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2018 Central Region Leadership Conference

Michigan DECA is pleased to be hosting the 2018 Central Regional Leadership Conference in Detroit on November 16 to 18 at the Detroit Marriott Renaissance Center.  The conference is being designed to offer fast-paced activities that will motivate your members understand of marketing, management and entrepreneurship and to increase their knowledge of DECA activates and competitive events.
 
To help keep you informed of the latest plans for the conference and to assist with the promotion, we will be sending a weekly eBlast to spark your interest and to keep you informed of all of the conference activities.  This eBlast shows what press from around the world is saying about Detroit.  Next week will highlight major aspects of the conference.


Please contact  your Chartered Association Advisor to register for the conference.

CRLC 2018 Tour Options
 
CRLC 2018 is pleased to announce that we have arranged for several different tour options for conference delegate participation.  Some explore business and the culture of Detroit, some are great team building activities and some provide for fun activities for chapters to participate in.  There will be Friday pre-conference tours for chapters that arrive early, and also Saturday afternoon tours.  We will open the window to order tickets on October 1st.  Information on ordering them will be available at www.crdeca.org.  Pricing for most tours will range between $10.00 and $15.00 per person.  Transportation will be provided to locations that are not within a couple of blocks of the hotel.
The Motown Museum www.motownmuseum.org
Also referred to as "Hitsville USA" for its iconic sign, the Motown Museum is a small shingle-clad house that was occupied from 1957 to 1972 by the studio where records of the "Motown sound" were produced. Visitors can see the actual recording studio where Marvin Gaye and others produced hit songs and the apartment where Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr. lived with his family. The museum chronicles the history of the recording studio and the historic days of Detroit's rise to fame as the birthplace of some of the biggest hits of all time.
The Henry Ford Museum www.thehenryford.org
Step into a world where past innovations fuel the imagination of generations to come. A vibrant exploration of genius in all its forms, Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation allows you to experience the strides of America’s greatest minds while fully immersing yourself in their stories. Step inside the bus where Rosa Parks took a stand by taking a seat. Play pilot as you explore flight innovations, starting with the Wright brothers' achievements, or make yourself at home inside Buckminster Fuller’s circular Dymaxion House. Put yourself in the place of the movers and shakers who blazed the trail to where we stand today. And in doing so, discover your own path.
The Ford Rouge Factory Tour
www.thehenryford.org/visit/ford-rouge-factory-tour
Pop open the hood on game-changing technology, sustainable design and sheer American grit at America’s greatest manufacturing experience. Get an inside look at the making of America’s most iconic truck, the Ford F-150, and immerse yourself in modern manufacturing’s most progressive concepts. Experience the awe-inspiring scale of a real factory floor as you rev up your inner engineer. This is where big ideas gain momentum.
Detroit Innovation Tour
www.detroitexperiencefactory.org
Detroit is full of innovation and inspiration and during this two hour walking tour you’ll see how those themes are woven throughout the city.  We will take you inside some of Detroit’s most innovative businesses where you will have the opportunity to meet the doers that are inspiring people near and far.  This will be an outdoor activity.
Escape the Room Detroit
www.escapetheroom.com/detroit
What makes this such an incredible experience? To succeed you must work together. You must communicate.  You must come together as a team. The lessons you learn here will stay with you for a long time to come.  At the end, a trained host will evaluate your team's performance and share valuable insights with each member. Who has exhibited leadership skills? Who was the critical thinker? Who figured out the toughest puzzle? No other escape room offers this amazing post-show assessment.
Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History www.thewright.org  
The Wright Museum has for over half a century been a leading institution dedicated to the African American experience. Their mission is to open minds and change lives through the exploration and celebration of African American history and culture. The vision is of a world in which the adversity and achievement of African American history inspire everyone toward greater understanding, acceptance and unity! The museum houses over 35,000 artifacts and archival materials and is home to the Blanche Coggin Underground Railroad Collection, Harriet Tubman Museum Collection, Coleman A. Young Collection and the Sheffield Collection, a repository of documents of the labor movement in Detroit.
The Detroit Historical Museum www.detroithistorical.org
Signature Exhibitions and permanent installations that showcase more than 300 years of our city's rich history. Five new, permanent exhibitions debuted in 2012: the Gallery of Innovation, the Allesee Gallery of Culture, the Kid Rock Music LabLegends Plaza, and Detroit: The Arsenal of Democracy. Permanent exhibitions include the beloved Streets of Old Detroit, Doorway to Freedom: Detroit and the Underground, America's Motor City and Frontiers to Factories: Detroiters at Work, 1701-1901 exhibitions. 
Downtown Detroit Scavenger Hunt www.detroitexperiencefactory.org
Team building doesn’t get much better than this; teams of 3 or 4 will be given clues and they will have two hours to scour downtown Detroit to find the answers. Participants will not only have a great time, but they’ll learn about what Detroit has to offer too. Whether you have been here your whole life or just arrived, you will discover Detroit like never before.  This will be an outdoor activity.
Edsel & Eleanor Ford House www.fordhouse.org
Edsel & Eleanor Ford House tells the story of the home life of a prominent American family. The Ford family were cultural, social and economic leaders in an era of great optimism, as well as a turbulent time of economic depression and world war. Edsel, the only child of Henry Ford, and his wife Eleanor, were nationally prominent and they owned more than one house, but Southeast Michigan was their home. Here they built their final residence along the shores of Lake St. Clair, at a place known locally as Gaukler Pointe. Their impressive yet unpretentious home is where they raised and nurtured their four children - Henry II, Benson, Josephine and William - in a safe and loving environment. It reflects their love of family as well as their mutual passion for art and quality design.

When Eleanor died in 1976 at the age of 80, the Detroit Free Press noted, "Mrs. Ford's greatest gift to the public, indeed, her greatest legacy, is her home, which she had transferred to a trust with the request that it be used for the benefit of the public." With this final act of generosity, which Eleanor Ford included in her will, this home and furnishings remain intact, as a window to the past, and to enrich the lives of future generations.
Detroit Institute of Arts Museum www.dia.org
The DIA's collection is among the top six in the United States, with over 66,000 works. The foundation was laid by William Valentiner, who was director from 1924 to 1945 and acquired many important works that established the framework of today's collections. Among his notable acquisitions are Mexican artist Diego Rivera's Detroit Industry fresco cycle, which Rivera considered his most successful work, and Vincent van Gogh's Self-Portrait, the first Van Gogh painting to enter a U.S. museum collection. A hallmark of the DIA is the diversity of the collection. In addition to outstanding American, European, Modern and Contemporary, and Graphic art, the museum holds significant works of African, Asian, Native American, Oceanic, Islamic, and Ancient art. In 2000, the DIA established the General Motors Center for African American Art as a curatorial department in order to broaden the museum's collection of African American art.
It's GO time Highlights
Each week we will highlight three things that you can see, do and dine while at the conference.  View our past emails here


See:  Campus Martius
Downtown Detroit’s urban oasis, Campus Martius Park, turns to a winter wonderland every year in mid-November when the ice rink opens. Following the November 16, 2018 tree lighting, when thousands of Detroiters and suburbanites meet in the park to see the Christmas tree all aglow, skate and keep toasty with some warm grub through the winter season. Day and evening hours let you chose the perfect time for everyone to practice their figure eights or experiment their very first glides.

 
Do:  Shop at Nike
Selling a range of Nike athletic footwear, apparel and accessories for all ages, The NIKE store is right near Campus Martius Park in the heart of downtown Detroit, directly across from the groundbreaking Hudson site. Stop by on your way to breakfast at the Hudson Café or lunch at Calexico.


Dine:  Calexico 
Calexico is a small town on the border of California and Mexico. Take a step south and you’re in Mexicali; a step north, Calexico. Everything is a hybrid: the people, the language, and especially the food. What started as a set up shop in Soho has now become a restaurant in a couple major cities, including Detroit! Calexico is the place to go if you're craving some delicious calexican cuisine.
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