Which Club is For You? : Meet the Clubs of Las Lomas High School
Students signing up for clubs at Club Rush.
Photos by Colin Stoelk
Armenian Club
Leader(s): Valerie Alexanian
When: Thursdays at lunch in room 516
Mission: “The Armenian Club’s purpose is to educate people on Armenian culture.” -Valerie Alexanian
Art Club
Leader(s): Jessie Yang
When: Tuesdays at lunch in room 703
Mission: "To spread creativity on campus and just allow artists to have a place to gather and make art." -Jessie Yang
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laslomasartclub/
Asian Affiliations Club
Leader(s): Stormy Mercado
When: Mondays at lunch in room 200
Mission: “It’s just a bunch of Asians and people who support the Asian community hanging out, eating Asian food, talking about the culture.” -Stormy Mercado
Bee Club
Leader(s): Alle Carroll and Geneva Donohoe
Mission: “To educate people on bee things and raise money to donate to local beekeepers to restore bee populations.” -Alle Carroll
Black Student Union
Leader(s): Faith Spencer
When: Once a month on Tuesdays in room 510
Mission: “What we do is we tell the history of black culture and what we’ve done as black people to get the rights that we’ve gotten and what we want to do more to get more rights and to really explain to people the quality and the importance of it.” -Faith Spencer
Book Club
Leader(s): Daphne Burton
When: Thursdays at lunch in the library
Mission: “In book club, we kind of just talk about books and share what kind of books we like and recommend books to each other. We might read a few books as a club, but I don’t want to force anyone to read a book if they don’t really want to. My ultimate goal is to make sure everyone has fun this year and share our passion for books together.” -Daphne Burton
Book Club
Leader(s): Linda Cavanaugh and Alé Hansen
Mission: “We want to have people read books they actually like because the ones we read in school we all just kind of hate at this point.” -Linda Cavanaugh
Chess Club
Leader(s): Joseph Toman
When: Thursdays in room 511 from 3:15-4:30
Mission: “Our mission statement is to provide an outlet for anybody with a desire or passion for chess, you don’t even need to know how to play chess, you just have to want to play chess. We provide supplies like chess boards, chess clocks, and chess sets and chess books if you are interested in learning.” -Joseph Toman
Christian Club
Leader(s): Kaylee Gillett and Valerie Alexanian
When: Wednesdays at lunch in room 515
Mission: “Our mission is to be a Christian community on campus. You can come even if you are not Christian.”-Kaylee Gillett
Coding Club
Leader(s): Raishma Anwar
Mission: “To teach people how to code and to spread interest in computer programming.” -Raishma Anwar
Communiteens
Leader(s): Hannah Portner and Mercy Candelaria-Weis
When: Wednesdays at lunch in room 504
Mission: “Basically we do local and global projects to help the world, make it a better place. Our slogan is “love the world” because we want to give love and make people feel comfortable in this club. We want to do a couple drives this year, help the homeless. One goal we are going to actually do is Sisters of Charity. They serve lunch to the homeless once a month in the Golden Gate Park.” -Hannah Portner
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/llcommuniteens/
Creek Kids Care
Leader(s): Kiki Welty, Anya Roemer-Corminos, and Natalie Mccormick
When: Wednesdays at lunch in room 301
Mission: “To provide for the homeless shelter and help them live better lives.” -Kiki Welty
“We make art, abstract art, you don’t have to be good at art, I’m not at all and we make stationary out of it and sell the stationary and the money goes to the homeless population of Walnut Creek.” -Anya Roemer-Corminos
“I think it is important that people realize that helping people can be so fun and we can show them that.”-Natalie Mccormick
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creekkidscare/
Eco-action Club
Leader(s): Reina Larson and Erica Dungo
When: Every other Wednesday at lunch
Mission: “We help clean up the environment by doing things like open space clean-ups, planting flowers, closing illegal trails, and going on hikes." -Erica Dungo
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/llhsecoaction/
Feminist Society
Leader(s): Caroline Francois and Zoe Larkin
When: Fridays at lunch in room 516
Mission: “We are trying to bring feminism to Las Lomas.”-Caroline Francois
French Club
Leader(s): Nessa Ordukhani and Julia Tarter
When: Tuesdays at lunch in room 602
Mission: “The purpose of our club is to enjoy French culture, eat French food, watch French movies, and speak in French.” -Nessa Ordukhani
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/llhsfrenchclub/
G.I.V.E. Club (Get Involved and Value Everyone)
Leader(s): Madison Greenwood and Divya Purswani
Mission: “We are a community service club that wants to promote equality for everybody. Especially with the circumstances of our country now, it’s more important now than ever. We are going to do sock drives for the homeless shelter, food drives, stuff like that. We are going to participate in local community service events.” -Madison Greenwood
Global Student Embassy (Green Team)
Leader(s): Bella Bockman
When: Wednesdays at lunch in room 210
Mission: “We are basically working on environmental projects like composting, the garden, and anything else like that.” -Bella Bockman
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laslomasgse/
GSA
Leader(s): [cj.] Cabungcal and Andy Westhafer
When: Thursdays at lunch in room 706
“Our mission is to create a safe space for questioning for LGBT youth and an organization to advocate for them on campus.” -Andy Westhafer
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laslomasgsa/
Improv Club
Leader(s): Zoe Larkin and Sam Zavala
When: Wednesdays at lunch in the theater
Mission: “We want to make great theater and have a lot of fun.” -Zoe Larkin
International Cuisine and Culture Club
Leader(s): Joanne Sun
When: Mondays at lunch in room 601
Mission: “Our ultimate goal is to educate people about different countries and teach people about different ethnicities. Every month, we pick a different country, and we do different activities to represent the country. The last two weeks, we eat cuisine and share out what we have learned.”-Joanne Sun
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/llhsiccclub/
Latinos Unidos Club
Leader(s): Maya Meza and Salma Romero
When: Wednesdays at lunch in room 403
Mission: "The purpose of our club is to introduce Hispanic culture to students of Las Lomas and let Hispanic students know that they can feel welcomed and such at our school since students have talked about how they have a hard time finding themselves and feeling welcomed." -Maya Meza
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lllatinosclub/
Martial Arts Club
Leader(s): Sarah Long
Mission: “It’s where if you don’t know anything about martial arts, you can still go and people will teach you. If you do know, then you can have the opportunity to teach others. There’s some sparring and you get to learn about the culture a bit. You get to do some exercises that teach you about it. My goal is to get more people and maybe a more diverse group of people so that they know more styles of it, and they can end up teaching students who don’t know anything and want to learn.” -Sarah Long
Math Club
Leader(s): Minjae Ki
Mission: “To encourage students to be more interested in math and get help in math and enjoy it.” - Minjae Ki
Mock Trial
Leader(s): Lauren Simonse and Jessie Yang
When: Wednesdays at lunch in room 505
Mission: "Our purpose is to develop better public speaking skills and an understanding of the court system through a fun and competitive contest between schools." -Lauren Simonse
Model UN
Leader(s): Tyler Ahrens and Aryan Lohia
When: Tuesdays at lunch in room 507
Mission: “Our purpose is to empower ourselves to learn about things around the world and learn how the government in our world works.” -Tyler Ahrens
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/llhs.mun/
Outdoor Adventure Club
Leader(s): Brianna Paclebar and Creighton Hare
When: Every other Friday in room 406
Mission: "The purpose of our club is to make students more adventurous and show them new and exciting places they can go to explore and such."-Brianna Paclebar
Outdoors Club
Leader(s): Linda Cavanaugh and Stephen Wong
Mission: “We just want to get people outdoors more because everyone is inside on their phones now and get some fresh air and hike around because we have nice open spaces here and then go camping to just kind of take a break and relax.” -Linda Cavanaugh
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ll_outdoors_club/
SAT/ACT Prep Club
Leader(s): Phoebe Chen
Mission: “To help people do better on college testing without spending so much money outside by using the resources I’ve accumulated.” -Phoebe Chen
Society of Girls in STEM
Leader(s): Ava Mccandless and Komel Sethi
When: Wednesdays at lunch in room 200
Mission: “Our mission statement is empowering girls in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math and we are planning on doing community outreach. We want to bring coding to younger girls because the club was going to be Girls Who Code, but we realized that there are very few girls at Las Lomas who are interested in that, so we are broadening it. We are going to go to hackathons in the area and we are going to hold workshops to teach girls here how to code.” -Ava Mccandless
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/llhssgs/
Socks and Backgammon Club
Leader(s): Sophia Lindemuth
Mission: “The purpose of the club is to get together and play backgammon and other board or card games and have a great time.” -Sophia Lindemuth
South Asian Culture Club
Leader(s): Comal Virdi
When: Tuesdays at lunch in room 403
Mission: “Our mission statement is to bring more awareness to South Asian culture and create unity among the South Asians at this school.” - Vyoma Oza (co-president)
Speech and Debate Club
Leader(s): Zoe Larkin and Bella Martellino
Mission: “We want to change the world and empower young people.” -Zoe Larkin
STEAM Club
Leader(s): Raishma Anwar
Mission: “The STEAM Club’s purpose is to educate people about all different subjects of STEAM which are science, technology, engineering, art, and math.” -Raishma Anwar
STEM Club
Leader(s): Samaya Joshi
Mission: “Our mission statement is basically to get people educated about careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.” -Samaya Joshi
Student Diversity Council
Leader(s): Tanvi Saran, Carina Haghighi, and Laila Amro
When: Mondays at lunch in room 403
Mission: “We started the club my sophomore year so like two or three years ago and originally it was created as a forum for students to come talk about issues on campus that are diversity related, whether it be race, ethnicity, sexuality, just anything. It started after our first diversity summit and we just had a lot to talk about and we didn’t have enough time to talk about it. Last year we turned it into a curriculum based class, we planned a curriculum based class for care week which we spent most of the year doing. And it was actually implemented last year through freshmen english classes which was very exciting. So this year we’re hoping to combine the two so have a discussion based class that is a safe space to teach lessons and we’ll plan another curriculum for another care week.” -Siena Terry (club leader)
Students Changing the World
Leader(s): Gillian Major
When: Mondays at in room 302
Mission: “Basically, we raise funds for children’s educations who can’t afford it. Think of kids in Africa, girls in Africa, who don’t get an education. We raise funds on campus that could be through any kind of holiday bake sale or anything. All proceeds go to education. My ultimate goal for this entire year is to raise $3,000.”-Gillian Major
Tea Club
Leader(s): Esmeralda Sandoval and Bella Biel Garcia
Mission: “The purpose of the Tea Club is just for people to get together and enjoy themselves and be able to express themselves while enjoying different types of tea from all around the world and enjoy snacks and just get to know each other.” -Esmeralda Sandoval
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/llhsteaclub/
UNICEF Club
Leader(s): Soroush Arjomandi
Mission: “Our mission statement is to provide humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries.” - Soroush Arjomandi
Writing Club
Leader(s): [cj.] Cabungcal and Kyra Glass
When: Tuesdays at lunch in room 502
Mission: “Our mission statement is to expand our horizons through the reading of literature and our own original writing.” -Kyra Glass
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/llwritersclub/