<p>A little off topic, but have any of you ever started a club? My friend and I are pretty interested in starting a sailing club, but I just dont know how doable it would be…
School is only like 10 min from Lake Superior, 10 it honestly snows from Nov to April here :0</p>
<p>@RLlover16 yes, Talk to your school about any paperwork you need to fill out first, and get it as early as possible in time for club rush.
@everyone else… I suspect most people our age have permits by mow, so I most are taking drivers Ed courses. Does anyone know if we are required to take the course or if we can just practice-drive with our parents?</p>
<p>I want to get my restricted now but my parents said when I am 16 I turned 15 this April. Hey can any of you answer my question because its dead</p>
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<p>@RLlover: I want to start a club so that we can have a competitive Envirothon team here at my school. Have any of you heard of an Envirothon?</p>
<p>@itsraininghere: I think that you are required to take a course so that the DMV has a record of when you did your course before you got a permit/license. I know that in NC, you have to take a driver’s ed course. But, you can always start practice driving with your parent before taking driver’s ed. I haven’t taken driver’s ed, but I started practice driving when I was 13, even though I don’t practice regularly. I was horrible at first (I almost ran over my sister’s bike LOL) but I’ve gotten the hang of it. I just need to work on spacing, driving backwards, and parallel parking.</p>
<p>^“Envirothon”? I’m intrigued!!</p>
<p>I am absolute garbage at driving! It just comes so UNnaturally to me, but all of my friends can do it so easily! Anyone in the same ‘car’?</p>
<p>@itsraininghere: You don’t have to take a drivers ed course, you just need to be good enough to get a permit and then a license.</p>
<p>@RLlover16: Envirothon is a competition where a team studies the materials that the state gives us in environmental related subjects (water and soil are the only two I remember) and the teams meet up in mid-March at a park and move around in stations and complete packets on the subjects. I did it in 6th grade and my team was .75 points from placing and moving on to states. I tried to get sponsors in 7th and 8th grade, but I was unsuccessful both times.</p>
<p>@ evanb: Envirothon! I think i might be joining this coming year too. Our school participated last year, and some sophmores tried to recruit me, but i turned them down because i thought it might not be worth the chemistry class i was going to miss and the piano practice for my competitions (ugh, another wasted opportunity). </p>
<p>I feel like i did practically nothing in my freshman year, now that i think about it o_o;</p>
<p>@upinflight: It is totally worth it! It is like another class, but way more fun. I specialized in soil my sixth grade year (which was interesting). I think that if I had the materials still, I think that I would probably breeze through AP Enviro if my school offered it. It is definitely a lot of information to learn, but you feel like you accomplished something in the end when you get to the competition.</p>
<p>@RLlover16 I was successful in starting 2 clubs my Freshman year. Try to find a teacher that can back you up and vouch for the “seriousness” of your club, and make sure he/she is somewhat passionate for the subject of the club. For my Computer Science Club, a few friends and I confronted one of the math/programming teachers and he was very enthusiastic about it. If your school handles anything like mine, you and your teacher will just have to fill out paperwork, and your club’s proposal will be judged among a board consisting of most of the school’s administration. It’s a piece of cake one you have a serious teacher onboard, and it makes it even better if your club needs to funding from the school whatsoever. Both of my clubs didn’t need school money, so we were approved in about half the time it usually takes.</p>
<p>@evan: sounds good then. I’ll join this year then. :]</p>
<p>Do any of you guys have Tri-M Music Honors Society at your school? I was thinking that i don’t want to be like some people who simply dabble in several clubs/extraccuricculars for the sake of putting it on their resume. As you might have read (or might not have) earlier, I’ve always wanted to be part of some sort of larger experience, like an orchestra. Today, i had the idea of creating some sort of music-club for our school, and later i found about Tri-M, in which you can earn SSL hours through music&leadership - which was actually the same idea i had for the music-club i was initially thinking of founding. So i want to establish a Tri-M Music Honor Society club in our school now.</p>
<p>In any case, have any of you founded a club? If so, how was it like? I’m pretty excited about this, but like @evan, i’ll have to look into finding a sponsor.</p>
<p>EDIT** Lol, @anaychi, we often post at the some time. Your post answers some questions in this one. xD</p>
<p>@upinflight: I’ve been a part of Tri-M National Honors Society since the junior group in middle school. I’m actually the treasurer for next year! It’s a lot of fun thinking of events to hold (: I’ve tried forming a Science Olympiad team but my teacher wouldn’t allow me too (the science department head)</p>
<p>@anaychi: did you found the clubs alone, or did you have a co-founder? How did you advertise your club and gain members? And how long did it take to recruit enough people to join your club?</p>
<p>/haha, sorry about the relentless interrogation.</p>
<p>@sardony: Wow! Congrats on the position. 
What kind of events did you guys hold in the past? For now, my ideas aren’t all too creative; i’ve seen some approved-ssl places that request musicians (mostly in senior-nursing homes). Also, are the members within your club really devoted? 
That’s the one concern i have; that members might not want to practice. Oh gosh, i have so many more questions, forgive me for spamming you with questions too. xD</p>
<p>@upinflight: Besides what I said about Envirothon earlier, I haven’t created a club. Money is just so tight here that my school is deadlocked on clubs and won’t be creating anymore anytime soon. They took away FBLA and TSA and almost got rid of HOSA (which I was president of!) but I persuaded the principal to keep it since we were active and raised $1000 for Relay for Life.</p>
<p>@evan: That really sucks. 
Wow, $1000? Still, it’s impressive enough to see you’re already so involved in clubs and you’re president of HOSA. (had to google that one) In freshman year, i thought that all the clubs that could exist were already in existence, and never really thought of founding one (except for this time a friend of mine thought of creating an Archery club. Too bad it was deemed ‘dangerous’). But how that i think about it, there really is a lot missing from my school as well and plenty of opportunities to found new clubs.</p>
<p>@upinflight: We have this thing called a coffeehouse and it was a monthly thing last year. We have people sign up to perform one night, and we usually get a huge response. And we charge people a few dollars for admission to go see the performances and we also have coffee and junk food/cookies for an extra two dollars. It’s a very popular event at our school. I think we also had a talent show and an American Idol-like event. Our club had a select group of really motivated students, so it made up for the rest of the members who weren’t that involved. It wasn’t really a music group, it was more just a society to spread music throughout our school… Sorry I’m bad at explaining.</p>
<p>@sardony: Yes, i thought of having a sort of talent show too! But wow, a coffee house is really creative. So all of these take place within your school? I never really thought about performing for our school, i was thinking of performing more for other people in the community - but that actually seems like a really good idea. What kind of music did you guys perform? Classical (i guess not a lot of people would find it interesting, but i do…), jazz, popular music, or contemporary (like Joe Hisaishi or Yiruma, if you’ve heard of them?). Or all of them maybe? o_o</p>
<p>@upinflight: I might just stay in the 3 that I’m now all the way through high school, even if I decide to transfer. Student Government is very active at my school and the other school that I’m planning on transferring to. HOSA is pretty active at the other school and HOSA at my school will become real active next year. Of course, band is a time conusmer.</p>
<p>@sardony: We have things like that at our county library to raise money to buy new books and materials for the library. The DECA club at my school does the fashion show and a talent show at our school to raise money for themselves.</p>
<p>Haha, well it was pretty diverse, and of course I’ve heard of Hisaishi and Yiruma (<3). A lot of people did covers of modern songs. Like, I sang Boats and Birds with my friend on the guitar for one. Basically, anybody could perform. There were instrumentals, jazz groups, and guitar solos.</p>