Humans of DV: Week 16

Rishika Vinnakota: “We created Hydrope just for a competition. It was through an organization, which brought together a bunch of kids who were in the district. It was a competition, so basically we were trying to create a company to learn about the aspects behind a business. But when we saw the response we got, we thought we could actually grow it from what we were from the competition state, an...

Eeshi Uppalapati: “I’ve been dancing since I was 2 years old, so that’s 13+ years. I started off with ballet as a baby and added on jazz, hip hop, lyrical, contemporary, and Bollywood as I got older. My favorite styles of dance are contemporary and hip hop. Contemporary is like a combination of the other genres, and it usually differs from studio to studio, which makes it really beautiful to me....

Mrs. Elizabeth Ghiassy: “I like being outdoors, I like picnicking, if I have time, I like to hike. We’re usually outdoors because of [my daughters’] soccer practices and the games on the weekend, but that doesn’t bother me. I wasn’t really [an outdoorsy person], but that flip happened around college. Maybe it’s because of where I lived; I grew up in a big, urban city. There wasn’t as m...