The Apex High School chapter of marketing student association DECA returned home with a heap of honors from the group’s International Competition last spring in Salt Lake City.

Winning International Awards of Excellence were Laura Brockington and Shelby Wilt and Tim Merithew and Zach Gadwah in the Advertising Campaign competition; Kyle May and Mark Tate in Creative Marketing; Chris Denison in Entrepreneurship Written; Dipali Aphale and Karen Cheng in Finance Research; Alia Capone in Hospitality & Tourism Promotion; Katie Godfrey, Megan Gravley and Sydney Snedeker in Learn & Earn; and Lena McCord and Erica Gilarranz in Sports & Entertainment Promotion.

Kyle and Mark won third place internationally for their creative marketing plan for The Performance Academy, and Katie, Megan and Sydney won first place internationally for their Learn & Earn project for the Peak City Gala of Hope, which benefitted the V Foundation for Cancer Research and was profiled on the Thumbs Up page earlier this year.