Activities
Buffalo Grove supports 47 student clubs and activities, an entire and updated list of which can be found at the school's website for activities. These clubs range from music and the arts to culture and language, to social/political action and student government. Buffalo Grove also has an excellent Speech and Debate team, boasting the 99th best Lincoln Douglas Debate team in the NFL. (National Forensics League)
Among the clubs are chapters of these more nationally notable groups: NJROTC, SADD, Scholastic Bowl, Science Olympiad, and Mathletes. In March 2012, the Scholastic Bowl Team qualified for the IHSA State Meet in Peoria, IL by beating William Fremd High School in the Sectional Final at North Chicago High School. They were also the Regional Champions and MSL Conference Champions, beating Fremd in dramatic fashion 485-480.
Another prominent group at Buffalo Grove is its show choir, The Expressions. The Expressions is a mixed competition show choir composed of 38 singer-dancers, 12 band members and 4 crew members. The Expressions are directed by Debora Utley and choreographed by Randy Sage, and the Expressions band is directed by Bryan Itzkowitz . Similar to the hit television show, Glee, the group meets as a class as well as competes throughout the country at various show choir competitions. Some competitions which they attend are the Dekalb Indiana Show Choir Invitational Competition, the Chicagoland Showcase Competition, and the Nashville Show Choir Nationals Competition. Since the show choir was founded at Buffalo Grove, under the direction of Linda McEachran, The Expressions have a history of sweeping show choir competitions with awards in Best Vocals, Best Choreography, Best Band, and Grand Champions. Much of The Expressions' success can be attributed to the strong direction first implemented by Linda McEachran, known as "Miss Mac."
Several Expressions alumni have gone on into careers in music and dance. Current choreographer, Randy Sage, was an Expressions member himself and now choreographs for many award-winning high school and junior high show choirs around the United States. The Expressions' current band director, Bryan Itzkowitz, was also an Expressions member in high school, playing saxophone in the Expressions band. In addition to directing the Expressions band, Itzkowitz teaches band at Frost, Twain, and Whitman Elementary Schools.
Read more about this topic: Buffalo Grove High School
Famous quotes containing the word activities:
“Justice begins with the recognition of the necessity of sharing. The oldest law is that which regulates it, and this is still the most important law today and, as such, has remained the basic concern of all movements which have at heart the community of human activities and of human existence in general.”
—Elias Canetti (b. 1905)
“Love and work are viewed and experienced as totally separate activities motivated by separate needs. Yet, when we think about it, our common sense tells us that our most inspired, creative acts are deeply tied to our need to love and that, when we lack love, we find it difficult to work creatively; that work without love is dead, mechanical, sheer competence without vitality, that love without work grows boring, monotonous, lacks depth and passion.”
—Marta Zahaykevich, Ucranian born-U.S. psychitrist. “Critical Perspectives on Adult Women’s Development,” (1980)
“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)