Zoe Byabagye

Smiling for the camera, Junior Adhit Eswaramoorthi and his fellow DECA member Justin Khadivi and Aryan Anarkat as they stay in their room during the state competition in Houston. Eswaramoorthi, Anarkat, and Rushil Mehta participated in the event Franchise Business Plans and advanced to the DECA International Competition. “I think being in DECA and talking to different people from different schools allowed me to expand how I view and go about meeting new people,” Eswaramoorthi said. “Which connects to robotics and the work ethic you have to have.

He sits at his desk, focused and locked in as he finalizes his twenty-pager. He taps on his keyboard as he thinks about the proposal that he is writing up and the hard work that he has put in. He further thinks about the hours that he’s putting in for the end goal: bettering his future. He continues to type.

Junior Adhit Eswaramoorthi dives into the world of business through his extracurricular activities such as DECA, Robotics, and speech and debate to prepare him for his upcoming future in finance. In his first year in these clubs, he became the head of business for the robotics team, advanced to internationals for DECA, joined the extemporaneous speaking event on the varsity speech and debate team and got elected vice president of the 2025 Senior Class.

“I am doing something called Franchise Business Plans for DECA,” Eswaramoorthi said. “It’s where you submit a twenty-page proposal to buy into a franchise, and we chose Menchies Frozen Yogurt. We had to meet with the owner of Menchies and submit a proposal and present it to a judge as if we wanted to buy a part of the company and open up a location.”

Eswaramoorthi will be attending the DECA International Career Development Conference, or ICDC, competition on April 27-30 in California. Him and his other group members, senior Aryan Anarkat and junior Rushil Mehta, are currently finishing their preparations for the contest.

“All of the main preparations are done; all we have to do now is finish our trifold, which displays the research with the finances that we did for Menchie’s,” Eswaramoorthi said. “We already put all our information on there, we [just] had to meet with sources that could give us information about Menchie’s franchise, financial information and how they operate. We have to keep going through practice runs of our presentation or script and obviously for the twenty-page paper we had to do a lot of research and learn the business skills that we need to succeed in a competition like this.”

Not only did he qualify for ICDC for DECA, but Eswaramoorthi also became a 5A State Champion with the robotics team this year. He continued to learn more about the business world by becoming the head of business for the team, where he led the team by helping them earn the Innovation Award, an award given to robots with elegant design and out of box thinking, along with the state championship.

“Main point in anything business-related is being outgoing and stepping out of your comfort zone to connect with other people,” Eswaramoorthi said. “I think being in DECA and talking to different people from different schools allowed me to expand how I view and go about meeting new people, which connects to robotics and the work ethic you have to have. The work ethic you have for DECA helped me with Robotics.”

As Eswaramoorthi expands his horizons of extracurricular activities, he finds it important to focus on three clubs that he would excel in with the set of skills that he has and found the Speech and Debate team to be a good fit. This school year being his first year on the team made it on the Varsity team for the event, Extemporaneous Speaking.

“The past two years I feel like I never really explored my horizons, and I thought instead of scrolling on Tiktok for 5 hours after I come home I can instead utilize my time in so much better ways. Having friends involved with it and being able to interact with other people and socialize and having that plan, makes it so instead of wasting time on video games or social media you can use that time for stuff you enjoy and could help with college or your future.”

As he will soon finish his junior year, he will take on the role as senior class vice president for the next school year. He also prepares for the future beyond high school and his future in business as he hopes to major in finance.

“Through the fields of business I’ve done this year, I’ve realized that I have a big passion for Finance, and want to major in that later. My parents are super supportive and they believe if I am passionate about it anyone can succeed. Learning these skills in DECA, Robotics, and Debate have been instrumental in learning how to be a good business person and learn the business skills, social skills, and interpersonal skills to succeed in the business world.”