Chess Club

Advisor(s): Mr. Sartor (Math Department)

Club Description:
The chess club provides opportunities to play chess in a friendly club atmosphere and to compete more seriously in chess tournaments. The Chess Club meets twice a week after school on Mondays and Thursdays. The Chess Club is open both to students who already know how to play chess and to students who want to learn. Advanced chess players are invited to join the "Black Knights" competitive chess team, whose members are rated by the U.S. Chess Federation and compete for trophies at chess tournaments.

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Color Guard

Advisor(s): Ms. Bagley

Club Description:
The Color guard performs with the Marching Band during the fall competition season and then competes with a separate performance during the Winter Guard season (January through April). The group is open to all students with an interest in dance and band. Color Guard is very physical activity that incorporates both music and visual performance elements including working with flags, sabers, and rifles. Auditions are required.

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Contemporary Literature analysis, SHS Book Club

Advisor(s): Mrs. Cohen

Club Description:
Monthly meeting to analyses contemporary literature (recommenced best sellers). Club members are responsible for reading one book per month and bring a list of discussions to the meetings.

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CPEP

Advisor(s): Mr. Grillo

Club Description:
CPEP provides urban students with instruction and support in the study of math, science and technology. Through extra-curricular classes, hands-on activities, speakers, and competitions, CPEP connects these students to real-life opportunities.

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Dance Dance Revolution Club (DDR Club)

Advisor(s): Mr. Gifford

Club Description:
Dance Dance Revolution is a popular arcade game from Japan. It involves pressing directional buttons on a pad with your feet according to onscreen directions the game's music. It has three difficulty levels based on increasingly intricate step patterns for different songs and players are scored on accuracy. The game builds on reflexes, timing, coordination, musical sense, and style.
The purpose if the Dance Dance Revolution Club is to promote physical fitness and indoor activity. It will also help develop skills for beginners, provide competition to advance players, and unite different groups of students based solely on this interest. The club would provide a fun environment for students!
The game creates a workout that is an easy way to burn many calories. DDR allows members to experience part of Japanese culture too The club meets every Wednesday from 2:15 to 3:30.

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Debate Team

Advisor(s): Mr. White

Club Description:
Enjoy the fine art of formal debating and public speaking. Students on the team learn how to critically evaluate controversial issues, write contentions, develop a case, and deliver their case in front of others. Not only do students learn to use critical thinking and reasoning skills, but also they learn to speak with poise, style and purpose. To be a team member, a student must have at least a satisfactory academic standing, possess a strong work ethic, commitment to develop their critical thinking and reasoning skills, and demonstrate a strong attendance record fro in school meetings and state debate tournament events. Students are asked to provide adult judges to accompany them to state tournaments throughout the debate season. This club meets in Room 132 every Tuesday after school.

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Gaming Club

Advisor(s): Mr. Dubuque

Club Description:
This Club is open to any interested in playing on tabletop, card or role-playing games, and the building and painting of miniatures. Students can learn how to paint gaming miniature (they supply) and learn new and interesting tragedy, role-playing games in a safe and positive environment.

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Investment Club

Advisor(s): Ms. Macky-Chutan

Club Description:
The Investment Club basically is a year round club that competes in competitions on the local, state and eventually national level for prize money and scholarships benefits.

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Mock Trial

Advisor(s): Ms. Hatterman, Mr. McCaffrey

Club Description:
Mock Trial enables students to become involved in a simulated court case complete with witnesses and evidence. The students assume roles as lawyers and/or witnesses and acutely try the case against other Fairfield County schools, once on the defense and once as the prosecution or plaintiff. Open to all students with an interest in law, but can accommodate only 12 students as competitors.

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Mayor's Youth Leadership Council

Advisor(s): Mr. Kocienda

Club Description:
This group allows students to voice their opinions on a variety of community-based or school-based issues. The goal is to assist community leaders is gaining insight into those issues that affect students as well as helping them develop solutions. Meetings are held on Thursdays at 6 P.M. at the Government Center.

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National Foundation of Teaching Entrepreneurship

Advisor(s): Mr. Keller

Club Description:
NFTE's mission is to teach entrepreneurship to low-income young people, ages 11 through 18, so they can become economically productive members of society by improving their academic, business, technology and life skills.
We at Stamford High take this mission and expand it to apply to both the college and non-college bound students. Both types of students benefit from this program.

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Sewing Club

Advisor(s): Mrs. Van

Club Description:
Meetings are every Tuesday afternoon in Room 640. Must have beginner sewing skills.

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S.K.O.A.L

Advisor(s): Mr. Cozza

Club Description:
Student coalition of universal and Adventure lovers is for outdoors man. We will have meeting roughly every 2 weeks. Fishing and Hiking trips will all be part of this club. The club meets after school.

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Stamford High School Superior Steppers

Advisor(s): Mrs. Cintron

Club Description:
One of the main goals of the Superior Stepper's Team is to give students the opportunity to join an after school club where students can have fun while learning synchronized drill and dance. A drill and dance team for SHS would be an asset for students. The club would serve as a place where students can come together, do positive things, and learn how to work together through disciplined dance and drill routines. The club's goal is to represent Stamford High School in other places as well whether it be during half time at games or school competitions. More information will be provided when the club meets. The club meets every Tuesday and Thursday in Room 725.

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Super Smash Bros. Club

Advisor(s): Mrs. Lucia

Club Description:
Play and compete at Super Smash Brothers Melee game on the Nintendo Game Cube (Rated T ages 13+). The club meets Mondays in Room 508.

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