On Feb. 9, the DECA team will be competing in districts at Saint Louis Mills Mall. Each person in DECA will first, do a role play with a judge based off of their category they are in. Some of the categories for DECA events include Accounting, Technical Sales ,and Sports and Entertainment Market-ing and there are much more. Because many of the students in DECA do notknow what to expect, nerves have been running high among many members.

“When we arrive at the mall I think everyone will be prepped for the tension in the room to be very high,”senior, Thu Nguyen said. “I think people are nervous about the outcome that they go in not knowing how tothink or do.”

After the role play, they are totake a 100 question multiple choice test. The majority of the questions are general marketing questions andthe others are once again based off of the category that the participant is in.

“Going in front of the judge is the best part of it all,” sponsor and market-ing teacher Melissa Trochim said. “But you can tell how nervous they get when they are on panel.”

Since the beginning of this semes-ter, marketing teachers has been work-ing with the DECA students by having them practice fake role plays and by making them take tests online so they can get a feel of what the competitionis actually like. The competition tests the students on what they have been learning all semester. This is DECA’s second competition in the school year.

“The kids get to show what they have worked on for a semester now,” second sponsor, Joseph De Ciechi said.”