Coe-Brown Student Activities
Students who are involved in the activities of their high school are usually the most invested in their high school communities and the most successful! Athletic opportunities are announced elsewhere on this website. (Click here for Athletics) The list below falls into two categories: groups that can be joined at almost any time, and those for which there are restrictions or applications required. Click on the name of any group to find out details and contact people.
Activities that are open to all ages and can be joined now!
Coe-Brown Emergency Services
Team- CBEST
Paragon , the CBNA Literary Magazine
Theatre / International Thespian Society (ITS) (partially open to all, partially by audition and qualification)
Young Environmental Advocates -YEA
Activities for which students must qualify or apply- criteria will be described
FBLA – Future Business Leaders
of
FCCLA- Future Career and Community
Leaders of
National Art Honor Society- NAHS
National FFA Organization (formerly
Future Farmers of
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Student led group which gives students an opportunity to have fellowship together through singing, prayer, "get to know you" games, and Bible study. Open to all! :)
Faculty contact person: Ms. Carrie Kennedy,
Room 102, ckennedy@coebrown.org(Mrs. Laurie
Foster will be helping when she can.)
Meets Wednesday mornings at 7AM in Room 102.
Students meet weekly to learn and play chess. All are welcome!
Faculty
contact person: Mr. Scott Goelzer ,
Room 703, sgoelzer@coebrown.org
Meets
Tuesday after school in Room 703.
Coe-Brown Emergency Services Team- CBEST
CBEST
is a club designed for people who have an interest in careers in law enforcement,
emergency medical services, firefighting, or emergency management. Past students
have gone on to careers as paramedics, state communication coordinators, and police
officers and firefighters. We provide training in first aid, traffic management
and safety considerations for planning events. Members assist at regular school
events such as morning assemblies, track meets, and graduation.
Faculty
contacts: Mrs. Patty Potter (Certified police officer, former EMT, School Resource
Officer) and Mr. Robert Young (Chemistry teacher and Northwood Director of Emergency
Management), Room 708, ppotter@coebrown.org and
ryoung@coebrown.org.
Meets weekly on Tuesdays directly after school in Room 708.
This club aims to teach the craft of making quality and more engaging movies. Student-chosen groups will be challenged with monthly or bi-weekly film challenges that will be presented to the rest of the club. The year will conclude with student groups producing and submitting films to the annual statewide New Hampshire High School Short Film Festival.
Faculty contact person: Mr. Gompert cgompert@coebrown.org
Meets in Room 207, Mondays, November through June
Competes in academic
trivia contests on Saturdays throughout the school year. Every other year (at
most) CBNA competes on the NHPTV Granite State Challenge program.
All students
are welcome at practices, and all interested students can go to Saturday competitions.
GSC Teams are selected based on ability, participation, and grade level (since
juniors and seniors will only have one chance to compete
on Granite State Challenge, while freshmen and sophomores may have another opportunity).
Faculty contact person: Ms. Lorraine Drake
Room 705, Science Department, ldrake@coebrown.org
Meets Wednesdays after school for 30-45 minutes,
in Room 705,
The International
Club members have a common denominator, a fascination for the world and an interest
in different cultures. The club’s goal is to promote awareness of the benefits
of diversity. As part of this year’s activities, a senior is working with the
club as part of his Senior Portfolio Project, facilitating contact with students
all over the world to exchange ideas and knowledge. The goal is to hold a video
conference as a result of this and make a documentary of it. Membership is open
to all students at Coe-Brown.
Faculty contact: Sra. Cerecedo-Newman, Room 101, dcerecedonewman@coebrown.org
Meets
on Thursdays after school in Room 101 or the Library.
Math Team
The Coe-Brown Math
Team competes in the Southeastern Math League of New Hampshire on six Thursdays
from October through March each year. It
also will compete at the State Math Meet in
Faculty contact:
Mrs. Diana Foster, Room 104, dfoster@coebrown.org
Operation Kindness
Operation Kindness
is a club which does random acts of kindness for students, staff, and community.
We celebrate World Kindness Day and National Kindness Week with an Ice Cream Social
and gifts. We also give baskets randomly throughout the year. If students
are interested we volunteer for community service in the school. Other acts of
kindness are determined by the interest of the club.
Contact Person:
Mrs. Fran Newman in Room 113, fnewman@coebrown.org
Meets
usually on Friday afternoons
at 2:40 (We will decide at our first meeting) in Room 102 or available room.
Paragon
The Paragon
Literary/Art magazine produces a yearly publication showcasing the best of student
art and literature submitted by Coe-Brown students. Staff members work to
promote the magazine, get a wide variety of high quality submissions, choose the
content, complete the lay-out, and distribute the magazine.
All students
are welcome to join the staff. Staff members must attend weekly meetings,
read and view the selections, commit to a Saturday meeting in February, and complete
at least one two page lay-out to be credited with membership in the publication
and for their transcript..
Advisors: Ms. Anna Hazen & Mr.
Allen Unrein , Rooms 100 and 606, ahazen@coebrown.org and aunrein@coebrown.org
Meets Wednesday at
2:45 during the fall and up until the submissions deadline. More frequent meeting may be required
from February until the end of April.
The Salsa Club is to provide the
Coe-Brown community with the opportunity to have the cultural experience of learning
Latin/ballroom dances, including salsa, merengue, cha-cha,
and bachata , as well as to provide students with a
fun and healthy means of exercise. The long term goal is to have students
compete in a fun dance competition with other Seacoast high schools (
Faculty contact person: Ms. Carrie Kennedy
(Mrs. Jenny Squier may help as possible.) ckennedy@coebrown.org
Meets: TBA (various meeting times until November, 2007 when the group will decide on a consistent meeting time) in Room 102 (Gerrish Gym or MPR when available).
Students interested in science meet to conduct experiments, discuss current topics, watch movies, and socialize. Anyone is welcome.
Faculty
contact persons: Mr. Scott & Mrs. Joanne Goelzer , Rooms 703 & 707, sgoelzer@coebrown.org, jgoelzer@coebrown.org
Meets Wednesdays after school in Mr. or Mrs. Goelzer's room.
Theatre / International Thespian
Society (ITS)
Produces extra curricular theatre productions (2 - 3 per year) as well as other activities related to theatre. Productions are open to all students. Casting productions is by audition. Students are encouraged to work in technical areas as well. Membership to the CBNA chapter of the International Thespian Society is selective , based on specific criteria, i.e. number of hours of participation in production work.
Faculty contact person: Mrs. Elizabeth
Lent, elent@coebrown.org, Room 108.
Meets: Production rehearsals are
varied according to rehearsal schedules for individual productions in the Gerrish
Gym / MPR/108. Auditions are announced in daily announcements.
ITS members meet once per month, usually on Wednesdays. ITS officers meet every Friday.
For students not involved in Spring sports, the club provides a competitive outlet for athletes through the sport of ultimate disc. We will practice skills and play ultimate, as well as play an occasional round of disc golf.
Faculty contact person: Mr. Gompert cgompert@coebrown.org
Meets on practice field, once a week (to be determined), Semester 2
Yearbook
This group works on various aspects of yearbook production: photography, layout design, text editors (ID photographs and type in names, do brief write-ups). Anyone is welcome to join the staff.
Faculty contact person: Mrs. Biery (207), Ms. Lasky (Smith Hall); kbiery@coebrown.org or clasky@coebrown.org.
Meets: At varied times in Room 207.
Young Environmental Advocates = YEA
We recycle
paper, cell phones and inkjet cartridges.
We hike and do
trail clean-ups. We do an Adopt-A-Highway road cleanup each year. We run a student
coffeehouse and do a t-shirt sale to raise money for
paper recycling costs. We help local nonprofit
environmental organizations at their events and
earn community service hours. Two students who acquire
the most community service hours helping the environment, earn $50 awards
at the end of the year. All are welcome!
Faculty contact: Mrs. Wini
Young, Room 700, wyoung@coebrbown.org
Meets Thursdays after school in Room 700.
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The activities in this section are those for which
students must qualify, audition, or apply.
Athena Club
The Athena Club is an opportunity for a select group of young women, in the tenth grade, to meet together, read and explore what it means to be female in today’s world and to develop the leadership skills required to be a successful female leader. The philosophy of the club is based on the Athena Leadership Model, developed through the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
Advisors: Ms. Lasky, Ms. Gahm
Meetings: Monthly meetings and activities/experiences
Contact: Ms. Lasky @ clasky@coebrown.org
Family, Career and Community Leaders of
“This is a dynamic and effective national student
organization that helps young men and women become leaders
and address important personal, family , work and society
issues through Family and Consumer Studies Education," as stated by the National Organization in Reston,
Virginia.
Qualification to join: Students who have enrolled in any F&CS course may be members.
Mrs. Roberta Mongeon,
Advisor, Room 501, rmongeon@coebrown.org
Meetings are determined by elected officers (mid-Sept.) and held in Room 501, Smith Hall.
FBLA- Future Business
Leaders of
We are involved in 5 major types of activities each year. (1) Professional Development in Leadership and Business through competitions at the state and national level; (2) We participate in Civic duties that help businesses, community members, students, and non-profit organizations on a volunteer basis (some we help regularly are: Make-A-Wish Foundation, March of Dimes; David's House); (3) We provide Services for a small fee to gain work experience by putting our learned skills to work (i.e. making business cards, typing service, tax services, advertising, etc.); (4) We participate in Socials to network students locally, state-wide from other chapters, and nationally (we are also an international organization if we get a chance to pursue that far); and lastly (5) Financial activities to support going to leadership workshops, conferences, scholarships, and support the socials without it costing too much whereas the students can go because of the financial burden.
For membership there is an application process and a dues fee of $12 to pay for their state and national dues required. All students can be members since Computer Literacy is a Business course and they all have to take that; however, they must maintain a "C" average or better to stay in the organization. It is an intercurricular organization in that what I teach them prepares them for the competitions and if they don't take the business classes, it will limit their competitive event choices; but all can join. Their professional membership will also allow them discounts to Tire Warehouse, Alamo Car Rental, some hotels, and any other business that gives discounts for professional memberships. What is really nice is that PARENTS, local business owners, other faculty and staff, and any one can and is encouraged to join--especially if they own a business and want to share their knowledge or expertise and attend our meetings. We do have room for business to school partnerships in this organization! Membership opens in the fall, but must be closed by mid-September to plan for induction into the national organization.
Faculty contact person: Dr. Zylak , Room 211b or jzylak@coebrown.org
Meets Monday after
school for 45 minutes (approximately) in Room 211b.
Rehearsals
for Jazz Band begin after Pep Band ends in March.
Rehearsals are held 1-2 evenings per week from 6:30-8:30PM. Typically, there are rehearsals held during
the first three days of April break. The
Jazz Band instrumentation is based on standard Big Band set-up i.e.; trumpets
(5), trombones (4), saxes (5), and rhythm section consisting of piano, bass, guitar,
and drums. Preference will be given to
members of the CBNA Band program and auditions will be held as necessary.
The Jazz Band is an advanced level group.
Students are expected to be at all rehearsals and performances and to prepare
outside of rehearsals. The group performs at the Spring Concert and
for an all-school assembly the day after the concert. Repertoire will be chosen
from Swing, Ballads, Latin and Jazz-Rock selections.
Faculty
contact: Mr. Bruce McCormick, Room 602, bmccormick@coebrown.org
National Art Honor Society (NAHS)
The National Art Honor Society (NAHS) is sponsored by the National Art Education Association (NAEA), the professional organization for art teachers, college and university art personnel, art supervisors, museum art educators, and others concerned with the quality of education in the visual arts.
Criteria for membership in the National Art Honor Society emphasize outstanding artistic scholarship and service to the school and community through the development of artistic endeavors together with a strong moral character. By exemplifying these standards, the individual student members of the society promote an awareness of art and become active participants in the education process at CBNA and the CBNA community. Students eligible for selection shall have maintained a minimum art scholarship of a “B” grade or higher. Students must also participate in a portfolio review that helps determine eligibility and then actively participate in the chapter’s activities, cultural events and community service projects.
Membership by invitation and application of those students who are in grade 10-12 and have successfully completed (B or better) in an art course. Application Deadline this past year was September 4, 2007, as announced in morning notices.
Faculty contact person: Mr. Scott Chatfield (Wiggin
Hall), schatfield@coebrown.org
Meets: Bi-monthly dates to be announced, usually in 602, 606, or 607
National FFA Organization (Formerly, Future
Farmers of
The FFA Mission: FFA makes a positive difference in the lives
of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth
and career success through agricultural education.
The Agricultural Education
Both intracurricular and extracurricular activities related to the wide variety of agricultural opportunities available to today’s youth are a very large part of this active “Much-To-Do” FFA Chapter. These events and activities are carried out by FFA and involve such activities as; community service project, Deerfield Fair, Children’s Mini Barnyard, Career Development Events in Forestry, Dairy, Tractor driving, Horticulture, Natural Resources, Landscaping,, Small Animal Science, Forages. Group events to include; The National FFA Convention, Granite State FFA Convention, Fall Leadership camp, winter camp, Eastern States Fair and Expo, Spring interscholastics, Fall interscholastics, Officer retreat, Camping,, fundraising, cordwood raffle, annual citrus sale and other planned activities.
Minimum Qualification: Members must have been or currently enrolled in an Agriculture class.
Faculty contact persons: Mrs. Sarah Ward
& Mr. Charles Whitten, Room 502; sward@coebrown.org or cwhitten@coebrown.org .
Monthly meeting as scheduled by the Officer Team.
National French Honor Society
This year's French Honor Society induction will take place in October. Invitations to join will go out to those students who qualify at the beginning of October.
To qualify, a student needs to be currently taking French III, and have received a score of at least 93% final grade for both French I and French II. A student currently enrolled in French IV needs to have received a final grade of 91% for French I-III. Those of you just starting on your French journey, set your sights on excelling. We would love to welcome you to the ranks of the honored!
Faculty contact: Mme Louise Palmer, Room 503, lpalmer@coebrown.org
The
National Honor Society is a leader among organizations whose purpose is to recognize
students who show outstanding accomplishments in the areas of scholarship, character,
leadership, and service. Coe-Brown students must have a 90 cumulative GPA to be
considered and this cannot be obtained by rounding up a lower GPA.
Members apply in August.
Their application is reviewed by a faculty committee. If accepted, students are
in the organization for their high school career. There are meetings biweekly.
Faculty contact: Mr. Walter Damon, Room 112, wdamon@coebrown.org
Peer Helpers
A select
group of upper-classmen chosen to represent CBNA at various school wide events
Peer Helpers sponsors the 8th grade Lock-In, provides tutorials to the Strafford
and Northwood Elementary School students, and takes part in other CBNA and community-based
charitable activities. These students also serve as CBNA ambassadors to new and
transfer students, and mentor students who are struggling academically and/or
socially. Meetings are held weekly, and attendance is mandatory.
Membership:
Juniors and Seniors are chosen through an application and interview process. Qualifications
for membership include, good academic standing (passing at least 4 courses), positive
references, no discipline issues, no attendance issues, abstinence from drugs
and/or alcohol and an overall good character.
Faculty Contacts: Tara Tenasco
tatenasco@coebrown.org and Jennifer Cox jcox@coebrown.org , Guidance
Counselors
National Latin Honor Society
@coebrown.org.
PEP BAND
Faculty contact: Mr. Bruce McCormick,
Room 602, bmccormick@coebrown.org
Project Search
Search is a seminar series for intellectually curious
high school students, run in collaboration with the
Faculty contact person: Mrs. Anne Onion (Guidance)
aonion@coebrown.org
Meets: Wednesdays from 2:45-6:00
P.M. Schedule set each year in the spring. The group gathers in Gerrish Gym to depart
for UNH at 2:45. Meetings held in the MUB at UNH.
This elite group is chosen at the beginning of the school year through
an audition process. Membership in the CBNA Chorus is a prerequisite.
The number of people chosen will range from 12 to 20 depending on questions of
balance and the available talent. The Select Chorus rehearses weekly with
some evening rehearsals and attendance at rehearsals and performances is mandatory.
A wide range of musical styles is explored from the Renaissance to Contemporary.
Performances include the singing of the National Anthem at home basketball games
and singing in the major concerts as well as festivals and special events throughout
the year.
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Broadway! Here we come! In this group we sing and dance to
show tunes and/or pop tunes. Membership is drawn from the CBNA Chorus, but
special consideration to others is possible after clearing this with the director.
The Choir rehearses once a week after school with a few evening rehearsals before
the performance in the Spring Concert.
Faculty contact person: Mr. David Deardorff, Wiggin 607, ddeardorff@coebrown.org
@coebrown.org
Addresses concerns of students; serves as a student body liason to administration; plans various school-wide activities such as proms and Winter Carnival; runs student government elections.
You must be elected to the Student Council via annual spring elections (or in the fall for freshmen).
Faculty contact person: Ms. Jennifer Wheet (Room 106) jwheet@coebrown.org
Meets: Thursdays after school, regularly in Room 106.