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March 4, 2024

California DECA Dominates Online Events!

Author: California DECA

Hey California DECA! 

We are excited to announce that California DECA has dominated DECA’s Online Events once again this year! 23 of the 36 Western Region teams from both rounds of the Virtual Business Challenge are from California, a record-breaking number! Additionally, we nearly sweeped the Stock Market Game! Out of the 25 Western Region SMG teams moving on to ICDC, 23 out of 25 were from California DECA! We are so proud of all of our members who participated in the virtual events this year and can’t wait to see you all at ICDC! 

Below are our qualifiers!

Stock Market Game

Justin Chen, Aiden Huang, Archana Venkatesan (Monta Vista High School)

Edward Huang, Andrew Au, Sathvik Chundru (The Harker School)

Trisha Subramanyam, Manas Kottakota, Sravik Sajja (Monta Vista High School)

Prisha Balan, Xuyou Jiang, Saran Suresh (Monta Vista High School)

Naren Nair, Avi Bedi (Adrian Wilcox High School)

Ayanuddin Syed, Abhinav Reddy, Nishkith Shankar (Adrian Wilcox High School)

Bhargava Perumalla, Suriya Gnansundar (Dublin High School)

Tyler Rubenstein, Lucas Fluegge, Tommy Heng (Liberty High School)

Jay Thota, Ronit Kapoor, Aarav Desai (Washington High School)

Pranesh Ragu, Matthew Tahir, Ashwin Sriram (Foothill High School)

Mithil Patil, Asmi Sawant, Neel Byrappagari (BASIS Independent Silicon Valley)

Raj Baveje, Aditya Ravi (Washington High School)

Eric Zhou, Talus Leong, Aditi Revanuru (Monta Vista High School)

Shrey Valia, Rohit Naidu (Dublin High School)

Kunal Singh, Archit Deepak, Rishav Mehta (BASIS Independent Silicon Valley)

PRatham Muriki, Tanish Goli, Rohit Mekkoth (Valley Christian High School)

Jyothish Talari (Monta Vista High School)

William Chen, Suhaas Surapaneni, Bretton Lam (BASIS Independent Silicon Valley)

Pharoah Lucasp, Milad Rasoli, Jacob Yuryev (Carlmont High School)

Advaith Anand (Monta Vista High School)

Shrey Mehta, Aryan Singh, Arnav Pophale (Washington High School)

Chandril Banerjee, Parth Samdadiya, Evelyn Wang (Monta Vista High School)

Sarah Yan, Horton Zhu, Siddharth Kambhampati (Monta Vista High School)

VBC Round 1

Accounting: Edward Huang, Sathvik Chundru, Andrew Au (The Harker School)

Accounting: Aviram Jithesh, Ryan Hsu, Aavyan Paramel (Washington High School)

Entrepreneurship: Marcus Tran, Gabriel Fridman, Brendan Zelnis (Carlmont High School)

Fashion: Yiyang Zheng, Aditya Nautiyal (BASIS Independent Silicon Valley)

Hotel Management: Brady Yang, Shivm Manrao, Appala Raju Arisetty (BASIS Independent Silicon Valley)

Hotel Management: Shubh Goel, Rishi Krishnan, Gandharva Naveen (Irvington High School)

Personal Finance: Kush Sharma (Mission San Jose High School)

Restaurant: Anson Lam, Nathan Ko (Mission San Jose High School)

Retail: Kyler Hemupatham (Granada Hills Charter High School)

Sports: Aarav Jagtiani, Prakrit Ramachandran, Siddharth Srinivasan (Mission San Jose High School)

Sports: Aaron Jedrezejek, Josh Lisi, Owen Livesay (Carlmont High School)

VBC Round 2

Accounting: Rohan Ranga, Rishi Ranga, Roshan Ramesh (Washington High School)

Accounting: Emily Tang, Aanika Daftary, Iris Zhang (Valley Christian High School)

Entrepreneurship: Aman Rampure, Sambhav Mehta, Aashrith Bandaru (Washington High School)

Entrepreneurship: Vivek Krovvidi, Asvin Aravindan, Faraz Khan (Washington High School)

Fashion: Matteo Sanvido, Evan Bunin (Carlmont High School)

Fashion: Jonathan Chang, Alan Wang, Bryant Wang (Valley Christian High School)
Hotel Management: David Zhou (BASIS Independent Silicon Valley)

Restaurant: Vivian Zhang, Katie Ha, Rochelle Cao (Valley Christian High School)

Restaurant: Aaditya Jain, Arnav Shah, Vasisht Kartik (Lynbrook High School)

Retail: Alyssa Chen (Granada Hills Charter High School)

Sports: Ester Leng, Saanvi Krishnarajpet, Vihas Uppalapati (Mission San Jose High School)

Sports: Emily Tang, Daisy Zeng, Aanika Daftary (Valley Christian High School)

Congratulations to all of our qualifiers! Good luck at ICDC!

About California DECA
California DECA is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) Career and Technical Student Organization, endorsed by the California Department of Education. With over 4,500 members in 59 schools throughout California, California DECA works to prepare emerging leaders and entrepreneurs in four fields of business: marketing, finance, hospitality, and management. For more information about California DECA, visit www.californiadeca.org.

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