Warren Hills DECA recognized for Thrive Level Chapter Campaigns

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Warren Hills DECA recognized for Thrive Level Chapter Campaigns

 

[Washington, NJ] – Warren Hills DECA was among 1,188 chapters that achieved Thrive Level recognition during the 2025-2026 school year and will be commended at DECA’s International Career Development Conference (ICDC) held April 25-28, 2026, in Atlanta, Georgia. In addition to this honor, DECA has invited two Warren Hills students to participate in the DECA Emerging Leaders Series in Georgia, recognizing their leadership potential and commitment to excel. 

 

Each fall, DECA offers four campaigns for chapters to complete as part of their program of leadership for the year. These campaigns are designed to grow membership engagement and build lasting partnerships within the school and local community. Chapters that achieve Thrive Level receive a commemorative pennant, flag and plaque. The chapters also have an opportunity to participate in ICDC. In order to receive Thrive Level recognition, the chapter completed two out of three chapter campaigns, including the community service campaign, innovations and entrepreneurship campaign, and promotional campaign. Alternatively, the chapter could have participated in the membership campaign, which challenged the chapter to attain two of three goals: recruit 20 professional members, recruit 20 alumni members or increase student membership by 20 more members from the previous school year. The WH DECA members participated in completing three of the four campaigns offered: the promotional,community service and innovations + entrepreneurship campaigns. 

 

The Warren Hills DECA President, Keyli Berzoza spearheaded the campaigns while all members contributed to the Thrive recognition: Druelz Arce, Saulo Arce Zamora, Ryan Benbara, Buzzby Berzon, Keyli Berzoza, Nate Bigelow, Nyah Brown, Mia Cosme, John Decker, Dylan Delacruz, Alanis Diaz, Zyierra Dozier, Charlotte Gabor, Vince Giantesano, Matt Hardy, Timothy Hatiba, Filip Knezevic, Matt Kuruc , Sophia Longa, Evan Marques, Timothy Meyko, Alex Ortiz, Alexis Palma, Ethan Perkins, Caiden Pierre-Louis, Gianna Plesh, Amy Rosillo, Rebecca Rush, Dehlia Shamy, Annmarie Solima, Henrik Szopinski, Brooke Taylor, Blake Tomosieski, George Vouloumanos, Jonathan West, Brennan Winters, and Anna Zukowski.

 

“Thank you to our Warren Hills community for helping us achieve our goals. Thank you especially to Mr. Cedric Hickerson, owner of A Plus DJs, Ms. Elaine Hardy, owner of Holistic Family Healthcare, and Ms. Tara Shamy, local salon owner. Our students not only study for rigorous academic testing and competition but they also love to get involved in the community and businesses like these make it happen,” said Ms. Christina Dock, DECA Advisor. 

 

About DECA Inc.

DECA is a career and technical student organization that prepares emerging leaders and entrepreneurs with a career interest in marketing, finance, hospitality, and management. DECA enhances the preparation for college and careers by providing co-curricular programs that integrate into classroom instruction, apply learning, connect to business and promote competition. DECA student members leverage their DECA experience to become academically prepared, community oriented, professionally responsible, experienced leaders. DECA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with over 287,000 members in 4,000 high school and college chapters in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Germany.

 

For more information about DECA, visit www.deca.org. 

 

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