Every Friday, Distributed Education Clubs of America (DECA), sells fresh baked cookies and slushies. Some students and faculty may think this is all there is to DECA, but more lies beyond the surface. 

DECA is currently selling M&M, Snickerdoodle, double chocolate chip and standard chocolate chip cookies. The process of the cookies takes an hour to two hours, from start to finish, with preparing and making the cookies.

“Depending on how many cookies we make, we vary the amount of cookies we make each week,” DECA Marketing teacher and advisor Christy Flanigan said. 

Business management is Flanigan’s third hour, those students are in charge of running DECA’s sales, which is also a school-based business that’s certified through National DECA.

DECA is more than just cookies, students also volunteer for food drives and to do community service. Project 66 Food and Resource Center is where DECA goes twice a year to donate any kind of food. They focus donations on non-perishable foods such as canned vegetables, peanut butter and condiments. 

“[This] allows them to donate however much they want,” Flanigan said. “It gives us an opportunity to give back to that organization.”

Competition is also something that DECA does annually. in early February they go to Midwest City, where students are able to have their own business ideas and solve business problems. 

“I’m very confident, I’m excited for the different events that I’m in,” junior Darcy Shuck said. “I’m in a group project and I’m also doing an individual series, I’m excited to just go into that.”

DECA goes from selling cookies, to donating to food banks and competing at state and winning many awards such as business building skills.