Basics
This four‑letter acronym describes the national organization focused on marketing, finance, hospitality, and management.
What is DECA
This type of event gives competitors 10 minutes to prep and present solutions to a business scenario.
What is a roleplay?
Nebraska DECA holds this annual conference in Lincoln each spring.
What is State Career Development Conference (SCDC)?
Hastings DECA members often compete at this district conference before SCDC.
What is the District Career Development Conference (DCDC)?
In a roleplay, this is the first thing you should do when you sit down in front of the judge.
What is shake their hand, and introduce yourself?
DECA’s official color, used in its emblem and branding, is this shade.
What is blue?
This written event requires a 5–20 page paper and an oral presentation.
What is a written project?
Nebraska DECA is part of this larger regional association within DECA Inc.
What is the Central Region?
Hastings DECA frequently partners with this local institution for community service and outreach events.
What is NHS (National Honor Society)?
This part of a roleplay is where you restate the problem and outline your solution.
What is the opening summary?
This is the term for DECA’s competitive events program, which includes roleplays and written events.
What is the Competitive Events Program (CEP)?
In roleplays, judges evaluate competitors using these structured scoring tools.
What are performance indicators?
This Nebraska city hosts many district‑level DECA competitions and is home to the state capitol.
What is Lincoln?
This type of event is a common strength for Hastings DECA, involving customer‑service‑style scenarios.
What is a Hospitality and Tourism roleplay?
This technique helps competitors connect performance indicators to real business logic by using examples from actual companies.
What is applied business reasoning?
DECA’s mission statement emphasizes preparing emerging leaders and entrepreneurs in these four career clusters.
What are marketing, finance, hospitality, and management?
This event category includes tests and two roleplays, often taken by first‑year members.
What is Principles of Business Administration?
This individual is Hastings' State Representative.
Who is Macie Sanderson?
This individual was Hastings DECA President last year.
Who is Prestyn Long?
This is the strategic method of organizing your roleplay into labeled sections (e.g., “First, I’ll address…”) to maximize judge clarity.
What is structured segmentation?
This is the name of the international conference where top competitors from every state compete each spring.
What is ICDC?
This advanced event requires competitors to analyze a real business’s operations and propose improvements.
What is a Business Operations Research event?
This individual is Nebraska DECA's President.
WHO IS GREGORY KANANI!!!!!?????
This individual was the Hastings DECA President two years ago.
Who is Param Bhakta?
This advanced strategy involves predicting the judge’s follow‑up questions and embedding pre‑emptive answers into your presentation.
What is anticipatory objection handling?