More than 200 District 196 high school students qualified to compete at state business conferences in March.
DECA, Inc. is an international association of high school and college students and teachers of marketing, management and entrepreneurship, finance, hospitality, and marketing sales and service.
DECA State Qualifiers
The DECA state qualifying event was held in January. All totaled, 176 District 196 students qualified for the DECA State Conference held in March,
Rosemount High School students Kiera Anderson, Roy Anderson, Sophie Androff, Kevin Anil, Annika Arlandson, Lydia Atkinson, Sylvia Atkinson, Dwyer Ball, Reid Barrett, Taylor Buck, Charles Burke, Abbie Caffrey, Kaitlyn Calhoun, Ethan Cenatus, Andrew Charpentier, Brooklyn Childs, Levi Cinnamo, Chris Collins, Isabella Dahling, Olivia Danner, Logan Dy, Ahmed Elgali, Maxwell Ellis, Margaret Erickson, Abby Essler, Alyssa Fitzgerald, Melia Forster, Estella Garcia, Nicholas Garnsworthy, Abigail Haroldson, Cindy Harvey, Isaac Hegy, Madelyn Helgren, Lewis Hellman, Clair Hendrickson, Madelyn Heusinkveld, Braxton Holder, Amelle Holmen, Savannah Iverson, Anushka Jacob, Jack Japel, Rebecca John, Ella Johnson, Ian Johnson, Zoe Juncker, Gracie Kasper, Alaina Kass, Jacques Kemp, Cooper Kent, Torgeson Ketterling, Kyli Knutson, Max Kowalski, Finley Kuhn, Ruby Kuhn, Sarah Labarere, Kayla Langstraat, Callie Lanzen, Sam Latzke, Emma Launstein, Carm Leary, Bailey Lemaniak, Jack Lenmark, Calista Leslie, Benny Lin, Brian Lin, Evan Lipke Joseph Mackinac, Preksha Manjunath, Gianna Marchese, Ireland McDermott, Brooke McDevitt, Roselyn Meier, Grace Mensink, Luke Mensink, Wyatt Miller, Brady Molenaar, Drew Molenaar, Eli Moore, Owen Moore, Caroline Mulrooney, Trent Nourot, Lily Nowlin, Alexis Olson, Blake Olson, Clara Olson, Scarlett Palm, Laasya Pandari, Sujit Penmasta, Gabrielle Petersen, Jacob Phillips, Molly Pitzen, Jonathan Plomski, Lillian Polikowsky, Eva Pribyl, Isabella Puccinelli, Max Raimondo, Rachel Raimondo, Mason Rapp, Reece Rasmussen, Grant Reitsma, Kyla Resendez, Alyse Riley, Addison Ronayne, Levi Rost, Samuel Scott, Cole Seepersaud, John Shields, Noelle Shields, Payton Sickel, Ahmed Siddiqui, Gyn Sluka, Teagan Standly, Libbi Stone, Max Strebel, Kylie Swansson, Cashton Talcott, Mhari Telfer, Arvind Thiagarajan, Sophie Thurman, Angelina Timkin, Kaitlyn Trask, Hana Tyrrell, Kara Wallace, Noelle Wanken, Hayden Webb, Harlow Webster, Katelyn Wenthe, Katelyn Westmoreland, Vivian Whelan, Addison You, Carter You;
Eastview High School students Vraj Amin, Frances Anderson, Sayf Aziz, Aleesha Babatunde, Janet Benailu, Megan Burri, Aaraw Chakrabarty, Anthony Chen, Evelyn Clark, Kaiya Daley, Megan Do, Chase Hake, Rolhail Hashmi, Jenny Hoat, Grace Johnson, Joann Kariapuram, Snehith Kattegummula, Navika Kishore, Neha Kishore, Emily McKoskey, Piper Murray, Neha Nair, Virinchi Nandamunu, Amy Nguyen, Zakaria Osman, Sadhna Patlola, Rayyan Qaisar, Hareesh Kumar Ranganath Shekhar, Rohan Saarang, Sanjana Sadineni, Shreyansh Satapathy, Nirav Singhal, Bennett Sutherlin, Chirayu Thapa, Kendyl Thelen, Kaylen Thipsombath, Matthew Vengal, Nayla Venter, Aaliyah Wrobel, Shriya Yalamanchili, Alex Zheng;
Apple Valley High School students Will Huber, Lucy Laliberte, Shiloh Knoll and Owen Schultz.
Future Business Leaders
Business Professionals of America (BPA) is a cocurricular organization for students pursuing careers in business management, office administration, information technology, and other related career fields. The BPA state-qualifying competition was held in January. All totaled, nearly 100 District 196 students qualified for the state BPA conference held in March.
Eagan High School students Riyana Abdurahman, Eva Abe, Nchimynyih Aborungong, Mary Alemu, Mukaram Ali, Rajinesh Aravindan, Mason Axelrod, Max Beckwith, Bridget Behles, August Bowie, Cian Burns, Noah Claude, Jack Corcoran, Eddie Cotorra Valencia, Kevin Cotorra Valencia, Elijah Daniel, Abigail Darmody, Hayden Davis, Maya Deminov, Muaz Diwan, Lucy Gehling, Asher Gerhard, Ivan Grinberg, Tyler Haffely, Nadiir Hagi Aden, Phillip Hoang, Vicky Hoang, Elizabeth Horgan, Olivia Hornsten, James Iten, Meti Jaleta, Gabe Jelen, Johan Jince, Annsh Kain, Aryan Kain, Vedansh Karnatak, Aariz Khan, Kinuthia Kinuthia, Megan Labuschagne, Piper Larson, Ram Maddirala, Atharv Malhotra, Carter McNally, Shiksha Mehta, Ankit Mukhopadhyay, Manna Mulugeta, Sunidhi Nair, Lillyana O’Keeffe, Anshi Peddareddivari, Rahim Qureshi, Shaurya Rajput, Maya Roth, Abhishek Sekhar, Medha Shrestha, Abel Sinkie, Shreyasi Swain, Nikhil Talatam, Brook Tusse, Sabrina Volodarsky, Beka Wakjira, Owen White, Lauren Wohletz
Eastview High students Vraj Amin, Janet Behailu, Kevin Burch, Megan Burri, Ivan Cai, Anthony Chen, Miles DeLeon, Leah Dejene, Vishal Giritharan, Owen Guyette, Jenny Hoat Bethlehem Kassahun, Snehith Kattegummula, Herawie Kebede, Jada Kemp, Rishik Kondadadi, Swanthana Sudha Lakkaraju, Kal Manenderas, Neha Nair, Fatima Nasar, Vishnu Nidamanuri, Aaden Opradek, Abdou Harissou Ouro Bang’na Nassam, jr., Sadhna Patlola, Suhaas Pothula, Anvith Pothula, Hareesh Ranganath Shekhar, Leonardo Rasmussen, Naomi Samson, Shreyansh Satapathy, Nirav Singhal, Chirayu Thapa, Fatimah Yusuf, Beza Zewdu and Alex Zheng.
Top finishers at the state competitions will earn spots at the DECA International Career Development Conference April 26-29 in Orlando, FL and the BPA National Leadership Conference May 7-11 in Orlando, FL.