Celebrating DECA success across the district

We are proud to celebrate the outstanding accomplishments of our students and advisors who represented Lake Washington School District (LWSD) and their schools at the DECA State Career Development Conference (SCDC). Their dedication, preparation and professionalism were on full display, resulting in an exceptional showing that reflects the strength of CTE Business & Marketing programs across the district. The event took place at the Meydenbauer Center & Hyatt Regency in Bellevue February 26-28.

Outstanding student achievements

LWSD DECA competitors delivered remarkable results in a highly competitive statewide field, earning recognition across a wide range of events including marketing, finance, hospitality and entrepreneurship.

Districtwide results include:

• 10 First Place finishes
• 19 Second Place finishes
• 13 Third Place finishes
• 142 teams or individual competitors earned finalist or better placements

Reaching finalist status at the state level is a significant accomplishment. The depth and breadth of these results highlight the strong preparation and consistent excellence demonstrated by students across our district.

Pathway to ICDC (International Career Development Conference)

• Students finishing in ninth place or better automatically qualify to compete at ICDC, DECA’s premier international competition.
• Additional finalists may also qualify for ICDC based on the overall quality of their performance and event-specific criteria.

Below is a list of LWSD competitors who finished as Finalists or in the top ten during the event:

Eastlake High School

Advisors: Rachel Schwartz, Joshua Rigtrup, Robert Neville

• Business Law & Ethics Team Decision Making: Mira Asvin, Pranaya Sharma – First Place
• Buying and Merchandising Operations Research: Dakshaya Geenapalli, Krish Jha, Vishnu Venkatesan – First Place
• Food Marketing Series: Misha Singh – First Place
• Principles of Entrepreneurship: Ilkay Aya – First Place
• Entrepreneurship Series: Yastika Chouhan – Second Place
• Entrepreneurship Team Decision Making: Anya Mahesh, Sunehri Nog – Second Place
• Personal Financial Literacy: Jerry Liu – Second Place
• Professional Selling: Vihitha Kumar – Second Place
• Restaurant & Food Service Management Series: Navya Bhandari – Second Place
• Sales Project: Harshit Agrawal, Bharat Dwivedi, Deyansh Sisodia – Second Place
• Sports & Entertainment Marketing Team Decision Making: Stephen Lee, Rishan Ray – Second Place
• Finance Operations Research: Aryan Bansal, Aariv Doshi, Ashwath Rajagopalan – Third Place
• Franchise Business Plan: Rohan Kalra, Yuvan Krishnamurthy, Ajay Raghavan – Third Place
• Hospitality & Tourism Professional Selling: Dhruv Dsouza – Third Place
• Personal Financial Literacy: Madhoha Yellamareddygari – Third Place
• Retail Merchandizing Series: Niha Dinesh – Third Place
• Hospitality Services Team Decision Making: Ioana Luican, Brooke Sevigny – Fourth Place
• Restaurant & Food Service Management Series: Liam Holzer – Fourth Place
• Marketing Communications Series: Vedanshi Bhateja – Fifth Place
• Sports and Entertainment Marketing Operations Research: Shravya Maloo, Jia Sharma – Fifth Place
• Start-Up Business Plan: Aarohi Jaygude, Sanaya Verma – Fifth Place
• Business Law & Ethics Team Decision Making: Megha Shankri, Anagha Taneja – Sixth Place
• Food Marketing Series: Vaishnavi Iyer – Sixth Place
• Human Resources Management Series: Anshu Kopparapu – Sixth Place
• Sports & Entertainment Marketing Team Decision Making: Arnav Bharadwaj, Chirag Nijhawan – Sixth Place
• Apparel & Accessories Marketing Series: Saanvi Agarwal – Seventh Place
• Business Services Marketing Services: Anika Prakash – Seventh Place
• Business Solutions Project: Ever Huang, Prisha Sasikumar– Seventh Place
• Food Marketing Series: Mihika Ashok – Seventh Place
• Integrated Marketing Campaign-Service: Shravya Maloo, Jia Sharma –– Seventh Place
• Personal Financial Literacy: Vedaant Kulkarni – Seventh Place
• Entrepreneurship Team Decision Making: Dhruva Sudarshan, Eddy Wang – Eighth Place
• Hotel & Lodging Management Series: Amrita Prasanth – Eighth Place
• Marketing Management Team Decision Making: Uzair Khurrum, Pranav Tripathi – Eighth Place
• Professional Selling: Sahana Prakash – Eighth Place
• Entrepreneurship Team Decision Making: Dharini Bysani, Aashi Gupta – Ninth Place
• Franchise Business Plan: Diya Kalki, Anvi Pahwa – Ninth Place
• Integrated Marketing Campaign/Event: Laasya Jonnavithula, Amulya Rotte – Ninth Place
• Retail Merchandizing Series: Akash Unni – Ninth Place
• Accounting Applications Series: Srinjay Mitra Mustafi – Tenth Place
• Principles of Finance: Inchara Aradhya – Tenth Place
• Restaurant & Food Service Management Series: Kavya Sharma – Tenth Place
• Business Services Operations Research: Ishaan Bondre, Surabhi Koundinya, Rianna Mohindra – Finalist
• Career Development Project: Richa Gawande, Anshu Kopparapu, Anoushka Sane – Finalist
• Community Awareness Project: Shiven Abhyanker, Dylan Gautham, Anhad Mahal – Finalist
• Community Giving Project: Tanisha Damania, Pranaya Sharma, Eshaan Verma – Finalist
• Financial Consulting: Rachel D’souza – Finalist
• Financial Literacy: Anu Arun, Aashi Uppal – Finalist
• Hospitality and Tourism Operations Research: Siddharth Arun, Rohan Sengupta, Cael Weber – Finalist
• Human Resources Management Series: Bharat Dwivedi – Finalist
• Human Resources Management Series: Rianna Mohindra – Finalist
• Independent Business Plan: Girvan Bora – Finalist
• Integrated Marketing Campaign/Product: Eric Huang, Jerry Yang – Finalist
• International Business Plan: Atharv Kale – Finalist
• Marketing Communications Series: Fayha Yunus – Finalist
• Personal Financial Literacy: Mayara Vijay – Finalist
• Professional Selling: Simar Kaur – Finalist
• Sales Project: Saanvi Agarwal, Anika Prakash, Kavya Sharma – Finalist
• Sports & Entertainment Marketing Operations: Advait Wahi, Lakshya Wahi – Finalist
• Sports & Entertainment Marketing Series: Richa Gawande – Finalist
• Start-Up Business Plan: Salma Elbassuoni, Aarya Pathak, Avni Sanghi – Finalist

Juanita High School

   Advisors: Jennifer Harris, Sarah Rohm

• Principles of Business Management & Administration: Kaeden Woodhead – First Place
• Principles of Entrepreneurship: Max Linton – Second Place
• Innovation Plan: Akshat Khatnani – Sixth Place
• Integrated Marketing Campaign Event: Lindsay Chow – Sixth Place
• Sales Project: Dylan Dimayuga, Anika Kamath, Sanjana Lingamallu – Eighth Place
• Career Development Project:
  • Rasa Dastbaz, Joe Fairchild, Charlie Pepper - Finalist
  • Michael Mertel, Alex Sanderson, Cameron Serdar - Finalist
• Start-Up Business Plan: Saarth Bhargava, Lincoln Fiala, Aarush Kasliwal – Finalist

Lake Washington High School

   Advisors: Chase Fetters, Carl Green, Sarah Fradkin, Zachary Grundl

• Business Finance Series: Zohaib Lakhani – Second Place
• Community Awareness Project: Maya Bacioiu, Cora Ledrick, Shailja Tyagi – Second Place
• Franchise Business Plan: Reyansh Jajoo, Saanvi Tiwari, Dmitriy Yugay – Second Place
• Human Resources Management Series: Jiaqing Kang – Second Place
• Business Growth Plan: Moksh Doshi, Ayaan Yadav – Third Place
• Hospitality Services Team Decision Making: Defne Caglar, Kaelyn Campbell – Third Place
• Principles of Finance: Rasika Seshadri – Third Place
• Principles of Marketing: Avyukta Gella – Third Place
• Sports & Entertainment Marketing Team Decision Making: Brooke Gardner, Logan Schmidt – Fourth Place
• Business Solutions Project: Neha Dhariwal, Tanushi Kuchangi – Fifth Place
• Integrated Marketing Campaign/Service: Isabella Guan, Sloane Paulsell – Fifth Place
• Professional Selling: Weilson Geng – Fifth Place
• Principles of Entrepreneurship: William Guthrie – Fifth Place
• Travel & Tourism Team Decision Making: Viet Cao Minh, Jerry Guo – Fifth Place
• Business Solutions Project: Jiaqing Kang, Ines Lopes Costa – Sixth Place
• Buying and Merchandising Operations Research: Nithin Balamurugan, Kushal Gurram, Anay Singh – Sixth Place
• International Business Plan: Vaishnavi Balakrishnan – Sixth Place
• Business Finance Series: Naina Jayaswal – Eighth Place
• Personal Financial Literacy: Isabelle Hepler – Eighth Place
• International Business Plan: Anushka Kulkarni, Sudeeshna Nadamala – Ninth Place
• Principals of Hospitality and Tourism: Vivaan Verma – Ninth Place
• Business Growth Plan: Varshith Reddy Satti – Finalist
• Community Awareness Project: William Callahan, Zohaib Lakhani, Amelie Madison – Finalist
• Hotel & Lodging Management Series: Leo Scott – Finalist
• Innovation Plan: Oliver Jungles, Akhil Kalla – Finalist
• Integrated Marketing Campaign: Aria Edery, Tanishka Putta – Finalist
• Integrated Marketing Campaign-Service: Ethan Morris, Elias Ng – Finalist
• Principles of Marketing: Salma Arrabi – Finalist

Redmond High School

  Advisors: Amber Benoit, Michael Finley, Angela Lovas, Olivia Sanabria

• Accounting Applications Series: Vishnu Vijeyanandh – First Place
• Buying & Merchandising Team Decision Making: Amy Lu, Baohui Wang – First Place
• Entrepreneurship Series: Anahadh Multani – First Place
• Finance Operations Research: Eva Sharma – First Place
• Accounting Applications Series: Ella Xu – Second Place
• Business Law & Ethics Team Decision Making: Aditi Karthikeyan, Anvitha Sagiraju – Second Place
• Career Development Project: Jayden He, Aishani Kar, Anson Lee – Second Place
• Finance Operations Research: Navya Bhandari, Aditi Karthikeyan, Anvitha Sagiraju – Second Place
• Independent Business Plan: Advik Sagiraju – Second Place
• Start-Up Business Plan: Darshika Nair, Aditi Ramkumar, Shreya Thakre – Second Place
• Travel & Tourism Team Decision Making: Emma Amodio, Suha Mandadi – Second Place
• Accounting Applications Series: Parthiv Mothipati – Third Place
• Integrated Marketing Campaign/Product: Rehet Kapoor, Siri Mutalik Desai – Third Place
• Restaurant & Food Service Management Series: Namit Jose – Third Place
• Sports & Entertainment Marketing Team Decision Making: Theodore Chen, Aarav Somaiya – Third Place
• Buying & Merchandising Team Decision Making: Sutej Mandadi, Adarsh Prasad – Fourth Place
• Travel & Tourism Team Decision Making: Tanvi Kulkarni, Anya Mehta – Fourth Place
• Community Giving Project: Oliver Basch, Stephanie Chen – Fifth Place
• Hospitality & Tourism Professional Selling: Darshika Vaideeswaran – Fifth Place
• Business Services Marketing Services: Nova Marcroft – Sixth Place
• Human Resources Management Series: Aayona Pattanaik – Seventh Place
• Sports & Entertainment Marketing Team Decision Making: Eren Egilmez, Sahdah Sivam Narayanan – Seventh Place
• Sports & Entertainment Marketing Operations: Raj Deivashankar, Siyam Faruque, Rishab Nidadavolu – Seventh Place
• Integrated Marketing Campaign/Service: Aditi Patel – Eighth Place
• Restaurant & Food Service Management Series: Swetha Mandaleeka – Eighth Place
• Accounting Applications Series: Isha Goyal – Ninth Place
• Career Development Project: Nicole Cheng, Abigail Li – Ninth Place
• Personal Financial Literacy: Faith Mcritchie – Ninth Place
• Principles of Hospitality and Tourism: Nitya Sayala – Tenth Place
• Accounting Applications Series: Masab Khateeb – Finalist
• Business Finance Series: Advik Sagiraju – Finalist
• Financial Consulting: Rahul Madhan – Finalist
• Financial Consulting: Mariann Roberto – Finalist
• Hospitality Services Team Decision Making: Anya Joshi, Ayumi Joshi – Finalist
• Innovation Plan: Advaitha Jain, Avani Sharma – Finalist
• Integrated Marketing Campaign/Service: Ananya Gokhale, Saavitri Gupta, Isha Sehgal – Finalist
• Marketing Management Team Decision Making: Ishan Agrawal, Aahad Ali – Finalist
• Personal Financial Literacy: Brady Holt – Finalist
• Quick Service Restaurant Management Series: Stephanie Chen – Finalist
• Sports & Entertainment Marketing Team Decision Making: Maxwell Makagon, Isabella Silverman – Finalist
• Sports & Entertainment Marketing Team Decision Making: Aarav Attre, Arvind Srinivasan – Finalist
• Washington Educators of Business and Marketing (WE-BAM) scholarship: Rehet Kapoor