Michigan DECA proudly boasts a series of informative, interactive and educational conferences for our members to attend throughout the year. These conferences are designed to prepare high school students for careers related to marketing, management and entrepreneurship. We have had a high success rate with these conferences as a result of careful joint planning by educators and business professionals. A key element for the students is information being delivered to them in a fun filled interactive atmosphere with a group of their peers. Educators agree that by taking students out of the classroom and putting them in the center of all the action, students not only learn more, but they also learn better than normal.

State Leadership Conference
Interested student leaders gather to learn about management in fields they're passionate about. Students also receive leadership and teambuilding training.

How You Can Get Involved
Work with a local chapter to make sure they are able to take their future marketing leaders to this conference

 

Central Region Leadership Conference
Future industry leaders join students and business professionals from 13 Midwestern states to further develop their career and leadership skills.

How You Can Get Involved
Give a presentation on your business and/or industry
Work with a local chapter to make sure they are able to take their future marketing leaders to this conference

 

New York Marketing Conference
Where better to learn about the finance, advertising, fashion and sports & entertainment industries than a city that is a megacenter of all those industries?

How You Can Get Involved
Provide resources for New York Marketing Related Lists.
Work with a local chapter to make sure they are able to take their future marketing leaders to this conference

 

Sports & Entertainment Marketing Workshop
Michigan DECA has teamed up with Palace Sports & Entertainment and Great Lakes Crossing to give students an inside look at the sports & entertainment marketing industry.

How You Can Get Involved
Give a presentation on your business and/or the sports & entertainment marketing industry
Work with a local chapter to make sure they are able to take their future marketing leaders to this conference

 

District Conferences
Students begin their path to the International Career Development Conference with this competition against students from schools throughout their area.

How You Can Get Involved
Work with a local chapter to make sure they are able to take their future marketing leaders to this conference

 

State Career Development Conference
Michigan DECA's biggest event! Students compete with fellow DECA members from all over Michigan for the right to represent the State of Michigan at DECA's International Career Development Conference.

How You Can Get Involved
Work with a local chapter to make sure they are able to take their future marketing leaders to this conference

 

International Career Development Conference
The culminating event for any DECA member. They've earned the right to join over 13,000 fellow DECA members and say that they are the best that their state has to offer. Now they compete for the right to say that they're the best of the best in the world!

How You Can Get Involved
Work with a local chapter to make sure they are able to take their future marketing leaders to this conference