Sports & Entertainment Marketing is a thriving business. It’s time to put your passion and love of the game to work. Marketing is very visible and touches everyone. In fact, it is difficult to imagine contemporary life without marketing. For example, in the morning when you dress for school, you put on your Levi jeans, Nike shoes and your American Eagle T-shirt. Before you even leave the house you look at the morning newspaper. One of the local advertisements catches your attention and you make plans to go to the mall after school. At the mall there are many window displays that entice you to enter the retail stores. Marketing, from a company’s point of view, includes all the activities that must occur to form a partnership/exchange between buyers and sellers.

In addition to classroom activities, DECA, an association of marketing students, is a part of your marketing experience. You will learn to compete with other marketing students for the State DECA Competition. Several marketing students from MST have gone on to compete at the national level, some even becoming national winners. These winning DECA students have traveled to Orlando, Detroit, Los Angeles and St. Louis to compete with thousands of DECA students across the U.S. and Canada.

An added bonus for marketing students is the opportunity to get high school credits for your job through the MST cooperative work experience program. Sports & Entertainment Marketing I and II students also have the opportunity to receive three college credits. In addition, scholarships available for DECA members are numerous.