Bethel Park High School DECA members earned multiple awards at the PA DECA District III Conference held Dec. 3 at Duquesne University, where Duquesne’s School of Business and its Small Business Development Center hosted the event.
Carly Conroy was elected to serve as the 2026–27 PA DECA District III representative.
This year’s conference featured a newly established format for the 2025–26 school year, which increased the number of participating schools while reducing the number of automatic qualifiers to the top two finishers in each event.
Eleven Bethel Park students earned trophies and qualified for the PA DECA Career Development Conference, scheduled for Feb. 18–20 in Hershey. They will be joined by about 70 additional BPHS students who are preparing written papers and presentations.
First-place winners:
• Sam Bell, Marketing Communications
• Audrey Francis, Principles of Entrepreneurship
• Vince Ollio, Personal Financial Literacy
Second-place winners:
• Aruzhan Akhmetkhali, Business Services Marketing
• Veronica Balkovec, Principles of Entrepreneurship
• Brenden Bashline, Supply Chain Management
• Camdyn Cekus, Hotel & Lodging Management
• Robbie DeVilling and Declan Finnegan, Financial Services Team
• Ava Friday, Human Resources Management
• Jeffrey Rubican, Personal Financial Literacy