One hundred and four Hamilton High School DECA members competed in the December 13 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 259 awards including 27 plaques for first through third place overall. Based on competition results, forty-two students will advance to the State Career Development Conference to be held February 23-25 in Lake Geneva.
The following students were recognized for their success in competitive events:
First place winners
- Niall Hunt – Apparel and Accessories Marketing, 3 medals
- Dylan Frankovis – Automotive Services, 1 medal
- Elise Davidson – Marketing Communications, 2 medals
- Shivansh Gautum – Personal Financial Literacy, 3 medals
- Leesha Vanchireddy – Principles of Business Management and Administration, 2 medals
- Sunand Anand Kumar – Principles of Finance, 3 medals
- Aayan Parikh – Principles of Hospitality and Tourism, 2 medals
- Cameron Schilling – Quick Serve Restaurant Management, 3 medals and Economics Excellence, 1 medal
Second place winners
- Arshia Parashar – Apparel and Accessories Marketing, 2 medals
- Vyas Karra – Business Finance, 3 medals
- Aanya Ranasaria – Hotel and Lodging Management, 3 medals
- Siddharth Devtale – Personal Financial Literacy, 3 medals
- Grant Davidson – Principles of Business Management and Administration, 2 medals
- Pranit Arora – Principles of Entrepreneurship, 3 medals
- Vidushi Pandya – Principles of Hospitality and Tourism, 2 medals
- Victoria Tran – Principles of Marketing, 2 medals
- Keerthana Gopi – Sports and Entertainment Marketing, 3 medals
- The team of Abbie Dong and Shaanvi Konda Gopinath – Business Law & Ethics, 3 medals
Third place winners
- Jack McCord – Automotive Services Marketing, 2 medals
- Alex Ghere – Entrepreneurship, 2 medals
- Deeksha Pidikiti – Food Marketing
- Krishiv Badam – Principles of Business Management and Administration, 2 medals
- Yudhister Banda – Principles of Entrepreneurship, 3 medals
- Priyanshi Das – Principles of Hospitality and Tourism, 2 medals
- Saanvi Nalla – Restaurant and Food Service Management, 2 medals
Other award winners
- Maia Dillow – Apparel and Accessories Marketing, 1 medal
- Esha Praveen – Apparel and Accessories Marketing, 3 medals
- Zain Swanton – Apparel and Accessories Marketing, 1 medal
- Anshi Gupta – Business Services Marketing, 1 medal
- Kadin Swanton – Business Services Marketing, 2 medals
- Angelika Bourke – Entrepreneurship, 1 medal
- Sophia Dillow – Entrepreneurship, 1 medal
- Prasunaa Priya Kalyanaraman – Entrepreneurship, 1 medal
- Austin Mathews – Entrepreneurship, 2 medals
- Joe Oberlin – Entrepreneurship, 2 medals
- Maliha Aroush – Hotel and Lodging Management, 1 medal
- Sidney Cruse – Hotel and Lodging Management, 1 medal
- Carson Herrell – Hotel and Lodging Management, 2 medals
- Auden Renaud – Hotel and Lodging Management, 1 medal
- Jishnu Jayesh – Human Resources Management, 1 medal
- Claire Schumacher – Human Resources Management, 1 medal
- Neil Mathur – Marketing Communications, 1 medal
- Kensie Martin – Marketing Communications, 3 medals
- Matthew Olson – Marketing Communications, 1 medal
- Devaj Sokhal – Personal Financial Literacy, 2 medals
- Akshara Appadwedula – Principles of Business Management and Administration, 1 medal
- Anushka Vijay – Principles of Business Management and Administration, 1 medal
- Tanav Allani – Principles of Entrepreneurship, 1 medal
- Divija Korada – Principles of Entrepreneurship, 2 medal
- Ahaan Saxena – Principles of Entrepreneurship, 2 medals
- Aarna Tyagi – Principles of Entrepreneurship, 2 medals
- Chindamani Ramakrishan – Principles of Hospitality and Tourism, 1 medal
- Wyatt Schultz – Principles of Hospitality and Tourism, 2 medals
- Eli Bilstad – Principles of Marketing, 1 medal
- Clements Edward – Principles of Marketing, 4 medals
- Summer Callister – Quick Serve Restaurant Management, 3 medals
- Pavithra Chennakesavula – Quick Serve Restaurant Management, 1 medal
- Chinmayi Swaminathan – Quick Serve Restaurant Management, 3 medals
- Shambhavi Ganesh – Restaurant and Food Service Management, 2 medals
- Olivia Thames – Restaurant and Food Service Management, 3 medals
- Wade Gonzalez – Retail Merchandising, 2 medals
- Mysha Sharief – Retail Merchandising, 2 medals
- Prisha Trivedi – Retail Merchandising, 2 medals
- Yuktha Muthukumar – Sports and Entertainment Marketing, 2 medals
- Suhani Shah – Sports and Entertainment Marketing, 1 medal
- The team of Toby Vera Paez and Henry Xue – Business Law and Ethics, 2 medals
- Angelika Bourke – Economics Excellence, 1 medal