Many new clubs began this year, including the American Association Club, speech team, the C-walk club and Humanitarian club. In September, center court hosted the Aragon club fair, and the food fair, at lunch in an effort for clubs to gain new members.
American Cancer Association Club
The American Cancer Association Club focuses on raising money for the American Cancer Society to help further research and spread awareness about the disease. It will also participate in cancer walks and is possibly plan a Relay for Life event in the springtime. The club, which meets every other Thursday, asked for everyone to wear pink on Oct. 9 to support the breast cancer movement. Sophomore and club president Anahita Ghajarrahimi explains the importance of researching the disease, saying, “[Cancer] kills a lot of people, and it’s a big thing that really needs people’s support and people’s volunteer hours and donation.” For Ghajarrahimi, the goal of this club hits close to home. “My mom has cancer,” she says. “It’s been a big part of my life and I want to give back and help her out.”
Speech Team
The purpose of the Speech Team is to help improve speech and public speaking of Aragon students. This club meets every Tuesday and will have timed speech-writing competitions to help students reach their public speaking goals. Co-president junior Vivian Shen says, “Public speaking is the fourth most common phobia in the world. [People] might not know how to make it look professional and nice, and make people want to listen to them.” The Speech Team is technically not a new club; it returned this year after a year of inactivity. The club began to decline, and the former president graduated, letting the club die out. The club came back to life when Shen and the other co-president junior Valerie Chen wanted to start it up again.
Humanitarian Club
The Humanitarian Club, which meets on Thursdays, focuses on helping people in need and getting students involved in the community. President junior Fabio Gallardo, also plans on having his club volunteer for organizations that help the poor and hungry. These are organizations like Second Harvest Food Bank. He wants them to learn the benefits of joining clubs and community service, and the importance of helping people out. Gallardo says, “People are happy to get a helping hand, no matter what.”
C-Walk Club
Another new club this year is the C-walk club. C-walk is a general term for dancing to hip-hop and rap music. In the club, students learn technical footwork and develop their dancing skills. The founder of this new club is senior Kenzo Makitani, an avid dancer. Makitani says, “I created the c-walk club so that I could spread my passion to other students … I wanted students to possibly find their hidden talents in dancing.” Makitani also made sure to define the difference between the two dance styles of crip walk and clown walk. “The club represents the clown walk dance style, not the gang-related crip walk … In other words, in no way do we represent a gang.” Makitani started dancing c-walk during the summer of his sophomore year, and hoped to spread the interest of this dancing style by starting the c-walk club.
