The Asian Student Association is a club dedicated to spreading asilan cultures and promoting diversity at NAHS. We do this through celebrating asian identities and educating our members on them at our meetings so we can create a more inclusive environment at our school. Meetings are in room F101.

Advisor: Juliette Montague

montague.13@napls.us

This club is out of this world. Astronomy Club will explore the Universe together through current events, new technology and discovery, and space missions within the solar system and beyond.

Advisor: Claire Monk

monk.1@napls.us

Baking Club is a new club here at NAHS! We will form new friendships and feel a sense of community as we learn to bake new things! We believe baking can bring joy and peace to us all! All are welcome!

Advisor: Sarah Shon

shon.1@napls.us

The Black Student Association is a club commited to providing support, conversation and community for people of color and friends within New Albany Plain Local Schools.

Co- Advisors:

Claire Monk, monk.1@napls.us

Aida Rodriguez, rodriguez.15@napls.us

Club for interested readers to gather and casually discuss a book we have read in common. Meetings are Tuesdays from 2:15-3:00 in room L202.

Advisor: Lynnette Bissell

bissell@napls.us

The Breakfast Club is a place for students to connect with their peers while eating breakfast. It gives them a place to relax and reflect over their week. Our meetings will include making breakfast and eating it. Students are welcome to bring whatever breakfast foods that they would like. Meetings are held after school on Fridays, once a month, from 2:20-3:45 and they are open so you can come and go as you please.

Advisor: Tim Mathews

mathews.2@napls.us

Communities 4 Communities - throughout the year we will conduct different drives - from food drives to toy drives during the holidays.

Advisor: Julian Mendoza

mendoza.13@napls.us

This club is all about fun, friendship and crafting! Craft club's mission is to make people smile through the art of making things. Many of our crafts will be seasonal themes! It's a low stress, high fun environment for friends!

Advisor: Claire Monk

monk.1@napls.us

Disc Golf Club is for students of all levels interested in disc golfing! Students go to the Blendon Woods course weekly after school in a low-pressure, non-competitive environment.

Advisor: Jordan Grubb

grubb.3@napls.us

SkillsUSA is a career and technical student leadership organization. It is a student-led partnership of education and industry that’s building the future skilled workforce our nation depends on with graduates who are career ready, day one. All students in the Cyber Security Program are automatically enrolled as members of SkillsUSA.

Advisor: Ty James

james.15@napls.us

The Environmental Club actively completes projects designed to make a positive impact for our environment. They design, execute, and promote school activities to reduce our impact on the environment. The club has been a regular participant at the Columbus Zoo Teen Eco-Summit.

Advisor: Chad Schwinnen

schwinnen.1@napls.us

As and official club sport we participate in competive leagues with schools across Ohio. We offer many games and the selections rotate from season to season based on what is in demand at that time. Please see the bulliten board outside of room E217 for games offered for the year, as well as to get into the discord. Direct any interest or questions to the email listed.

Advisor: Jessie Dorman

dorman.1@napls.us

We plan for this club to be a valuable opportunity for you to learn about various aspects of real estate and network with other students and adults that will help you as you pursue your interest in real estate. Complete THIS brief form to let us know of your interest. We'll reach out to you with details of our next meeting.

Advisor: Mark McNichols

mcnichols.1@napls.us

French Club is intended for students to learn and explore French and francophone (French-speaking) cultures. Student leaders design meetings and activities based on current events, culinary traditions, holidays, film, art, and their own interests. French Club meets in L100 one time per month, typically on Thursday mornings, but some meetings will be held after school.

Advisor: Mrs. Kittle

kittle.1@napls.us

Fundraising For Pediatric Cancer - we will bring awareness, fundraise and work with different groups that deal with how to help the cause.

Meet :Tuesdays 7:05am-7:35am

Advisor: Julian Mendoza

mendoza.13@napls.us

Are you interested in medicine and want to be a medical professional in the future? In this club we will have weekly meetings to discuss various medical topics and fields of study. There will be opportunities for volunteering, becoming CPR certified, suturing, meeting medical professionals, and more! Meetings will typically occur after school for an hour in Mrs. Matinides's classroom. No prior experience is needed!

Advisor: Alexa Matinides 

Matinides.1@napls.us

Love gardening? Or nature? Or biology? Or anything plant related? The NAHS Gardening Club provides a free environment to indulge in these interests with other excited students! Together, we will go over everything from the basics to the most advanced techniques. Hang out with your friends while planting seeds, doing crafts, and lots of other activities at our weekly meetings!! Positively impact the world and your health with our club!

Advisor: Alexa Matinides

matinides.1@napls.us

GirlUp is responsible for the annual Beyond the Chains Fashion Show, as well as drives, raising awareness, and mentorship. We focus on gender equity and empowering those who are unheard or underrepresented.

Advisor: Sara Hric

hric.1@napls.us

Competition trivia team. We meet after school on Mondays and Wednesdays in G100. This is a pay-to-participate activity.

Advisor: Jenny Sage

sage.2@napls.us

The Jewish Culture Club is a place for anyone who wants to learn about the culture, have fun with peers, and eat delicious food! You do NOT have to be Jewish to join! Throughout the school year, we will watch movies, make food, and do activities related to the holidays.

Advisor: Keith Rusnak

rusnak.1@napls.us

The Junior Class Advisory fundraises for the Junior Class, runs Powder Puff, and plans and runs Prom.

Advisor: Sara Goldhardt

goldhardt.4@napls.us

The Mathematics Competition Team is designed to provide an opportunity for any student who enjoys taking math contests to practice their skills and participate in a variety of math contests. Meetings will consist of practice contests as well as discussions on problem solving techniques.

Here's a link to our dates/info page: https://sites.google.com/napls.us/math-competition-club-nahs/home

Advisor: Mark McNichols

mcnichols.1@napls.us

The NAHS Rock Climbing Club is designed to teach students the basics of rock climbing and bouldering. We will learn in the classroom and eventually members will go (outside of school hours) to Vertical Adventures or outdoors to practice what they have learned.

Advisor: Tony Macerollo

macerollo.1@napls.us

The NAHS NAACP Youth Unit wants to ensure a society in which all individuals have equal rights without discrimination based on race by developing a new generation of civil rights and community leaders. In our meetings we aim to talk about the problems affecting African Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities and advance the economic, educational, social, and political status of African Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities, and their harmonious cooperation with other peoples by creating effective and engaging programming and activities. We typically meet right after school (Date: tba) with great conversation and good snacks. Since we are affiliated with the national NAACP, annual dues are required and are $10.

Advisor: Denise Johnson

johnson.22@napls.us

The Red Cross Club is affiliated with Red Cross of America. The club meets via Google Meet approximately once per month to plan activities. Activities include multiple volunteer opportunities. Most years this involves a toy drive and assisting with a winter clothes drive. Our two major events we plan for are our blood drives. We host a blood drive in the fall and in the spring in the HS Cafeteria. Some years we also provide a scholarship to a Blood Club student based upon the success of our two blood drives.

Advisor: Greg Morris

morris.1@napls.us

The NAHS Wrongful Conviction club is focused on raising awareness for the many wrongful convictions that occur within the United States. We will learn about various causes that lead to wrongful conviction, promote awareness through our school, and raise money to help individuals who have been wrongfully convicted. This club will meet approximately twice a month before school, from 7:05 to 7:35 am in Middle School room 261.

Advisor: Susan 

Woodmansee.1@napls.us

The National Honor Society is a service based club for juniors and seniors. The 4 pillars of NHS are leadership, service, character and scholarship. Our students work on individual service projects for their community and chapter projects for their school and community. We are a scholarship based club with a GPA requirement.

Advisor: Jenny Core

core.3@napls.us

This club is for anybody with even a vague interest in technology and who is in 6-12th grade. No experience required. Optional learning opportunities for what students are interested in (Graphic Design, CAD, 3D Printing, Robotics, PCBs, Coding, Video Editing, Photography) Why should you join? We will do cool projects for the community, learn more about your interest in technology, and earn easy volunteer hours on certain projects. Regular meetings will be held at 7AM on Thursdays in the Middle School Fab Lab.

Advisor: Krystina Pratt

pratt.3@napls.us

New Albany Speech and Debate team competes against other schools in various debate categories such as Lincoln-Douglas, Public Forum, and speech categories like Original Oratory, Declamation to name a few.

Advisor: Erin Farley

farley.4@napls.us

Pickleball club meets will meet at Bevelheimer Park to play pickleball. Club members will need a pickleball paddle.

Advisor: Rachel Braswell

braswell.1@napls.us

Pollination Club is a group of environmental enthusiasts that works together to create benefits for local pollinators. This includes the prosperity of birds, butterflies, and bees. Every month meetings will be held and club members will do various tasks in order to accommodate these pollinators. My goal is to foster areas such as local wetlands and Rose Run Park into truly prosperous areas of pollinators.

Advisor: Susan Woodmansee

woodmansee.1@napls.us

The Sexuality And Gender Acceptance (SAGA) Club here at NAHS is a safe space for all LGBTQIA+ students to gather and feel a sense of community. We focus on advocacy, education, and belonging, all while having fun and forming friendships! All are welcome!

Advisor: Sarah Shon

shon.1@napls.us

This club is intended to bring together any student with an interest in material arts, including sewing clothing, quilting, upcycling, crochet and kitting, cosplay, cross-stitch and embroidery, etc. We welcome students who are beginners wanting to learn new skills, or experienced students wanting to extend their knowledge. We offer a supportive environment for students to be creative and produce usable items. Additionally, we ask that at each meeting students contribute to our semester-long charity project, which will be an item we produce to donate.

Co-Advisors:

Jenny Sage, sage.2@napls.us

Mary Wiseman, wiseman.1@napls.us

The High School Ski and Board Club will be taking trips to Snow Trails on Wednesday evenings in January and February. Please turn in the permission slip and transportation check by November 3rd to Ms Matinides (G101). All levels of skiers and snowboarders are welcome to attend!

Advisor: Alexa Matinides

matinides.1@napls.us

• Mission: Fostering positive relationships with passion and gratitude.
• Vision: In alignment with New Albany Plain Local School district/building goals and CORE values, it is SOAR Leadership’s mission to recognize, reinforce, respect and reward the amazing people who make up our New Albany Family to help show gratitude and kindness to others and to elicit the results that would contribute to helping our school and district to continue to be the best that it can be. 
• Membership & Organization: Students in grades 9-11 of the current school year can apply to be a member of SOAR each Spring. Membership is limited to around 40 students across grade levels. Items considered by the Advisors for membership include (but are not limited to): club involvement, arts involvement, athletic involvement, leadership in and out of the school, attendance, strong character qualities, no behavioral or office referrals, positive teacher recommendations, student responses to questions on the application. There are three committees in SOAR: Kindness, Spirit and Outreach. Each SOAR member is affiliated with one committee for planning and execution of events/activities/initiatives. Every student in SOAR assists in major SOAR school events (for example, Pep Rallies, student recognition, school recognition and staff recognition).

Advisor: Ashley Landenderfer

langenderfer.1@napls.us

Mission Statement


We are a group of diverse students and adults from many corners and cultures of our school and community. We believe that life has ups and downs, that all of us will go through good times and tough times. Our mission is to ensure that during rough times no one gets so overwhelmed or hopeless that they want to give up.

Our mission is to spread hope, help, and strength into every corner of our community.

Our mission is to help students and staff turn to their strengths and their supports that are all around. We are connectors to help and strength.

Our mission recognizes that our voice has great power and we use it to break the silence when someone is struggling, and to connect them to help they need and deserve.

We spread hope by focusing on stories of strength, rather than on stories of trauma. We know our most powerful impact comes from our personal actions, conversations, and messages that use our music, our art, our writing, our activities, our social media, our culture and our voice. They give life to our efforts.

We are Sources of Strength.  

Advisor: Chad Schwinnen

schwinnen.1@napls.us

Spanish club is a space for students to explore Spanish outside of the classroom. We will learn about Hispanic culture and language through art, music, food, dance and more! We will meet once a month on Friday before school in room NAMS 142 and we hope to see you there!

Advisor: Greg Holman

holman.9@napls.us

• The students of New Albany High School, in order to promote and practice good citizenship, provide for student participation in democratic school government, develop the quality of leadership, promote better understanding of activities, stimulate and develop a healthy school spirit, and promote the general welfare of the school, do establish this Constitution for the Student Council of New Albany High School.
• Student Council accepts members in April/May for the upcoming school year. All students are welcome and encouraged to apply. Student Coucnil does not limit the amount of members in it's body. Instead members are responsible for maintaining good standing by accumulating poitns for invovlement throughout the year. Members who do not remain active are subjected to removale of the organization.
• Meetings: All General Member meerings are held every other week before school and Executive Board meetings are held on the opposite weeks.
• All members of Student Council are part of our standing committees that include: School Spirit/Culture, School Improvement, Communications/Marketing, Newsletter, Service/Philanthropy, Special Events and Initiatives. These standing committees meet based on the overall committee work and what is scheduled between the members and the chairperson. Committees is where the work gets done 
• All members of Student Council are encouraged to attend leadership development training through NA Student Council Retreats and the statewide organization The Ohio Association of Student Leaders.
• Student Council Executive Board elections are held in the April/May for the upcoming year, Committee Chairperson Elections are held in the Fall of the current year.
• In Summary Student Council is a place for you to develop your leadership skills, collaborate with your peers and build community and to represent your peers, school and community! We encourage you to get involved! If you would like to join and it is not in the Spring, please reach out to the Student Council Advisor!

Advisor: Anthony Paletta, paletta.1@napls.us

Co-Advisor: Alexa Matinides, matinides.1@napls.us

Veg club is vegetarians, vegans, or people who are just interested in this lifestyle. We meet every other Friday 2:30 - 3pm in room F202.

Advisor: Jill Tuttle

tuttle.4@napls.us

In this club we will do all sorts of things like have fun, laugh, and learn from others! We will meet in F100 every other Thursday from 2:25-3:30 after school. It will be a fun space for kids who love to do art to do art. You don’t have to take an art class to be in it just a passion for art. You could paint, draw, or even do both. It’s just a fun space for people to be in! So grab a pencil and paper and hopefully we will see you there! 

Advisor:  Adam Kolp

kolp.1@napls.us

The Wellbeing Project is the revamped version of our previous Mental Health Club! We focus on positivity and supporting the wellbeing of all students here at NAHS. We share strategies for stress-relief and relax together while forming a community around wellbeing. All are welcome!

Advisor: Sarah Shon

shon.1@napls.us

The mission of the World Culture Club is to promote diversity, foster cultural understanding, and create a welcoming environment for all students at New Albany High School. We strongly believe that embracing the richness of various cultures, through a variety of games and workshops, can help build bridges and forge connections among our diverse student body.

Advisors:

Christine Chamberlain, chamberlain.9@napls.us

Eric Carmichael, carmichael.1@napls.us

Yearbook staff members engage in graphic design, photography, and project management in order to create a publication that preserves timeless memories. Unlike most clubs, students may register for Yearbook as a pass/fail class that meets after school.

Advisor: Regan Detwiler

detwiler.1@napls.us