Club Council

If you love to perform and compete, this is the place to be! You will learn to dance & spin with flags, rifles, and sabers. First time members are always welcome!

• Advisors: Lauren (LHebert56@gmail.com) and Brittany (BrittGordon7@gmail.com)
• Student Leadership: Marion Hamilton '19
• Meeting Dates: Practices are held on Tuesday/ Thursday at AMSB

If you have any questions, please contact us. Looking forward to it!

Amity Creative Theatre is one of the biggest clubs at AHS and has to do with all things theater! Anywhere from monthly cabarets to student run productions, ACT is sure one successful club!

• Advisors: Mr. Kennedy, Mrs. Rizzoti and Mrs. Chevan
• Student Leadership: Emily Kilian '18 (President) , Alaina Dwyer '18 (Vice President), Kayla Zamkov '18 (Publicity Secretary), Maren Westgard '18 (Membership Secretary)
• Meeting Dates: Contact Club Leadership for More Information!

If you would like to join, please contact our ACT Membership Secretary. We look forward to working with you soon!

Amity Girl Up seeks to promote gender equality, advocate for female empowerment, and inform the community about gender issues in today's world.

• Advisor: Ms. Browett
• Student Leadership: Ali Ashworth '18, Natasha Kaluzynski '18, Sana Pashankar '19
• Meeting Dates: We meet right after school on Thursdays! Meetings are held once a month, so please contact student leadership for more information about specific dates. Thank you!

The Amity G.I.V.E. (Guide Involved Volunteer Empower) club is a community service club. We help out the community by working with the less fortunate and raising money for cancer awareness. Some of the events we have done in the past are the Thanksgiving Basket Brigade, where we put together thanksgiving baskets for families who can not afford to buy food, a Holiday gift drive, bake sales that go towards Relay For Life, volunteering at soup kitchens, and putting together a team for Relay For Life. We are looking for new members and everyone is welcome!

• Advisor: Ms. Boyns
• Student Leadership: Brianna DiRienzo '18
• Meeting Dates: We meet at 2:30pm every Tuesday in the Counseling Office.

If you have any questions, please reach out to student leadership or our advisor.

The Amity Leo Club is primarily an organization that volunteers around the community, including nearby senior homes, the VA hospital, fairs and festivals, etc. In addition, we host annual food drives and clothing drives to help out local families and homeless shelters. Also, we helped found and are currently running a non-profit business organization called the Amity Medical Loan Closet. The purpose of this organization is to collect medical equipment that were no longer being used from various places, and loan them out to people in need if medical equipment but don't have resources to get them themselves.

• Advisor: Miss Hamilton and Jen DiBlanda (out of school)
• Student Leadership: Qingli Hu '18 (President), Maren Westgard '18 (President), Sebin Park '18 (Secretary), Jocelyn Eagle '18 (Treasurer) and Hayden Nork '19 (PR Officer)
• Meeting Dates: Weekly meetings every Tuesday from 5pm-6pm at the Amity Teen Center in Woodbridge (address is 10 Seldon Street)

Amity Student Government gives a strong voice to our student body! Each AHS Class has a Class Council-- Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors can get in touch with their Class Representatives to discuss pertinent issues. Please refer to the ARHS Student Government webpage for more information. In addition, our student government meets on a monthly basis to discuss school-wide issues at hand.

Principal's Committee, our Student Rep. to the Board of Education, Chartwell's Dining Rep., Tools for Schools Rep. and more are selected/ organized by Student Government.

Recent Updates: Student Government recently held a Town Hall during our Teen Life Expo!

• Advisor: Mr. Marazzi
• Student Leadership: Please contact our Executive President, Micha Aviad '18, if you have any questions or concerns relating to student governance at Amity.
• Meeting Dates: Our full student government meets on the 1st Monday of each month.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Folks who aren't student representatives are more than welcome to both class and full-body meetings. While non-members are unable to vote, they can definitely participate! Please just inform our advisor and student leadership if you plan on attending a meeting. Thank you!

Amity Teen Center fuses live music and video games. We host live bands, open mics, improv nights, slam poetry readings, and other performing events.

Please check out our website for more information! (amityteencenter.org)

Unified Theater creates more inclusive communities through youth leadership and the performing arts. Students of all abilities, backgrounds, interests, and experiences come together as individuals and equals to write, direct and produce their own theater performance.

Advisor(s): Ms. Wuerth, Ms. Drakonakis

Meeting time: Fri., 2:30, Black Box Theater

Looking forward to see ya there! Please consider joining us.

Amity Welcome Committee (AWC) seeks to ease the transition for students new to Amity who enter the district after the start of their 9th grade school year and provide a leadership and community-building opportunity for its committee members

Advisor: Mr. Allard

Student Leadership: Henry Westgard '20

Meeting Dates: As needed

Nursing homes can be very dull and gloomy places. By coming together and creating art for these nursing homes, we will not only brighten them up, but also spread happiness throughout them. Art can make a big difference.

Advisor: Mrs. Smolinski

Student Leadership: TBD

Meeting Dates: Art room after school

To form a community of outer space enthusiasts in which we will explore celestial bodies and how their aspects can be interpreted.

Advisor: Ms. Hamilton

Student Leadership: TBD

Meeting Dates: Every other Thursday in Room 215

National Chinese Honor Society at Amity works to promote Chinese language (中文) and culture (文化). The Honor Society connects with the middle school Chinese departments, too, in effort to have full-district communication. Honor Society members are encouraged to serve in the community by spreading their awareness and passion for the language. An example of this is members volunteering to assist in a Chinese I, II, III, or IV class during one of their free periods.

Juniors who study Chinese at Amity will receive more information about NCHS. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to one of the co-presidents or our teacher advisor!

• Advisor: Du Lao Shi (Rui Du)
• Student Leadership: Ananya Kachru '18 (President), Haegan O'Rourke '18 (President), Eliza Crane '18 (Vice President), Ben Sauberman '18 (Vice President), Quinn Burke '18 (Treasurer) and Megan Ciarleglio '18 (Secretary)

P.S: Check out the decorated bulletin board in the World Language Hallway for some really awesome Chinese culture pictures and more!

Volunteers at Children's hospitals and rehabiliation centers offering the patients art therapy while covering community service hours.

Advisor: Ms. Bludnick

Student Leadership: TBD

Meeting Dates: Fridays after school

The costume club is dedicated to teaching sewing and crafting skills, and giving people an opportunity to work on sewing projects and interact with people with similar interests, and prepare people for costume crew for the spring musical.

• Advisor: Mrs. Chevan
• Student Leadership: TBD
• Meeting Dates: 1st and 3rd Tuesday every month in room 109

Have you ever wanted your words to move mountains, divert rivers, or disrupt the very laws of reality itself? Here at the Creative Writing Society, you may not be able to do the above…..but …you can make yourself known. Let this school know about your creativity, your innovation, and your strength in writing. Now join us, fellow harbinger of the lost words of a post-modern civilization. Pick up your pen and let your emotions and your legacy be recorded in the pages of history. The stars will align to illuminate the dawn of a new age--your age. Welcome, to the Creative Writing Society.

• Advisor: Ms. Martin
• Student Leadership: Talia Mayerson '18 (President), Brian Forbes '18 (Vice President) and Courtney Greifenberger '18 (Treasurer)
• Meeting Dates: We meet 2:30-3:30 on Wednesdays in room 150 (though this may change towards the second half of the year)

DECA prepares emerging leaders and entrepreneurs in marketing, finance, hospitality and management in high schools around the globe.

Advisor: Ms. Roessler

Student Leadership: TBD

Meeting Dates: Tuesdays Rm. 259

The Amity Environmental Club promotes being mindful of one's personal environmental impact and Amity's collective impact. We also take part in volunteer work such as fundraising to protect endangered species and cleaning local beaches.

Updates from the fall: We had a bake sale at Edge of the Woods to raise money for Woodstock Farm Sanctuary, held a Teen Life Expo workshop on recycling at Amity, and volunteered at Massaro Farm's Family Fun Day (among other activities).

• Advisor: Ms. Morrison, Mrs Caron
• Presidents: Hannah Rappaport '18 and Vera Ting '18
• Meeting Dates: Every other Tuesday (subject to change)

To give back to the students at Amity Regional High school and our community. Students will learn morals along with teamwork by volunteering at places like soup kitchens (ETC.)

• Advisor: Ms Hulse
• Student Leadership: Taraneh Abolfath '20 and Maddy Barretta '20
• Meeting dates: Thursday (post Soccer season) 2:30-3:15, Media center

Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA)-Phi Beta Lambda is a nonprofit education association with a quarter million students preparing for careers in business and business-related fields. The purpose of the club is to bring business & education together in a positive working relationship through leadership and career development. GBLA- PBL’s National and State Awards Program recognize and rewards excellence in these business and community related projects. This club fosters the development of character, citizenship and promotes school loyalty. More specifically, the FBLA club here at Amity, focuses on learning all facets business by running the already established start-up organization known at Amity Enterprise. Together, FBLA works collaboratively with the manufacturing students to design, produce, and sell handmade products to the school and their community members.

• Advisors: Ms. Tupper, Mr. Rostowsky
• Student Leadership: TBA
• Meeting Dates: TBA

To practice and learn about the fundamentals of Game Design and work on group projects.

Advisor: Mr. Wilson

Meeting Dates: Tuesdays after school in Room 247

Student Leadership: Siavash Raissi '20 and Jason Klini '19

Infinite Possibilities is a club wherein high school women go to teach elementary school girls concepts in math and science, encouraging students from a young age to work towards their dreams, and further the influence of women in the STEM field.

Co-Presidents: Agrani Dixit ('18) and Kayleigh Foley ('18)

Meeting Dates: We meet twice a month; timing varies! Please contact student leadership for more information.

The intramural club works to promote school unity and build community by promoting intramural sports.

• Advisor: Mr. Bourdeau
• Student Leadership: TBA
• Meeting Dates: TBA

Key2Opportunities is a club that sponsors education for underprivileged children in India. We work with a non profit called Deep Griha Society, which is based in Pune, India, but has other centers around India. Besides education, they can provide housing, medical attention, and resources like food and clothing. Apart from sponsoring education for children in India, this club also strives to make Amity students more aware of how fortunate they are to be in this school system and the variety of opportunities they can have compared to so many other children around the world.

• Advisor: Ms. Kane
• Student Leadership: Sana Pashankar '19
• Meeting Dates: TBA

The Latin Honor Society works to promote Latin and the study of ancient cultures throughout Amity. The Honor Society does community service related projects throughout the year in order to help others who are passionate about Latin. Recently, members took a field trip to the Bethany Middle School to show the current eighth graders how great Latin is!

• Advisor: Miss Hamilton
• Student Leadership: Erin Bariller '18 (Co-president), Maren Westgard '18 (Co-president), Samantha Fleischman '18 (Secretary) and Vince Li '18 (Treasurer)

Link Crew is the freshman orientation program at Amity High School. In addition to activities on the first day of school, Link Crew Leaders work in the freshman Spartan Seminars throughout the year in order to integrate the ninth grade and get them excited about Amity! If you are interested in being a Link Crew Leader, you can apply at the end of your sophomore or junior year.

• Advisors: Ms. Bonaldo, Ms. Boyns, Ms. Carfiello, Mr. DeMeo, Ms. Kimball

The purpose of this club is to help raise money and gain more support to the March of Dimes association which helps fight premature birth and birth defects by helping fund lifesaving research and programs.

• Advisor: Ms. Potter
• Student Leadership: TBA
• Meeting Dates: TBA

The Marine Biology Club welcomes all students with an interest in the ocean and marine life. The goal of the club is to learn about marine biology and promote ocean literacy. Club members will determine club activities such as field trips and fundraiser activities. Our theme this year is Plastics in the Ocean. Club members participate in Expofest and investigate a solution to this world wide problem.

• Advisor: Mrs. Cournoyer
• Student Leadership: Samantha Fleischman '18, Nevia Selmon '18 and Jill Wisnewski '18

Move to Matter is an organization in which funds are raised to help those in need around the world. From building schools in Kenya to buying water pumps in Malawi, we want to help the world in any way that we can.

Advisor: Mr. Gaipa

President: Ben Schiff '19

Meeting Dates: Contact Club Leadership for More Information!

People can come to work on artworks for class or outside competitions. We will look into different competitions and galleries or students can just create any work of art.

Advisor: Mrs. Smolinski

Student Leadership: TBD

Meeting Dates: Wednesdays after school

This is an association with chapters established nationwide. Its purpose is to unite students that have a passion for gun safety under one name and one organization. In this club, we will teach and allow our members to become respectful activists in the area of gun safety. We want to keep the conversation going and also act on the issue. It is a bipartisan student-led movement that will help students find their voices in this matter and let them be heard.

Advisor: Mr. Clifford

Student Leadership: Alex Barnes '20

37% of homes in Connecticut are at risk of experiencing homelessness. New Beginnings is a club designed to help a women's shelter in New Haven called New Reach. New Reach takes in thousands of women and their families to help them create a stable lifestyle. Since they take in so many people that shelter needs volunteers for making baskets to cooking food. We hope that you want to join and make a difference.

Advisor: Ms. Norris

Meeting Dates: Tuesdays afterschool

One Book/One Amity involves all departments at the high school, all staff and faculty, as well as students grades 9-12 and their families. It revolves around the annual reading of one shared title! All staff and each Amity family receive a copy of the book as a gift to read over the summer months. The 2017-2018 OB/OA book is Every Day, by David Levithan.

OB/OA members helps to select the title and plan related activities, presentations, speakers, and discussions around the book.

OB/OA 2017 Highlights:

• Spearheading the first annual Teen Life Expo at Amity High School
• Author Visit

Advisor: Please see Mrs. Chevan (Julie.Chevan@reg5.k12.ct.us) with any questions!

Meeting Dates: The committee generally meets on the second and last Wednesdays of every month.

Check out this picture of the author visit!

To foster in-depth discussions about philosophy.

Advisors: Mrs. Pascale and Mrs. Kane

Meeting Dates: Thursdays after school

Student Leadership: TBD

The purpose of the Photography Club is to express creativity in young adults through art.

• Advisor: Ms. Valenzuela
• Student Leadership: TBA
• Meeting Dates: TBA

We are a club that raises awareness for genetic disorders and fundraises for the Yale Genetic Center.

• Advisor: Mr. Helland
• Student Representatives: Marc Chodos '19 (President), Joey Benedetti '19 (Vice President), Chris Greco '19 (Secretary), Jon Schachter '19 (Treasurer), Akshay Mehta '19 (Head of Fundraising), and Gabi Nusbaum '19 (Head of Social Media)
• Meeting Dates: Please contact club leadership for more information!

The Amity Republican Club is a venue for Conservatives, Libertarians, Independents, and Republicans can congregate to debate, get involved in community service, engage in student leadership, and volunteer for the Connecticut Republican Party and local Republican town Committees.

• Advisor: Mrs. Roessler
• Student Representative: Patrick Burland '18
• Meeting Dates: Thursday after school in Room 259

Rhythmix is Amity's sole acapella group! The purpose is to enhance our music department.

• Advisor: Mrs. Rizzotti
• Student Leadership: Willow Smith and Katie O'Brien
• Meeting Time: Friday right after school!

To inform the student populace about the gravity of mental health, and bullying, and how it impacts them (and those around them). We aim to spread positivity through different projects and spread education about causes and symptoms of these issues.

Advisor: Jim Clifford

Meeting Dates: Thursdays every other week in room 118

Student Leadership: Joyce Zhang '20 and Adaiah Stevens '20

SADD (Students against Destructive Decisions) works to educate students about the dangers of drinking and driving and substance abuse. Many events are hosted throughout the year such as Red Ribbon Week and “Grim Reaper Day”. The goal of SADD is to inform students at Amity and the community about the dangers of drinking and driving.

The purpose of this club is to excel in the national science bowl competition and have fun doing so!

• Advisors: Mrs. Best & Mrs. Piscitelli
• Student Leadership: TBA
• Meeting Dates: Tuesdays after school (weekly)

• Adviser: Mrs Rizzotti
• Student Leadership: Talya Braverman '20

The Spanish Honor Society, La Amistad, works to promote the study of Spanish and the cultures of Spanish speaking countries. The Honor Society runs events throughout the year including Toy Drives and Food Drives to raise money to support the Fairhaven School in addition to going to the school frequently to help out in classes. La Amistad also runs a really great Salsa Night every year. Be on the lookout for more information about that!

• Advisor: Mr. Silva, Ms. Potter and Ms. Regan
• Student Leadership: Teddy Criscuolo '18 (Co-president), Sofia Rodriguez '18 (Co-president), Sophie Baum '18, Samantha Fleischman '18, Liz Frieden '18, Sophia Pan '18, Hannah Rappaport '18 and Jill Wisnewski '18

STAR, Students Together Assisting Refugees, works to not only meet, but personally connect with new people in our country, (refugees and immigrants), learn about each other’s cultures and help out however we can.

• Advisor: Mr. Clifford
• Student Leadership: TBA
• Meeting Dates: TBA

This club explores the strategies behind popular card games, including Rat a tat Cat, Egyptian Ratscrew, Spit, Presidents, Kemps, Garbage, Uno, and Spoons. After learning how the games work and exploring winning strategies, the club will hold tournaments at the end of the season.

• Advisor: Ms. Cheng
• Student Leadership: TBA
• Meeting Dates: TBA

STEM Club is a club meant to foster the love and learning of STEM topics, across multiple platforms. STEM Club will be the driving force be Amity’s participation in the CT Science Olympiad, the Yale Physics Olympics, and the national TEAMS competition. STEM Club will also support and offer opportunities to students interested in F=MA, the National Physics Exam, 3D-Printing competitions, and various other group and individual endeavors.

Advisors: Mr. Demeo and Mr. D'Averso

Student Leadership: Jacob Feuerstein '19, Catalina Betancur '19, Rosie Du '19

Meeting Dates: Thursdays after school

We are Amity's school newspaper! We print once a month, and our six different sections allow the writers and staff to bring news and ideas to the Amity community.

• Advisor: Mrs. Clark
• Editors-in-Chief: Sophie Baum, Ben Sauberman, Kevin Zhao
• Section Editors: Kate Yuan, Sana Pashankar, Amanda Hendrick, Rosie Du, Ali Hagani, Jacob Gross
• Head Photographer: Howard Ding

Meeting Dates: Please reach out to an Editor-in-Chief for more information about getting involved! Writing for the newspaper is truly so valuable.

Check out our Instagram!

Our newspaper is available online, too! What do you think?

UNICEF is an organization that works in around 190 countries and territories to save children's lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential from childhood through adolescence. We will hold fundraisers and other ideas throughout the year.

Advisor: Ms. Norris

Student Leadership: TBD

Meeting Dates: Thursdays every other week

Help people feel comfortable with themselves and to confront societies standards.

Advisor: Ms. Demeo

Student Leadership: Carly Silver '20

Meeting Dates: Every other Tuesday, Rm. 297

Winter Guard is a combination of dance and the unique skill of flag spinning. We are a part of the music department, and we perform at shows across the state throughout the winter months. We would love anyone who would like to join (boys and girls!) to come and see what we are all about, no prior experience necessary. Videos of our past performances can be found on YouTube by searching "Amity Winterguard [insert year]"

Student Leadership: Marion Hamilton '19

Practice Dates: Starting November 7th at AMSB, practices are held on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. New members are encouraged to join until early/mid December, though! Hope to see you there.