Activities
Between Thanksgiving break and before winter break, the student body participates in a fundraising initiative known as School Chest. Organized and run by the Student Council, School Chest has raised more than $120,000 almost every year for worthy charitable organizations including Chicago House, One Step at a Time Camp, Special Gifts Theater, the Children's Heart Foundation, Evan's Life Foundation, Camp Heartland, Saving Tiny Hearts Society, and most recently, Bear Necessities. The charity is selected by members of the Student Council with input from the student body. On the last day of school before winter break, the exact amount collected is announced.
Every year the school sponsors a weekend trip titled Operation Snowball. The program is a school and community sponsored and facilitated prevention program offering the opportunity for youth to further develop healthy lifestyles. The weekend is filled with small group discussions and activities.
The school newspaper is Deerprints. The newspaper is student–run and prints monthly. In 2006 Deerprints won a Pacemaker award, given by the National Scholastic Press Association.
Also, the school has a television station that comes out with bi-weekly, and sometimes weekly 12-minute news shows. A link can be found at http://dist113.org/dhs/depts/Multimedia/dhstv/calendar0809.htm
Deerfield won the IHSA championship in Drama in 1970–71.
Another activity is the Deerfield Hockey Program, considered a club by the school. The Warrior hockey program won the White Division State Championship in 2008, 2011, and 2012.
The Congressional Debate team (Student Congress) won the Illinois Congressional Debate Association (ICDA) state championship in 2003.
The Scholastic Bowl team qualified for the Class AA IHSA State Championship in 2004 and 2005 by winning its regional and sectional tournaments. The team also advanced to sectionals by winning regionals in 2006 and 2010.
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“There is, I think, no point in the philosophy of progressive education which is sounder than its emphasis upon the importance of the participation of the learner in the formation of the purposes which direct his activities in the learning process, just as there is no defect in traditional education greater than its failure to secure the active cooperation of the pupil in construction of the purposes involved in his studying.”
—John Dewey (1859–1952)