Student Activities

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Chess Club
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Activity Coordinator: Eric Muhs (ecmuhs@seattleschools.org)

Inexperienced and experienced chess players are welcome. The BHS library has the largest collection of chess books in the district for any student or players reference use.
 

Dance Team
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Activity Coordinator: Emily Lubinski bhsdanceteam@gmail.com

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Debate Club
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Activity Coordinator: Alicia Hale (ashale@seattleschools.org)

Jack Thompson (jcthompson@seattleschools.org)

Debate club meets Thursdays in Rm. S115. Members compete in state debate competitions.

Visit the Ballard Debate Website at ballarddebate.org

DECA
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Activity Coordinator: Jill Zawatski (jgzawatski@seattleschools.org)
First Tuesday of the month from 2:30-3:30 in Room N101

DECA is a student organization operating in the 50 states and Canada that attracts individuals to productive careers in business, marketing, management, and entrepreneurship. DECA gives students hands-on experience in these fields, and provides conferences and competitions that mold high school students into character-drive leaders.

Drama Club
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Earth Service Corps
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Activity Coordinators: Noam Gundle (njgundle@seattleschools.org) & Pam Hering (pmhering@seattleschools.org)  

Rm. NW217 or S105 Thursdays during both lunches

Earth Service Corps hosts educational events, leads and participates in service projects at Ballard and in Seattle and works for sustainable change everywhere. We hosted a dinner called “Eat Local Now!” twice, showed public viewings from movies, sponsor Bike to Work Day in May, built bike racks and bike shelters and built a native plant garden. This year our activities will focus on many issues, and a large project is supporting food composting at Ballard High School which was started in 2008 to help make our school culture more environmentally and socially sustainable. Any student who cares about their community can join.

FBLA -Future Business Leaders of America
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Activity Coordinator: Eric Blazevic (edblazevic@seattleschools.org) Meeting times TBD.

FBLA is an American career and technical student organization. FBLA is a non-profit organization of high school ("FBLA"), middle school ("Middle Level"), and college ("PBL") students, as well as professional members ("Professional Division") who primarily help students transition to the business world. FBLA is the largest student-run business related organization in the world, with 253,365 members. FBLA also holds yearly competitions across topics covering technology, business, and public speaking.

FCCLA - Family, Career & Community Leaders of America
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FCCLA is a national organization of students 9^th through 12^th grade who have taken a Family and Consumer Sciences class, such as Food Science, Child/Human Development, Independent Living, or Apparel and Textiles. FCCLA is one of the nation’s major student organizations with more the 219,000 members. There are approximately 6,500 chapters in all 50 states including the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.

 

FCCLA seeks to promote personal growth and leadership development through Family and Consumer Sciences Education. Focusing on the multiple roles of family member, wage earner, and community leader, members develop skills for life through – character development; creative and critical thinking; interpersonal communication; practical knowledge; and career preparation.

 

Participation with partner groups at regional, state and national levels, and community service projects including sewing hats for “Baby Boutique” store for the homeless, clothing drives, assisting at food banks, and participating in other local community service activities.

FIRST Robotics
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French Club
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Member meet in Rm. S207 at lunch on early release days and/or after school. The French Club organizes activities to promote a better understanding of French and francophone culture. Activities include: making crêpes, playing Boules, making bûche de noël, selling May Day flowers, etc.

Gay Straight Alliance
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Activity Coordinators: Brian Reardon (bjreardon@seattleschools.org) and Catherine Schmider (csschmider@seattleschools.org)

Members meet Wednesdays after school in Rm. SW100. GSA provides a meeting place and social opportunity for LGBT youth and their allies/friends. Activities include: parties, movies, conversation, excursions and social activism.

INK - Literary Magazine
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It’s about Art, Literature & Photography. INK magazine members invite students to submit art, poetry and short stories during the year, with selections made of pieces they feel represent Ballard’s literary and artistic diversity; INK is published annually.

Japanese Club 
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The Japanese Club is a student-run organization designed to offer interested students opportunities to learn about and experience various aspects of Japanese Culture…especially the food!

Key Club
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Activity Coordinators: 
Community service organization – projects include serving food at New Horizons, assisting at Holiday Carousel, picking up litter, helping younger kids shop at Fred Meyer, assisting with the annual blood drive. 

La Union Latina
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Long established club for Latino students and their friends at BHS who work together to unite Latino students from different countries and backgrounds and to share the richness of their culture with the BHS community.  The club members work together to plan activities and service projects.

Lacrosse
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Boys and girls teams/Spring sport. This is a club sport comprised of athletes from Ballard HS only. Varsity and JV teams. For girls contact Lyn Porterfield for info (lyn@bartaphoto.com), for boys contact Dave Kirkendall (davekirkendall.sbm@gmail.com).

Link Crew
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 A Mentoring Program, that assigns every incoming 9^th grader with successful upperclassmen at a ratio of about 10:2 to help them adjust to the realities of high school. Link Leaders, the mentors, are chosen through an application process in the spring and they are trained in late August to prepare for an exciting Freshmen Orientation Program. Follow up activities are organized throughout the year to increase freshmen connection to school and improve their academic and social success.

Activity Coordinators: Alicia Hale (ashale@seattleschools.org) and Jack Thompson (jcthompson@seattleschools.org) Members meet Mondays in Rm. S115 or S116, along with lunch meetings.

Students address important current international issues as delegates at Model United Nations conferences. Members develop skills in public speaking, debate, negotiation and analytical writing.   A Model UN conference will be held in December at Ballard to prepare members for outside conferences

Music 
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Activity Coordinators: Michael James (mijames@seattleschools.org)

Symphonic Band, Wind Ensemble, Percussion,and Jazz Bands
Brittany Newell (bcnewell@seattleschools.org)
Orchestra

Concert Choir, Treble Choir, and Vocal Jazz

            Men’s Ensemble is a non-auditioned, extracurricular men’s choir that rehearses once a week after school on Thursdays. Students sing a variety of music including doo-wop, contemporary rock, pop, classical, and folk music. Men’s Ensemble performs for all school concerts as well as assemblies, gigs throughout the area, and at Solo and Ensemble.

An extracurricular woman’s ensemble that rehearses once a week after school for an hour and an a half. Students perform advanced choral literature for women’s voices. They participate in Solo and Ensemble and consistently receive Superior ratings. Women’s Chamber Choir also participates in various smaller concerts and gigs throughout the year. Please see Ms. Rowley if interested.

This auditioned group meets once a week and is comprised on the most talented and motivated string players. They perform several times throughout the year at school and community events and represent BHS at the region’s solo/ensemble contest.

National Honor Society
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For meeting times and days please check your daily bulletin. For 10^th, 11^th, and 12^th graders with 3.4 or higher grade average. Members meet monthly and volunteer and perform 15 hours of community service per semester. Community service events included helping at the Holiday Carousel in downtown Seattle, tutoring elementary school students, and serving food at St. John’s soup kitchen. There were over 100 members last year.
  

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Native American Club
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Native Club is forming for any student who is Native American, Alaskan Native, First Nation, or interested in participating in this club and the fun activities and community it will support.

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Newspaper – Student Newspaper “The Talisman”
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Activity Coordinator:  Michael Smith (mtsmith@seattleschools.org) Rm. SW122
 The journalism class meets as a class everyday to produce the school newspaper, which publishes 7-8 issues a year. The online version can be found at http://bit.ly/ballardtalisman .Pdf versions can be found at http://issuu.com/search?q=ballard%20talisman



Outdoor Club – Beaver Trekkers
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Activity Coordinator: Noam Gundle (Rm NW217) (njgundle@seattleschools.org)

This is an outdoor club that helps Beavers enjoy the great outdoors.   


        

Pacific Islander Club
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Activity Coordinator: India Carlson (ikcarlson@seattleschools.org)

Members meet Wednesdays in Mr. Calson’s room to increase awareness of Pacific Island Culture and support Pacific Island students.

Activity Coordinator:  In need of an advisor
Community volunteering, serving at Swedish Club’s pancake breakfast,

folk dancing at Leif Erikson Lodge in Ballard (practicing and teaching dances)

Activity Coordinator: The mission of the club is to perform suicide prevention activities and raise awareness about the problem of teen suicide. Planned activities include: classroom presentations at BHS and local middle schools; coordinating and planning Suicide Prevention Week and distributing leaflets and posters. After-school participation earns volunteer service hours.

The group meets on Wednesdays after school. Contact the Teen Health Center at 784-2139 for more information.

Spanish Club
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Activity Coordinator: Tricia Nielsen (tlnielsen@seattleschools.org)

Members meet in Rm S201 to engage in a variety of activities to learn more about Spanish-speaking cultures. The Spanish club is organized and run by students. If you are interested in leading the club, please see Ms. Nielsen.

Surf Club
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Activity Coordinator:Noam Gundle (njgundle@seattleschools.org)

The Surf Club meets Wednesdays after school in NW217.

Thespian Troupe #5369
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Activity Coordinator: Shawn Riley (smriley@seattleschools.org)

The Thespian organization is a special honorary group within the Drama Club for Junior and senior students who have participated in a minimum of 100 hours in two or more main stage theater productions AND maintained the proper annual requirements to remain Thespians. Some members may attend a state leadership conference and the           state theater festival each year.

The mission of the Thespians is to provide a nurturing environment in which students can pursue individual and collective achievements by developing their skills and understanding in the genre of theatre, musical theatre, and technical theatre. Thespian expectations are as follows; Demonstrate respect by being punctual, serve as a leader and role model to others, commit to being focused and dedicated to your academics, your craft, and your school. Value your body as your instrument by living a clean lifestyle. Show respect to each other, staff, volunteers, and to the facilities of the theater in which we work. Demonstrate and express support for each other whether onstage, backstage, or in the audience. Thespians as an organization is far greater than any  individual. Let us be proud of our accomplishments, yet humble enough to understand that our goals could not be accomplished without each other.

Members meet in the Black Box every Tuesday starting at 2:45pm. Please check out the  washingtonthespians.org web site for more information.

Ultimate Frisbee
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Activity Coordinator: Joe Kelly (jpkelly@seattleschools.org) Rm. SW 103

Spring Only – Tue/Weds 2:45 at Loyal Heights field, dates and time subject to change

The team plays other area schools such as Northwest, Lakeside, Bush and Nathan Hale. There are about 30 players on the roster, with 14 at practice, 7 players per side.

Video Production Club
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Activity Coordinator: Matt Lawrence (mplawrence@seattleschools.org) Rm. N225

Members meet after school in the video production lab and N225

Yearbook – “The Shingle”
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Activity Coordinator: Michael Smith (mtsmith@seattleschools.org) Members meet Monday-Friday in SW122. The Shingle records the history of the school year in photos and text