As the first quarter of the school year ends, students have had many opportunities to try out numerous different clubs on different rotations.

Every Friday, many students participate in groups celebrating a variety of different interests and activities, and for about half an hour they enjoy hanging out with their friends in the club. 

But who actually runs these clubs, and moreover, how do clubs form in the first place? What exactly is the process of creating a club for students to partake in?

Clubs are primarily student run, so all ideas for clubs come from the students. Typically students will plan out the idea for a club that interests them with four other interested students. 

“When I got here, and I realized there’s no creative writing club, that was a little odd to me,” senior Nora McCormick, co-president of the creative writing club, said. “I feel that’s kind of one of the prerequisite clubs, so I figured, you know, why not start it myself?”

Once the idea for the club has been created, students get into contact with Wendi Walker, who helps them get the club up and running.

“They send me an email or grab me in the hall,” Walker said. “I provide a form for them to start with, and on that form, they need to get some basic information to include what the name of the club is going to be, and the purpose, the mission of the club, as well as find a sponsor that has agreed to be the adult supervision.”

Once all that is done, the process of finishing up creating the club becomes pretty straightforward.

“It was really an easy process to just have the administration and the principal run through the club and make sure that it’s not too close to any club that already exists,” junior Erez Rozman, founder of the tuba club, said. 

Once the organization is created, the club presidents have various different jobs within the club, depending on what the subject of the club is.

“There’s a lot of things that we have to do,” senior Joshua Anderson, president of DECA, said, “like helping make sure that all the members are paying their dues, creating the meetings in the slideshows, or just being a spokesperson to encourage other people to join DECA.”