<p>Has anybody been through this experience? Is it hard to find a devoted teacher and devoted students? </p>
<p>I want to start a debate club, and I know a teacher (who I'll approach by the end of the year) who may be interested. Harder for me is finding students who are interested. I go to a small school (150 kids in my grade) full of students who think sports are more important than any other activity. It will be hard!</p>
<p>Other ideas I have (perhaps less feasible) are a Computer Science club (difficult b/c I have a school full of non-academics) or an SAT prep club (only feasible after I myself score higher on the SATs this fall). </p>
<p>How important is making clubs? Any advice for me?</p>
<p>I co-founded a language club last year; on normal days about 5 or 6 people showed up. Try communicating by email or asking the teacher to spread word. Also having monthly competitions with prizes always helps.</p>
<p>Stop and ask yourself what good it is to start a club that only students at your school can join.</p>
<p>My community college has a math club with weekly meetings where all kinds of people are invited to speak on various topics: students, faculty, alumni, students and faculty at other colleges, mon-mathematicians with non-academic jobs who are using mathematics in interesting ways, etc.</p>
<p>In high school, I was part of a speech and debate club full of local homeschoolers. It grew to about 70 students by the time I graduated.</p>
<p>If you want to meet people who share an interest and to develop that interest together, maybe looking exclusively within your school is not the answer.</p>