Students First
Clubs & Enrichment
Chaboya students have many clubs to choose from to develop their interests in various areas. Chaboya's clubs are sponsored by the school's PTSA and approved by the Associated Student Body (ASB). All clubs meet either at lunch or after school. Please check the club list below to see the offerings of clubs. Club meeting dates and times are listed in the Colts ASB Connections Google Classroom. If you have any questions, please contact Gina Ornellas at 408-270-6900 or gornellas@eesd.org.
Club Schedule
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Lunchtime Crochet Club |
Lunchtime Black Student Union Club |
Lunchtime Aviation Club
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Lunchtime Story Club |
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After School |
After School |
After School |
After School
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After School Growing Kindness Club |
Learn More About our Clubs and Enrichment Programs
School Clubs
Aviation Club
This club is a place for students to learn about aviation and how to operate planes. Everyone is welcome, whether they know anything about anime or not. Attendance isn't mandatory - come when you can, or when something interests you.
Advisor: Mr. Taylor Haight
Meeting day and time: Thursdays during lunch
Location: J6
Black Student Union Club
The goal of this club is to provide students with an opportunity to engage in activities and discussions designed to help foster a better understanding of experiences and issues that impact African-American students. This club is open to all students regardless of racial and/or cultural differences.
Advisor: Ms. Ruby Carino
Meeting day and time: Tuesdays during lunch
Location: D2
Chess Club
Chess club is a social, informational, instructional, and sometimes competitive place where players come together to play chess.
Advisor: Mrs. Daniela Jappy
Meeting day and time: Tuesdays during lunch
Location: D5
Crochet Club
Learn basic crocheting stitches and practice skills by making clothes and stuffed animals.
Advisor: Mr. Alan Marshall
Meeting day and time: Mondays at lunch
Location: D6
Cubing Club
Cubing Club meets every week, with students working on solving cubes and improving times. ability to solve the Rubik's cube. Rubik's Cube and other puzzles, like the Rubik's 4x4x4 and 5x5x5 cubes.
Advisor: Ms. Holly Hulewat
Meeting day and time: Tuesdays at lunch
Location: C1
Dance Traditional Bollywood Club
Students choreograph and perform Bollywood style dance routines. Bollywood dancing is a colourful, dynamic and highly theatrical dance style seen in Indian films. It combines classical forms of dance including traditional Indian, folk, salsa, belly-dance while also incorporating more contemporary western forms such as hip hop, jazz and funk. Having no set rules, Bollywood dancing is the perfect means to encourage freedom of expression.
Advisor: Mrs. Kimberlee Hunter
Meeting day and time: Wednesdays and Thursdays at lunch
Location: Chaboya Gym
Dance K-Pop Club
Help students express themselves and expose students to different music. enjoy the K-pop music that has distinct vibes, a mix-and-match of everything from R&B, rock, electronic dance, experimental, and jazz.
Advisor: Mrs. Kimberlee Hunter
Meeting day and time: Tuesdays and at lunch
Location: Chaboya Gym
Growing Kindness Club
Using the engineering design process, students design effective ways to bring kindness to others in community.
Advisor: Mrs. Mai Dang
Meeting day and time: Fridays after school
Location: C3
Maker Club
A club that designs models, foamboard structures, and electronics.
Advisor: Mr. Chris Connolly
Meeting day and time: Tuesdays at lunch
Location: J4
Shifting Boundaries
Shifting Boundaries is a YWCA led program where 8th grade students learn, discuss, plan and run a campus-wide awareness event at Chaboya. The group focuses on topics including: healthy boundaries, teen dating violence, sexual harassment, and shift behavioral intentions to intervene as a bystander. This group meets once a month.
*8th graders only.
Advisor: Ms. Beatris Fernandez
Meeting day and time: Tuesdays at lunch
Location: H4
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Short and Sweet Club
In the Short and Sweet club students have the opportunity to learn more about different techniques of short writing and gather writings to share on a website.
Advisor: Taylor Haight
Meeting day and time: Tuesdays and Thursdays at lunch
Location: J6
Story Club
Students participate in monthly writing competitions with a goal of publishing a book on Kindle.
Advisor: Mrs. Julieann Bryan
Meeting day and time: Fridays at lunch
Location: E4
Tupe
A group of Chaboya students will be part of our: Tobacco-Use Prevention Education (TUPE) team. TUPE is a comprehensive evidence-based tobacco-use prevention, youth development, intervention, and cessation program. The purpose of the TUPE program is to reduce youth tobacco-use by helping students make healthy decisions through tobacco-specific educational instruction and activities that build knowledge as well as social skills and youth development assets.
Advisor: Ms. Beatris Fernandez
Meeting day and time: Thursdays at lunch
Location: H3
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Astronomy Club
Connect with other astronomy enthusiasts and enjoy stargazing together in our Astronomy Club. We studying stars, constellations, planets, galaxies, etc. Anything space related is a possible topic of interest or discussion. We organize an Astro Bee competition; invite speakers to talk about topics in astronomy; and plan a star-gazing
night/event. Anyone can join whether you are an expert or a beginner.
Advisor: Mr. Taylor Haight
Meeting day and time: Fridays during lunch
Location: J6
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Book Club
This club is a celebration of reading and a place where reluctant and avid readers alike can get together to read and discuss literary works that interest them. We engage in book discussions, free readings, book swaps, and book reports.
Advisor: Mrs. Linda Rhodes
Meeting day and time: Fridays during lunch
Location: F4
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Dance Club
Need description of what kind of dances learn, do they perform, is there a focus on any cultural kinds of dance? Choreographing, performing dances & raising money for gender equality charities
Advisor: Mrs. Kimberlee Hunter
Meeting day and time: Tuesdays and Thursdays during lunch
Location: Gym
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Drama Club
Drama Club is designed for students interested in learning more about the aspects of theater. This includes learning stage terminology, working on acting skills, set building, and costumes/makeup design. Drama Club is open to all students. Students will produce and perform a play by the end of the year
Advisor: Ms. Maya Bond
Meeting day and time: Tuesdays during lunch
Location: C2
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Drawing Club
Students need only to have a desire to create art and improve their drawing skills. Previous experience is not necessary. Students will gain experience and understanding of various artists, art styles and techniques as they work on individual projects.
Advisor: Mr. Alan Marshall
Meeting day and time: Fridays during lunch
Location: D6
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Gaming Club
A club that celebrates intelligence, creativity, strategy, and fun. We play a variety of board games and find newer games that embrace strategic thinking, decisions that matter, learning how to work with someone else or possibly against someone else, or potentially just a way to let off some good laughter. New members are always welcome. Games rules are taught at each meeting and new games are introduced all the time.
Advisor: Mr. Omar Garcia
Meeting day and time: Wednesdays during lunch
Location: C4
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LGBTQ+ Support Group
A club that celebrates and provides a safe place for students to meet, support each other, talk about issues related to sexual orientation and gender identity and expression, and work to end homophobia and transphobia.
Advisor: Mr. Evan Jones
Meeting day and time: Tuesdays during lunch
Location: D Pod Quad Area
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Mountain Bike Club
Alert people about bike safety, teach people about bikes parts and techniques for riding
Advisor: Mr. Taylor Haight
Meeting day and time: Thursdays during lunch
Location: J6
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Music Club
Join us weekly as students discuss music.
Advisor: Mr. Chris Connolly
Meeting day and time: Wednesdays during lunch
Location: C4
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Photography Club
Learn about photography, create a slideshow, share similar interest
Advisor: Ms. Mai Dang
Meeting day and time: Thursdays during lunch
Location: C3
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Social Justice Club
Make an impact on injustices in society. The Social Justice Club seeks to engage in conversation about social justice issues and to learn, reflect, and build skills for promoting equity. We will explore issues of race, bias and prejudice, privilege, and community activism for the most vulnerable populations.
Advisor: Ms. Beatris Fernandez
Meeting day and time: Thursdays during lunch
Location: H4
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Superfight Club
Join us weekly as students use the card game Superfight to make a combination of cards that represent their superpowers then use those powers to face off against a villain. Players must then debate about how their created superhero can defeat other heroes, or a villain character depending on the game mode being played. Superfight combines the best of our imagination, love for fictional worlds and debate for a lively debate.
Advisor: Ms. Maya Bond
Meeting day and time: Mondays during lunch
Location: C2
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Truth Seekers Club
To have a better understanding of Christianity
Advisor: Ms. Mai Dang
Meeting day and time: Mondays during lunch
Location: C3
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Worlds Club
Students meet two times a week to create stories, maps, and characters of a fictional world.
Advisor: Ms. Amanda Saintil
Meeting day and time: Mondays and Thursday during lunch
Location: C5
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Written Wishes Club
To finish a story by the end of the semester, have fun, and be creative
Advisor: Mr. Omar Garcia
Meeting day and time: Mondays after school
Location: C4
District Enrichment Classes
Arts Enrichment Classes (All grades)
Arts webinars taught live through Zoom by experienced, professional artists/educators. These fun and engaging Arts lessons have been developed for specific grade levels and are designed to teach Arts skills and standards. Each lesson is 45 minutes in length.
Speech & Debate Team (Grades 6th & 7th)
The district is working with Advantage Communications(opens in new window/tab) to offer this program. We started with 90 students this year and hope to grow the program in the coming years. We have three teams representing each of our middle schools. Student participation includes 20 students at each of the middle schools and 10 additional sixth-grade students from our elementary schools. After registration, students participate in video submitted auditions to determine teams. This program requires the involvement of three teachers who, with Advantage Communications Coaches, co-coach students once per week.
Questions? Email: speechdebate@eesd.org
Computer Science
Java for High School (Grades 7 & 8)
By learning Java, students have an early start in computer education by introducing them to the High School AP CSA curriculum. Java is a particular language that belongs to an object-oriented set of programming languages and thus Java for students introduces them to a fundamental concept in the world of programming. Questions? Email Mr. Richard Woo