The Trend-Trackers Club: The Club for School Improvement

The Trend-Trackers Club is a one-of-a-kind club about statistics and data that is run by Zobia Shaikh. This club meets in room 122 every Friday at lunch. Their club advisor is Ms. Katherine Smith, an AP statistics teacher at CCHS. They collect data from students’ feedback and concerns and use this data to help improve the school by bringing this information to the Superintendent, Dr. Alfonso Jiménez, through the Superintendent Advisory Council (SAC).

President Shaikh is a freshman in the Superintendent Advisory Council who also ran for Student Board Member at Large. Shaikh said, “What inspired me to start this club was a combination of my passion for advocacy and data analysis.” She started this club with her friends who have the same motivation as her and want to help bring about a positive change in our school. They make and distribute surveys to teachers around the school who will give them to their students for feedback to help improve our school. The most recent survey they distributed was a school food preferences survey which told them that the walking taco is most liked for lunch and bagels are most liked for nutrition.

The Trend-Trackers club is continuing to use data from our student body to positively change our school in many ways. In one of their first surveys, they had over 250 students fill it out, and this wasn’t their only time they did that. President Shaikh is eager to have a diverse variety of voices in the data the club collects and said “Together as a student body we can make a powerful impact by showing the board that we all share the same concerns which will ensure that they are persuaded enough to take action.” If you have a motive to help our school, make sure to drop by room 122 on Fridays during lunch.