Activities
The following extracurricular clubs and activities are active at Tahoma: Anime Club; Art/Photography Club; Band; Choir; Drama; Destination Imagination; Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA); Fashion Design Club; Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA); Future Farmers of America (FFA); Future Filmmakers Club; Gaming Club; Green Team; Guitar Club; Hands Up Club (for students of American Sign Language); Interact Club; Japanese Club; Key Club; Mu Alpha Theta Math Club; Multicultural/Diversity Club; National Honor Society (NHS); Newspaper; Orca Bowl (participants in the National Ocean Sciences Bowl); Outdoor Club; Robotics Team (participants in the FIRST Robotics Competition); Spanish Club; Speech and Debate; Street Rats; Technology Student Association (TSA); We The People: The Citizen and the Constitution; Yearbook; and Young Authors Club.
Notable accomplishments include:
- Future Filmmakers Club - Student work frequently receives top awards and recognition at local film festivals.
- Robotics Team - F.I.R.S.T. Pacific Northwest Rookie Allstars and 11th ranked in division in Atlanta Nationals in 2007. Regional Champions at the Microsoft Seattle Regional in 2008. Engineering Inspiration at the Seattle Olympic Regional and Division Quarter Finalist at the World Championship in 2011. In 2012, the team placed first in the Seattle Cascade regional and later won it, as well as winning the Chairman's award. One of the team's mentors also won the Regional Woodie Flowers award at Seattle in 2012, and the team made it to the quarterfinals in their division at the world championships. Won Autodesk Oregon Regional in 2013. Ranked 6th and won Chairman's award in the Central Washington Regional. Ranked 76th on the Galileo field in the 2013 St. Louis Championships. The team is currently known as Bear Metal, with the team number of 2046.
- Speech and Debate - Regularly a strong state competitor, and occasionally nationally competitive members. Won State Speech Competition in 2009, placed 2nd in 2010. Under coaches Matt Tucker, Scott Mercer, and Michelle Sutterfield. In the 2010-2011 school year the team brought on new coach, Kaveh Dilmaghani, after Matt Tucker retired from the team.
- We The People: The Citizen and the Constitution - Washington State Champions from 1994–2006, 2008, and 2010-2013. The teams in 1994 and 2001 placed 4th nationally, the 2008 team won "Best in the West", and both the 2010 and 2011 Unit Five sections of the group won the Best Unit Five Award at the national competitions in Washington, D.C. The 2012 team placed 10th in the nation, and the 2013 team placed 7th in the nation.
- Destination Imagination - The Tahoma Learning Community team from THS competed at Global Finals in the years 2006, 2007 and 2008. The team took 2nd place at Global Finals for their challenge Obstacles, Of Course! in 2008.
- Green Team -The club was awarded the Presidential Environmental Youth Award for EPA Region 10 in 2011.
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