Highschool Clubs

[Raven_Writer]

Have you ever created an a club?

If so, what did you do/what was the process of creating it?

I'm asking this because I'm trying to create a Creative Writing club (as soon as I talk to the prinicpal, it might go over). I know you have to talk to your school administrator, get a sponsor, and get it approved by the school board (atleast it's like that for MHS students).

[Frank(Aflak)]

last year me and five or six other guys and our moderator started a FIRST team . . . does that count? (this year we are going through the club-creation process because our moderator last year left (he is still helping out, but he is in medschool at WashU now) so we have to find a moderator and get approval and set up everything.)

About your question, this varies very much from school to school.

At my high school, all you need to do is run around until you find a faculty member willing to moderate you, fill out some forms and get approved (very, very easy. Last year a class nutball started a rock'em sock'em robots club . . with the intention of abopting a highway so there would the Rock'em Sock'em Robot club signs on the sides of major roads).

Once you do that, you have a club. To get people to join, at my school, you can do one or two things. First is to make posters and get PA time for announcements and just hold meetings. Second is to corner freshmen and keep talking so long that they agree to sign on just to get rid of you.

Creative writing will probably have lots of takers. I know lots of folks at my HS interested, so presumably you will find takers somewhere.

Sounds like your club-starting process is lots more involved than it is here, and thats a shame, but a creative writing club should fly through no problem unless one already exists.

[Raven_Writer]

Originally posted by Frank(Aflak)
last year me and five or six other guys and our moderator started a FIRST team . . . does that count? (this year we are going through the club-creation process because our moderator last year left (he is still helping out, but he is in medschool at WashU now) so we have to find a moderator and get approval and set up everything.)

About your question, this varies very much from school to school.

At my high school, all you need to do is run around until you find a faculty member willing to moderate you, fill out some forms and get approved (very, very easy. Last year a class nutball started a rock'em sock'em robots club . . with the intention of abopting a highway so there would the Rock'em Sock'em Robot club signs on the sides of major roads).

Once you do that, you have a club. To get people to join, at my school, you can do one or two things. First is to make posters and get PA time for announcements and just hold meetings. Second is to corner freshmen and keep talking so long that they agree to sign on just to get rid of you.

Creative writing will probably have lots of takers. I know lots of folks at my HS interested, so presumably you will find takers somewhere.

Sounds like your club-starting process is lots more involved than it is here, and thats a shame, but a creative writing club should fly through no problem unless one already exists.

I've been talking to all the english teachers for a while, and they think it'll go over also.

At my HS I know there are a lot of writers, but most are probably secretive.

Our school is really strict really.

I've been wanting to do this for a while, but I finally got the feeling of doing it this year. The process I said is what I was told by the teachers. As soon as I talk to the principal, I'll get more info, and probably post it here.

Thanks for your reply

[DanL]

At my school, they've got the whole process down to an art.

You basically go to one of the offices, request a club form, get a faculty sponsor for the club, fill the form out, and bammo! They approve it (atleast if it's at the begining of the year and if it's not an Ultimate Frisbee club ). You might want to talk to anyone in power about what the process is at your particular club.

Anyways, definately go for a creative writing club if you don't have it already. My school has both a school newspaper club (and class) and a literary magazine club (they publish students' poetry/short stories/art in a bi-annual magazine). Believe it or not, there are people who love other things over technology out there (although why they'd feel such a way is a mystery to me). If you make such a club, I'm sure you'll find people willing to join.

[Raven_Writer]

Originally posted by SuperDanman
At my school, they've got the whole process down to an art.

You basically go to one of the offices, request a club form, get a faculty sponsor for the club, fill the form out, and bammo! They approve it (atleast if it's at the begining of the year and if it's not an Ultimate Frisbee club ). You might want to talk to anyone in power about what the process is at your particular club.

Anyways, definately go for a creative writing club if you don't have it already. My school has both a school newspaper club (and class) and a literary magazine club (they publish students' poetry/short stories/art in a bi-annual magazine). Believe it or not, there are people who love other things over technology out there (although why they'd feel such a way is a mystery to me). If you make such a club, I'm sure you'll find people willing to join.

>> Ultimate Frisbee club
LoL (sorry, that's just something unique [good idea though ]).

>> You might want to talk to anyone in power about what the process is at your particular club.
I've talked to the English's head-department person (she's also gonna be the sponsor if it goes through).

>> Believe it or not, there are people who love other things over technology out there (although why they'd feel such a way is a mystery to me).
I know what you mean

>> If you make such a club, I'm sure you'll find people willing to join
I know there would be....I'm just trying to figure out how to pursuade my principle and the board of education (who approves it) to let it pass.

FIGHT POWER WITH KNOWLEDGE!!!!!!! (don't ask, it works though ).

[Yan Wang]

Err... our school is very diversified in clubs. The official list is about 60 some clubs. Some notable ones are anime club, robotics club, TSA club, astronomy club, film club, juggling club, tiddlywinks club, math club, math explorers club, gay/straight alliance, asian american club, black/latino club, key club, and the list goes on and on.

At our school, all you need is a club idea and a teacher willing to supervise the club meetings - register it at activities buildings and it's done. Of course, all clubs must allow anyone who wants to join to join.

[Raven_Writer]

Originally posted by monsieurcoffee
Err... our school is very diversified in clubs. The official list is about 60 some clubs. Some notable ones are anime club, robotics club, TSA club, astronomy club, film club, juggling club, tiddlywinks club, math club, math explorers club, gay/straight alliance, asian american club, black/latino club, key club, and the list goes on and on.

At our school, all you need is a club idea and a teacher willing to supervise the club meetings - register it at activities buildings and it's done. Of course, all clubs must allow anyone who wants to join to join.

We have only about 2 what you just listed (unfortuneatly (sp?)). We have robotics and key club.

Well, my idea right now is to get people who would join to sign a petition, and make a powerpoint presentation.

Show him the powerpoint, and if he still doesn't think it's good...show him the list. My only probably really is getting the signatures (I'm not very social in my school).

So far, the principal still hasn't talked to me about it yet either, so I'm going to his office again tomorrow during lunch...and see what comes about.

[Frank(Aflak)]

heh, you got it rough. Like I said, at my school all you need is a faculty guy to be willing to sign his name (although, it would probably be impossible to start, say, a homicide club or something)

even w/o faculty support you can exist (robotics team this year had our first few meetings before we got ourselves a moderator.)

here is a brief list of the notables:
-Robotics
-Chinese (president is me)
-all the other insignifigant languages
-Young Republicans
-Young Democratic Socialists - they hold debates with the repubs.
-Rock'em'sock'em robots . . . as i mentioned, founded with the idea of getting a sign on the side of the highway
-Anime
-Math
-Science
-OEC (outdoor experience club. This club rocks. I went with them to the Gauley river for the one-day, 23 mile ride down the 2nd ranked river in the US. What a blast. It was amazing. I literally almost died several times. One guy had to be evacuated on a truck with a major abdominal injury (they were worried about internal bleeding, but he was OK) Best ride in my life.
-PrepNews - only weekly highschool newspaper I have heard about, you usually see 20-page editions, and they come every friday.
-lots of others.

[JJG13]

Originally posted by monsieurcoffee
Err... our school is very diversified in clubs. The official list is about 60 some clubs. Some notable ones are anime club, robotics club, TSA club, astronomy club, film club, juggling club, tiddlywinks club, math club, math explorers club, gay/straight alliance, asian american club, black/latino club, key club, and the list goes on and on.

My school has some interesting clubs. Just off the top of my head there is an anime club, young democrats club, the good old future farmers of america, young republicans club, and of course SPAM robotics.

[JapaneseOtaku]

A couple months ago I started an anime club for my school, and I think your process was a lot like mine.
I originally had to write up a proposal, my counselor talked me through this and gave me some main points to follow (the purpose of this was to basically tell the principal and such why the club was education related).
I also had to find a teacher that "sponsored" us, the reason of this was so that we'd actually have some place to meet, and so that we'd for sure have adult supervision.
Finally we just had to get the club approved by our principal.