Activities
Saint Charles East offers dozens of after-school activities. Students can choose from groups like Key Club, Auto Club, Debate, Science Olympiad, Speech, Peer Leadership, athletics, club sports or apply into honor societies.
In 2012, the Saint Charles East team finished first at the state Science Olympiad held at the University of Illinois.
Within the Arts there are opportunities for students to participate in Theater, Choir, Orchestra, Jazz Band, Wind Ensemble, and Marching Band. The Theater Department produces three shows per year, including one musical. Students who are active in the theater department are often members of the Drama Club as well. Music classes are taken for credit. Choir, jazz band, band and orchestra are offered as elective courses within the school day.
The school's music program offers talented directors and students. Students of every level of musical ability are welcome into the program, sorted by freshman band then by ability level. At this time St. Charles East High School has six performing bands.
The top performing groups are the Wind Ensemble and Jazz Workshop, which have performed at the Midwest Music Clinic in 2008, Carnegie Hall, Hawaii in 2010, where students had the opportunity to perform at Pearl Harbor, and across China in 2007, with a performance on the Great Wall of China. Music students have gone on to study music performance and composition at universities all over the country including the University of Illinois, St. Olaf University and the Juilliard School of Music.
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