Our DECA organization recently met with a cohort from Eastern York High School to help them launch their new chapter.

Business teacher and DECA advisor Loni Kress has been a huge help to Eastern and has given them many useful tips and resources to help them get started. Kress said, “I was contacted by their business teacher, Shawn Little, last spring.  They started clubs in the 4th quarter last school year and added DECA,” Kress said.

Easterns DECA team is growing fast and Kress is a proud helper, happy to see students so interested in being a part of DECA and what they do. As of right now Eastern has around thirty-five members, which Kress finds quite impressive due to it being the first year they’ve had the team.

The students and staff from Eastern toured our student run operations and seemed fairly impressed with Dover students’ capabilities. They visited “to watch a DECA meeting, see the school store, and visit Dover’s Closet which is now run completely by (Britney) Marsh and students as a leadership/volunteer opportunity,” Kress said.

Kress said that she’ll happily give out any information that Eastern requests, but she promises to keep Dover’s competitive DECA secrets to herself. “Even though they’ll be a competitor, it’s exciting to see more students join a community that will help them with their future and give them wonderful opportunities and high school memories,” she said.

Eastern has a school store just like we do, but it’s not student run. They plan to have it student run sometime next year like Kress suggested, but for now they are focused on getting their DECA team up and rolling.