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.
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