A young Hillsboro-Deering DECA team had good success at the recent New Hampshire DECA 66th Annual Career Development Conference. It was held Feb. 8 to 10, at the Hilton Doubletree in Manchester.
Thirteen team members attended this year’s competition. The team included: Dylan Braun, Mya Brochu, Eva Contreras, Addison Dillon, Mason Ferwerda, Jack Hebert, Kyle Nickalus, Madison Paquette, Ben Perrin, David Prentiss, Isabel Swirko, Liana Swirko, and Owyn Turner Out of the 13 students who attended, the team earned one chapter trophies, seven medals and four plaques. Considering only one senior attended, the Hillsboro-Deering team did well. Combined with the chapter’s successful Virtual Business season and School Based Enterprise, thirteen students will be competing at the International Career Development Conference in Orlando, Florida, in late April.
“This is a very young team with only one senior and the rest made up of underclassmen, and we are still building back after COVID and they are all motivated to improve and grow the team next year. I am proud to take a great group of kids to the international level!” said Marc Payeur, H-D DECA advisor.
HD DECA is selling Little Caesar’s Pizza as a fundraiser to assist in getting to Orlando. If you want to find out more about DECA or want to help these students make it to the world finals, contact Mr. Payeur at 464-1205 or email mpayeur@hdsd.org.