03/12/2026
🔷️🔷️🔷️ Please join us in congratulating the students listed below, who recently competed at the South Carolina DECA Career Development Conference. All students are from LHS, with the exception of Ashlen Zuniga, who attends GHS.
We are especially pleased to announce that Graham Sandel has been elected as a SC DECA State Officer and will serve as Vice President of Hospitality.
The following students earned placements in their respective events. Students who placed in the top 4 have qualified to compete at the DECA International Career Development Conference (ICDC) next month in Atlanta.
1st Place:
Lillian Zheng: Buying and Merchandising Operations and Research
Mark Solis: Franchise Business Plan
Adityanandhan Ramaraj: Career Development Project
Carter Randall, Luka Reidenbach, Graham Sandel: Community Awareness Project
Maria Martinez, Ella Whiting: Sports and Entertainment Marketing Operations Research
2nd Place:
Jack Sailer, Benjamin Zheng: Independent Business Plan
Ritvik Kulkarni: Financial Literacy Project
3rd Place:
Ansh Dhindsa: Business Growth Plan
4th Place:
Owen Gregory: Accounting Applications
Lilliana Whitworth: Apparel & Accessories Marketing
Ella Kanitkar, Meilany Semidey Toro, Arlene Vinod: Community Awareness Project
Shakty Arrieta-Lopez: Community Giving Project
Top 10 Finalists:
Tomas Camacho-Zalba: Business Finance
Anna Kate Davis, Susannah Howell: Business Solutions Project
Ashwin Chidambaram, Shawn Li: Business Law and Ethics Team Decision Making
Charley Trainor, Ashlen Zuniga, Teanna Mann: Community Giving Project
Ahana Gururaj Adiga: Financial Consulting
Jacob Hernandez, Aydin Evans: Financial Services Team Decision Making
Dhanvi Dave: International Business Plan
CONGRATULATIONS! 🔷️🔷️🔷️
