Westford Academy’s Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA) will be moving their preliminary testing for business knowledge from WA to University of Massachusetts (UMass) Lowell during the 2025-2026 school year. The change stems from the national organization's goal of eliminating cheating during...

One of Westford Academy's largest clubs, Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA), is providing senior members with mentor positions this school year to assist in an easier transition from the class into the club for freshman members. DECA is a national organization that aims to prepare students...

The 2024 DECA International Career Development Conference (ICDC) took place in Anaheim, California from April 27 to April 30. At the conference, WA freshmen Rushi Patel and Krisha Gami along with junior Sahil Dua placed in the top 10 of their respective events, returning with awards. Patel and Gami...

The members of Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA) are up and ready for competitions. This year, DECA will be going to Anaheim, California on April 27-30, 2024 for their International Career Development Conference (ICDC).  DECA is a club that teaches and prepares students to be business...

WA seniors Devesh Khamitkar, Adam Wedlake, Griffin Lewis, and Stephen Lewis have become the fifth team of high schoolers in the region to win the UMass Lowell Differencemaker Rocket Pitch Event with their plant based nutritional supplement, "Schwink," on Nov. 29. The competition challenged its participants...

At the 2023 DECA Nationals, 48 WA students attended the DECA International Career Development Conference (ICDC) and competed in 40 different events in Orlando, Florida. With more than 22,000 attendees from across the world, and around 187 to 237 competitors in each event, it is a difficult feat to receive...

After a strong performance at the DECA State Competition on March 9-11 at the Boston Marriott Copley Place, freshmen Eesha Gowda, Haasini Sriraman, Sandeep Sivakumar, and Krish Parmar all advanced to Internationals which will take place on April 22-25 in Orlando, Florida. The four freshmen competed...

The first moment where an award is won, a person would expect the recipient to be crying, smiling, laughing, showing joy on their face. However, this specific moment is different. When junior Landon Chwalek first heard his name announced for his award, he was in utter shock. He couldn't believe at first...

Students and their families will get to watch Comic Hypnotist Frank Santos Jr. perform hypnosis at WA this Friday at 7:00 pm. Tickets bought in advance during lunch cost 10 dollars each and 15 dollars upon entrance. All the proceeds will go directly to the DECA club, the organizers of the event. According...

The effects of COVID-19 at Westford Academy are still lingering in the community and still continue to affect the way extracurriculars compete. DECA and Mock Trial Club are two clubs that were impacted this year because of COVID-related mandates. DECA has changed tremendously since the peak of...

Westford Academy competed at Massachusetts DECA's 61st State Convention from Thursday, February 29th to Saturday, February 29th. For over ten years, WA DECA has had significant successes at both district, state and international level conventions. WA has the biggest DECA chapter in MA with over 400...

This is one of many in the Ghostwriter’s new series of 23 questions. This series will highlight the significance of our faculty and students, and the little things about them that many don’t know. This week, the Ghostwriter had the chance to meet with DECA president and senior Shelly Singhal who...