City High Ambassadors

Advisor(s): 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.

Art Club

Advisor(s): Michael Close, Dan Peterson and Margaret Yocius

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

Meeting Place: Rooms 0502 and 0504

Art Club meets on Tuesdays after school until 5:00ish. 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.

Book Club

Advisor(s): Daphne Foreman

Meeting Dates and Times: Every other Wednesday, 8:15 AM

Meeting Place: LMC

Business Professionals of America (BPA)

Advisor(s): AJ Leman and Joe Wilcox

Meeting Dates and Times: Wednesdays, 4:00 PM

Meeting Place: Little Theater

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

City High Inclusion Club (Formerly known as Best Buddies)

Advisor(s): Laura Schwab, schwab.laura@iowacityschools.org & Tom Braverman, braverman.tom@iowacityschools.org

Meeting Dates and Times: Contact advisors for information

Meeting Place: Contact advisors for information

City High Inclusion Club (Formerly known as 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.

City High Review

Advisor(s): Anna Basile and Haley Johannesen

Meeting Dates and Times: Tuesdays, 4:00 PM

Meeting Place: Room 1303

The City High Review is a club that meets once a week to create our student art and literature magazine. Our club members search out City's artists and poets and storytellers and gather their work to share with our larger Iowa City community.

Together, we explore school's creative artists, our standards for art and literature, and we create a shared aesthetic for our print magazine. Working on The Review is intellectual, artistic, collaborative, and fun.

Culinary Club

Advisor(s): Emily Wehr

Meeting Dates and Times: Tuesdays 4:15 PM

Meeting Place: Room 3108

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

Dance Marathon Club

Advisor(s): Scott Black and Stacie Smith

Meeting Dates and Times: Tuesdays, Advisory

Meeting Place: Room 1410 

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

Debate*

Advisor(s): Vince Woolums, Sam Basler, Ellie Bennett, Darcie Hutzell, and Drew Gartner

Meeting Dates and Times: NOVICES - Mondays and Wednesdays, 4:00-5:30 PM
VARSITY - Tuesdays, 4:00-5:30 PM

Meeting Place: Room 3106

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!

Double Dutch Club

Advisor(s): Stacie Smith

Meeting Dates and Times: Wednesdays, Advisory

Meeting Place: Old Gym

Drama

Advisor(s): Troy Peters

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. See Mr. Peters in Room 2106 for more info about City High Drama.

DRIP Club

Advisor(s): AJ Leman

Meeting Dates and Times: Wednesdays Advisory

Meeting Place: Little Theater

DRIP Club is City's premier fashion club.

Environmental and Garden Club

Advisor(s): Mary Lestina

Meeting Dates and Times: Tuesdays, 8:10AM

Meeting Place: Room 2102

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 2102 with questions.

Francophone Movie Club

Advisor(s): Tony Balcaen

Meeting Dates and Times: Wednesdays, 4:00 PM

Meeting Place: Room 3303

We watch movies in French with English subtitles and have a snack. Each month his centered around a theme for instance social justice in January, love stories in February, female protagonists in March, etc.

FRC Robotics Club

Advisor(s): Jacob Schares

Meeting Dates and Times: TBA

Meeting Place: Kirkwood Regional Center

FRC Robotics is a club that meets year-round, but the main season is from January-April. Team members work to design, build, test, and compete with a robot that is about 3ft x 3ft x 5ft and up to 120lbs on a field about the size of a basketball court. The team builds the robot mostly in January and February, then competes in regional competitions against teams from all over the world to try to earn a spot at the world competition in Detroit every April. For more information contact Mr. Schares or email iowacityrobotics167@gmail.com. 

FTC Robotics Club (Raw Bacon)

Advisor(s): Christine Mons and Rob Crawford

Meeting Dates and Times: Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 4:00PM

Meeting Place: Hoover Building Room 13

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.

GLOW

Advisor(s): Tony Balcaen and Jill Humston

Meeting Dates and Times: Mondays, 4:00PM

Meeting Place: Room 3303

This club will meet every Monday after school in room 3303. 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. Depending on the members' interest, we vary between being a social club and an activist club. We also try to promote the club as we go and promote LGBTQ+ awareness and acceptance.

IC Speaks

Advisor(s): Ali Borger-Germann

Meeting Dates and Times: Tuesdays, 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.

Interact Club

Advisor(s): Jill Humston

Meeting Dates and Times: Wednesdays, 8:15 AM

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.

Jewish Studies Club

Advisor(s): Haley Johannesen

Meeting Dates and Times: Thursdays 8:00 AM

Meeting Place: Room 1305

A welcoming space for all. Our goal is to educate the school about Judaism and create a space for the Jewish community here at City HIgh.

Magic: The Gathering

Advisor(s): Stephanie McLaughlin

Meeting Dates and Times: Tuesdays. 4:05-5:00 PM

Meeting Place: Room 1212

Magic:The Gathering Club organizes games, discusses, and teaches others how to play the card game Magic:The Gathering.

Math Club

Advisor(s): Stephanie McLaughlin

Meeting Dates and Times: Wednesdays, 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.

Mock Trial

Advisor(s): Jason Schumann and Chip Hardesty

Meeting Dates and Times: Fridays, 8:00 AM

Meeting Place: Room 2303

Students play the roles of attorneys and witnesses as they prepare and present both sides of a hypothetical legal problem. Participants are given a hands-on opportunity to examine the legal process and judicial system. Mock trial develops students critical thinking and public speaking skills.

Model United Nations

Advisor(s): Steve Dodge

Meeting Dates and Times: Contact Advisor

Meeting Place: Contact Advisor

Students learn about global issues, how to run meetings and take the side of other countries in United Nations simulations. Meetings are usually held Mondays after school. Most work takes place after winter break for the state conference in April at the University of Northern Iowa.

National Honor Society

Advisor(s): Jen Brinkmeyer

Meeting Dates and Times:

Meeting Place:

11th 12th grade 3.5 or higher cum GPA at end of tri 1 of Junior year. Additional eligibility criteria considered; membership by invitation. Induction program in January annually.

Psych Club

Advisor(s): Travis Carlson

Meeting Dates and Times: Thursdays, 8:00 AM

Meeting Place: Room 2101

This club gives members an opportunity to enrich their experiences in, and knowledge of, the field of psychology. It is the hope of the Psych Club to focus on raising awareness and promoting positive mental health opportunities and education for City High students.

Rosary Club

Advisor(s): Nathan Hellwig

Meeting Dates and Times: Thursdays, 8:15-8:30

Meeting Place: Room 2312

All Catholics and non Catholics are invited.

Sparkles

Advisor(s): Laura Schwab

Meeting Dates and Times: Fridays Advisory

Meeting Place: Old Gym

We are an inclusive cheer/dance club whose mission is to spread spirit and inclusion throughout the City High and Iowa City Community!

Speech

Advisor(s): Jennifer Brinkmeyer

Meeting Dates and Times: 1-2 hours per week from November to February, based on student availability.

Meeting Place: Various

Speech includes a variety of group and individual performance events, including musical theatre, acting, improvisation, short film, radio broadcast, and TV broadcast. Performance groups meet about once a week from November to February. We WILL be able to compete online this year!

Website: http://www.littlehawkspeech.wordpress.com

Spirit Club

Advisor(s): Mariah Ritter

Meeting Dates and Times: Dates as announced, 8:15 AM

Meeting Place: Room 1705

We meet often in the fall to plan spirit days and advertise them for homecoming. We make banners for games and sell City spirit supplies. We plan, organize, and put on all 3 pep assemblies which consumes most of our time. We do a few fund raisers to make money to use on supplies for assemblies and mostly prizes for assembly participants and spirit day winners.

Student Senate

Advisor(s): Travis Carlson, Melanie Gibbens, Chip Hardesty, and Steve Tygrett

Meeting Dates and Times: Tuesdays 8:15 AM and Fridays during Advisory

Meeting Place: Tuesdays in Room 2310 and Fridays in the Little Theater

Student Senates is a club for leaders who want to help improve the student experience at CHS. Roles the groups serves include: planning events and dances such as homecoming, student advocacy, school improvement, and charity drives. Membership is open to all.

Sunrise Club

Advisor(s): Anna Basil

Meeting Dates and Times: Mondays, 4:00 PM

Meeting Place: Room 1303

The goal of Sunrise City High is to create a space for climate activism (conversations and education around climate change and creating a livable future) that's accessible to students. This group's goals are to learn about the Sunrise Movement, climate change, proposed green legislation, and to take action in order to make a difference in Iowa City. Students interested in participating will benefit from hearing from inspirational community members, becoming a part of a major youth-led, national movement, and will join other like-minded students as we volunteer our time to make an impact in our community.

Table Top Role Playing Club

Advisor(s): Robert Crawford

Meeting Dates and Times: Fridays, 4:15-6PM

Meeting Place: Room 2102

Play/learn/try table top and role-playing games. All levels of skill and familiarity welcome.

TEAMS

Advisor(s): Stacie Smith, smith.stacie@iowacityschools.org

Meeting Dates and Times: Contact Advisor

Meeting Place: Contact Advisor

We meet starting in November to prepare for TSA TEAMS State Competition. TSA TEAMS Competition is a STEM focused event comprised of three parts: Essay (submitted before competition day), Engineering Build, and Multiple Choice Portion based on 8 Engineering Topics. This Year's Theme is "Engineering the Brain" focusing on Artificial Intelligence. For information regarding meetings, contact the TEAMS advisor. 

Tech Crew

Advisor(s): Doug Lestina

Meeting Dates and Times: As Needed

Meeting Place: Opstad Auditorium

The Crew provides support for over 60 events each year including concerts, community meetings, plays, musicals, and professional touring companies. With our state of the art theater technology, students will experience hands on training in professional lighting, sound recording, and working behind the scenes. Students will work frequently in all of the events in Opstad auditorium.

Thespian*

Advisor(s): Troy Peters

Meeting Dates and Times: As announced

Meeting Place: Opstad Auditorium

The Thespian Organization annually initiates students, based on leadership skills, commitment to theater, and participation in City High productions.

Video Game Club

Advisor(s): Gerry Coleman

Meeting Dates and Times: Wednesdays, 4:00-5:15

Meeting Place: Room 1101

Meets on Wednesdays right after school from 4:00-5:15. Kids play games collaboratively from a variety of gaming platforms and enjoy camaraderie with other gamers. City High Video Game Club More Games, More Fun!

World Language Club

Advisor(s): Tony Balcaen and Dolores Silva

Meeting Dates and Times: Spanish - Tuesdays 8:15

Meeting Place: Room 3305

The Spanish students meet weekly for conversation practice.

Young Democrats

Advisor(s): Ali Borger-Germann

Meeting Dates and Times: Fridays 8:15 AM

Meeting Place: Room 1310

A group of politically minded democrat students interested in canvassing, getting out the vote, and being informed on political issues. Meets weekly in Mrs. BG's room 1310.