Homestead High School

DECA Inc. is a Career and Technical Student Organization with more than 297,000 members in nearly all 50 United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Germany. The United States Congress, the United States Department of Education, and state, district and international departments of education authorize DECA’s programs.

The DECA experience starts in the classroom where students learn business concepts in preparation for college and careers. A powerful instructional component, DECA brings the classroom to life by empowering the teacher-advisor to make learning relevant with educational programs that integrate into classroom instruction, apply learning, connect to business and promote competition. The successful integration of each of these four interconnected components, also part of DECA’s guiding principles, results in a strong program that produces college- and career-ready students.

Spartans participating in this year’s DECA program recently completed at the state level and were recognized for excellence across all of the components of this important organization. 

These students have qualified to represent Homestead at the upcoming International Competition:

• Sai Shamyant Boda – Hospitality and Tourism Professional Selling – 3rd Place
• Grace Dickmeyer & Daisy Niezer – Community Giving Project – 3rd Place
• Trent George & Porter Vucich – Sales Project – 2nd Place
• Srika Kumar – Accounting Applications Series – 4th Place
• Eli Hallman – Food Marketing Series – 2nd Place
• Eric Ji – Quick Serve Restaurant Management – 4th Place
• Devesh Vamadevan – Restaurant Food Management Series – 3rd Place
• Ishita Pandy – Retail Merchandising Series – 2^nd Place
• Connor Cook – Sports and Entertainment Marketing Series – 1st Place
• Avery Coil & Jessica Birkle – Entrepreneurship Team Decision Making – 4th Place
• Lance Holder – Business Growth Plan – 4th Place

International Competition Alternates:

• Aubrey Ratti – Professional Selling – 5th Place
• Navindu Piyadasa & Malek Kamal – Entrepreneurship Team Decision Making – 6th Place
• Isaac Schroeder – Personal Financial Literacy – 5th Place
• Benjamin Garrean – Business Services Marketing – 6th Place

In addition to these competitive achievements, we are excited to announce that three of our students were elected to the 80th Indiana DECA Student Advisory Board—including Homestead’s first-ever DECA State President!

State Officers:

• Sai Shamyant Boda – Indiana DECA State President
• Isaac Schroeder – Vice President of Finance
• Bennett Ganshorn – Region 3 President

Homestead High School was also honored with the DECA Membership Campaign Achievement Award for increasing our membership by over 25% from last year.

Additionally, we want to recognize Mr. Brian McNeal for celebrating his 30th year as a DECA Advisor—an incredible milestone! 

Congratulations to our amazing DECA students and their dedicated sponsors!