Real-life Entrepreneurship Learning

DECA's entrepreneurship competitive events

• Marketing Business Plan Event
• Entrepreneurship Written Event
• International Business Plan Event
• Entrepreneurship Participating Event
• Creating an Independent Business
• Creating a Franchising Business
• Entrepreneurship Promotion Project

DECA's entrepreneurship competitive events teach hands-on entrepreneurship. The book of guidelines for the events, the DECA Guide is online. While doing these events, students write proposals for businesses, write business plans, promote entrepreneurship, and learn how to manage businesses.
( www.deca.org/celisting.html )

Click here to see how DECA's events relate to entrepreneurship and to the Career Cluster concept.

www.gwudeca.org — E-DECA Market

Embedded in the gwudeca curriculum is this virtual business.

Virtual Business Challenge www.knowledgematters.com

Members of DECA and FBLA can access the Virtual Business Challenge through their organizations.

School-based enterprises (SBEs) www.schoolbasedenterprises.org

SBEs are student-run businesses within schools. They can be school stores, snack bars, banks, and much more. They are laboratories for students studying business creation and management.

Click here to see many resources for school-based enterprises.