Lamar High School DECA Students Win Awards at State Competition

Photo credit: LHS DECA

The Lamar High School DECA chapter sent 26 students to the recent state competition.  Braxen Shelton will serve on the 2024-2025 Colorado DECA State Officer team as the District 9 representative.  Hallie Mackey, State Champion in Marketing Communications, qualified for Internationals.  Austin Thacker, Zack Rankin & Cole Krug, who won 2^nd place in Business Growth Plan, qualified for Internationals.  Brooklyn Robbins, Vanessa Chairez & Maribel Canales placed 5^th in Community Awareness Project and qualified for Internationals.  Andrew Durst placed 5^th in Food Marketing Series and qualified for Internationals.  Pedro Chairez, 6^th place in Accounting Applications, qualified for Internationals.  Other awards included Austin Thacker, Business Services Marketing finalist; Braxen Shelton & Lucas Andrade, Community Awareness Project finalists; Cason Pollart & Blake Herrera, Finance Operations Research finalists; Armaan Gill, Financial Literacy Project Finalist.

Congratulations to all the students for representing LHS and our city in such a positive way!