West Bloomfield DECA Earns Eighty-two Awards at State Conference

Detroit, Michigan – West Bloomfield High School, DECA earned 82 awards at the Michigan DECA State Career Development Conference. Forty-one students were finalists in the state. Thirty-three students from West Bloomfield School District will represent Michigan at the DECA International Career Development Conference in Nashville, Tennessee this April.

March 5-7th, sixty-five students from the West Bloomfield High School DECA chapter attended the State Career Development Conference in Detroit, Michigan. This was a weekend leadership and business conference and competition. To advance to the International Conference, students had to place high enough at the DECA State Career Development Conference event, held at TCF in Detroit. West Bloomfield High School, competed against 4,500 marketing students from schools across the state.

Below are the students recognized among the top five or six in their category in Michigan. They will represent West Bloomfield School District and Michigan DECA at the International Career Conference:
Husain Saifuddin, Principles of Hospitality and Tourism
Andrew Shore, Professional Selling Event
Isaac Mintz, Retail Merchandising
Morgan Barbat, Buying and Merchandising Operations
Carli Bordelove, Buying And Merchandising Operations
Jordan Chase, Buying and Merchandising Operations
Sam Carlin, Business Services Operations Research and Virtual Business Challenge Hotel
Aryan Kamath, Business Services Operations Research
Sahith Shankar, Business Services Operations Research
Sumaiya Asghar, Business Services Operations Research
Chloe Marcou, Business Services Operations Research
Unser Jaffry, Hospitality and Tourism Operations Research
Brian Synowiec, Hospitality and Tourism Operations Research
Alison Lamb, Integrated Marketing Campaign Event
Aran Mizrah, Integrated Marketing Campaign Event
Fatima Syed, Integrated Marketing Campaign Event
Frank Bachulis, School Based Enterprise
Max Goldstein, School Based Enterprise
Deniz Uzunov, School Based Enterprise
Abbas Hakim, Virtual Business Sports
Ali Hakim, Virtual Business Sports
Sundeep Ravella, Virtual Business Sports
Cole Hall, Virtual Business Sports
Sverre Sears, Virtual Business Sports
Sam Hughes, Virtual Business Sports
Kaleb Bertovich, Virtual Business Retailing
Aaaryan Chandna, Virtual Business Retailing
Mick Gordinier, Virtual Business Retailing
Kyler Hwa, Virtual Business Challenge Fashion
Tejas Kode, Virtual Business Challenge Fashion
Raj Mulherkar, Virtual Business Challenge Fashion
Wyatt Feldman, Virtual Business Challenge Hotel
Judah Karesh, Virtual Business Challenge Accounting

The following students were recognized as top ten finalists in their respective categories:
Noah Klepaski, Business Services Marketing
Abigail Freitag, Hospitality and Tourism Professional Selling
Rita Brooks, Principles of Business Management and Administration
Husain Saifuddin, Principles of Hospitality and Tourism
Alex Kalaj, Professional Selling Event
Joshua Williamson, Restaurant and Food Service Management
Ishan Biswas, Buying and Merchandising Operations Research
Ilana Schwartz, Buying and Merchandising Operations Research
Samantha Scott, Buying and Merchandising Operations Research
Hannah Light, International Business Plan
Denise Grigorov, Financial Operations Research Event
Raleigh Hoenstine, Financial Operations Research Event
Jaela Rose, International Business Plan
Annabel Sinnage, International Business Plan
Alison Lamb, Integrated Marketing Campaign Event
Aran Mizrahi, Integrated Marketing Campaign Event
Fatima Syed, Integrated Marketing Campaign Event
Tess Kadian, Sports and Entertainment Market Research
Sophia Samson, Sports and Entertainment Market Research
Lyndsey Bruce, Business Operations Research
Ayushi Uppal, Business Operations Research
Taylor Zrepskey, Business Operations Research

On Thursday, West Bloomfield DECA members arrived at the Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center in Detroit. Over 4,500 students then gathered into their respective categories for a briefing on their competition. Each student was issued a time slot. After the competition, students had dinner and prepared for Saturday activities. The evening concluded with an Opening Ceremony welcoming students to the State Career Development Conference. Friday included another round of competition, and a West Bloomfield field trip exploring Detroit. This was followed by a West Bloomfield High School chapter dinner at Andiamo’s and evening entertainment at TCF. The weekend ended with the award ceremony on Saturday, where students were recognized for outstanding performances for online testing, role-play presentations and written research reports with oral presentations.

About West Bloomfield High School DECA:
DECA is an International Competitive Business Organization that prepares emerging leaders and entrepreneurs in four fields of business: marketing, finance, hospitality, and management. Our DECA chapter integrates classroom instruction, applies learning, connects to business, and promotes competition to prepare the next generation to be academically prepared, community oriented, professionally responsible, and experienced leaders. Students enrolled in Growing Your OwnBusiness I & II, Marketing, Sports and Entertainment Marketing or Advanced Marketing, Personal Finance, Accounting, Advanced Placement Micro and Macroeconomics or Fashion have an opportunity to participate in the West Bloomfield DECA co-curricular organization.