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Orange United Logo Contest and Spirit Week

By: Nicholas Jonckheer, Liam Hoffman, Carver Gibson Orange United is a club that provides opportunities that aim to bring together and build lasting connections between students of different abilities and disabilities, and is run through the Special Education department. Monthly meetings feature playing games and participating in team-building exercises. These past two weeks, members of…

DECA The Halls 2023 Recap

Guest Post by Raya Reid December wrapped up an exciting and busy first semester for the Marketing and DECA program! Our team spent time gearing up for the school year and planning new projects for our businesses. We stayed active in the school and community by holding pop-up shops at football games, hosting fundraisers in…

The Work Life As A Student Marketer

Guest Blogger : Kayla D. Most marketing students not only operate in DECA, but also run, assist and target customers to grow and maximize their sales and profit in their school business, often called a School Based Enterprise (SBE). Marketing students strive to work hard in various areas of our businesses, creating merchandise, keeping track of…

DECA Districts Recap 2024

In late January, Olentangy Orange kicked off the DECA Competition season with most of our junior and senior members competing at districts! Students choose an event to compete in from one of the DECA career clusters: business management and administration, entrepreneurship, finance, hospitality and tourism, marketing and personal financial literacy. Students can compete individually or…

OOHS DECA Mock Districts January 2024

{guest post, Poorvi P} The Orange High School Marketing+DECA program hosted their first DECA Mock-Districts event in early January to prepare for the official DECA districts competition later that month. This event was an opportunity for students competing later in the month to get practical experience regarding their roleplay. The planning committee consisted of… Iz…

Let’s catch up! Interview with an OOHS DECA alumni

Guest post by Claire B + Megan S, OOHS Junior Marketing students + DECA members Natalie Jenkins is a Junior at the University of Cincinnati as a double major in marketing and entrepreneurship. She graduated from Orange in 2021. In her time at OOHS she was a part of the field hockey team, drumline and…

Let’s catch up! Interview with an OOHS DECA alumni

Guest post by Joslin C + Poorvi P, OOHS Junior Marketing students + DECA members We got the opportunity to interview a fellow Olentangy Orange alumni, Parker Castillo! Parker was a part of our OOHS DECA and marketing program. He graduated from Miami University in 2021 and is currently working as an Internal Sales Analyst…

Let’s catch up! Interview with an OOHS DECA alumni

Guest post by Maithreyi M, OOHS Junior Marketing student + DECA member Former Marketing and DECA member that graduated in 2010, Hannah Pfau, was very involved in our business program at OOHS! In fact, she was our very first OOHS DECA President in 2008 and got to be the face of OOHS DECA. “We had…

Olentangy Orange Coffee Shop Rebrand

Student post: written by Carver G, Gavin W, Liam H, Nicholas J Temperatures are dropping and we are beginning our transition into the winter. There’s no surprise that this likely means more coffee is being bought at Fort Orange. Although Fort Orange is constantly being worked on and improved, it became apparent that its coffee…

OOHS DECA ICDC April 2023!

Written by senior, Laura F, with contributions by advisor, Mrs G This past spring, during the week of April 21-26, we had 11 students participate in DECA’s International Career Development Conference in Orlando, Florida. Several of our returning seniors had been to ICDC the prior year, but our advisor, Mrs Gellenbeck, along with several other…

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