One hundred and five Hamilton High School DECA members competed in the December 14 Southeastern DECA Career Development Conference at Case High School in Racine. DECA prepares emerging leaders and entrepreneurs for careers in marketing, finance, hospitality and management. Collectively, the students earned 175 awards including 30 plaques for first through third place overall. Based on competition results, forty-three students will advance to the State Career Development Conference to be held February 24-26 in Lake Geneva.
The following students were recognized for their success in competitive events:
First place winners
- Derek Zhang – Food Marketing, 3 medals
- Elise Davidson – Marketing Communications, 3 medals
- John Baker – Personal Financial Literacy, 3 medals
- Esha Praveen – Principles of Business Management and Administration, 3 medals
- Yuktha Muthukumar – Principles of Finance, 3 medals
- Eesha Kothinti – Principles of Hospitality and Tourism, 2 medals
- Vyas Karra – Quick Serve Restaurant Management, 3 medals
- Madeline Yingst – Restaurant and Food Service Management, 1 medal
- Natalie Olson – Sports and Entertainment Marketing, 3 medals
- The team of Alex Yan and Raj Ramanathan – Entrepreneurship, 2 medals
- The team of Jack Lamm and Aadhitya Balaji – Marketing Management, 3 medals
Second place winners
- Karthik Anem – Apparel and Accessories Marketing, 2 medals
- Shivansh Gautam – Business Services Marketing, 3 medals
- Hailey Stubler – Business Finance, 3 medals
- Joe Oberlin – Entrepreneurship, 2 medals
- Aanya Ranasaria – Hotel and Lodging Management, 3 medals
- Jishnu Jayesh – Human Resources Management, 3 medals
- Divya Senthil – Personal Financial Literacy, 2 medals
- Chinmayi Swaminathan – Principles of Hospitality and Tourism, 1 medal
- Varsh Vijjapu – Retail Merchandising, 2 medals
- Alex Yan – Economics Excellence, 2 medals
Third place winners
- Arshia Parashar – Apparel and Accessories Marketing, 3 medals
- Dylan Elberson – Personal Financial Literacy, 2 medals
- Paul Steephen – Principles of Business Management and Administration, 1 medal
- Siddharth Devtale – Principles of Finance, 2 medals
- Niall Hunt – Principles of Hospitality and Tourism, 2 medals
- Summer Callister – Quick Serve Restaurant Management, 3 medals
- Hailey Stubler – Economics Excellence, 2 medals
Other award winners
- Vihaan Kulkarni – Apparel and Accessories Marketing, 2 medals
- Zain Swanton – Apparel and Accessories Marketing, 3 medals
- Suchir Siddineni – Automotive Services Marketing, 2 medals
- Keerthana Gopi – Business Services Marketing, 1 medal
- Alex Catalano – Entrepreneurship, 1 medal
- Shambhavi Ganesh – Entrepreneurship, 2 medals
- Alex Ghere – Entrepreneurship, 1 medal
- Kaviyan Jayalaksshme Srinivasan – Entrepreneurship, 2 medals
- Elijah Karnthaler – Entrepreneurship, 1 medal
- Tejasi Hublikar – Food Marketing, 2 medals
- Landon Seymour – Food Marketing, 1 medal
- Dylan Frankovis – Human Resources Management, 2 medals
- Amritha Nair – Human Resources Management, 1 medal
- Cameron Schilling – Human Resources Management, 1 medal
- Mysha Sharief – Human Resources Management, 2 medals
- Akshara Sivakumar – Human Resources Management, 2 medals
- Deekshitha Premchand – Principles of Business Management and Administration, 1 medal
- Sophia Dillow – Principles of Entrepreneurship, 1 medal
- Prasunaa Priya Kalyanaraman – Principles of Entrepreneurship, 1 medal
- Austin Mathews – Principles of Entrepreneurship, 2 medals
- Matheus Prado De Jesus – Principles of Finance, 1 medal
- Devaj Sokhal – Principles of Finance, 1 medal
- Sidney Cruse – Principles of Hospitality and Tourism, 1 medal
- Natalie Marmet – Principles of Hospitality and Tourism, 1 medal
- Deeksha Pidikiti – Principles of Hospitality and Tourism, 1 medal
- Nate Seboe – Principles of Hospitality and Tourism, 1 medal
- Brijesh Ganesh Kumar – Principles of Marketing, 2 medals
- Wade Gonzalez – Principles of Marketing, 1 medal
- Anshi Gupta – Principles of Marketing, 2 medals
- Neil Mathur – Principles of Marketing, 1 medal
- Megha Patil – Principles of Marketing, 1 medal
- Suhani Shah – Principles of Marketing, 2 medals
- Kadin Swanton – Principles of Marketing, 1 medal
- Brayden Vergin – Principles of Marketing, 1 medal
- Pia Seifert – Quick Serve Restaurant Management, 1 medal
- Maliha Aroush – Restaurant and Food Service Management, 1 medal
- Abbie Dong – Restaurant and Food Service Management, 1 medal
- Saanvi Nalla – Restaurant and Food Service Management, 1 medal
- Olivia Thames – Restaurant and Food Service Management, 2 medals
- Luci Hauser – Retail Merchandising, 1 medal
- Rohan Nuthi – Retail Merchandising, 2 medals
- The team of Rubani Roy and Pavi Chennakesavula – Hospitality Services, 1 medal
- The team of James Patterson and Lukas King – Sports and Entertainment Marketing, 3 medals
- The team of Tate Webb and Zen Nagao – Travel and Tourism, 1 medal
- The team of Ben LaCroix and Max Miller – Travel and Tourism, 1 medal
- The team of Selina Waller and Lilia Rademaker – Travel and Tourism, 1 medal
- The team of Lucy Vernon and Kaleigh Vincent – Travel and Tourism, 1 medal
- Karthik Anem – Economics Excellence, 1 medal
- Ben LaCroix – Economics Excellence, 1 medal
- Divya Senthil – Economics Excellence, 1 medal