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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 Superfight Club |
Lunchtime Dance Club |
Lunchtime Anime Club
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Lunchtime Dance Club |
Lunchtime Art, Code & |
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After School Maker Club |
After School American Sign Language (ASL) Club |
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Learn More About our Clubs and Enrichment Programs
School Clubs
Anime Club
This club is a place for any student who enjoys anime, manga, drawing, games, etc. We are a super-friendly group who enjoy experiencing and learning about Japanese culture through the media of Japan, and seeing its influence on other cultures. We also host events, such as cosplay, karaoke, and manga exchange. 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: Wednesdays during lunch
Location: J6
Art, Code, and Design Club
This club learns and uses Python and its Turtle Library to draw shapes, create designs, and make images on a virtual canvas. We also create games and generative art.
Advisor: Ms. Irene Khor
Meeting day and time: Fridays during lunch
Location: J4
American Sign Language (ASL) Club
ASL club is a place where students share the collective goal in learning and understanding the language of American Sign Language. We meet to discuss deaf culture and learn how to communicate silently. Often times we will have games, sing (and sign) songs, and even watch parts of movies and television shows.
Advisor: Mrs. Jennifer Anderson - Chaffee
Meeting day and time: Tuesdays after school
Location: B1
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Maker Club
A club that designs models, foamboard structures, and electronics.
Advisor: Mr. Chris Connolly
Meeting day and time: Mondays after school
Location: J4
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
Music Club
Join us weekly as students discuss music.
Advisor: Mr. Chris Connolly
Meeting day and time: Wednesdays during lunch
Location: C4
Photography Club
Learn about photography, create a slideshow, share similar interest
Advisor: Ms. Mai Dang
Meeting day and time: Thursdays during lunch
Location: C3
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: YMCA
Meeting day and time: TBA
Location: TBA
https://www.sanjoseca.gov/home/showdocument?id=55402
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
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
Truth Seekers Club
To have a better understanding of Christianity
Advisor: Ms. Mai Dang
Meeting day and time: Mondays during lunch
Location: C3
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: TBA
Location: H4
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
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