Extracurricular Activities
Frederick Douglass Academy offers many extracurricular activities ranging from an anime interest club to robotics. As of 2006, it offers the following among many other activities:
- Anime club
- Chess club
- History club
- Yearbook committee
- Vocal club
- Buildon - This club (not created at FDA) focuses on local community service simultaneously with building schools in third-world nations such as Nicaragua and Ghana. On average, two or three students go abroad to these countries to help build the schools from scratch with money raised locally.
- Robotics - FDA linked up with For Inspiration and Recognition of Technology (FIRST) robotics league. The inception of the school's chapter—in 2005—proved to be remarkable as the team finished in second place, displacing Stuyvesant High School and Bronx Science.
- School newspaper club
In 2006 FDA students launched The North Star school newspaper named after Frederick Douglass' own newspaper. It addresses serious issues pertaining to the student body as well major world events.
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