what to do with a science club

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Hi</p>

<p>I've been a member of my school's science club for a couple of years now. Next year I will be the president of the club and I was wondering if any of you had some good ideas as to what I should do with the club. For my duration in the club, its been pretty rough with the club really not doing anything and attendance is very low. The big thing with the club has been to latch ourselves onto a field trip some science teacher organized, and most meetings end up with us doing nothing. Any ideas would be great.</p>

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<p>Try science.</p>

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<p>Maybe you could start a Science Olympiad team.</p>

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<p>We already have a science olympiad team and its seperate from the science club but thanks for the idea.</p>

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<p>Battle the Science Olympiad for supreme dominance of Science in the school. The victor is the champion of science throughout the school.</p>

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<p>Do you already have an environmental club? Because at my school the environmental club meets every Thursday to take recycling bins out of every classroom, has an Earth Day festival with live music and food, and volunteers at this Carnivore Preserve and an animal shelter. They also take yearly trips to the beach for a clean-up project.</p>

<p>sorry about my first suggestion lol ;)</p>

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<p>Yeah my school does have an environmental club but that idea of a beach club is awesome cause who wouldn't want to go on that field trip.</p>

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<p>yeah..it's supposed to be awesome. they spend about 3 hours picking up trash, and the rest of the time hanging out on the beach. :)</p>

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<p>Tutor younger kids in science</p>

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<p>invite science professors from local community college or university to speak</p>

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<p>How about JETS <a href="http://www.jets.org%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.jets.org&lt;/a> or doing one of the many robotics contests? My science/Engineering club did robots the first half of the year and TEAMS competition the second half. The robots really draw in a lot of people who wouldn't join otherwise.</p>

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<p>Hey, how do you start an environmental club? We don't have one at our school since environmentalists are quite rare <em>sigh</em>.</p>

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<p>We also have a jets team. To start an environmental club, just like find a teacher who would be willing to be an advisor, get a couple of friends together and petition your principal to make the club official so you get funding and people know about it and so its legit.</p>

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<p>Hehe, good one leah.</p>

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<p>do kool experiments, and mayb then u could take a feild trip to an exciting museum, or a fun activity...</p>

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<p>~ invite speakers from the local college, or even students who graduated a few months prior and went on in science
~ bring in the science trivial persuit or something similar
~ do some random car building/ catapult making contests and the like
~ go drag out a telescope for a nighttime event, or do the boring sunspot/moon craters/other daytime objects thing during meetings</p>

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<p>we do some labs, like one were we blowup gummy bears but there the same labs year after year. Could you recommend some new labs to do.</p>

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<p>You could always make things explode...</p>

<p>[I'm guessing someone already said this, but I'm too lazy to read through]</p>

<p>Also... mix chemicals until you get cool ppts.</p>

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<p>Rockets are always fun.</p>

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<p>We're taking the Merck Science Test tomorrow and we're going to a museum on Friday with the Human Anatomy class.</p>