{"id":36341,"date":"2026-05-31T23:04:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T23:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/?p=36341"},"modified":"2026-06-01T19:11:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:11:51","slug":"cmc-cwc-fund-whs-team-to-attend-deca-national-competition-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/?p=36341","title":{"rendered":"CMC &#038; CWC Fund WHS Team to Attend DECA National Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_36342\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36342\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36342\" src=\"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/9.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/9-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36342\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Back row, John Clark, Trustee of the College Men&#8217;s Club of Westfield, and Susan Kolwalenko, President of the College Women&#8217;s Club of Westfield. Front row, WHS students Caroline Sahm and Vedant Iyer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Westfield College Men\u2019s Club (CMC) and the Westfield College Women\u2019s Club (CWC) are pleased to announce that they jointly funded Westfield High School\u2019s DECA team to attend DECA\u2019s 2026 National Competition held in Atlanta, Georgia, from April 25-29. Each Westfield college club provided half of the $1,500 sponsorship for the WHS chapter to compete in this National event.<\/p>\n<p>DECA, formerly known as the Distributive Education Clubs of America, is a non-profit organization of 300,000 members that prepares high school and college students for careers in marketing, finance, hospitality, and management. 40 WHS DECA chapter members qualified for the earlier New Jersey State Conference. This is the second year that WHS has qualified for the DECA national conference. On the first day of competition, they competed in the exam portion of the event, and on the second day, in a role-playing challenge.<\/p>\n<p>CMC Trustee John Clark and CWC President Susan Kolwalenko presented the $1,500 sponsorship check to two students representing WHS in the DECA National Conference at an event at WHS. Accepting the sponsorship check on behalf of WHS\u2019s DECA chapter were Vedant Iyer and Caroline Sahm, who both attended the National DECA Conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Westfield College Men\u2019s Club (CMC) and the Westfield College Women\u2019s Club (CWC) are pleased to announce that they jointly funded Westfield High School\u2019s DECA team to attend DECA\u2019s 2026 National Competition held in Atlanta, Georgia, from April 25-29. Each Westfield college club provided half of the $1,500 sponsorship for the WHS chapter to compete [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":36342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"post_flags":[],"class_list":["post-36341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-westfield-local"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36465,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36341\/revisions\/36465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36341"},{"taxonomy":"post_flag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fpost_flags&post=36341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}