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Electronic Sciences & Computing Club
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We encourage students to get involved with the many class activities, such as the Talent Night skit, the Homecoming float, Winter Carnival, dances, and car washes. Also students may show their leadership skills by campaigning for and serving as class officers. A president, vice-president, secretary, and treasurer of each grade are chosen at the end of the school year for Grades 10-12 and at the beginning of each school year for Grade 9. ART CLUB The SBHS Art Club provides students with an opportunity to create and investigate art making. The club meets on a weekly basis. We explore a variety of materials and techniques including: clay, paper mache, acrylic paint, collage, and bookmaking. Each quarter we travel off campus to view art in the greater Burlington Area. DREAM (Dominican Community Service Project) The DREAM Project aims to endow Dominican and American students and teachers, working side by side, with a selflessness that connects them to all humanity. Over February break, 12 students and 2 chaperones travel to a rural community in the Dominican Republic to participate in a service-learning project that improves the living and schooling conditions in Rio San Juan. Home stay families’ host students. Students also participate in a variety of cross-cultural activities and are required to live without their known amenities. DRAMA - see separate web page link on MAIN athletic page SBHS presents two plays each year, one each semester. One of these productions is usually a musical. Although many students participate in drama so they can learn to act, acting is only one of the many jobs connected with theater production. Other areas of activity include lighting and other technical stage work, stage managing, costumes, make-up, theater management, publicity, programs and tickets. Participating in drama is a unique way of working with others. Everyone who is interested can participate in some way. The Key Club/Student Service Organization seeks to serve the school and community and to help students develop initiative, responsibility, and leadership. The group will undertake many projects and services activities to benefit students and community members, such as Talent Night and the school's annual Spring Art Show. Membership is open to all high school students who wish to serve. The Mathematics League Team is a co-curricular activity sponsored by a member of the Mathematics Department. Students are chosen for the team by a combination of teacher referrals and students results on placement testing. The team is composed of 15 to 20 outstanding math students from Grade 9-12. The team concepts in the Greater Burlington Area Math League (12 Teams). The South Burlington High School Chapter of the National Honor Society (NHS), was chartered in 1962. All juniors and seniors who have a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or higher are eligible to seek membership into the NHS. An invitation for a student to become a member of the NHS is determined on the basis of scholarship, service, leadership and character. An invitation is offered after careful review of several sources of information that include: (a) the student information packet submitted by the student; (b) the documentation of a student's service and leadership during his/her high school career; (c) statements by adults both at and outside the school, about the student's character; and (d) recommendations by adults who know the student well. Service and leadership need to be consistent and continuous during all the years in high school to be considered appropriate for an invitation to be extended. Service activities that either include paid compensation or are required for a team, organization, or academic class (e.g. Health class) are not eligible for consideration. Members of the National Honor Society are expected to maintain exemplary levels of scholarship, service, leadership, and character throughout their high school careers. Members are required contribute significantly to the high school's Peer Tutor Program, to complete a minimum number of community service hours, and to remain active in their school and community organizations. Any member who fails to maintain expected scholarship, service, leadership, or character may be permanently dismissed from the NHS after a hearing without any opportunity to re-join. Freshmen and sophomores are strongly encouraged to focus each year on building a documented record of service and leadership. Such achievements and documentation will increase the likelihood of a student being invited to join during his/her junior year. Link to: NHS Home Page including information on NHS Admissions Policy and Procedure The Oceanography Club is a competitive club that learns and practices weekly in the related areas of geology, biology, chemistry, and physics. The club competes in the Northeastern Bowl in New England annually in February. Scholarship money is available. If you would enjoy exercise, being on the water and experience fun and camaraderie with your peers, the Rowing Club might be for you. The club uses two very sea worthy pilot gigs, or long boats, from the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum. Practices are held every Wednesday at 3:45 p.m. under the supervision of Chuck Soule (School Counselor) and Nikki St. Mary (School Counselor). The practices will take place at Perkins Peer, on the waterfront, in Burlington. These boats are 32’ long and approximately five feet wide at the mid section. They are not traditional sculling boats and are very seaworthy and well maintained. Every student is required to wear a life jacket and we will provide them. As this is a water-based activity, safety is the utmost priority. All of the student rowers will be educated about water safety. Students become experts in such areas as current events, history, science, math, literature, art, and music and compete with other schools around the state in this VT-National Education Association sponsored event. The school that wins at the state level advances to the national competition. Have you always wanted to be a radio announcer? Do you like to act or read aloud stories to others? Do you have passionate views on the issues of today? If so, we invite you to join the Speech Club. The club holds bi-weekly practices and competes for individual and team trophies on six or seven Fridays and Saturdays with other Vermont schools from October to March. The Student Council is the representative body of the students. Its primary function is to provide a voice in activities and events, which affect student life both academically and socially. Two students from the student body at large are elected by the Council to serve on the South Burlington School District Board of Directors. T.I.E. (THE INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE) Foreign exchange programs with Costa Rica, France, and Germany are sponsored by the World Language Department with support from faculty members in many other departments. Student spend three weeks living with families abroad, attending high school classes, and participating in activities planned by our foreign partner schools. TIE students are also required to host the foreign students for an equal period of time here in Vermont. All students are eligible to apply for the German exchange program. Those applying to the French or Costa Rica programs must be fully enrolled in at least French II or Spanish II, respectively, in the year of traveling abroad. Student participants must prepare reports on some aspect of life in the United States to be presented abroad. Regular attendance at orientation sessions and in classes at the foreign school is also required. Student selection is based upon a written application, recommendations, and a personal interview. Some personal interview. Some preference is given to those who have not previously participated in a TIE program or who will not have another opportunity to do so before graduating South Burlington High School. CLASS ADVISORS: Freshman Class: T.B.A. Sophomore Class: Max Skapof Junior Class: Jill Wilkens & Alex Anthony Senior Class: Curt Belton Administration Liaison: Lissa McDonald
Art Club: Lisa Divoll-Painter Band and Ensemble * Christina Toner Chorus & Select Chorus * Aimee Bushey Coffee House: Jim Shields Coalition for Community Service: Erin Randall-Mullins & Nancy Lavarnway Close Up: Bill Price Drama: Kelly Kendall Electronic Sciences & Computing: Steve Barner Film Club: Jim Shields Future Educators of America: Jill Wilkens & Karen Bohmann Dominican Dream Project: Kendra Rickerby Gay/Straight Alliance: T.B.A. Jazz Band Ensemble * David Grippo Key Club: Richard Wise & Bill Minard Mathematics League: Jean Ohlson National Honor Society: Kendra Rickerby Oceanography Club: Marion Voorheis Ping Pong Club: Curt Belton Radio Club: Jim Shields Rowing Club: Chuck Soule & Nikki St. Mary Scholars' Bowl: Eric Stone Sentry* (School Yearbook): Phil Galiga Speech Club: Carly Bennett Student Council: Greg Lewis & John Painter The International Exchange (T.I.E.): Ann Sorrell * classes in which you earn academic credit |
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