Clubs
The Josephite Scintilla Science Club: The Scintilla Science Club emerged in the hands of Brother Gerald Kraeger, CSC, in 1957 by the name Space and Science. Later the name was changed into Scintilla Science Club by late Rev. Brother Robert Hughes. Since its inception, the Scintilla Science Club has been organizing a three-day-long Science Fair in the premises of the institution. The club was set up to make students think about the cutting-edge scientific and technological inventions and research. A host of events are arranged to give the students a practical idea and experience about science. The remarkable events include Extempore Speech Competitions, Quiz Competitions, Olympiads (Science, Physics, Chemistry, Maths and Biology), Art Fair, Scrap Book Fair and Science Projects Fair. The club brings out a souvenir to keep its remarkable activities in memory.
The Josephite Debating Club (JDC): Josephite Debating Club is one of the oldest clubs of St. Joseph. This club was founded in 1972 and since then the club has accumulated a good number of accolades producing for itself many national and international debaters. The main purpose of the club is to make students think clearly, logically and sensibly. This club paves various ways for developing individual leadership qualities among the students. Edification of students through logicality and perspicacity is of paramount importance of this club. The club arranges workshops and a three-day annual grand festival involving students from different renowned institutions of Dhaka City. The club brings out a souvenir to mark its remarkable occasions.
The Josephite Chess Club: Josephite Chess Club is one of the oldest clubs of St. Joseph. This club was established in 1979 by Brother Lorenzo to create logicality, discernment and fighting spirit among the students. This club is pride of St. Joseph as it has produced great players of national and international repute like Grand Master Niaz Morshed, Grand Master Ziaur Rahman and Grand Master Rifat Bin Sattar. The club organizes workshops and inter-class tournaments to explore the latent talents of the students. It publishes a souvenir to make its annual festival memorable.
The Josephite Interact Club: ‘Interact’ is the combination of two words ‘International’ and ‘Action’. The Interact Club of St. Joseph was established in 1972 as the second Interact club of Bangladesh, the first being the Interact Club of Shegun Bagicha High School. This club is run following the guidelines of the Rotary International which involves youths to help the people in distress. This club is always ready to help the poor helpless patients, the blind, the flood-affected people, and other disaster-affected people. It also tries hard to promote literacy skills among the children of slums and shanties. The club arranges Meena Bazar every year in the institution premises, a picnic-cum-sports day for the slum-dwelling children and other competitions on a regular basis. It routinely publishes a souvenir to make its activities memorable.
The Josephite Cultural Forum (JCF): The Josephite Cultural Forum is one of the well-established clubs of the institution. This club was established in 1993 by a group of cultural minded Josephites who felt the need of setting up a cultural club with the view to creating interest, enthusiasm and awareness among the students in the cultural activities. Every year the club arranges different cultural functions including seminars and cultural competitions. Competitions include recitation, solo, chorus, etc. It also brings out a souvenir to mark its most important occasion.
The Josephite Drama Group (The Josephite Natya Dal): Josephite Drama Group is fairly new addition to the clubs of St. Joseph. This club was established to study and practice indigenous and modern drama forms and to form a drama group for staging drama. The drama group has performed many a time in different functions. Preparation for stage performance is an ongoing activity of the club.
The Josephite Language and Reading Club (JLRC): Josephite Language and Reading Club was launched in 2001. The main purpose of this club is to motivate the students to use English in different circumstances both inside and outside the classroom. To promote English learning, this club arranges innovative and interesting programs such as Grammar Olympiad, Book-based Quiz Competitions, Extempore Speech Competition in English, Spelling Competition and many more. The club organizes its annual festival every year and brings out a souvenir to mark the occasion.
The Josephite Business Club (JBC): This club was established in 2004 under the patronage of the present Principal, Brother Leo James Pereira, CSC, to make the students aware of the National economy, Banking system, Administrative system, Insurance policies and some business-related topics. The club arranges seminars including debate competition, quiz competition on general knowledge. To give practical experience to the students, the club goes on a picnic to a commercial and industrial establishment and brings out a souvenir BIZ to mark the occasion.
The Josephite Computer Club: Josephite Computer Club is the newest addition to the clubs of St. Joseph. This club was launched in 2008. The main aim of the club is to promote computer knowledge among the students. Last year the club organised workshop in the institution premises involving students from many good institutions of Dhaka City.
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