Black Student Union This is a place where students can gather to discuss pertinent issues in the school and community.
Contact: CJ, jamaalcj16@yahoo.com
(Teacher) Kris Ann Berger, berger@aaps.k12.mi.us
Website Team This group set up and maintains the CHS website. This site. Hey, that’s us! Meetings are Mondays at lunch.
Contact: Noam Samuel, noamsml@communityhigh.org
Committee for the Renewal of the Hiring Committee. Committee. We are students working to decentralize the teacher hiring process. We meet Tuesdays at lunch in Craig’s room. Contact: hiring.committee@communityhigh.org
Community Beautification Existed for one year and the founder/leader is graduating, but could be an ongoing project if there is enough dedication.
Contact: Madeleine Clinton (call her Maddi), 662-7372
Community Student Union This group’s existence is ad hoc. If there is a problem, a CSU is usually formed (exclusively by the students) to solve it.
Contact: Vincent Alessi, vaalessi@yahoo.com
Faraday Society This group coordinates visits to the school by professions in a field of science or engineering. The F-society also is in the process of setting up a program with a big whig at the LSI that would allow CHS student to get a research position at an LSI laboratory at the U of M. If you are at all interested in the science or engineering as a career path, this is the club for you. Meets Friday during lunch.
Contact: Vincent Alessi, vaalessi@yahoo.com
(Teacher) Kathy Hetter, hetter@aaps.k12.mi.us
Free Verse This is a semi-annual publication is a literature/arts compilation made completely from the works of CHS students. Involvement would be at an editorial level, but anyone can submit.
Contact: Judith DeWoskin, dewoskin@aaps.k12.mi.us
Jazz Workshops Although there are many jazz classes to enroll in, there is also opportunity to have independent jazz studies.
Contact: Mike Grace, gracem@aaps.k12.mi.us
Michigan Math Prize and Trig Star competition A challenging math test competition with cash prizes for the winners.
Contact: Ed Kulka, kulka@aaps.k12.mi.us:
Anne Thomas, thomas@aaps.k12.mi.us
Mock Trial The CHS Mock Trial team has been a fixture at the school since 1993. Last year, in Orlando, FL, the team was 4th out of 50 teams. This year, we’ve returned with two competitive teams and an alternate teams.
Contact: Cheryl Grace, grace@aaps.k12.mi.us
Model U.N. can be taken as CR class.
More info: http://www.thirteen.org/peaceful/stratb.html
Contact: Marion Evashevski, evashevs@aaps.k12.mi.us
National Honor Society This group elects members on their GPA; the current required GPA is 3.6. This group does all sorts of ultra-nifty service activities during the year.
Contact: John Boshoven, boshoven@aaps.k12.mi.us
Odyssey of the Mind The OD team is a group of no more than seven kids who are given guidelines for a short play, which they will present at a competition late in the year. On top of that, there is also a segment of competition that is solely reliant upon the student-team’s creativity. Their was a team last year, and it would be relatively easy to form another for this coming year.
Contact: Vincent Alessi, vaalessi@yahoo
Peer mediation group Currently being set up for next year.
Contact: Pam Kirchen, kirchen@aaps.k12.mi.us
School Improvement Team This committee of teachers, students and parents meets once a month to decide school events.
Contact: Marci Tuzinsky, tuzinsky@aaps.k12.mi.us
(Student) Dylan Cinti, doconnpr123@gmail.com
QSA (Queer-Straight Alliance) is a group that meets every Monday in the art room to discuss issues relating to the LGBT community. They are open to the ideas and perspectives of people of all orientations. They annually participate in the national Day of Silence and are continually assisting and working alongside related groups and organizations.
Contact: Kate Walter, katehw24@hotmail.com
Science Olympiad Currently being set up for next year through members of the Faraday society.
Contact: Vincent Alessi, vaalessi@yahoo.com
(Teacher) Kathy Hetter, hetter@aaps.k12.mi.us
SEED a.k.a. Students Educating Each other about Discrimination. This group meets on Tuesdays and Wednesdays to discuss and take part in activities about discrimination. They then go to middle schools and give presentations about understanding and preventing discrimination. Can be taken as a CR class.
Contact: Cindy Haidu-Banks
(Student) CJ, jamaalcj16@yahoo.com
SEED CORE They decide what happens at SEED the following two days. Meets Mondays from 7:30 until 9:00.
Contact: Cindy Haidu-Banks
(Student) CJ, jamaalcj16@yahoo.com
Students for a Free and Democratic Iraq promotes the spread of democrasy in third world countries as well as political autonomy at CHS.
Youth Senate This is a one of the programs run beneath the umbrella organization, the Youth Empowerment Project. This group serves as a launching pad for involvement in all sorts of other Youth Empowerment projects and committees.
Contact: Vincent Alessi, vaalessi@yahoo.com
Youth Empowerment at 761-3005, youthempowerment.com
Zebracougars Originally founded as a running club, Zebracougars is dedicated to making the school better, through community service, charity lunch and spontaneous acts of awesomeness. Read more on The Communicator.
last edited 2006-10-12 17:54 / ¶