#MakeItCount

2. #MakeItCount

3. My Role • Corporate Sponsorship • $125 000 financial goal • $25 000 in-kind goal • Establish dialogue between DECA Ontario and each of the school boards • TDSB – Bernadette Shaw • PDSB – Ted Byers • Lead Advisor for International DECA

4. Email jake@deca.ca and he will create your own Chapter logo in JPEG, PSD or AI format

5. Power Conference • Boston, Massachusetts • October 31 – November 3, 2013 • Student Cost: $450 per person (quad) • includes registration, accommodation, transportation • $475 triple occupancy and $575 double occupancy (teachers only) • email me ‘Ontario Organizer’ • REGIONAL CONFERENCE web page • http://2013.deca.ca/regional-conference/

6. Estimated 8 500 students ~ 6 Regionals • 15 of 17 Individual/Principle Oral events • 6 of 7 Team Oral events • PRACTICE Online testing on October 7 – ALL CLUSTERS • Qualifier Online Testing on Monday, October 28, 2013 (ANYTIME between 7am - 5pm but students writing the SAME cluster exam must write in the same time period) • Marketing Cluster • Finance Cluster • Business Management and Administration Cluster • Business Administration Core • Hospitality and Business Admin Cluster • Results and statistical analysis by school and by board delivered in mid December Regionals

7. 15 of the 17 Individual and Principle Oral Competitive Events need to be filled15 students should be in these events 6 of the 7 Team Oral Competitive Events need to be filled 12 students should be in these events

8. Written Event Changes • A Submission to turnitin.com on January 15, 2014; 4pm • http://2013.deca.ca/written-business-proposals/ • B Hand deliver ONE GOOD COPY February 9, 2014; 3:00 pm – 6:00 pmDECA Registration desk (Concourse Level at the Toronto Sheraton hotel) • Do NOT use DECA folios (will be used only if students move on to ICDC) • Ensure submissions is in the following order; stapled in the top left corner • Written Events Checklist –DECA Guide – page 41 • Written Statement of Assurances – DECA Guide – page 42 • 4 500 students • $189 triple/quad $129 single/double (includes breakfast) • ADC sponsored by Wrigley • PSE (formerly TSE) • MTDM/MCDM (Marketing Communications)

9. Individual Events 2013 2014Important Change • Reason effectively, use systems thinking, make judgments and decisions, and solve problems? (10) • Overall impression and responses to the judge’s questions (10) • Along with 5 other performance indicators (16 marks each)

10. Provincials • 4 500 students • $189 triple/quad $129 single/double (includes breakfast) • ADC sponsored by Wrigley • PSE (formerly TSE) • MTDM/MCDM (Marketing Communications) • 4 500 students we have negotiated 2012 Sheraton rates!! • One night ~ Monday night check-in • $240 triple or $265 quad (includes breakfast and Monday night dinner) . . . $66.25 to $80 per person + taxes • Two nights ~ Sunday night check-in • $360 triple or $390 quad (includes two breakfasts and Sunday night dinner) . . . $48.75 to $60 per person + taxes • Online Provincials for Registration AND Housing • LDA Lottery changes and allotment; deposit due February 1 • Advisor reception Sunday night/Series Director training • entertainment on Monday night discussed during Town Hall

11. Internationals 575 students and advisors Sheraton Atlanta Student Rate (based on type of occupancy): accompanied by a DECA Advisor: Triple $1,250 Quadruple $1,100 Requires supervision outside their own Board (includes fee for Chaperone): Triple $1,450 Quadruple $1,300 DECA will be responsible in finding Chaperones.  Maximum of 8 students to one Chaperone. Advisor Rate : $1 450 (double) to $2 220 (single) for advisors Accommodation, breakfasts, transportation, registration, insurance, prom, gift Thursday, May 1 to Thursday, May 8, 2014 Top 6 go on to Internationals in all Oral events, Top 5 in Written Events Each increase of 50 members we get additional competitive spot

12. Where do we go from here?