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Wendy Le

Coppell High School junior Meenakshi Subha Vipin was elected as the Parliamentarian for the Health Occupations Students of America Club. The HOSA election was April 24 for its officers for the 2023-24 school year.

Parliamentarian: Meenakshi Subha Vipin

Coppell High School junior Meenakshi Subha Vipin was elected as the Parliamentarian for the Health Occupations Students of America Club. The HOSA election was April 24 for its officers for the 2023-24 school year. (Wendy Le)

Coppell High School junior Meenakshi Subha Vipin has been elected as Healthcare Occupations Students of America  parliamentarian for the 2023-24 school year. This is Vipin’s first position since joining the club in her sophomore year.

What are the roles of parliamentarian?

Parliamentarian keeps order during the meetings, and an official parliamentarian would lead the meeting through a series of motions. In HOSA we don’t use all of the motions, I’m there to maintain decorum inside the meeting.

What interests you about healthcare?

I started out wanting to be a pediatrician, and then as I learned more about the pediatric duties and realized I had a passion for child abuse pediatrics. I’m looking forward to becoming a child abuse pediatrician and working closely with children.

What made you want to run for parliamentarian?

This year in HOSA I competed in parliamentary procedure, so for the competition I had to learn parliamentary procedures, and I thought ‘why not run?’ and utilize what I’ve learned throughout the year.

What is something that you admire about the current leadership?

They’ve done a really good job at keeping HOSA engaged, especially on Instagram.This year is the one year where the HOSA Instagram was active, and it actually made me want to go to all the events HOSA was hosting. It was nice to see everything we’ve done reflected on our instagram.

What is something that you want to build on for next year?

I want to have more active and engaging meetings. Everyone comes in to get the attendance and leave, so I feel like we should be doing more of our events during those meetings instead of just having a slideshow run through.

What does it mean to you to have been voted on by your peers?

It’s a great honor because I will finally be able to bring something to a team, and I actually have a background and experience in it. I’m not just going into this blindly and I’m glad that they picked someone who actually has experience with the role.

How do you want to involve your passion for healthcare in your leadership role?

A lot of people just say that they want to be a doctor but I think we should have days where we explore different careers. For me, I didn’t know I wanted to be a pediatrician right from the start, I just knew that I’d always do something in healthcare and going through a bunch of careers helped me choose what I wanted to specialize in. I think a lot of people will be happy if we had a day or a weekly activity and exposed them to it.

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