Clubs and Activities
Activities Director: Jasmine Powell
| Club/Activity | Sponsor(s) | Description |
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| AA Vanity | Hugh Browder | African American Vanity, aims to shed light on the various social, economic, and educational challenges faced by Black individuals, both within and outside our community. |
| Academic Team | Gautham Premkumar | Provides interested and capable students with an opportunity to showcase their knowledge in academic competitions. |
| Aerospace Club/STEM | Tristan Rivera | A place for students interested in STEM and aerospace activities, such as drone flying, coding, designing and building autonomous devices. Club will participate in local competitions aimed at drones and other engineering and design challenges |
| Art Club | Molly Vaughan | Art Club promotes imagination, creativity, and art production. We focus on materials and projects that are beyond what you would do in a regular art class. |
| Band | Keshawn Everett | Strives to achieve a high level of performance, both visual and musical, and to have fun doing it. |
| Chorus | Lynn Ballou | Strives to achieve a high level of performance, both visual and musical, and to have fun doing it. |
| Debate | Giuliana Mortimer | |
| Delta Gems | Monique Barnes | A program designed to instill the need to excel academically; to provide tools to enable girls to sharpen and enhance their skills to achieve high levels of academic success; to assist girls in proper goal setting and planning for their futures in high school and beyond; and to create compassionate, caring, and community-minded young women by actively involving them in service learning and community service opportunities |
| Drama Club | Sierra Alexander | Members meet and exchange ideas related to acting and stage presentations locally and on Broadway. Members fundraise to acquire money to cover costs {royalities} of musical productions in the Spring of each year. |
| FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America) | The FBLA mission is to bring business and education together in a positive working relationship through innovative leadership and career development programs. (Students must be enrolled in or have taken a business course to join.) | |
| FCCLA (Family, Career and Community Leaders of America) | Judy Spalding Neko Burson |
FCCLA helps students become leaders and addresses personal, family, work, and societal issues through family and consumer science education. (Students must be enrolled in or have taken this course to join.) |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | Michael Manicone | FCA focuses on serving local communities around the globe by engaging, equipping and empowering coaches and athletes to unite, inspire and change the world through the gospel. |
| Flourish | Kelli Baylor | Female Mentorship Program that fosters the empowerment and development of strong young women. |
| French Club | LaVerne Flowers | Promotes appreciation of the French culture and language. |
| French Honor Society | LaVerne Flowers | Recognizes highly motivated students with at least a 3.75 grade point average in French courses. |
| Freshman Class | Amani Riley Talor Day |
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| German Club | David Gardner | Students will study the German culture and explore the language. |
| German Honor Society | David Gardner | Recognizes outstanding academic achievement in German. |
| Gardening Club | Dennis Martineznieves |
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| HOSA - Future Health Professionals | Michelle
Desrosiers April Flinn Loauna Freeman |
HOSA is a student organization that provides professional healthcare and skill development for students of all ages, from middle school to post-graduate. For future and current healthcare professionals in many different niches, this serves as excellent preparation and offers extensive networking opportunities. |
| Interact Club | Cristina Rowe | Provide service to others, promote integrity, and advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through our fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders. |
| Japanese Club/Anime | Shauna Park Aja Bradley |
Educates and introduces interested students to Japanese culture, language, geography, and history. |
| Junior Class Sponsor | Cassandra Mason | |
| Key Club | Kathleen Pessini | Provides opportunities for students to develop leadership skills, serve the school and the community, and develop useful citizenship. |
| Literary Magazine | Deanna Domi | Provides students with an opportunity to learn about magazine production and serve as editors and staff. |
| Math Honor Society | Joshuaartem Tan | A service organization for those students who excel in mathematics. Provides peer tutoring for students. Members compete in competitions and participate in service projects. |
| Model United Nations | Conor Collins | A club which operates according to the United Nations Charter with member nations being represented by student delegates. Students research timely topics from the perspective of their chosen nation and present their views in the form of speeches. |
| National Art Honor Society | Molly Vaughan | Students will put their art work on display for the school and community. |
| NHS (National Honor Society) | Khrystel King | Recognizes students who excel in the areas of academics, service, leadership, and character. Student must meet requirements. |
| NJROTC | Curtis Warren Vincent Clifton |
The NJROTC program embraces citizenship and leadership. Our goals included: develop informed and responsible citizens; develop habits of orderliness and respect for constituted authority; develop personal honor, self-reliance, discipline, and an interest in service to the United Stated. Students involved in NJROTC are not obligated to serve in the military. There are benefits available for those who choose to serve in the armed forces. |
| Nobody Has Nobody | Hugh Browder | The goal of the club is to tackle youth substance abuse from a mental health standpoint. Rather than, "drugs are bad," "they'll kill you," the focus will be more, "there are people that care about you, so you should care about yourself, too." |
| Odyssey of the Mind | Aja Bradley | An international educational program that encourages creative problem-solving opportunities. Group attends local, regional, state, and national competitions; being a part of the group requires an audition in the fall. |
| Principal Advisory Group | Tiffany Thompson | Committee Members shall communicate to the principal issues impacting the effective and efficient operation of the school. They will communicate to the principal site conditions that adversely affect high student achievement andemployee morale. |
| RISE Male Empowerment Program | Kelli Baylor | The RISE Male Empowerment Network was created to provide a mechanism for youth-serving organizations and individuals to collaborate among organizations which serve male youth to increase their capacity to meet student needs and to drive positive life outcomes. |
| Robotics | Tristan Rivera | The robotics club designs, builds, and programs competitive robots. |
| SAGE (Student Advisory Group for Education) | Amber Andersonborders Teasurae Jones |
Members share their views and offer suggestions and input on various education matters from the divisionwide grading scale to major revisions to the Student Rights and Responsibilities Handbook |
| Science Honor Society | Victoria
Allan Daniel Hyde |
Students who love Science and have maintained a 3.0 or higher in a science class will be inducted into this honor society. |
| Senior Class Sponsor | Tammy Ortery | |
| Sophomore Class Sponsor | Teasurae Jones | |
| Speech/Forensics Team | Gautham Premkumar | Members recite poetry, read children's stories, make up their own speech, and generally like being in front of an audience, similar to drama without the props; meetings average twice a month; Forensics Tournaments are held with regional high schools from October to April. |
| STEM Club | Tristan Rivera | Inspires the next generation of STEM leaders by developing a passion for STEM careers at a young age and maintaining interest throughout high school. |
| SCA (Student Council Association) | Kristin Stancil | Our goal is to help student leaders and their advisers build and run effective student council organizations to support student leadership and involvement in Virginia's schools and communities. We provide learning experiences in leadership and opportunities to practice the citizenship skills necessary for effective participation in our democratic society. |
| SIA (Student Involvement Association) | Kristin Stancil | Students will encourage the participation of all students in club and activities. (SCA Members at Large will take cake of this.) |
| Student Leaders/Ambassadors | Donzaleigh Douglas | The WHS Student Leadership program will address each of the Raider Respect character education goals of responsibility, expectations, success, perserverance, endurance, character, and tolerance. The Student Leadership program members will work to implement and continue a program to address a school, community, or student body need. |
| TSA (Technology Students Associaton) | John Stork | The Technology Student Association fosters personal growth, leadership, and opportunities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM); members apply and integrate these concepts through co-curricular activities, competitions, and related programs |
| Yearbook (In Class Club) | Ashley Sell | Students produce the annual yearbook. Interested students must apply. |
| Youth Development Student Team | Amber Andersonborders | A group of students who help coordinate and orchestrate district wide student initiatives in order to foster a positive school culture and environment |
| YVC (Youth Volunteer Corps) | Khrystel King | Youth Volunteer operates on the premise that all young people will be successful when offered the right combination of opportunites, supports, and services to help them develop in a positive way. |