudes in a given career. Roles in these events could be content area expert, client, customer, employee, supervisor, manager or entrepreneur.

Prepared Business Presentations

Collegiate DECA’s Prepared Business Presentation events provide students the opportunity to prepare ahead of time a written prospectus and/or to present to a professional (judge) with experience in the area of specialty identified for the event.

Individual Case Studies

Collegiate DECA’s Individual Case Study Events effectively measure the student’s proficiency in the knowledge and skills identified by business and industry professionals as essential to success in a given career. The student is given a description of a specific situation that measures skills, knowledge and attitudes in a given career. Roles in these events could be content area expert, client, customer, employee, supervisor, manager or entrepreneur.