FCPS Students from Fifteen High Schools Win Awards at Virginia DECA Conference, Earn a Trip to DECA International Conference
A total of 203 students from 15 Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) high schools were recognized as competitive event winners at the Virginia DECA State Leadership Conference held in Virginia Beach March 3-5. These students earned the right to compete at the DECA International Career Development Conference April 22-25.
One FCPS student was elected to state office: Shyla Menon of Fairfax High School was elected as vice president of Region 2.
Twenty-three students were named first place winners, 33 students earned second place awards, and 42 students placed third in their events.
Four students received scholarships: Nidha Padakanti from Chantilly High School received the Diane Tremblay Memorial Scholarship; Emma Eismeier from Lake Braddock Secondary School received the Virginia DECA Foundation Scholarship; Madison Judd from Lake Braddock Secondary School received the Elwood Roche Memorial Scholarship; and Camryn Owens from Lake Braddock Secondary School received the Hardees Scholarship.
A complete list of all winners can be found below.
DECA is a career and technical student organization that prepares emerging leaders and entrepreneurs to be college- and career-ready. In the Commonwealth of Virginia, DECA members are enrolled in a marketing education class at their high schools. More information is available online. More information about Virginia DECA is available online.
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| Event | Name | School | Place |
| Automotive Services Marketing Series | Abhinav Vadlamani | Chantilly High School | 2 |
| Business Law and Ethics Team | Eeshan Dandamudi, Nitish Shah | Chantilly High School | 2 |
| Business Services Marketing | Himagnya Elaprolu | Chantilly High School | 5 |
| Financial Services Team | Hengyi Wu, Kevin Xue | Chantilly High School | 7 |
| Retail Merchandising | Katelyn Ruehle | Chantilly High School | 4 |
| Start-Up Business Plan | Vivian Nam, Dorothy Philip | Chantilly High School | 2 |
| Travel & Tourism Marketing Team | Palk Malhi, Katherine Mejia | Fair Oaks Classroom on the Mall | 5 |
| Business Finance Series | Sahithi Rampally | Fairfax High School | 6 |
| Career Development Project | Sarah Hegazy, Sami Moudarres | Fairfax High School | 3 |
| Community Awareness Project | Kiran Ashok, Ronit Manchada | Fairfax High School | 1 |
| Community Giving Project | Riya Menon, Ella Modes | Fairfax High School | 3 |
| Financial Services Team | Charles Barsotti, Jacob Worthen | Fairfax High School | 3 |
| Personal Financial Literacy Event | Thomas Simione | Fairfax High School | 8 |
| Principles of Business Management and Admin | Kai Keo | Fairfax High School | 3 |
| Principles of Business Management and Admin | Kathleen Murray | Fairfax High School | 7 |
| Restaurant and Food Service Management | Fabiyana Mungal | Fairfax High School | 8 |
| Selling - VA Only | Elle Duangmanee | Fairfax High School | 3 |
| Social Media - VA Only | Samantha Murphy | Fairfax High School | 1 |
| Travel & Tourism Marketing Team | Victoria Brown, Lauren Lee | Fairfax High School | 3 |
| Community Giving Project | John Dehn, Matthew Eastham, Neel Mehra | Marshall High School | 2 |
| Financial Consulting Event | Aman Khera | Marshall High School | 5 |
| Principles of Finance | Kaiden Saffer | Marshall High School | 8 |
| Professional Selling Event | Sara Nadkarni | Marshall High School | 1 |
| Quick Service Restaurant Management | Sophia Bongiovi | Marshall High School | 3 |
| Restaurant and Food Service Management | Sydney Chu | Marshall High School | 1 |
| Selling - VA Only | Methuki Kariyawasam | Marshall High School | 2 |
| Sports & Entertainment Marketing Team | Rafaela Herrara, Nya Tefferi | Marshall High School | 6 |
| Sports and Entertainment Operations Research | Alan Yang | Marshall High School | 4 |
| Business Finance Series | Clarise Digamo | Hayfield Secondary School | 2 |
| Principles of Finance | Davina Gyamfi | Hayfield Secondary School | 7 |
| Business Services Operations Research Event | Kyra Corrado, Vienna Deterding | Madison High School | 4 |
| Buying and Merchandising Operations Research | Matthew Fooks | Madison High School | 4 |
| Entrepreneurship Team | Abigail Kaizer, Kate Kaizer | Madison High School | 8 |
| Financial Consulting Event | Katie Littlejohn | Madison High School | 1 |
| Financial Services Team | Lauren Baranowsky, Megan Cannon | Madison High School | 5 |
| Hospitality and Tourism Operations Research | Isabel McCaskey, Hannah Omilan | Madison High School | 4 |
| Hospitality and Tourism Operations Research | Connor Foote, Drake Miller | Madison High School | 5 |
| Hospitality and Tourism Personal Selling | Jane Ferrara | Madison High School | 5 |
| Independent Business Plan | Jake Lynd, Katherine Murray, Marcus Young | Madison High School | 5 |
| Integrated Marketing Campaign - Service | Sophia Balba, Samantha Hicks | Madison High School | 6 |
| International Business Plan | Ashley Wooh, Xianwen(Winnie) Zhang | Madison High School | 5 |
| Principles of Business Management and Admin | Lauren Park | Madison High School | 4 |
| Principles of Finance | Mahmut Inanoglu | Madison High School | 6 |
| Principles of Hospitality and Tourism | Darah Berg | Madison High School | 4 |
| Professional Selling Event | Lauren Calhoun | Madison High School | 5 |
| Quick Service Restaurant Management | Bennett Williams | Madison High School | 8 |
| Business Growth Plan | Daniel Belloni | Lake Braddock Secondary School | 3 |
| Business Growth Plan | Sophia Feazell | Lake Braddock Secondary School | 5 |
| Community Giving Project | Alicia Rebello, Annelisa Rebello | Lake Braddock Secondary School | 1 |
| Financial Literacy Project | Emma Eismeier, Mikayla May | Lake Braddock Secondary School | 3 |
| Hospitality and Tourism Personal Selling | Camryn Owens | Lake Braddock Secondary School | 2 |
| Integrated Marketing Campaign - Product | Bianca Blancaflor, Melanie Dang | Lake Braddock Secondary School | 1 |
| Retail Merchandising | Brooke Duncan | Lake Braddock Secondary School | 6 |
| Entrepreneurship Team | Nicolas Christofferson, Aadil Singh | McLean High School | 1 |
| Hotel and Lodging Management Series | Max Blacksten | McLean High School | 2 |
| Quick Service Restaurant Management | Sebastian Cohen | McLean High School | 2 |
| Apparel & Accessories Marketing Series | Isabel Wang | Oakton High School | 4 |
| Automotive Services Marketing Series | Vinh Tran | Oakton High School | 3 |
| Business Growth Plan | Yige Xu | Oakton High School | 1 |
| Business Law and Ethics Team | Aditi Burra, Ashley Gim | Oakton High School | 4 |
| Business Services Marketing | Iman Chaudhry | Oakton High School | 8 |
| Business Solutions Project | Owen Martin, Brooke O'neil, Noah Toole | Oakton High School | 4 |
| Buying and Merchandising Operations Research | Shradha Gandotra, Zyna Merchant, Vaishnavi Peketi | Oakton High School | 2 |
| Buying and Merchandising Operations Research | Camryn Dileonardo, Ashley Odeh, Stephanie Vinh | Oakton High School | 3 |
| Buying and Merchandising Team | Bianka Korzun, Dylan Vu-gia | Oakton High School | 4 |
| Entrepreneurship Series | Amber Zhang | Oakton High School | 4 |
| Financial Consulting Event | Ziad Bushnaq | Oakton High School | 4 |
| Financial Consulting Event | Tina Gao | Oakton High School | 7 |
| Financial Services Team | Savit Nair, Andrew Taylor | Oakton High School | 1 |
| Franchise Business Plan | Basil Chase, Surya Dineshkumar, Mahir Duneja | Oakton High School | 7 |
| Hospitality and Tourism Operations Research | John Park, Natalie Truong | Oakton High School | 1 |
| Hospitality Services Team Decision Making | Aarav Mohanty, Kavin Trivedi | Oakton High School | 2 |
| Hospitality Services Team Decision Making | Sophia Ainsworth, Julia Chen | Oakton High School | 3 |
| Hotel and Lodging Management Series | Elsa Li | Oakton High School | 5 |
| Human Resource Management | Rachel Liang | Oakton High School | 2 |
| Human Resource Management | Samhita (Samie) Adapa | Oakton High School | 5 |
| Independent Business Plan | Abhi Dangeti, Thomas Hunter, Anushka Saraf | Oakton High School | 2 |
| Independent Business Plan | Michael Flood | Oakton High School | 3 |
| Innovation Plan | Seongjae Weon | Oakton High School | 3 |
| Integrated Marketing Campaign - Event | Richa Mistry, Haley Tintle | Oakton High School | 5 |
| Integrated Marketing Campaign - Product | Brandon Leong, Patrick McEvoy, John Poplawski | Oakton High School | 2 |
| Integrated Marketing Campaign - Product | Emma AlMukhtar, Noah AlMukhtar | Oakton High School | 3 |
| Integrated Marketing Campaign - Service | Caralie Basuel, Catherine Yurko | Oakton High School | 4 |
| International Business Plan | Joanne Jung, Zachary Park, Rebecca Zhang | Oakton High School | 3 |
| International Business Plan | Saanvi Siddhi, Mason Szczesniak | Oakton High School | 4 |
| Marketing Management Team Decision Making | Maya Agarwal, Leena Knepper | Oakton High School | 4 |
| Personal Financial Literacy Event | Ken Zhou | Oakton High School | 1 |
| Personal Financial Literacy Event | Kelsey Martin | Oakton High School | 5 |
| Principles of Marketing | Angela Wadden | Oakton High School | 5 |
| Professional Selling Event | Nicole Nguyen | Oakton High School | 2 |
| Professional Selling Event | Nithya Rajesh | Oakton High School | 6 |
| Quick Service Restaurant Management | Siri Lalukota | Oakton High School | 4 |
| Restaurant and Food Service Management | Hailey Khetan | Oakton High School | 3 |
| Restaurant and Food Service Management | Misha Lal | Oakton High School | 5 |
| Retail Merchandising | Michelle Kwak | Oakton High School | 3 |
| Sales Project | Ethan Piccolo, Natalie Tufts | Oakton High School | 4 |
| Social Media - VA Only | Isabelle Whang | Oakton High School | 2 |
| Start-Up Business Plan | Daniel Chong | Oakton High School | 3 |
| Travel & Tourism Marketing Team | Aditi Yadav, Kenny Yu | Oakton High School | 6 |
| Apparel & Accessories Marketing Series | Valerie Woronicak | Robinson Secondary School | 8 |
| Financial Services Team | Shaan Agarwal, Duykhang Nguyen | Robinson Secondary School | 4 |
| Integrated Marketing Campaign - Service | Natasha Lennon | Robinson Secondary School | 2 |
| Entrepreneurship Series | Ayaan Shaikh | South County High School | 1 |
| Finance Operations Research | Rachel Brockway, Karishma Kumar, Kara Thurasavin | South County High School | 3 |
| Franchise Business Plan | Karina Argueta, Sophia Khoury | South County High School | 3 |
| Integrated Marketing Campaign - Product | Kylie Arnott, Avery Clanton, Campbell Shouse | South County High School | 5 |
| Integrated Marketing Campaign - Product | Samantha Avis, Emmie Caplan, Carly Schipono | South County High School | 6 |
| International Business Plan | Lillian Gilmore, Grace Lathrop | South County High School | 2 |
| International Business Plan | Courtney Mills, Kennedy Rose, Caleb Shirey | South County High School | 7 |
| Marketing Management Team Decision Making | Michael Hess, Riad Khoury | South County High School | 3 |
| Personal Financial Literacy Event | John Shaffer | South County High School | 2 |
| Personal Financial Literacy Event | Brady Degener | South County High School | 4 |
| Principles of Hospitality and Tourism | Annabelle Logan | South County High School | 6 |
| Principles of Marketing | Ava Ellis | South County High School | 1 |
| Sports and Entertainment Marketing Series | Sophie Chaitovitz | South County High School | 6 |
| Start-Up Business Plan | Tiffany Ling, Kaitlin Luong | South County High School | 5 |
| Hospitality and Tourism Operations Research | Lacey Bradshaw, Lillian Gabor, Ashley Wang | South Lakes High School | 3 |
| Financial Consulting Event | Ryan Augustine | Woodson High School | 2 |
| Innovation Plan | Milla Cronin, Katelyn Tran | Woodson High School | 1 |
| Apparel & Accessories Marketing Series | Saereen Ahmed | West Springfield High School | 2 |
| Business Services Marketing | Makdalena Solomon | West Springfield High School | 7 |
| Buying and Merchandising Operations Research | Haille Mendoza, Rhea Sidhu | West Springfield High School | 7 |
| Entrepreneurship Series | Alex Soquar | West Springfield High School | 6 |
| Entrepreneurship Team | Eunice Choe, John Ogden | West Springfield High School | 4 |
| Entrepreneurship Team | Ariana Hill, Olivia Reeves | West Springfield High School | 5 |
| Hospitality and Tourism Personal Selling | Sean Anderson | West Springfield High School | 6 |
| Hospitality Services Team Decision Making | Vishal Green, Ghaleeb Hakim | West Springfield High School | 8 |
| Marketing Communications Series | Edon Zike | West Springfield High School | 5 |
| Business Services Marketing | Shiv Nair | Westfield High School | 1 |
| VA School Based Enterprise Exploring SBEs | Diya Karayi, Sami Mahmoud | Westfield High School | 3 |
