As the school year starts up again, we have many different clubs and extracurricular activities KHS students can get involved in. If you read below you can see the many different clubs and what they have to offer to make your year at KHS even more exciting than you thought it would be!
*If you have any questions please feel free to contact the Red & Blue staff or the teacher/staff member listed next to the club for any questions not answered below.
Film Club: Mr. Myers
In film club, you will be studying filmmaking, analyzing films, and you will get to make short films.
- Meetings will be held on Mondays from 2:30-3:30pm in room 244
- Goals this year consist of students creating several short films and having a small film festival
- They are looking for students interested in filmmaking, art and culture
- They have tons of gear like cameras, lights, audio equipment, which will be provided and they want it to be used.
Esports: Mr. Myers
They spend the year competing and playing video games against other schools.
- Callouts depend on the start of seasons, which are to be determined.
- Goals this year would be to do our best and win conference and state championships
- They are looking for competitive gamers who are interested in getting better. We have Rocket League, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Chess, and potentially other games so if you’re interested in playing those then keep an eye out for the callout flyers.
- Depending on the season, the practices are typically an hour after school and the competitions are usually Thursday evenings, however, they may vary.
HOSA: Mrs Towsend
Future Health Professionals is a professional organization for students enrolled in health career classes, interested in pursuing a career in health care or have taken a class in health careers. This organization is for students who are like minded and want to help others.
- HOSA meets the 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month at 2:30.
- We are looking for students who are willing to attend meetings, pay their international, state, and local dues, participate in community service events, and enjoy socializing with other health career students
- To join you must attend meetings and pay your international, state and local dues of $25 total.
- The big events are the state leadership conference in April in Indianapolis and international leadership conference in June in Nashville, TN this upcoming summer.
- Students can participate in fundraising activities to cover the cost of their dues and conferences. This is an excellent way to meet new people, develop leadership and communication skills and become a leader!
Art Club: Mrs. Hatcher-Kendall
Art Club’s goal is to enrich and create relationships with art and friends.
- Art club will be every other Tuesday in the art room after school until 3:30pm.
- Get a form when you go to the meeting and get it signed to be in the club.
Techno Kats: Dr. Dewing
Technokats is involved in FIRST Robotics, an international robotics program for students. Industry mentors teach students engineering and building skills. The team builds a robot designed to play a specific game, and then compete throughout March and April. They also have a business team that includes writing, design, social media, photography and videography, web design, marketing and a scouting team that collects and analyzes data about other teams. There is something for everyone to do to be involved.
- KHS Coaches are Dr. Dewing, Mr. Budd and Mr. Serra. They also have a group of mentors who work with students, as well as a student leadership team.
- During the fall, TechnoKats meet from 5:30-7:30 on Tuesdays at KHS. Meetings increase during the build season, beginning in January.
- There are many events scheduled throughout the school year. See a mentor if you want to get involved.
Academic Team: Mrs. Weicht
Students are given an outline provided by the state association to research and study on a specific topic. The five areas to study are Social Studies, Fine Arts, Math, English and Science.
- Callouts will be in September, watch for an announcement.
- We would like to see our numbers grow this year, if you are interested come to the callout!
- This year’s general topic is Ireland.
- Mrs. Weicht, Ms. Craig, Mrs. Conwell, Mrs. Greeson and Mr. Burns lead the team. You can email or talk to any of these teachers for more information.
- They will meet Fridays in room 261 from 2:30 until 2:50 or 3:15 depending on the time of year. Students meet monthly in the fall and then weekly in the spring until the season is over.
- We have three scheduled meets during the week. You can also use it to qualify for an Academic K as a senior.
- This is a great, low pressure activity to join if you are looking for a way to get involved. It’s like a big game of trivia that you can play with your friends!
Speech and Debate: Mrs. Luckey
Debate is about research and critical thinking skills combined with expert oral presentation skills.
- Speech and Debate is led by Mrs. Luckey. Assistant coach Cadence Coy is a two-time national debate qualifier.
- The team meets Tuesdays and Fridays from 2:30-3:30pm in room 148.
- Saturday competitions from September through January – end of January is districts and state. Nationals are over the summer if anyone qualifies.
- Luckey’s goal is for each competitor to grow and become confident in their critical thinking and debate development
- The team is looking for students who like to research to find the best arguments, students who enjoy a good round of argumentation and students who want to learn more about various topics
- To join, just come to any practice in room 148.
- The KHS Big Question Debate is Saturday, September 14 and it includes all English Honors, DP, AP and ACP classes grades 9-12.
Drama Club: Mrs. Weeks
Students who are involved in these productions find connection through singing, acting, dancing, set/prop construction, storytelling. Anyone interested in joining should come to auditions to sign up to assist or audition to be in a show. The Drama Club does not meet outside of our school production schedule. They gather two or three times a year for several consecutive weeks to bring to life a story through the use of visual and performing arts.
- Musical Theatre students and Drama Club students will work together to bring Frozen, Jr. to the stage on November 14 and 15. The junior show is a little shorter than the full version, but has all of the beloved characters, songs, conflict and beauty expected in this Disney classic.
- The winter play will be a radio style version of It’s A Wonderful Life. It will be December 5 and 6.
- The Choral and Drama Departments with the support of the Band Department will also present a musical in May 2025. Auditions and the show are yet to be determined.
FCA: Mrs. Weeks
FCA is a faith-based organization, led by students who want to connect with other students of Christian faith, pray for each other and bless their fellow students through acts of kindness
- Student Leaders are Olivia Downing and Nora Marden. The student leaders prepare a devotion and snack to share in the mornings, which help launch a brief discussion and prayer.
- FCA currently meets on Wednesday mornings at 7:05 am in the PAC. This group will kick off following Labor Day.
Environmental Club: Mr. Lorenz
This group promotes, enhances and encourages good environmental citizenship throughout Kokomo High School and our community.
- It involves a love for community service, helping others, nature and making the world a better place. They are looking for people who love the outdoors, animals and other people. People who want to make the world a better place.
- This is a Tremont Smoky Mountains trip year, so they will be working hard to fundraise to raise money for the trip during the first week of spring break.
- The meetings are mostly led by club officers: president Mailee Pearl Sewel, vice president Arianna Hall, secretary Branden Woods and public relations Maddie Armstrong, The officers work with Mr. Lorenz, Tracy Williams from Howard County Recycling District and other guest speakers from the community.
- Meetings are held after school until 3pm on the second and fourth Thursday of each month.
- See Mr. Lorenz for a waiver, get it completed and signed by an adult at home and return it to Mr. Lorenz to join.
- The club is no longer accepting bottle cap lids, but they will be working to sort the ones they have to make benches. They will host the Haunted Trail, Red Cross Blood Drive, Wildcat Guardians Trash Clean-Up in the fall and spring, IU Kokomo Astronomy Observatory, Recycled Art Christmas Decorating, Valentine’s Day Bake Sale, Toboggin Sledding Trip, McCormick’s Creek Park Exploration Trip and more this year.
Bring Change To Mind & Diversity Club: Mrs. Parry
This is a club focused on advocating for an equitable and celebratory culture here at KHS. The school has so many wonderful students, faculty and staff from diverse backgrounds and life experiences. That needs to be celebrated while also recognizing where the gaps are and fill them in.
- Diversity Club is starting as a branch under Bring Change to Mind and they are excited to work together this year.
- They are a mission-oriented club, so it involves people who want to get involved in making change. Change takes time, work and commitment to make happen and they are heading in with that mindset. One of the main goals is to bring disability awareness to the forefront, especially in the classroom. This will require everyone’s participation, including teachers and staff.
- They are looking to establish initiatives that will help with the change they want to see. But this year specifically, they are looking to build the club and create strong roots. The goal is to have this club be student-led, advisor-facilitated. What that means is that students are the ones leading and making the decisions and taking action. Advisors are here to help guide, but the students really take the wheel. They are also focusing on developing some exciting things for Black History Month.
- Anyone who wants to commit to developing the culture and community here at KHS is welcome to join. They welcome everyone who wants to be a part, but also need people to understand that this club will involve some work.
- They don’t have specified leaders at this time, but are looking for people who want to become leaders. They’re hoping to establish the Diversity Council, which will serve as the leadership team for the club. They hope to have all demographics of students represented on the council so that every group has a voice in what we’re doing.
- While they don’t have specific meeting dates yet, they are looking to meet the last Thursday of each month after school.
- As with every club, each student will be required to have a parent permission form on file before they can officially join. Once they request to join the club, whether signing up at the callout meeting or filling out the form linked via QR Code on the bulletin board across from the cafeteria/athletic hallway, they will get the parent permission form or they can pick it up from Miss Parry in Room 240.
- If anyone would like to get more information, they can always check out the bulletin board in the main foyer across from the cafeteria/athletic hallway or reach out to Miss Parry or Mrs. Wyant in the guidance office.
