A total of 42 CISD high school students have qualified for the DECA student business organization's international competition after competing at the Texas DECA competition in Houston on Feb. 24-26. 

Advancing to the DECA International Career Development Conference from CHS9 are Yashitha Chunduru, Sabah Uddin and Navya Singh. The CHS DECA students who qualified for the international competition are: Sri  Achanta, Arya  Agashe, Ria  Akhilesh, Tavishka Arora, Anuraag  Ayancha, Rahul  Balaji, Jaserah  Chowdhury, Anveshi  Goyal, Vrishti  Jain, Farah  Kader, Saketh  Kalvakuntla, Dhruv  Kamtam, Veda  Kanamarlapudi, Sahana  Kaushik, Aashna  Kothari, Anirudh  Kumbum, Linh  Le, Nic  Martinez, Dilan  Patel, Isha  Rahi, Rudransh  Rajaram, Jeevana  Ramakrishna, Janani  Ramamoorthy, Nithilan  Ravikumar, Kavin  Sampath, Siya  Sangani, Zahra  Shaikhali, Hemaksh  Sondhi, Nischintha  Srinivasan and Aryan  Veluru. The New Tech High @ Coppell DECA students who qualified for the international competition are: Bogdan Maksimov, Joshua Thomas, Bhargav Vendula, Soha Alam, Anthika Gunsalan, Payton Hoenig, Namyuktha Prakash, Arwyn Sullivan and Anekah Kelley.

    

The CHS9 DECA adviser is Kim Porter, the CHS DECA chapter advisers are Richard Chamberlain and Andrea Pirtle and the New Tech High @ Coppell chapter advisers are Marieke Mastebroek and Zachary Morrison-Ruiz. 

Texas DECA is the largest DECA association in the world with more than 16,000 members. The DECA International Career Development Conference will take place in Atlanta at the end of April.