<p>I'm looking into starting a Mock Trial Club at my school, but I have no idea where to start! Can someone please offer any advice or what they do in the club if he or she is a member of his or her school's mock trial club? Also, is the NHS something that can be started at any school? My school is a boarding school, and we don't have the NHS as part of our list of possible EC's. Is this because it is a private school? THank you.</p>
<p>some private schools have cum laude society, rather than NHS. Don't start an NHS, it;s not that valuable of an ec. just do community service.</p>
<p>yea, we have cum laude, summa cum laude, and magna cum laude. As long as I keep my grades above 3.9, I'll probably be on either summa or manga cum laude.</p>
<p>This is general-</p>
<p>Talk to the person/people in charged with coordinating activities at your school. Learn about writing club constitutions and making rules and so on and before you begin advertising for your club. Have a couple members beforehand and also, have an enthusiastic adviser for your club who knows what s/he is doing.</p>
<p>I plan to do all that, but I want to learn how, if i do succeed in creating it, I will go about running it, how I should get it started, how much time it will consume, and so on before getting official about it. I just want to know how mock trial clubs in other people's schools were started and what they do before I turn this into something serious.</p>
<p>Bump bump..</p>
<p>Although I have not started a club, I advise you to not do something that you aren't truly enjoying. People, in general, gravitate toward others who truly enjoy their passion. You could take something as boring as stuffing paper into sheet protectors, be very enthusiastic about it, and receive a great following. And I am pretty sure that you already have boring clubs in your school where no one does anything.</p>
<p>Bump.. hehe..</p>
<p>at my school you have to have an advisor inorder to be recgonized by the school. so my guess would be to find a teacher willing to act as a coach or supervisor. talk with them and your principal to gain publicity</p>
<p>ok i really appreciate everyone's help, but i alreay know I'd have to get a teacher to supervise the club and create a constitution. I already know all of this. What I really meant was how a mock trial club works, whether one must already have a prior knowledge of mock trials, how to guide beginners, how one can train for mock trial competitions, those sorts of things. Basically i wanted someone to explain the inner workings of the club, not the actual creating and making the club officially by school rules. Sorry for the confusion.</p>
<p>I'm not really involved in mock trial, but my teacher and a few firends are. In our county we have a league for mock trial. so they have competitions with in the league with a county champion. so I would suggest checking out what other schools in your area do. </p>
<p>they usually have try outs for each position. (whitness, prosecutor, defendant, ect.) each position usually having an understudy. </p>
<p>I'm pretty sure our mock trial works like athletics do. Its like a winter sport. There's a mock trial season with success the team goes on to more diffucult competition. </p>
<p>sorry I couldn't help much!</p>
<p>We have mock trial through debate team. I want to be a prosecutor, both in real life and in the trial this coming year. I've been the defendant two years in a row. I just need someone as my co-counsel...Sorry, I'm just rambling...If your school has a debate team, why not try to set it up through that?</p>
<p>My mock trial team works with a couple of county attorneys and a judge, as well as the debate coach and drama teacher. just ask some key people if they would be willing to help. I know that sometime in the fall there's a meeting where the case is handed out to the various teams. Get in touch with your state supervisor of the program, I'm sure they'd be happy to guide you through the process. Mock Trial is SO much fun!</p>