Clubs and Activities
BGHS Clubs and Activites
Art Club:
Sponsor: Kimberly Schneider
Students promote the arts through public activities, school fundraisers, student exhibitions, art critiques and collaboration with other clubs.
Be A Hero:
Sponsor: Gina Endresen
Blood Drive Club will promote and organize blood drives at BGHS. Encourage students to become leaders while working with others, planning, speaking, and organizing the blood drives.
Book Club:
Sponsor: Tamara Juarez
Teaching students how to improve, apply, and use literary analysis skills in everyday life, as well as cultivate a love of reading at BGHS.
Bring Change 2 Mind:
Sponsor: Tamara Juarez, Courtenay Douglas-Salisbury
Provide students within the club with a place to learn about mental health and destigmatize it.
Bulldogs Unified Sports
Sponsor: Kanah Higbee
Promote social inclusion through shared sports training and competition, to provide equal opportunities for those with and without intellectual disabilities, and to encourage unity amongst all students.
Choir Club:
Sponsor: Carlos Arellano
The choir provides performance opportunities for vocal musicians. Class.
Competitive (Video) Game Club (CGC):
Sponsor: Mackenzie Dubois
Create fun space to play competitive games while encouraging comradery. Additionally, we will broaden the knowledge of games and strive for team work and work ethic to ultimately bring us closer as a community.
Construction Technologies Organization
Sponsor:
Encourage students to take on challenges that will allow them to master their profession. Our goal is to inspire a new wave of talented and dedicated young adults in the trades through networking, leadership, and SkillsUSA experiences.
CSI Club
Sponsor: Amber Uthe
Prepare students for CSI State Competitions. This club will allow students to sharpen their critical thinking skills as well as learn to work together as a team. They will learn how to process a crime scene using different crime scenarios throughout the year.
Culture Club:
Sponsor: Albert Pepe
This club allows students the opportunity to form strong bonds with each other through extracurricular activities and the feeling of belonging that fosters connections with BGHS.
Dance Club:
Sponsor: Katie Lachvayder
Provides the opportunity for students to express themselves through the art of dance. Students can learn new techniques, explore different types of choreography, and provides an alternative for students who can not take Dance class as an elective.
DECA:
Sponsor: Jeff Carl
DECA is a national Career & Technical Student organization (CTSO) focused on developing emerging leaders with professional development opportunities. The BGHS DECA Chapter runs the student based enterprise called the Dog Shack (student store), develops community service campaigns, participates in leadership conference both locally and regionally, travels to competitive events where student solve real-world business problems and supports sports & entertainment events at BGHS .
Eco-Squad:
Sponsor: Vicky Munoz
Promote awareness initiatives and programs to recycle, reuse, and reduce waste in the local community.
FCCLA Culinary:
Sponsor: Esther Castillo, Rene Duffield
Culinary Arts Club Program
Gardening Club:
Sponsor: Tamara Juarez
Description
G-Crew:
Sponsor: Heather Smith
Club to support freshman success through mentoring. Activities for positive support throughout the year.
Hispanic Honor Society:
Sponsor: Vicky Munoz
Spanish Program
HOSA (Health Occupations Students of America):
Sponsor: Kelley Robb
To create interest and understanding in the intelligent choice of a healthcare career.
Hype Squad / BGHS PRIDE:
Sponsor: Sarah Smith
Provides support at athletic and school events.
IB World Club:
Sponsor: Bridget Romero
Club supporting students in the International Baccalaureate (IB) Program.
Interact / Keyclub:
Sponsor: Albert Pepe
Interact Club is a service organization affiliated with Rotary International.
Each year, Interact clubs complete at least two community service projects, one of which furthers international understanding and goodwill. Through these efforts, Interact develops a network of friendships with local and overseas clubs and learn the importance of:
*Developing leadership skills and personal integrity
*Demonstrating helpfulness and respect for others
*Understanding the value of individual responsibility and hard work
*Advancing international understanding and goodwill
*Developing leadership skills and personal integrity
*Demonstrating helpfulness and respect for others
*Understanding the value of individual responsibility and hard work
*Advancing international understanding and goodwill
Journalism & Communications
Club:Sponsor: Tamara Juarez
Provide students with the opportunity to improve their creative and professional writing skills, learn about news reporting, and share their ideas or interests with the BGHS student body.
Jr. American Citizen Club:
Sponsor: Officer Valerie Rhodes - SRO
Teach students the underlying principles of our government, of American sentiment, and of all that will go toward making them good citizens. Open to all students. “The Jr. American Citizens of today will be tomorrow’s good citizens”
Knitting Club:
Sponsor: Renee Young-Esparza
Students help each other learn the art of knitting and will create wearable products to donate to a variety of charities.
David Listovitch
Marching Band:
Sponsor: Renee Young-Esparza
The Band club provides entertainment and spirit opportunities for the musicians and school. Class.
Math Honor Society - Mu Alpha:
Sponsor: Kyle Martin
Promote scholarship, enjoyment, and understanding of mathematics among high school students.
NHS-National Honor Society:
Sponsor: Danny Harvell
Academic program
Photography Club:
Sponsor: Kim Schneider
Promote interest and mastery in photography through cooperation and effort in club activities. It is also meant to promote creativity through a different lens.
Skills USA:
Sponsor: Travis Carpenter, Richard Lehmann, Jeff Sweet, Cassie Roessing
Skills USA develops skills through CTE classes: Media, Business, Graphics, Law Enforcement, and DECA.
Society of Female Scholars:
Sponsor: Arilyn Streety, Hailee Hopkins
Promote female leadership and engagement on campus while benefiting the female and overall community through service projects, events, and activities. Create a sense of unity between the identifying female population at BGHS.
Speak Up, Stand Up, Save a Life:
Sponsor: Amanda Diehl
Bringing suicide awareness, bullying awareness, disease awareness months, and kindness month to light for students through community service projects and data surveys.
Speech and Debate:
Sponsor: Ronda McWhortor
This club competes state-wide against other high school teams and develops excellent interpretation and thinking skills. Categories include impromptu speaking, oral interpretation, oratory and various debate styles. It offers good preparation for DECA and FBLA competitions.
Student Government:
Sponsor: Melissa Calhoun
This is a class. Student Government works to bring spirit and activities to the school. They are in charge of organizing and putting together homecoming week which includes floats, parade, assembly, tailgate, royalty and dance. STUGO is a leadership class/club in which students lead a group of their peers to organize events on campus. These events include but are not limited to Dodgeball, Dances, Powder Puff, Assemblies, Fundraisers, and Prom.
Table Top Gaming:
Sponsor: Jeremy Neiss
We will set up situations in which the students will have to think critically, ahead, and swiftly to complete a task. The club will help students interact with one another in a safe environment and focus on conversing with one another face to face and not through technology. Chess section will focus on strategy, skills, personal interests and competition. Students learn to work together as a team to succeed in stressful and difficult situations.
Teen Court:
Sponsor: Trevor Jacklin
Teen Court is part of Maricopa County’s Juvenile Justice Court where students hear cases and determine sentences for juvenile offenders. We hear real cases and make real decisions.
Thespian / Theatre:
Sponsor: Amelia Huot
The BGHS Thespian Troupe #4065 is an international organization that recognizes and celebrates excellence in high school theatre. This organization collaborates to bring awareness of the art of theatre in our community while also working toward other community service events to help others. The students in the BGHS drama club are students working toward becoming members of Thespian Troupe #4065.
True Colors:
Sponsor: Sam Casanova
Provides a safe space for LGBTQ+ students and allies at BGHS, encouraging involvement of the community to advocate for students to be themselves without fear of bullying.
The Work Club:
Sponsor: Kanah Higbee
Explore workplace employability skills through mastering basic related competencies. Serving in a collaborative team to successfully complete a business endeavor and evaluate individual employability skills and gain confidence in oneself through project based learning.
Yearbook:
Sponsor: Hailee Hopkins
This is a Class. Create annual yearbook. Students work on taking photos, writing captions and stories for the school yearbook. Students attend games, events and interview as many students and staff on campus.