Lake Shore offers many clubs, including one new addition: Club America.
Club America was created to promote productive dialogue between those with different opinions. One of the co-founders, Maddy Moyaert, said, “Club America is about activism and standing for your beliefs and, like, talking about stuff in a productive manner, mostly the love of America and different political views and mostly talking about all sides so you can get unbiased and you can form your own opinion politically.” Club America is open to anyone who would like to join and share their beliefs.
The Ping Pong Club is an old one that has been around for approximately 4 years. It is hosted by teacher Annette Kominarek. The Ping Pong Club was created because they wanted to do something different, and have “an after-school fun club,” as stated by the co-founder, Kominarek, where students can come in whenever they like to hang out and have fun, meet new people, and enjoy the snacks she provides for them. They meet up every Tuesday after school until the end of April.
Another club hosted by Kominarek is the BSU. The BSU club started when some of her past students at the beginning of the year wanted to start a student union and asked her to sponsor the club. The BSU club is a “student-run organization with a vice president and a president, and the students dictate what they want to do,” said the teacher sponsor, Kominarek. Anyone is welcome to join they bring snacks for the people in it. They also take the club outside of school, they went to the Travel Height Museum and did some philanthropy, and they also wrapped Christmas gifts, and not only that, but they also collected money for Goodfellows. They do volunteer work, and they visited the black college fair.
One of our academic clubs is the National Honor Society. NHS is a club for juniors and seniors for their academic achievements with a 3.45 GPA or higher. To get in, you have to have two recommendations and write an essay, and have 15 hours of community service. It’s a club that meets once a month after school at 3:05 pm. They do community service and also go to retirement homes to help out the elderly. This also enhances their college resumes with community service and all the charities that they do.
We have an Art Club for our creative students who want to express themselves after school, hosted by teacher Ingrida Kamis. This club is a vibrant space dedicated to fostering artistic expression and to meeting new people through the shared passion for the visual arts. It’s for people who want to express their creativity in a safe space and enhance their artistic talents, as well as learn more about visual art and how to draw in different ways, as well as learn various methods of art. It’s open after school on November 11th, though May 12th on certain days.
One of our competitive clubs is our Clay Target Trap Team/club hosted by teacher Christopher Hubbard. It’s a competitive club that’s a team that competes in competitions around Michigan. They created it after the Olympic shooting sport called trap. They use live ammunition and real shotguns to destroy clay targets moving 40 miles per hour. They accept people in grades 6th-12th who have passed a student athlete firearms education course to get certified with guns. It’s open to anyone, but it’s not an easy sport that you can excel in fast; it takes some time. It’s open to girls and boys, and some of the girls in our school are high-ranking in the competitions.
One of our other competitive teams at our school is the E-sports team. Teacher Austin Kelly and Shane Trail co-own the club together. They have a room filled with video games that you can stop by and play if you talk to one of them, and if they have that game or are displaying it that day. Anyone who is interested in going or playing a game after school can speak to one of them about the details. They compete in competitions with other schools and groups that also play video games.
The GSA club, also known as the Gender and Sexualities Alliance, is hosted by teacher Colen Tharme on Mondays at 3:05 pm in room 201. It’s a club that seeks to unite LGBTQ+ and allied youth to build our community. It’s also about exploring issues impacting them in our schools and communities. You can also meet new people that you relate with, if you’re seeking to meet new people. Anyone is welcome to join if they are interested in joining.
