More Than 90 Rockwood Students Qualify for FBLA State Leadership Conference

More than 90 Rockwood School District high school students qualified for the Missouri Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) State Leadership Conference at the District 9 competition Feb. 4 at Saint Louis University.

Students from more than 30 schools in the St. Louis area participated in the district competition. A total of 92 Rockwood students qualified for the state conference across 46 different categories, including 29 first-place finishers and 16 students qualifying in multiple events.

The FBLA State Leadership Conference takes place April 12-14 in Springfield. Congratulations to these students on their outstanding achievements!

Read below for qualifiers by school.

Eureka

Eureka students earned seven medals in four different events, with four students advancing in three different categories. This is the first time Eureka FBLA has competed at Districts.

• 1st, Fiona Betancourt, Retail Management
• 2nd, Addie Sestrich and Hadley Walton, Website Design
• 3rd, Graham Johnson, Personal Finance

Lafayette

Lafayette students earned 42 medals in 22 different events, with 24 students advancing in 13 different categories.

• 1st, Vedanth Chimakurthy, Pardhu Konakandla and Arvind Sunilkumar, Entrepreneurship
• 1st, William Webb, Introduction to Marketing Concepts
• 1st, Divya Sinha, Introduction to Public Speaking
• 1st, Vishwajeeth Ayannagari, Ankith Muthyala and Ansh Patel, Marketing
• 1st, Adithya Ganesh, Ashvik Kothari and Nikhil Sharma, Sports and Entertainment Management
• 1st, Rohan Gopalan and Pardhu Konakandla, Website Design
• 2nd, Lasya Kommu and Alifiya Shakeel, Data Analysis
• 2nd, Aradhya Malik and Pranav Visveswaran, Digital Video Production
• 2nd, Ashween Kaur, Future Business Leader
• 2nd, Tushan Khatri, Personal Finance
• 2nd, Kruthi Avula, Vedha Inampudi and Shruthi Rangineni, Visual Design
• 3rd, Nikhil Sharma, Computer Problem Solving
• 3rd, Vedha Inampudi, Journalism

Marquette

Marquette students earned 93 medals in 47 different events, with 70 students advancing in 38 different categories.

• 1st, Amol Bansal, Om Chandge and Siddharth Kesanapalli, Business Plan
• 1st, Keerthi Thota, Computer Applications
• 1st, Dhruv Bhosekar, Samai Moola and Satvik Seetharaman, Data Analysis
• 1st, Risha Kaul, Future Business Educator
• 1st, Adithya Chengalvala, Future Business Leader
• 1st, Omkar Desai, Introduction to Business Procedures
• 1st, Tanujha Manikandan, Anshu Rajoli and Avanti Srinivasan, Sales Presentation
• 1st, Devansh Sharma, Technology Support and Services
• 2nd, Vihaan Sawardekar, Advanced Accounting
• 2nd, Daya Rao, Business Law
• 2nd, Harshith Akurati, Mihir Busani and Vibhav Chinta, Business Management
• 2nd, Saanvi Vanga, Customer Service
• 2nd, Vedant Chaturvedi, Data Science and AI
• 2nd, Mihir Busani, Economics
• 2nd, Ben Chen, Dharsha Ghattu and Saketh Tadakamalla, Financial Planning
• 2nd, Harsh Sodavadiya, Introduction to Business Procedures
• 2nd, Scott Shen, Introduction to Parliamentary Procedures
• 2nd, Aidan Christian, Introduction to Retail and Merchandising
• 2nd, Vidyuth Kamesh, Introduction to Supply Chain Management
• 2nd, Annanya Sethi, Job Interview
• 2nd, Wangshu Liu, Vihaan Madhavan and Siddhartha Subbella, Marketing
• 2nd, Nikita Chaudhari, Social Media Strategies
• 2nd, Rishi Gudimalla and Aaryan Srivastava, Sports and Entertainment Management
• 2nd, Adithya Chengalvala, Medha Madupalli and Ayush Vasireddy, Supply Chain Management
• 3rd, Medha Madupalli, Advanced Accounting
• 3rd, Natalie Grill, Advertising
• 3rd, Rithika Pendurthi, Business Law
• 3rd, Sanjay Ishaan Alur, Introduction to FBLA
• 3rd, Achyut Aenagandula, Introduction to Marketing Concepts
• 3rd, Vidyuth Kamesh, Introduction to Parliamentary Procedures
• 3rd, Pratik Bhattiprolu, Introduction to Supply Chain Management
• 3rd, Ramy Elbeshbeshy, Project Management
• 4th, Nathaniel Bian, Accounting
• 4th, Samai Moola, Advanced Accounting
• 4th, Shikhar Mandhani, Agribusiness
• 4th, Shre Shivani Manikandan, Introduction to Business Communication
• 4th, Hannah Wilson, Introduction to Business Concepts
• 4th, Kovidh Uppal, Introduction to Business Procedures
• 4th, Siddharth Gurlhosur, Introduction to Information Technology
• 4th, Saketh Akshinthala, Introduction to Marketing Concepts
• 4th, Adithya Sreeperunbuduru, Introduction to Parliamentary Procedures
• 4th, Anish Shinde, Introduction to Retail and Merchandising
• 4th, Keerthi Thota, Networking Infrastructures
• 4th, Siri Akinapally, Organizational Leadership
• 4th, Madeleine Donald, Real Estate
• 5th, Tushita Agarwal, Advanced Accounting
• 5th, Harshith Akurati, Business Communication
• 5th, Malavika Gopal, Business Law
• 5th, Shre Shivani Manikandan, Introduction to Information Technology
• 5th, Mihir Patel, Introduction to Parliamentary Procedures
• 5th, Ryan Willis, Introduction to Supply Chain Management
• 5th, Natalie Grill, Journalism
• 5th, Vihaan Sawardekar, Networking Infrastructures
• 5th, Erin Canis, Project Management
• 5th, Nandini Rao, Retail Management

Rockwood Summit

Rockwood Summit students earned 30 medals in 20 different events, with 10 students advancing in nine different categories

• 1st, Sarah Hou, Job Interview
• 2nd, Chloe Philipp, Future Business Educator
• 2nd, Annalise Brewer-Moore, Introduction to FBLA
• 2nd, Tracy Vu, Journalism
• 2nd, Sarah Hou and Aditi Vangala, Public Service Announcement
• 3rd, Alexis Sondermann, Introduction to Retail and Merchandising
• 4th, Anthony Barry, Introduction to Supply Chain Management
• 5th, Sarah Hou, Economics
• 5th, Alexis Sondermann, Introduction to Marketing Concepts