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DECA students represent OHS at international competition

DECA Students Represent OHS at International Competition

Jillian Cook, News Editor May 20, 2021

DECA, more specifically Distributive Education Clubs of America, is a business-oriented organization that exists in high schools throughout the country, and even reaches across the borders to Canada, Guam,...

Orono DECA Unites with Special Olympics

Caroline Robson, News Editor October 26, 2018

Orono DECA has always had a strong presence at state and national conferences, with students competing in various categories and placing at a national level. One category of written projects that are competed...

DECA students qualify for national competition

Jack Ellis and Maddie Kileen March 5, 2014

This past weekend, 51 Orono High School Marketing students competed through the Orono DECA program at the State Career Development Conference in Minneapolis, Minn. DECA is a business marketing organization...

Students make dinner a “selfless act”

Students make dinner a “selfless act”

Jack Ellis, Sports Editor February 3, 2014

On Monday February 3, three Orono seniors are partnering with Chipotle Mexican Grill in Wayzata to raise money for a good cause. Marketing students Tori Palm, Eloise Hrusovsky, and Pete Makarov are working...

Seniors Eloise Hrusovsky (L), and Cam Knusten (R) and junior Lania Gustafson (C) marching for Tuition for Troncones.

DECA Dogs give back to Troncones school

Kenzie Shofner, Staff Reporter November 18, 2013

Orono seniors Eloise Hrusovsky, Pete Makarov and Tori Palm have decided that their DECA project will extend far beyond the borders of the competitive DECA circuit and Orono’s education system. Keith...

Heidorn and McCuskey receive their 2nd place trophy at the International DECA Conference in Anaheim, Ca.

Seniors earn recognition, second place at International DECA

May 28, 2013

Orono seniors Ellie Heidorn and Cora McCuskey dedicated more than 100 hours into the project that would earn them second place at the International DECA Conference in Anaheim, CA. “It definitely...

Tho Orono DECA National qualifiers meet in Utah for the DECA International Conference. Photo courtesy of Keith Jurek

OHS DECA dogs “aspire higher” at ICDC

May 23, 2012

Over fourteen thousand high school students, business professionals, marketing teachers and volunteers gathered in Salt Lake City, UT, to partake in DECA’s International Career Development Conference...

Red Bull Social Kicks off DECA season

Red Bull Social Kicks off DECA season

December 18, 2011

On Nov. 18, the schools in Orono’s DECA district gathered together at Minnetonka High School to meet one another before the competitive districts’ conference in January. DECA is an association where...

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