Club Rush Opens New Opportunities For Students To Explore Interests

Club Rush for the 2025-2026 school year occurred on Sep. 5-9, attracting many students to different clubs of their interest. Clubs are able to welcome new members while audiences get to watch different performing clubs dance and play music. 

The week of Club Rush is the prime opportunity of clubs to get new members to sign up for their clubs. The amphitheater is decked with more than fifty clubs having their booths set up, ornate with posters of the club’s name in big letters and colorful tri-folds offering information about the club. 

“Club Rush has been really fun, my club has been getting a lot of freshmen interest, so I am excited to see what type of things will happen from there,” Rhea Singh (12) expressed. 

As co-president of Interact Club, Singh has to worry about sign-ups' outcome, so that means taking care of incentives, knowing which grade level signed up, and how the club will be shaped based on the acquired demographics. Many clubs opt for offering candy as an incentive for members to sign up, and participants get a sweet treat out of it. 

“Club sign ups are important of course, but as officers, we have to expect that about half of the people on the list will not be active half-way through the year, and plan accordingly.” revealed Jingyu Li (12), who is an officer for six clubs.

Timeless Smile is a new club gearing towards service learning, as they plan to go to centers like palliative cares and help residents there. As their novelty compels them, the officers of the club asked a lot of their friends to follow their Instagram to gain more traction and reach as many people as possible.

“Since it’s our first time, we do not have a lot of members compared to other clubs, and I think we can gain advice from them,” Vrishank Arun (10), Timeless Smile president, reflected. 

To keep Club Rush engaging, performance clubs (Creators, Desi, Sol De Mexico, Musicians, Polynesian, Korean and Bhangra) pull out their best moves to attract people to their club. Kaylee Montalvo (12), Polynesian club’s president, explained that her club usually pick a Lilo and Stitch song, favorites of the masses, for club rush, and from there they searched up meaning of the lyrics so they can incorporate it in their Hula dance moves (a dance often associated with storytelling.) 

Anvi Bendre (09) and Varsha Balamurugan (09) felt that Club Rush was fun since they get to explore a variety of clubs and that they get to watch different clubs perform. Culinary Club stood out to them because of their colorful trifold and the people at the booth were nice and talkative.

Photo by Khanh Do | Polynesian Club perform in front of various club booths.