<p>Anybody know the first thing about starting a club like debate club, or NHS, science olympiad, etc.</p>
<p>p.s. anybody have any good ideas for a club?</p>
<p>You don't ask people for ideas...=.= You come up with your own unique thing that will attract people. </p>
<p>The first thing: You NEED people who are interested. That is the first thing, then you will need a sponsoring teacher. Go from there.</p>
<p>What are YOU interested in? You'll have a lot more success recruiting other people to be involved if you come up with something that really excites you.</p>
<p>well, i started a Russian Language/Culture Club in my school.
Are you talking about clubs in schools or outside of that ?
good luck!</p>
<p>I started a Young Liberals Club at my school. I'm sure it depends on the school, but all we did was wrote up a plan for the club, explaining why we wanted to form and what we planned to do, found a teacher to sponsor us (could be another adult, might need some kind of certification), and talked to the principal. It would have been harder if we wanted funding from the school or anything like that. </p>
<p>You will want to have a group that is interested in becoming members when you talk to people about it. Groups like NHS have a national base, and I'm not sure how it would work to start your own chapter. If you plan to start a club, you should have something you are really interested and want a club for, not just to be able to say you started a club.</p>
<p>The first thing? You might want to know what kind of club you're starting. It helps with paperwork later on down the road.</p>
<p>My son and his friend started the Gay-Straight Alliance at his HS. They first consulted with other nearby HSs that had GSAs and they also got lots of advice and help from GLSEN and from the princiapl, who agreed to serve as advisor-club was started in response to perceived need that arose from issues raised in Advisory groups at my son's school......</p>
<p>I want to start a Science Olympiad team, but from what I've read about, it takes a lot of dedication, and I think i read something about it being 15 people a team. Do I do the same thing with starting it as I would with a club?</p>
<p>Also, I'm a sophomore, and don't know a whole lot of seniors and juniors, however I read that it would be good for a team to have people who know their physics, biology, chemistry, etc. science really well. I have some pretty smart friends, but a lot of us don't know a lot yet because we haven't taken the classes. </p>
<p>My last concern is that I'm not sure I can find an advisor or people for that matter that will want to put in the effort to form a successful team.</p>
<p>What should I do?</p>
<p>Talk to a science teacher who will help you recruit interest through all the other science teachers' students. They can make announcements to their classes and you can hang up flyers for a science olympiad team. I personally think it would be easier to start the team through another club rather than forming your own club. If you have a math club or science club or research club then ask them if you can share resources since you have similar goals and interests. Or better yet, take over those clubs and then add science olympiad. =P</p>
<p>I think it would help to be an upperclassman for sci oly, though, since you might have more kids than spots on your team, and then you'll need to hold tryouts. And if you don't make your own tryouts, that would suck. If you wanted to be exempt from the tryouts, you would need a good enough reason, and you'd need to be able to argue that you won't weigh the team down. It'd be easier to do that as a junior or senior.</p>
<p>I started a video game club with my friends. All it took was one cool teacher who plays video games, and a bunch of kids who liked playing games. It's lots of fun, just make sure it's something you and lots of other people enjoy doing.</p>
<p>I always wanted to start a Dodgeball club. Since I love dodgeball, and it would be sweet. But I just never found the time</p>
<p>For things like debate and NHS there are national standards for your club to be admitted as a participating member. The NFL for debate.</p>
<p>have any of you guys started a national chinese honor society club? I am planning to start one, and some advice would definately help</p>
<p>Dodgeball is illegal in New Jersey. :p</p>
<p>Thanks theoneo! :) I guess I'll wait until my Junior year to try to start one. </p>
<p>Does a research club basically do research?</p>