AmTech DECA recognized for outstanding School-based Enterprise 

Posted Date: 02/12/2025

February 12, 2025 – AmTech Gear, the school-based enterprise at AmTech Career Academy, was among 851 school-based enterprises achieving Gold Level Certification/Re-Certification for the 2024-2025 school year and will be recognized during DECA’s International Career Development Conference this April 26-29, 2025, in Orlando, Florida. 

A school-based enterprise (SBE) is an entrepreneurial operation in a school setting that provides goods and services to meet the needs of the market. SBEs are managed and operated by students as hands-on learning laboratories that integrate National Curriculum Standards in marketing, finance, hospitality and management. DECA advisors have utilized this effective educational tool for over four decades to provide their students with realistic and practical learning experiences that reinforce classroom instruction, enhance 21st-century skill development, and prepare students for college and careers. 

“DECA’s School-based Enterprise Certification Program is a rigorous process designed to help DECA members demonstrate their classroom learning in a practical, learning laboratory, and then translate that into meaningful outcomes,” said Christopher Young, CAE, Chief Program Officer at DECA Inc. “These DECA members are practicing important workplace readiness skills while preparing for college and careers.” 

The AmTech DECA members who contributed to the certification were Dane Larson and Madison Jacobs, with the assistance of their DECA chapter advisors, Tristyn Day and Beth Dumaoal. The SBE at AmTech has operated for four years.