The Human Environmental Animal Team (H.E.A.T.) welcomed new members at its first meeting on Sept. 16. Sophomore Nishista Koneru, president of the club, organized H.E.A.T when she moved from Frisco High School and realized her new school could do more to help the environment. 

“We make sure we have organization volunteering in each field that people like,”  Koneru said. “We want to tie in something that everyone can relate to.” 

Koneru said she wants everyone to have an interest to the club because she knows firsthand the impact it can have. Inside and outside of school, members can volunteer,  not only for hours for graduation but also to give back to the community.

Koneru and H.E.A.T members gathered 20 volunteers for their Adopt-A-Street Opportunity Sep. 24 to help pick up trash on the streets of Frisco. 

“It was a nice day so no one got tired,” Koneru. “It went really great.”  

Koneru and H.E.A.T were able to help out the environment with a good attitude and full of energy. With the sun shining and the temperatures in mid-80s, Adopt-A-Street team worked to clean Coit Rd. In Frisco.

Senior Karen Kim went to the Adopt-A-Street event as a member of H.E.A.T club. Kim joined this club after learning how teens can advocate human rights for the environment. Joining H.E.A.T Has helped Karen realize how much we impact the environment. H.E.A.T reaches out to high schools and colleges to get involved in helping the environment. 

Kim had started to notice little things in her daily life that H.E.A.T solves, such as plastic bottle usage and waste of paper. “[The club] helps you become well rounded and becoming a part of the community and helping the environment and people around you,” Kim said. 

The more H.E.A.T meetings Kim attended, the more the club impacted her in her day to day life. H.E.A.T focuses on improving the world through positive activism. H.E.A.T focuses on the positive instead of dwelling on the negative of life.

Koneru and member Kim hope to make changes working with the art department to conserve and save the environment inside school. H.E.A.T hopes to make simple changes around the school through real life situations and not just social media. “We are trying to get with the art department and get things in the courtyard while [Former Environmental Science Teacher Brian] Beck also does gardening,” Kim said.