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Joseph Bollendorf, Executive Principal Ann Moore, Executive Assistant Principal • Theresa Pietrowski, Executive Assistant Principal |
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The following list of student activities is published for the students at Washington Township High School. Hopefully, this will provide the students with a guide to the many co-curricular and interscholastic activities offered during their years in high school. There are many benefits gained by the students while participating in a co-curricular activity. Students who participate in activity programs tend to have higher grade-point averages, better attendance records, and fewer discipline problems. In addition, students learn self-discipline, build self-confidence and develop skills needed to be productive citizens in today's society. Studies have concluded that colleges and future employers select students who have participated in activities over non-participants because active students are more likely to accept the challenges and responsibilities needed to become successful in life. Remember, activities are considered by many experts as the Other Half of Education. So be part of our High School's Co-Curricular Program and reward yourself with many fond memories and a valuable educational experience. |
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Student Activity Eligibility requirements for Washington Township High School are as follows:
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African American Culture
Club The African American Culture Club is a club designed to teach African American students and students of other ethnic backgrounds about the struggles and accomplishments of the African Americans to pursue their dreams. It is done through the use of speakers, media and group discussion. The club uses bulletin boards displays and video/TV presentations of Blacks in History to educate others. Community projects include helping the needy by collecting clothes for people in shelters and helping in a Soup Kitchen. Students also have the opportunity to attend a leadership conference held at Rowan College. |
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All-School Productions -
Plays and Musicals Each year open auditions are held for 9 - 12 grades for the fall and spring plays. Students are also selected to become members of the tech crew, costume crew, props crew, and set/scenery construction crew. Publicity and refreshments committees need student volunteers. During the season practices are held after school in the 11-12 wing. |
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Ambassadors The WTHS Ambassadors Club is part of the "O Ambassadors program which is a joint project of Oprah's Angel Network and Kids Can Free the Children." WTHS is one of 1,000 schools selected across the U.S. to participate in this new program. The program connects students at WTHS with children around the world to create lasting change by working toward the UN Millenium Development Goals. The club's primary goal is to bring global awareness to our students and inspire them to address problems such as hunger, poverty, and limited access to education. We meet bi-weekly after school to plan specific fundraising and awareness activities adapted to our school audience for the benefit of children helping children. |
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The Art Club has done murals, silk screen shirts, and art work for the yearbook and the school newspaper. In the past, we have also participated in art exhibitions and traveled to art related functions. The Art Club is open to any student from grades 9 to 12 - you don't need an art background. |
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Asian-American Club The Asian-American Awareness club exists to promote knowledge of Asian people and cultures. It has become a popular point of contact for those high school students with Asian backgrounds, as well as others interested in the East and Far East. Meetings are typically held twice monthly. Mr. Kirkwood has served as club advisor for the past several years. |
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Bible Club The Bible Club is an non-denominational fellowship which welcomes all students who wish to participate in a weekly student-driven time of prayer and faith-encouragement. There are occasional activities such as "See you at the Pole," National Day of Prayer observance and screenings of films with appropriated spiritual themes. |
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Book Club The goal of the WTHS Student Book Club is to connect students to books in an ongoing effort to create lifelong readers. The club is open to all students in grade 9-12. Book Club members meet on a monthly basis to discuss various books that are selected by the group. |
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WTHS
Colorguard The WTHS Colorguard is an integral part of the Minutemen Marching Band. Its 63 members use flags, rifles and other assorted equipment to provide an added dimension to the marching band's performances on the football field or in parades. Tryouts for colorguard take place in May for the following school year. Practices are held on Wednesday evening during the summer. Students are urged to attend band camp in August. Fall rehearsals are Monday or Tuesday afternoon, Wednesday and Thursday evenings with performances on Friday evening and/or Saturday. (See Indoor Color Guard) |
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This club is a non-structured environment where the D-9 computer lab is open to facilitate the interests of its members. On any given meeting day, members can be found participating in many different activities. Some are working on programming assignments from Pascal class, while others are working on "freelance" programming projects of their own invention. Some game-minded folks are challenging a computer to a friendly game of chess, while others are testing their mastery of trivia in a casual game of Jeopardy. Creative folks are rearranging the components of the Lego/Logo sets to create robotic prototypes to be controlled by computer interaction, while others can be found programming the computer-controlled robot arm in the back of the room. Still others are creating Web pages of their own design. The "Demolition Crew" can always be found dismantling old computers, drives, printers and VCR, helping to collect usable components for the Programming Applications/Robotics class. Students from the Programming Applications class can be found working on their Robot projects. Of course, there are always the "DDR" folks dancing up a storm on the arcade-style dance pads in front of the large ten-foot projection screen. In short, there are lots of fun-packed activities going on, and new ideas are always welcome for consideration. The club normally meets on Fridays after school in room D-9, unless otherwise announced. |
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Concert Band
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Concert Choir is the premier choral organization at Washington Township High School. Membership is attained through competitive audition, with a balanced choral arrangement of sopranos, altos, tenors, and basses being a priority. An emphasis is on the performance of excellent choral literature, including some of the masterworks. The Concert Choir has traveled and competed extensively throughout the Eastern United States and Canada, achieving consistent Superior and Excellent ratings. Although Concert Choir is a graded, credit bearing course of five credits, rehearsals take place after school. Candidates should be prepared to make sufficient commitment to assure continued excellence. Concert performances are held in the school and surrounding areas of South Jersey, and members are eligible to audition for the New Jersey All State, and All South Jersey Choruses. |
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Dance Club Dance Club is to give students the opportunity to further develop their technical skills and to provide them with additional experiences in dance. Working with students in small group ensembles will give the opportunity to focus on the specific strengths of the dancers and then to consequently be able to highlight these talents in dance performances. Rehearsals daily, after school, until 3:00 p.m. Students in Dance II and Dance III may choose to participate in, or in some instances audition for a as many ensembles as they wish. These students would also gain experience in costuming and other aspects of dance performance. These students would perform featured numbers in the annual dance concert and be able to find additional performance opportunities within the community. |
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The debate team will compete against other high schools in Southern New Jersey during the winter season. Students will improve their public speaking ability through competitive debates. Current issues in social, geographical, and economic concerns in the world are a few of the many topics of debate. Experiences derived from participating on a high school debate team will be beneficial to students who plan to enter college and/or the working world. Social interaction between our debate team members and other high school debate teams will teach good citizenship and respect of each other. |
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DECA DECA is a student organization established for Marketing Education Students. Students in Marketing Education will have the opportunity to be a DECA member. By doing so these students will learn leadership skills, gain vocational understanding, learn social intelligence and work on civic consciousness projects. Some of the activities carried on by the WTHS DECA Chapter will be our Annual Kickoff Dance, Regional, State, and National DECA Conferences. This year we will be working on a civic project along with Gloucester County United Way. |
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FCCLA - Family,
Career and Community Leaders of America FCCLA participates in community service activities, a Fall Leadership Conference and a Spring State Conference where all participants are able to take part in group and individual competitions. If any student is interested, the prerequisite is to have taken or currently be enrolled in a Family & Consumer Science course. |
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Fellowship Christian Athletes is a non-school sponsored club. The club will meet on Friday afternoon in room L-201. The clubs purpose is to present the Bible in an exciting, applicable manner. The club will also focus on other Christian ideals, such as volunteer work and facing the societal pressures in daily life. F.C.A. is a positive, effective place for students to spend their time. |
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French Club The French club promotes many more cultural activities for French students than are possible in the classroom. Meetings are held once a month and are relaxed get-togethers where students of all different levels have an opportunity to practice their French and get to know one another. Join us in our many activities including traditional holiday celebrations for Noël, and Mardi Gras, learning to make crêpes, and trips to the Philadelphia Art Museum to admire the many Impressionist works of art and French restaurants, and many more. |
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Future Business Leaders of America (F.B.L.A.) The FBLA club offers students with an interest in the field of business the opportunity to gain valuable insight into the many facets of the business world. Through Regional, State, and National Competition students will demonstrate their knowledge in business and acquire leadership skills. Students will participate in various fund-raising activities and will go on an exciting field trip to a popular business establishment. |
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Game Club The Game Club offers students and faculty an opportunity to relax and socialize after school by playing favorite board games and card games. The Game Club owns a variety of games: from classic strategy games like chess and backgammon, to family favorites such as Risk and Monopoly. There are games to meet almost every taste: abstract strategy, fantasy, science fiction, sports, finance and historical and military simulations. No prior playing experience is necessary. Students are welcome to bring along their own games if they seek opponents for a personal favorite. |
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Gay and Straight Alliance Club |
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The School Newspaper The Patriot is the student-produced newspaper at WTHS. Under the guidance of the co-advisors and editor-in-chief, student volunteers write articles for news, editorials, features, entertainment, and sports stories. Students with special interests are encouraged to write columns (such as movie reviews or advice columns). Student volunteers are also needed to work as photographers, illustrators and cartoonists. Those with a knowledge of, or interest in learning layout and design are also encouraged to participate. The Patriot is published several times per year. No prior writing experience is needed. Anyone interested in learning the aspects of producing a newspaper is welcome to join the staff. Meetings are held bi-weekly. Please listen to the morning announcements for notification of this year's first meeting. |
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WTHS Indoor Colorguard The WTHS Indoor Colorguard, known as MIRAGE, uses flags, rifles, sabers and other pieces of equipment to present a combined program of equipment and dance on the size of a basketball court. Taped music is used with drill to enhance the work. Students compete between January and May on Saturdays and/or Sundays. Practices begin during the first week of December on Monday and Wednesday evenings. Tryouts for this performing group are held at the end of November. Since basic skills are not taught, students need to be well versed in the basics before trying out. (See Color Guard) |
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Interact Club (Rotary) The Rotary Interact Club has a purpose of helping promote international understanding and serving the community. Interact is a service club. It gives you the opportunity to work with friendly people. The people involved also benefit and learn from the experience. There are many different and exciting activities (eg. fundraisers, helping senior citizens, bike-a-thon, Citizens with Special Needs, etc.) sponsored by the Interact Club. Members need to display leadership potential and good grades as prerequisites for membership. Meetings are held every Monday to share new ideas and plan new activities. |
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Jazz Band Jazz Band is the premier jazz organization at Washington Township High School. Membership is attained through competitive audition. The Jazz Band travels through out South Jersey and the Delaware Valley area, competing against other high school jazz bands. Concert performances are held during the winter and spring months. Members are eligible to audition for the All South Jersey and All State Jazz Band. Rehearsals are held after school in the 11-12 Wing Band Room. |
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Literacy for the
Community Club Literacy for the Community (LFC) gives students the opportunity to volunteer their time by reading to both elementary-age children and senior citizens. It provides the chance for students to spend their time volunteering for a quality activity such as promoting literacy. LGC holds approximately two meetings a month, to be advised by Mr. Lawler (E-11) to discuss the selections for reading and to organize a schedule of volunteers to go to specific reading locations. |
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Marching Band The Minutemen Marching Band is a performance-oriented group that provides entertainment for school and community activities, and also performs competitively in regional and national events. Membership for musicians is required of any student grades 9 through 12 enrolled in one of the band courses. Colorguard membership is open to girls in grades 9 through 12 by auditions held each spring. Some of the activities of the marching band include parades, halftime at varsity football games, competitions and festivals, and NFL football and collegiate football games. The band has performed at Giants Stadium (Meadowlands), Veterans Stadium and the Spectrum, and has traveled to Canada, Kentucky, Ohio, Virginia, Florida, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, West Virginia and Washington, DC for performances. The band had been invited to perform for Governors Kean and Florio and for President Reagan. The Band performed on New Years Day, 1998 in the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California. |
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Mock Trial The Mock Trial Club is an organization of students that participate in the state-wide Mock Trial activities. Students role play lawyers, defense attorneys, prosecutors, witnesses, etc. Cases are prepared in the same manner as in the professional legal world. Student performance is constructively critiqued by staff advisors. This program is held from mid-December through March. |
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Model UN Model UN is a club for students who are interested in their world and its diverse peoples. Students represent nations of the U.N. at a 900 student convention in Hershey, Pa. in December. Students will have to cover the costs of this weekend's program and preliminary session. |
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Musket - Yearbook The yearbook staff's responsibility is to design the layout for the entire book. The layouts indicate the location for the pictures, artwork and type. All pictures and artwork are stamped and cropped. All the typing is done by the typing staff. |
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National Honor Society The National Honor Society is a Nationwide Organization that recognizes students who are outstanding in the areas of scholarship, service, leadership and character. Students in the 11th and 12th grade are selected for membership based on the extent to which they demonstrate the above attributes. There is no application process. The NHS is involved in service activities, most notably peer tutoring. Students are encouraged beginning in the 9th grade to maintain a solid academic standing, to participate in school and community activities and to demonstrate leadership and seek leadership positions. |
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String Ensemble and Orchestra Participation in the High School Orchestra involves rehearsals and performances, individual preparation of assigned music literature, scales, and technical studies, attendance to rotating lessons, and attendance to after school rehearsals and concerts. The program is open to students in grades 9 through 12. |
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Peer Facilitators Peer Facilitators has been established to give students an understanding of today's social issues that affect them. The majority of our meetings involve presentations by outside speakers who talk about various topics some of which are: Peer pressure, drug/alcohol addictions, family problems, gambling, eating disorders, special needs and many others. Our goal is to make the students aware of these problems, recognize the problem, and then be able to make a referral to the proper authorities. Membership is available to any student grade 9 through 12 who shows an interest in this type of activity. Meetings are held every other Thursday in the 9-10 building for approximately one hour. Some of the activities carried on during the school year include monthly visits to a nursing home, helping hands program where we work with "at risk" elementary school students, Super Saturday, collecting money and food for the needy of our community, and visiting various institutions and agencies to drug/alcohol rehabilitation centers. The culminating activity for the year is a two day conference. |
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Pieces - Creativity Literary Magazine All members of the student body are invited to participate by submitting creative writing and artwork to be reviewed for possible publication. Students on the staff attend bi-monthly meetings to judge submitted materials and proofread type written work. Staff members are sought for all areas of publication including writing, typing, proofreading, editing, and distributing. |
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Prom Committee The Prom committee meets throughout the year to plan the menu, favors, music, decorations, theme and special events associated with the Junior and Senior Proms. The committee is open to any junior or senior. |
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Rotary Interact Club The Rotary Interact Club has a purpose of helping promote international understanding and serving the community. Interact is a service club. It gives you the opportunity to work with friendly people. The people involved also benefit and learn from the experience. There are many different and exciting activities (eg. fundraisers, helping senior citizens, bike-a-thon, Citizens with Special Needs, etc.) sponsored by the Interact Club. Members need to display leadership potential and good grades as prerequisites for membership. Meetings are held every Monday to share new ideas and plan new activities. |
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Spanish Club The Spanish Club here at Washington Township High School provides the opportunity for students to enhance their understanding and appreciation for the Spanish and Hispanic cultures. Various activities and trips may be offered to the members of the club during the school year. This club also affords the students the opportunity to get better acquainted with their language teachers and fellow students. |
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S.A.V.E. - Students Against the Violation
of Earth S.A.V.E. is our high school's environmental club. The activities in which the club participates involve promoting awareness of environmental problems and implementing remedies for those problems, as well as being involved in activities that simply promote appreciation of the natural world. Members are encouraged to join Explorer's, which allows for other types of community involvement. Some of the activities in which S.A.V.E. is currently involved include litter clean-up projects, plans to create a picnic area on school grounds for students, campaigns to arouse interest in the school's recycling policy and emphasize the benefits of the program, and of course, plans to have an Earth Day Festival. So if you are concerned about the environment and want to have fun with others that think like you, come out and join this very important club. New members and their ideas are always welcome. |
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Student Council Student Council is the high school student government organization. Officers are elected each year from the general student body memberships in grades 9-12. Homeroom representatives are elected each September and serve for the entire school year. Any member of the student body in good academic standing may run for Student Council office or homeroom representative. Student Council meets weekly to conduct business and plan activities. Additional committee meetings are scheduled as necessary after school. Student Council is involved in various activities throughout the year. Some activities include: organizing Homecoming; sponsoring and organizing a semi-formal dance (Harvest Moon) in the fall; Pictures with Santa; Candy grams and flower grams; Halloween Costume Day; School Spirit Week; Mr. Washington Township; and fund raising. Student Council provides students with opportunities to display their leadership skills. In planning and implementing various Student Council activities, students learn organizational skills and responsibilities that have value throughout life. |
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S.U.R.E. - Students United for Respect and
Equality The Students United for Respect and Equality Club provides an awareness of and sensitivity to multicultural and multiethnic issues. Students will help promote a positive school climate by building cooperation and understanding among students of diverse cultural, religious, and ethnic backgrounds. |
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The Tech crew has been established to teach students how to operate the various sound and lighting systems in the auditorium, football field, and gymnasiums in Washington Township High School for both school and community activities. Tech Crew is a non paid activity for school events, and becomes a paid activity for community use of facilities. Membership is available to any student grade 9 through 12 who shows an interest in this type of activity. Students are trained by Mr. Huff to operate the stage lighting console, follow spots, PA systems, microphones, etc. They are then approved by the Board of Education to work all events. For all community rental activities the students are paid at the rate of $8.00 per hour. All activities are usually held at night and on weekends. Some of the activities carried on during the school year include the All School play and musical, Mr. Washington Twp, school musical concerts. Community activities include Spotlighters Community Theatre, dance studio recitals and competitions, concerts and various other rentals. |
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TSA (Technology Student Association) The Technology Student Organization is an after school activity that is designed for the student interested in design and problem solving. The organization is open to all students who have taken or are taking a Technology Education class. The association participates in state and national competitions in areas such as architecture, flight, engineering and web site design to name a few. Additionally, field trips to places that use engineering or architecture as a basis for their enterprises are also taken. |
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Washington Township Athletic
First Responders A club that provides assistance to the athletic training department and athletic teams. You will work closely with the certified athletic trainers and will learn injury prevention and firs aid. There is an opportunity to receive a varsity letter. In addition, the club attends workshops and field trips that will expose you to all aspects of medial care for the athlete. Requirements: 10-12 grade and must be First Aid and CPR certified. |
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