DECA Helping Hands at States! by Kasey

Hello again Florida DECA!

Do you know what Community Service means? Community Service is not just the general dictionary definition of “Voluntary work intended to help people in a particular area”. Community Service gives a person, a family, an animal what they need to live and survive. Florida DECA is strong advocates of community service, for the reason of how large of an organization we are. Because of how large and still growing we are, we have a larger chance of making that difference in not just one person’s life, but many. Florida DECA created the Florida DECA Helping Hands in 2011 and in two short years we have donated over 10 thousand articles of clothing to the Orlando Salvation Army and the Seminole County Families in Transition. This year, we wanted to begin a whole new community service project and we call it the Mac and Cheese Drive. Chapters will collect boxes of macaroni and cheese within their schools and bring them along to us at the State Career Development Conference on February 28, 2013 through March 3, 2013. The top three chapters that collect the most mac and cheese will receive a traveling trophy and the mac and cheese itself is donated to the Seminole County Families in Transition. I hope to see a mountain of mac and cheese at this year’s SCDC!  Team 53 and I expect you Florida DECA to do more than just survive in this competition, but to thrive and make it to the first place collector’s spot!

Until next time,

Kasey Kupcik
Florida DECA President