SOUTH FORSYTH — For the second year in a row, South Forsyth High School students took the top honor at the Region 11 Future Business Leader of America Championship.
Held recently at South Gwinnett High School, students won nearly 40 categories of business services and move on to compete in the State High School Leadership Conference in March.
“South Forsyth encourages participation of all our many successful students in areas that interest them,” said Laura Wilson, principal of South. “We are very proud of the contributions our students make. It is the students and the dedicated teachers that lead to the success of our school.
“I congratulate our winners and participants in the FBLA competition and wish them much success in the state conference in March.”
FBLA is a nonprofit student organization that aims to prepare students for success in business leadership.
Region winners at South include:
* Banking and financial systems: Rohan Rege, Manish Varaganti, Shubham Tiwari, Sindhu Sagi, Vaishnavi Selvamuthukumaran, Pearl Gandotra, Michael George
* Business calculations: Adam Chau, Atman Patel, Harish Kamath, Srikrishna Duvvuri, Omkar Waingankar
* Business communication: Maria Mathew and Thomas Coutu
* Business financial plan: Harina Somasundaram, Cameron Larson, Mindy DeMars, Sahil Kini, Sai Kollapaneni, Rithvik Sarasani, Pratik Nallamotu, Charan Senthil Kumar and Vinay Balamourogan
* Business plan: Scott Buck, Shasvat Parikh, Azima Mohamed, Yashasweeni Kavalakuntla,Karan Jacob
* Client service: Connor Dougherty
* Computer applications: Daksha Jadhav
* Database design and applications: Manas Chakka, Shiv Patel
* Economics: Benson Chau, Maddie Owens
* Electronic career portfolio: Pratik Nallamotu, Vishali Prabhu
* Emerging business issues: Pravalika Irukulla, Vaiishnavi Selvamuthukumaran
* Entrepreneurship: David Bunker, Maddie Owens, Michael Corello
* Future business leader: Rahul Gurusamy, Abhay Chilakamarri
* Global business: Adam Chau, Raymond Qin
* Help desk: Sean VanDuyse
* Hospitality management: Grace Green, Kaylee Worsham
* Impromptu speaking: Mary Zhou. Marthan Sonawane
* Intro to business communication: Srinidhi Nandala, Bhumi Patel, Kate Hazlewood, Aki Talkad
* Intro to business presentation: Rohan Rege, Om Purohit, Aditya Bhave, Santhosh Saravanan
* Intro to financial math: Anish Bikmal, Aki Talkad,Praneet Kedari
* Intro to information technology: Arjun Karanam, Daksha Jadhav, Connor Clemente, Vinay Balamourogan, Shaun Hawk, Raymond Qin
* Management decision making: Shalin Bhandari, Devangi Bohra, Saaketh Bukka
* Marketing: Sahas Mehta,Abhinav Joshi,Anirudh Bikmal,Manya Kothapalli,Amelia Schouten, Ethan Han
* Network design: Atman Patel, Sri Duvvuri, Harris Rothaermel
* Parliamentary procedures: Sahas Mehta,Mike Komornik,Omkar Wanginkar, Abhinav Seghal, Sean VanDuyse
* Personal finance: Keerthana Mohan,Ben Dame,Aaron Lewis,Manish Varaganti, Revanth Tiruveedhi, Sindhu Sagi
* Public service announcement: Mindy DeMars, Felipe Perez, Rahul Gurusamy, Diego Rivadeneira, Ben Dame, Shivani Babu, Sanjana Chakinala
* Public speaking I: Arjun Karanam, Kate Hazelwood
* Public speaking II: Devangi , Manmitha Neelam
* Publication design: Maria Mathew, Lula Yousuf
* Sales presentation: Mayank Dhakal, Akshara Punyarthi
* Social media campaign: Walker Frederick, Ryan Kraynick, Tanvi Raj, Alekya Putta, Anjali Atluru, Prerana Dewan, Mira Patel
* Spreadsheet applications: Samuel Thomas
* Website design: Amrutha Kotlure, Isha Naidu, Divya Bhakta