Clubs and Activities
E. O. Smith offers a wide variety of clubs and activities for students to participate in after school hours. Sports include Baseball, Basketball, Cheerleading, Crew, Cross Country, Dance Team, Field Hockey, Football, Ice Hockey, Softball, Soccer, Swim and Dive, Tennis, Track and Field (Indoor and Outdoor), Volleyball, and Wrestling. These sports compete in the Central Connecticut Conference Eastern Division (CCC East).In addition, the school has several Unified Sports teams that practice and compete, including Unified Soccer, Unified Basketball, Unified Track, and Unified Bowling. A fencing club was also started in the fall of 2007.
The E.O. Smith Drama Club presents three shows during the year, including a winter musical and two straight shows in the fall and spring. The fall show is performed at the Connecticut Drama Association Festival where cast & crew members have a chance to win awards and possibly advance to the New England Drama Festival. E.O. Smith's Drama Club has won several awards from the Connecticut Drama Association including outstanding performance for Animal Farm (2009) and Lily's Purple Plastic Purse (2010) allowing them to continue on to the New England Drama Festival, which E.O. Smith hosted in 2009. Several E.O. Smith actors have also won individual awards for their performances in the shows or in the Connecticut Drama Association Monologue Contest.
E.O. Smith boasts several strong academic teams, notably the Quiz Bowl, Science Bowl, Envirothon, Connecticut Geography Challenge, and math teams.
Other notable activities include Amnesty International, the Gay-Straight Alliance, Green Teens (who won $10,000 for the school to implement recycling), the Cool-It Team (which recently won $3,000 that will be used to promote Bike to School week in mid-May), and chapters of the National Honor Society (NHS), Tri-M Music Honor Society, World Language Honor Society (WLHS) for Latin, German, Spanish and French, and Mu Alpha Theta, a mathematics honor society.
Read more about this topic: E. O. Smith High School
Famous quotes containing the words clubs and, clubs and/or activities:
“I had the idea that there were two worlds. There was a real world as I called it, a world of wars and boxing clubs and children’s homes on back streets, and this real world was a world where orphans burned orphans.... I liked the other world in which almost everyone lived. The imaginary world.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
“Women realize that we are living in an ungoverned world. At heart we are all pacifists. We should love to talk it over with the war-makers, but they would not understand. Words are so inadequate, and we realize that the hatred must kill itself; so we give our men gladly, unselfishly, proudly, patriotically, since the world chooses to settle its disputes in the old barbarous way.”
—General Federation Of Women’s Clubs (GFWC)
“The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as the passage from labor to leisure.... Leisure contains the future, it is the new horizon.... The prospect then is one of unremitting labor to bequeath to future generations a chance of founding a society of leisure that will overcome the demands and compulsions of productive labor so that time may be devoted to creative activities or simply to pleasure and happiness.”
—Henri Lefebvre (b. 1901)