Within the first month of school, the students at Perry High school experience a mass club-joining session in the Cafeteria during all lunches. Known as Club Rush, the event is frequented by nervous freshman who are looking for a spot at a lunch table, and a few zealous upperclassmen, eager to stuff up their college applications with as many extracurriculars as could fit on an 8½” by 11”.
This year, Club Rush fell on August 5-9, all last week. Clubs set up tables in the back of the cafeteria for representatives to occupy. Clubs range from the pretentious Model UN to the overpopulated Harry Potter Club.
Kyle Young– Robotics Club
“The name of our club is the Robotics Club. The purpose of our club is to build a robot to compete in the first Robotics Competition. For the first couple months we fundraise, then after that we buy a kit of parts from the first organization. We build a robot and then compete in their competition. We will teach people who are not in the programming department how to program and little things like that. Build team and design team will throw ideas out and stuff. Students should join our club if they want to learn something about technology and robotics or if they just need something [and] like to build stuff.”
Alexa Reed– Photo Club
“We’re just a bunch of people who love photography and most people who don’t know anything about photography learn the basics. For people who are already serious we run the homecoming booth, we do a Valentine’s Day booth, we run a lot of the photo functions throughout the school. We make a school calendar – we didn’t do it last year, but this year its happening – we’ve been planning field trips to go out on shoot outs after school. We meet every other Wednesday. We do a lot of photo booths, pretty much every quarter for major holidays. A lot of people don’t know a lot about photography, [so members will] have more understanding about it and learn more about art.”
Alana Fallon– Key Club
“The purpose of Key Club is to [find] community service and to volunteer and help the community. We run the blood drive twice a year and we help out with a lot of marathons and community service projects around. Students should join our club to be more involved in the community.”
