<p>At school:
Asian American Association - 9-11
NHS - 10-11
Spanish NHS - 11
Spanish club - 10,11
African American Club - 11
Debate - 9-11; this consumes my life - almost literally. 20-25 hours per week
Tutor for novice debaters
Tutor peers in math, chem, and hehe...freshman grammar (which is torture at our school)</p>
<p>OUt of school:
Student Historic Preservation Team 9-11 - web designer/advisor-type person - this is a middle school group, but I'm one of a few high schoolers who help them with public speaking skills, research stuff etc. We're working to preserve historic buildings in local area
Indian Dance - 8 years - classes and hours of community service for this -> at local international fairs, indian organization shows, fundraisers, etc.; I also teach little e kids when they prepare for some of the shows....
Volunteered as counselor for afterschool program - 9
Volunteered at hospital lab, receptionist - 10
Assistant coach for elementary school Destination Imagination team - 9
basketball with the local team -9.10- don't know if I should count this- i just needed exercise....</p>
<p>that's all I can think of...didn't include a lot of the summer stuff....</p>
<p>Interact (part of the Rotary Club) [9-now] - Grade Rep (10th, 11th)
TREND [9-now]
NHS [11]
Robotics [11]
NJ Science League [10-now]
Academic League [11]
Student Council [10-11]
Stage Band [11]
Task Force on Cheating [10]
YFAA (Youth for AIDs Awareness) - My Area Representative
Hugs and Hope from America
Student Council Treasurer (for next year)
Winter track [JV - 9-10, V - 11]
Spring track [JV - 9, V - 10, hopefully 11]
Color Guard [Co-captain - 10, captain - 11]
Mini-med</p>
<p>and my school does have a nj environthon team</p>
<p>Hilary 6, yes, you would, as the other community serice projects aren't a part of Key Club...You can, though, list an approximation of your total hours.</p>
<p>It would depend on how large each project was or what it entailed...Also, you may want to divide it up if you have many hours from a certain ongoing project. So, how do you like Key Club? The politics in this organization are absolutely horrible...</p>
<p>You all scare me so much I decided to go to college early instead of making a gamble to a top college.</p>
<p>Mine:</p>
<p>Math Team (which hasn't met for a long time and is rampantly disorganized)
Science Team</p>
<p>Honestly, I don't spend much time in either of them. My primary ECs:</p>
<p>Death Pools. Yeah, I got so carried away whenever a famous person dies, such as Hans Bethe.
Collegeconfidential
Looking up stuff over the Internet
Laying on bed doing nothing
Wikipedia</p>
<p>FOr Spring Break, my motto should be AP self-study (I procrastinated for 4 exams) or die.</p>
<p>SNEAKiiE -- Yeah, the only real clubs at my school are the Arab Student Union and the Jewish Culture Club (I'm neither). We also have a number of contrived resume-padding clubs that really don't contribute to anything: Cooking Club and Film Analysis Club among others. Our chapter of Amnesty International has two members and no accomplishments. It's pretty depressing.</p>
<p>thisyearsgirl: since when do you need to be of a specific origin to join the corresponding club at school?
If you feel like there aren't any successful clubs, the start one that you think would be good...</p>
<p>gsp<em>silicon</em>valley -- You're right, but SNEAKiiE commented specifically on the absence of clubs at her school, and I posted in agreement. I wasn't referring to a lack of extracurricular options in my community, because there are plenty -- even for someone like me, who <em>gasp</em> doesn't go to church.</p>
<p>Marching Band - Section Leader Next Year
Concert Band - 1st Chair
Country Band
Orchestra - 1st Chair, will go for officer
Latin Club - Will get pres by default - only one in my grade :)
Latin Honors Society Induction Next Week
Model U.N. - Possible Youth Secretariat
May joy other things next year, such as newspaper</p>
<p>haha simfish you are so right, CC totally qualifies as an extracurricular</p>
<p>lets all put it on our apps and say its a highly respected club</p>
<p>mcz:
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So, how do you like Key Club? The politics in this organization are absolutely horrible...
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actually haha i think its utterly ridiculous, everyone is just whoring for hours and the majority could care less about the community service aspect. thats why i wanted to be an officer, were voting next week but i think im just going to run for publicist rather than against like 10 people for president or vp, since i havent been great about attending the sad excuses for "meetings" each week (too busy acutally doing community service).
basically its a good idea in theory (and has the potential to be good in practice as well) but you are right, the politics are ridiculous and the focus is skewed.</p>
<p>Yeah, Key Club has some weird politics. However, it's a place for kids to start their volunteering career :P</p>
<p>I really believe that volunteering, if you are passionate enough about it, is based on the individual. Anyways,</p>
<p>Key Club - President
NHS
Model UN
Mu Alpha Theta (kind of unorganized this year, so i haven't really focused on it)
and some sports here and there.</p>
<p>Hmm, I'm not really into a lot of stuff due to the fact that most of the clubs are resume padders that eat up one's money if joined in a frenzy. In addition, I'm not very popular, so I don't have a chance at a lot of those clubs you have to audition for (like dance teams/student council/officer of anything, etc).</p>
<p>*NHS
*TEAMS
*Theatre Council member
*3 plays at school and plan to do more next year
*some volunteering
*Voice Lessons (I never had room nor was very interested in choir--the choir at my school just sucks.)
*I think I'm in the Debate club? That also sucks at my school, and I don't think they ever had a follow-up meeting. Oh well.
*Chess Club--I may still be in that, despite the fact that I can't play chess to save my life. It turned out to be a major waste of time.</p>
<p>Next year I'll be doing some more theatre-related stuff, Mu Alpha Theta (I never joined because I was always afraid my grade would be too low in my math class, which it never was, and I'd have to face the shame and embarrassment of dropping out).</p>
<p>National Honor Society and other volunteer projects
Spanish Club - secretary
SADD - junior class rep
varsity synchronized swimming
varsity swimming
piano for 11+ years
I don't really have a lot of time for anything else because of swimming!</p>
<p>Mu Alpha Theta--set the foundation (it used to be only tutoring... helped evolve into an actualy society), first Vice President
NHS--Vice President (and reformer)
Video Productions Club--co-founder and first President
Art Club
INTERACT
VAPRI (Vietnamese American Policy Research Institute)--Associate Researcher
National Junior Classical League
Television Productions--everything from anchor, producer, editor, camerawoman, currently Project Producer and Manager (we do the daily announcements and we used to a local TV show, but it got cancelled due to our "liberalness")</p>
<p>I also did Quiz Bowl, but I can't say I'm a part of that, since I really only went to one game.</p>
<p>In the past, I did:
Newspaper for 2 years, Layout Editor for the Ninth Grade Campus paper and then Clubs Editor for the main campus. No room for it this year.
Also, drama: co-lead in one play and arbirtary role in another; quit because the environment was unbearably annoying.
Project America--writer, but also quit.</p>