Advisors: Michael Close and Dan Peterson

Meeting Dates and Times: Tuesdays, 4:00-5:30 PM

Meeting Place: Rooms 0502 and 0504

Art Club meets on Tuesdays after school until 5:30 PM. It is a student driven, open studio time for both students enrolled in art courses and for those who cannot fit an art class in their schedules. We sponsor art related events both at school and in the community.

Advisor: Laura Schwab

Meeting Dates and Times: Thursdays, 5:00-6:00 PM

Meeting Place: Zoom

Best Buddies is an inclusive club that sponsors one on one friendships between students with intellectual or developmental disabilities and general education students. We also have associate members and sponsor events once per month to foster friendship between our club members here at City High. Contact the website at www.bestbuddiesonline.org or stfos21@icstudents.org for the Zoom link to meetings.

Advisors: AJ Leman and Joe Wilcox

Meeting Dates and Times: Fridays at 4:00 PM

Meeting Place: Zoom 

BPA is the premier high school organization for students pursuing careers in business management, marketing & advertising, finance, information technology and other related career fields. 

Advisor: Renée Tonning

Meeting Dates and Times: As announced

Meeting Place: Little Theater

Ambassadors get experience building communication skills and taking leadership roles while helping our faculty and staff during school related functions. The Ambassadors serve as a liaison between City High and the public and as such, represent the entire student body.
Members are selected each spring for the coming year, through an application and interview process.

Advisor: Emily Wehr

Meeting Dates and Times: TBD

Meeting Place: Zoom and CHS Extension Room 17

Students have fun with food preparation and competitions. They also prepare food for a couple of events throughout the year.

Advisors: Scott Black and Stacie Smith

Meeting Dates and Times: Fridays at 8:00 AM

Meeting Place: Zoom

Dance Marathon Club works throughout the year to raise funds for UIHC and to help families with children battling pediatric cancer, culminating in an annual all school dance in January.

Advisors: Vince Woolums, Sam Basler, Ellie Bennett, and Darcie Hutzell

Meeting Dates and Times: TBD

Meeting Place: TBD

Competitive debate is a program unlike anything else in high school. It confers a unique set of skills, through debates about a variety of topics, which expand a student's civic, language arts, and social studies education by building critical thinking, research, rhetorical, social, and time management skills. We are 2020 Iowa State Champions and ended last season ranked third in the United States. We represented Iowa at the National tournament in June 2018 and qualified for the 2020 Nationals but opted not to attend. In years before the pandemic our team would regularly travel to tournaments in Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, and Michigan, with the option of flying to other national competitions in Boston, Palm Beach/Miami, Atlanta, Harvard, Stanford, and New York City. Everything we do in debate this year will be online, which presents a whole lot of new opportunities for debating and learning new technology skills. If you are academically minded and also competitive, debate is for you!

Advisor: Jennifer Brinkmeyer 

Meeting Dates and Times: Announced as needed

Meeting Place: Opstad Auditorium

We perform exciting plays and musicals on the Opstad Auditorium, and utilize about a hundred students as performers on stage or behind the curtain in various tech jobs.

Advisor: Mary Lestina

Meeting Dates and Times: Tuesdays at 8:00

Meeting Place: Room 1104

Environmental & Garden Club is a student-driven club that explores different environmental topics and projects. The club will also focus on garden spaces around City High School and utilize the greenhouse space. Past projects have included increasing awareness of environmental practices, researching pollinator plants, and investigating energy use at the school. See Mrs. Lestina in Room 1104 with questions.

Advisor: Jacob Schares

Meeting Dates and Times: TBA

Meeting Place: Kirkwood Regional Center

The FRC robotics club participates in the FIRST Robotics competition. Each year we design, test, build, and compete with a robot to play a game designed to challenge what a robot can do. Students also work on projects in community outreach, business planning, and visual design, and marketing. We can be reached at iowacityrobotic167@gmail.com.

Advisors: Christine Mons and Rob Crawford

Meeting Dates and Times: Contact Ms. Mons about meeting times

Meeting Place: Rooms 1507 and 2206

This is a club that meets a minimum of twice a week from August through February and builds a robot that fits inside an 18"x18"x18" box. We attend 7 competitions on Saturdays from late October through early February trying to earn an opportunity to advance on to State and possibly World Championships.

Advisors: Tony Balcaen and Jill Humston

Meeting Dates and Times: Mondays at 4:00 PM

Meeting Place: Room 3303

This club is potentially going to be divided into two clubs (that's why two names) and each club will meet every other Monday after school in room 3303. GLOW will focus more on sexual orientation issues and EQuAls more on sexual identity issues. During these meetings, we discuss whatever the students want to discuss, we do little potlucks, craft things, watch LGBTQ+ movies. We go to the Governor's conference on LGBTQ+ issues every year in Des Moines and more.

Advisor: Ali Borger-Germann

Meeting Dates and Times: Tuesdays at 4:00 PM

Meeting Place: Zoom

Local poet Caleb Rainey offers slam poets, spoken word poets, and any-old-poets a chance each week to meet, to write, and to share their work (if they want to). Once a month, IC Speaks groups from all four high schools meet together at the Englert for performance events. Meets online until further notice. Contact Mrs. BG for more information.

Advisor: Jill Humston

Meeting Dates and Times: Wednesdays at 3:30 PM

Meeting Place: Room 1102

Interact is City High's official community service club. The club's goal is to identify needs in our community and our school and work to address them. Each club is sponsored by a Rotary Club which guides the Interact members in developing local service projects. There is a wide variety of organizations that need, appreciate and ask for volunteers. Interact members volunteer in groups or on their own based on their interests. It is a great way to get involved, make a difference and build lasting relationships.

Advisor: Stephanie McLaughlin

Meeting Dates and Times: Wednesdays at 8:15

Meeting Place: Room 1212 and Zoom

We meet once a week to learn and practice math problem-solving strategies in a math-social environment. We compete about once a month in Great Plains Math League (GPML) contests around the state, where we can qualify for the State Math Competition.