Some people come into your life quietly and stay in the background. Others, however, show up loudly, with EXTREMELY strong opinions, random advice and an aura that somehow makes everything so much...

Some people leave high school with a resume. Others leave with a reputation. The Sidekick staff writer Ayaan Haque is leaving with something harder to define.  An imprint. The kind...

As I peek over my shoulder, I see a news story request pop on The Sidekick adviser Chase Wofford’s computer in bright blue letters; Staff writer Huda Rizawan: Voices and silence in today’s political...

I met staff photographer Kelton Chen on a Sidekick Minecraft server, named “Sidecraft,” an ordinary multiplayer world, or as we see it, a world of chaos and fun. I’d see him flying around the...

Friendly, cool and mildly intimidating.  That was my first impression of then-junior Marli Field during The Sidekick welcome meeting at the end of the 2024-2025 school year. In the dimly lit CTE collaboration...

You know the saying “never meet your heroes”? Never meet your heroes because they will disappoint you? Never meet the wonderful people you admire from afar because they are not so great up close? Yeah,...

Friendly, cool and mildly intimidating. That was my first impression of then-junior Marli Field during The Sidekick welcome meeting at the end of the 2024-2025 school year. In the dimly lit CTE collaboration...

Since eighth grade, Coppell High School senior Chloe Vigue has been a constant in my life. We started out as locker buddies at Coppell Middle School East. I was a new student trying to navigate...

I take a seat on the high chairs in my old engineering classroom at CHS9, practically shivering my timbers as The Sidekick 2025-2026 editors filed into the room in a straight line.  Naturally,...

A bead of sweat rolls down the back of my shirt as I wait to step into the bus.  I could practically taste the air conditioning cooling members of The Sidekick, Round-Up yearbook and KCBY-TV students...

Origami paper cranes are tiny symbolic masterpieces, representing longevity and peace. To me, they also represent staff photographer Eirene Park. “Thanks Prathi, Eirene will be taking these photos!” “Yes!”...

The sun shines bright on a Saturday morning in the middle of November. I stand on the sideline of Midlothian ISD Multi-Sports Complex and my ear drums beating to the sound of the Coppell High School...