Additional Reporting by Aditya Krishnan.
April 3, 2015, the MVHS auditorium was filled with anxious sophomores. The pressure is intense as World Literature teacher Jireh Tanabe announces the winners of the TEDx competition, an event World Literature students participated in to make a difference in the Cupertino community. As soon as the crowd died down, Tanabe announced the winners: Saagar Godithi, Manasa Hanady, Alex Park and Julianna Cho. The group received a $1000 check from TedX to support the mission to keep Cupertino clean by placing trash cans on nearby streets. Eight months after a celebratory photo on Facebook and recognition, the sophomore winners are serious in keeping this plan underway. On Dec. 1, the TEDx winners met with the Cupertino board and have already formulated a plan to keep the streets clean in the future. We sat down with the competition winners to see how things are panning out so far.
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Q: At first, what made you decide to place trash cans on Cupertino’s streets and what was the real purpose of this challenge?
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Q: What do you expect will occur after placing the trashcans, and do you think that people will respect this idea and follow it?
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Q: What were some of the things you discussed at the Board meeting?
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Q: Overall, How do you plan to keep this going?
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Click the link to see the upcoming plan for 2016, and where the trashcans will be placed
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=zpRRIUPLWXa8.ksZVAZlev7fM
Click the link to witness the group’s campaign video, submitted for the TEDx contest.
