Clarke’s DECA chapter qualifies for national conference

W.T. Clarke High School’s DECA chapter competed at this year’s DECA States competition in Rochester, held from March 8-10.

As a result, Clarke sent five students to Orlando, Florida from April 22-25 to compete at DECA’s 73rd annual International Career Development Conference as they placed in the top three in the respective categories of Finance Operations Research, Innovation Plan, Professional Selling, Hospitality and Tourism Professional Selling and Financial Consulting. Clarke also had an additional 13 top 10 overall placements. More than 18,000 high school students, teacher advisers, business professionals and alumni gathered for several days of DECA excitement.

The students invited included: Alefiyah Bootwala, Angelina Jimenez, Karyl Isberto, Umme Hani Bootwala, Shreejita Satpathy, Gulprit Patwal, Joshua DeLuccia, Steven Jacovetti, Andraya Givargis, Olivia Cassidy and Rina Visvanathan.