Coppell High School junior Adarsh Pulasseri helps the CHS EcoClub meetings run smoothly with his position as president. The Eco Club’s goal is to bring together a community focused on helping the environment throughout Coppell.
Adarsh Pulasseri
Adarsh Pulasseri is the Coppell High School EcoClub president and dealing with the new normal high school experience has not been an easy feat. Pulasseri hopes to use his leadership skills to make the world a more sustainable place, and he is already coming up with ideas for the changes he would like to see on campus.
Why did you run for president?
I had a couple of ideas for the EcoClub so we could expand more. One of the ideas was a net zero committee, so we could start implementing energy efficient methods at CHS, like solar panels, wind energy, etc. Another [idea] was a garden, which we are currently in the process of building at CHS and cisterns to collect water.
What has been your most rewarding experience?
Setting up the committees [groups that members are placed in based on their interests in order to work towards a certain goal for the school] because they were pretty new this year. It was nice to see that people are interested in doing this committee work. We have the task system that we implemented, and people are signing up for those tasks. It seems that these committees will get us somewhere in our goals making CHS and Coppell more sustainable.
What legacy do you hope to leave?
My main impact is that I want to help expand the borders of the club. When we started in ninth grade, pretty much all that we did was trash cleanups, a bit of pond cleanups at CHS and a couple of water testings. [I hope] to just expand the club and committees to help broaden our impact by setting up solar panels, gardens and cisterns and overall expand the club and what it can do.
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Tracy Tran
Tracy Tran a staff writer on The Sidekick. The Sidekick’s executive entertainment editor expresses how Tran has influenced her time on staff.
At the back of D115, there’s a cluster of iMacs lining the far wall. The middle four were home to myself and three other Sidekick staffers, including Tracy, during our sophomore year. I became close friends with her, allowing me the honor of getting to know one of the most persistent and determined people I’ve ever met. From the very beginning, Tracy has been an unstoppable force to be reckoned with. She was covering up to three assignments daily, and it always seemed like she was a league ahead of everyone else, even second and third year staffers, in terms of content production.
Over her three years on staff, Tracy has been known as an over-achieving, dependable staffer. Her dedicated reputation among the staff was confirmed by her winning the 2020 Sidekick Staffers’ Choice Awards for Best New Staff Member and Most Dedicated Staff Member, along with the 2020 Sidekick Adviser Award for Most Valuable Staff Member.Sreej
Since, Tracy has established herself as a versatile staffer, with experience in photo, video, design, writing and more. At her core, she reminds me of a drill: focused, determined and a little stubborn at times, just enough so everyone can trust she will get the job done.