Truman
High School Sara Sherazi is one of the 12 students from Michigan to win the
emerging Leader Honor Award for 2018.
Sara
Sherazi started in the vocational marketing program when she was a sophomore in
high school. She has completed the marketing program and continued through her
senior year with advancing to the highest level. She took and passed all
marketing classes with A+’s and joined the DECA club.
Sara
is a responsible, highly intelligent individual, according to her marketing instructor, Carly Lundgren-Barnard In addition, to good grades
and behavior in class she also has proven to be a leader. She is currently in
the advanced independent study class for marketing and is the school store
manager, DECA president, and a District 5 representative on the Michigan DECA
district council.
She
was student of the month 206-17 school year and 2017-18 school year. She also
is secretary of student council and National Honor Society, member of the
National Technical Honor Society, and is currently writing articles that are
published in DECA Direct magazine as a social media correspondent. www.decadirect.org.
For
her sophomore year DECA project, she put together a marketing research project
for the hospitality and tourism event. She conducted research studies, wrote a
30-page paper, and put together visual aides to present her research to a judge
at the district and state level. She is one of the first sophomores I have ever
had make it to the state level.
For
her junior year she was voted our vice president and for her DECA project, she
helped create and start a new business in our school store. She is successful
in running a printing company in our school. She helped order and put together
the equipment necessary to get the business started and she now creates the
products for customers using Variquest software and print shop. Her creativity
and initiative to go above and beyond for this business has proven to be a
profitable one.
She
competed at the district and state level winning medals for her advertising
campaign on this print company for DECA. She was part of a group that were the
first students from Truman High School to ever attend the International Career
Development Conference in Anaheim, California. At our end of the year banquet
she was crowned DECA queen, most likely to succeed, most likely to own her own
business, and most creative.
For
her senior year she was voted president and for her DECA project she will
compete in the Entrepreneurship Promotional Plan campaign. Sara put together a
project where she found target markets that would benefit from learning an
entrepreneurship curriculum. She put together a week’s worth of lesson plans
where she successfully taught her lesson plans to our students in the
physically or otherwise handicap program (POHI), our PAES program for
alternative education, second graders at Blair Moody Elementary school, and our
business and marketing classes.
Over
the course of two months she educated over 300 students on entrepreneurship.
She designed the lessons, the activities, included technology, and taught them
to her target market. Her lessons were engaging and interactive. She will
attend the district, state, and national competitions this year competing with
this project.
In
addition, to her own DECA projects she helps plan and organize community
service events and chapter activities for our club as a whole. She helps others
prepare for competition and she leads our club to a successful membership. She
was integral in the process of our three major chapter campaigns; global
entrepreneurship week, promotion campaign, and community service campaign. For each
of these campaigns there are numerous activities and hours of volunteering and
Sara is leading them all.
Below
are her two DECA Idea Challenge videos taking part in the challenge and winning
Truman High Schools entries, along with the articles from DECA Direct one that
she wrote and one that names her as recipient of the emerging leader honor.
What
I Learned At Michigan DECA Fall Leadership Conference
Here
are just a few of the pieces of advice I gained at the Michigan DECA leadership
conference.
DECA
Idea Challenge 2016 The Jingle Bell Team - YouTube
Jingle
Bell Team Bottle Bell for Deca Idea Challenge 2016
DECA
Idea Challenge 2017 // Band-A-Pot - YouTube
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