Katherine Smith, a 2021 graduate of Hamilton Heights High School, is the recipient of the 2021 DECA Emerging Leader Honor Award.
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This award recognizes students studying marketing, finance, hospitality, and management for being an academically prepared, community oriented, professionally responsible, experienced leader through participation in DECA.
The award recipient must be a DECA member in his or her senior year of high school with a cumulative grade point average of 3.2 or better for each of the high school semesters. This is Hamilton Heights’ first year as a DECA chapter and is led by chapter advisor and business teacher Julie Oelschlager. Katherine is the daughter of Rick and Sue Smith of Cicero.
DECA is a career and technical student organization composed of more than 228,000 students who are interested in careers in marketing, entrepreneurship, finance, hospitality or 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.