Clubs & Activities

Compete in ten areas: science, language and literature, music, art, mathematics, economics, social science, interview, essay and speech.

• Eligibility Requirements: Any code approved DPHS student is welcome to participate.
• Time Commitment: Practices before and after school daily.
• Procedures for joining: See Mrs. Hawley.
• Activity Time Period: September-March
• Membership Limit: 9 Students (3 with 3.75-4.0 GPA; 3 with 3.0-3.74 GPA; 3 below 3.0 GPA).
• Advisor(s): Mrs. Hawley, Room H116

Compete against area schools in English, math, social studies, and science.

• Eligibility Requirements: Any code approved DPHS student is welcome to participate.
• Time Commitment: See coach; usually weekly practices.
• Procedures for joining: See subject coach.
• Activity Time Period: November-March; plus competition date(s)
• Membership Limit: 10 Students per subject area Advisor(s): Mrs. Hawley (English), room H116; Mrs. Turriff (Math) room A205; Mr. Spice (Social Studies) room E111; Science coach to be determined

Each week, we come together to watch a few anime episodes or a movie. We also share resources to watch and find anime. 

This club is perfect for all anime fans. Very casual and easy to simply show up. Everyone welcome!

• Eligibility Requirements: Any code approved student.
• Time Commitment: 3:15-4:45pm Wednesdays. You can attend as many or as few meetings as you want.
• Procedure for joining: Come to a meeting!
• Advisor: Mr. Wilson, Room A245

A community of artists of varying skill levels and interests coming together to inspire, create and discuss art.

• Eligibility Requirements: Open to ALL who love art!
• Time Commitment: 1-2 meetings/activities per month
• Procedures for joining: Contact an art teacher, be code approved, and come to our next meeting!
• Activity Time Period: September - June
• Membership Limit: Unlimited
• Advisor(s): Mrs. Beyers, room J201; Mrs. Koehler, room D214

This is a low-key, student-led group of people who like to read and discuss the latest books. Members help decide what to read and guide the discussions.

• Eligibility Requirements: None
• Time Commitment: Meetings are approximately every 6 weeks during a Flex session.
• Procedure for joining: Email Mrs. Pearson to be added to the list.
• Activity Time Period: Participate any month that works for you.
• Membership Limit: None
• Advisor: Mrs. Pearson, LMC 

A community of people with varying skill levels (beginner to experienced) gather to inspire each other and create various projects. 

• Eligibility Requirements: Open to all who love and want to learn to crochet.
• How to join: Contact Mrs. Nipp, be code approved and come to our next meeting!
• Activity Time Period: September - June
• Membership Limit: Unlimited
• Advisor(s): Mrs. Nipp, Room E213

We Do Something Special. Do You? The Do Something Special Club is a student-led club that inspires young people to get involved in their communities.This club chooses causes members are passionate about and completes projects to support them. So if you’re looking for a simple way to hang out with your friends and do something special, this club offers up wonderful ideas to make a big impact within the community.

Eligibility Requirements: Open to all students who want to give back to their community.

Time Commitment: We realize that your time is limited, so what you put into the club is up to you. All activities will be planned by the members.

Procedures for joining: Stop in Mrs. Gross’ room A236 or email her. 

Activity Time Period: DPHS school year

Membership Limit: Unlimited number of members. Just students willing to give back!

Advisor(s): Mrs.Gross, room 236

We will work with local organizations to learn more about all aspects of dogs. We will also learn about therapy dogs as well as haveorganized dog walks. No need to own your own dog to join, everyone is welcome!

• Eligibility Requirements: any code approved student
• Time Commitment: members will meet every other Wednesday starting Oct. 3. We will also have occasional opportunities outside of this timeframe.
• Procedures for joining: Contact Mrs. Enderby
• Advisor: Mrs. Enderby, room A110 
   

A club for students interested in business.. Find out more about the business world by attending field trips and business-related competitions.

• Eligibility Requirements: Be enrolled in one business class. 
• Time Commitment: We hold monthly meetings on the third Tuesday of every month. 
• Procedures for joining: Complete the membership form and pay $30 dues.
• Activity Time Period: September-April
• Membership Limit: Unlimited
• Advisor(s): Mrs.Herrild, Room A214

FCCLA is the only in-school student organization with the family as its central focus. FCCLA is a career and technical student organization that functions as an integral part of the Family and Consumer Sciences education curriculum and operates within the school system, and it provides opportunities for active student participation at local, state, and national levels.

De Pere FCCLA focuses specifically on community service for the family, school, De Pere Community, and WIsconsin as a whole. 

• Eligibility Requirements: Students must have taken at least one family and consumer science course.
• Time Commitment: We hold monthly meetings for our community focus of the month, and a meeting for socialization and bonding.
• Procedures for joining: Attend a meeting and pay $20 dues.
• Activity Time Period: September-May
• Membership Limit: Unlimited
• Advisor(s): Mrs. Yahnke

The Forensic team prepares and presents speech-related and dramatic activities. Students prepare individually or in groups to present a speech, interpretive reading, or dramatic piece for competition at contests at the conference, subdistrict, district and state levels. Individual activities include:demonstration speech, extemporaneous speech,farrago (prose and poetry)
reading, four-minute speech, moments in history speech, oratory, poetry reading, prose reading, public address speech, special occasion speech, solo acting, and storytelling. 

• Eligibility Requirements: Any code approved DPHS student may participate.
• Time Commitment: Weekly practices at student and coach agreed time.
• Procedures for joining: See Mrs. Hawley.
• Activity Time Period: November-April Membership Limit: unlimited

Advisor(s):Mrs. Hawley, Room H116, Mr. Miller, Room A122

French Club is dedicated to making our school - and community better!  We have various events including homecoming, powerpuff, and spirit decorating.  We also raise funds that we donate to various charities throughout the year.  It is open to everyone - even if you don't take French! 

• Eligibility requirements: Open to all code-approved students
• Time commitment: 1 event per month throughout the year.  Fundraising activities are on-going. 
• Procedure for joining: See Mr. Mohar in Room A147
• There is no membership limit. 
• Advisor: Mr. Mohar

Friday Morning Basketball is held on almost all  Friday mornings during the school year from 6:00-7:00 am. This club is open to all staff and students who want to come and just have fun playing basketball. All skill levels are encouraged to come and play. Teams are formed each morning and games are played to 7 points using 1’s and 2’s. This is not an overly competitive environment and is meant to allow staff and students to have a good time and get in some great exercise on a Friday
morning. 

• Eligibility Requirements: Code Approved
• Time Commitment: Friday AM
• Procedures for joining: Show up and be ready to play
• Activity Time Period: Sept.- June
• Membership Limit: Unlimited
• Advisor(s): Mr. Steger

Hope Squad is a student-to-student suicide prevention support team. The goal of Hope Squad is simple:  to provide friendship, encouragement and support for peers who may be struggling.

Students are not asked to act as counselors, but rather trained to look for warnings signs of struggles, be effective listeners and to understand the importance of referring their peers to trusted adults for help if needed. The Hope Squad program is facilitated by trained staff, but students nominate their peers to serve. 

• Eligibility Requirements: Code Approved
• Time Commitment: Varies
• Procedures for joining: Must be nominated by staff
• Activity Time Period: Sept.- June
• Membership Limit: None
• Advisor(s): Mrs. Willihnganz, Mr. Pagel, Mrs. Haese, Mrs. Beyers, Mr. Schmidt

The De Pere High School intramural program  affords both boys and girls an opportunity to participate in a wide variety of individual and team sports. Activities are held on Monday nights in the gym. The intramural program is open to all students of De Pere High School.

• Eligibility Requirements: Must be code approved.
• Time Commitment: Show up on Mondays and have fun.
• Procedures for joining: Just show up whenever you can make it and sign in.
• Activity Time Period: 7:00 P.M. until finished.
• Membership Limit: No limit
• Advisor(s): Mr. Newton

Competitive Show Choir, Show Band, and Stage Crew.

• Eligibility Requirements: Audition ONLY and must be registered in the class for the Choir members. Band members audition and do not need to take the class. Crew members are open to whomever is interested and do not take the class.
• Time Commitment: Tuesday night; rehearsals all year, competition performances January through March, and workshops in September and October.
• Procedures for joining: Talk with Mrs. Cummings if interested. 
• Auditions are in April/May (Choir/Band) for the following year. 
• Activity Time Period: all year
• Membership Limit: Yes, but varies each year
• Advisor(s): Mrs. Cummings and Mr. Andersen, Room B249

Key Club is a student-led organization sponsored through Kiwanis International, which provides its members with opportunities for community service, character-building and leadership development.

• Time Commitment: meetings are every other Tuesday. We encourage as many community service hours as you can get!
• Procedures for joining: attend a meeting, get code-approved, and pay $10 dues
• Activity Time Period: September - June
• Membership Limit: unlimited
• Advisor(s): Mr. McGill, Room A203

Link Crew welcomes freshmen and makes them feel comfortable throughout the first year, built on the belief that students can help students succeed. Our diverse members help create a climate of community and work to break down social barriers at  school.

• Eligibility Requirements: Junior or Senior status
• Time Commitment: Late summer, first day of school, various times throughout year
• Procedures for joining: The application process begins in April.
• Activity Time Period: August - May
• Membership Limit: 80
• Advisor(s):Mrs. Gajewski,  Room A229; Ms. Venstrom, Room E205

The De Pere Math Team prepares for and participates in both individual and team math contests during the academic year (September to April). The team meets approximately once per week for practice or for a contest. The team has not historically traveled for contests – they are generally taken onsite and the results sent to the contest sponsors. A typical year will find the team competing in the Wisconsin Math League (6 rounds), the Mandelbrot Competition (5 rounds), the Rocket City Math League (Interschool plus 3 rounds), and the Purple Comet.

• Eligibility Requirements: A positive attitude and a liking for math and math-related activities.
• Time Commitment: Team meets once per week for one and half hours on either Tuesday or Thursday night, 6:30-8:00. Absences due to conflicts are understood and do not preclude joining the team. Additional personal practice time at one's own pace is recommended but optional.
• Procedures for joining: Contact Mr. Hendricks, who will pass on your name and contact information to Volunteer Coach Rob Bermke.
• Activity Time Period: September to April
• Membership Limit: Approaches infinity
• Advisor(s): Mr. Hendricks, Room A129

A math team that competes against 11 area schools. Each meet consists of 4 individual rounds and 1 team round, and concludes with cookies and an award ceremony.

• Eligibility Requirements: De Pere student, 7th grade and above, who is code approved.
• Time Commitment: 5 meets throughout the year, with possible practices in between (the team decides on practices each year)
• Procedures for joining: Contact Mr. Jorgensen
• Advisor: Mr. Jorgensen, Room A238

The primary purpose of National Honor Society is to embody leadership, service, character, and scholarship in the choices we will make throughout high school and life. Commitment to not only academic excellence, but to a desire to serve our community and improve leadership skills are major components of NHS as well. The advisors and officers only want to see effort and improvement of these skills regardless of where you may start from, and we are here to help you do it. 

2022-2023 Candidate Form

Advisor(s): Mrs. VanArk, Mrs. Schneider
 

Redbird Productions sponsors a musical and two additional productions in late winter and early spring. We also organize a student-directed evening of one-act performances in December.

• Eligibility Requirements: An interest in theatre, on stage or behind the scenes.
• Time Commitment: Club meets several times throughout the year especially before tryouts for a production.
• Procedures for joining: Show up to a meeting and/or give your name to a club officer or Ms. Voskamp.
• Activity Time Period: Be involved with one or more productions/activities per your schedule.
• Membership Limit: Unlimited
• Advisor(s): Mr. Mohar, Room A147

Redbird Robotics is a student-led team that works
to create a robot from scratch. Students can do everything from funding and promoting the club to designing the robot.

• Eligibility Requirements: Open to anyone interested!
• Time Commitment: Weekly meetings, with an intensive six-week build season starting in January
• Procedures for joining: Come to one of our Monday or Wednesday meetings in room D132.
• Activity Time Period: September-June, build season in early January-February.
• Advisor(s): Mr. Allen, Mr. Arshem
   

Skills USA is an organization that empowers its members to become world-class workers, leaders and responsible American citizens. Skills USA improves the quality of our nation’s future skilled workforce through the development of framework skills that include personal, workplace and technical skills grounded in academics.

• Eligibility Requirements: code approved
• Time Commitment: 1 meeting each month
• Procedures for joining:  Stop by or email Mrs. Ryba
• Activity Time Period:  State competition in Madison (2 nights in the Spring)
• Membership Limit: 15 students
• Advisor(s): Mrs Ryba, Room D132

La sociedad honoraria hispanica (Spanish Honor Society) is a national organization that recognizes high achievement in Spanish classes.

• Eligiblity Requirements: As of April 1 of the current school year, student is a sophomore, junior or senior; is enrolled in Spanish 3 or higher; has completed at least 3 semesters of high school Spanish; is enrolled in the next level Spanish course; and has a 3.5 GPA or higher in Spanish classes taken at the high school.
• Time Commitment: Minimum of 5 hours per school year.
• Activity time period: October-May.
• Procedures for joining: Membership by invitation.
• Advisor: Sra. Holtebeck, Room A108

• Advisor: Mrs. Jazdzewski, Room E100

We are dedicated to minimizing the effects of cancer by starting or supporting programs and beneficial activities for the school and the community.

• Eligibility Requirements: Anyone can join! We ask for you to pay $10 dues to help make donations to cancer patients possible.
• Time Commitment: We meet the first Wednesday of every month.
• Procedures for joining: Attend a meeting
• Activity Time Period: September through May
• Membership Limit: Unlimited

Advisor(s): Mr. Conard, Mrs. Turriff
 

StuCo promotes the welfare of our students and a spirit of cooperation among students, teachers, and administrators. We coordinate many of the school’s activities, provide students with experience in representative government, and develop leadership skills.

• Eligibility Requirements: Freshmen reps are elected each fall. Sophomore - senior reps are elected in June for the following year. All must be code approved.
• Time Commitment: Bi-weekly meetings, in addition to numerous activities throughout the year
• Activity Time Period: September - June
• Advisor(s): Mrs. Gajewski, Mrs. Turriff

The trap club (De Pere Clay Slayers) engages in trap shooting in a competitive environment. We participate in the USA Clay Target League for high schools.

• This is a co-ed and adaptive activity for students in Grades 6-12. The club's priorities are safety, fun and marksmanship. 
• Requirements: $35 fee through USA Clay Target for league registration. Students might need to pay for clay targets and ammunition.
• The team welcomes sponsorship from the community.

Advisor(s): Mrs. Herrild, Room A215; Mr. Soquet, Room E110

Writers’ Guild is a student-led group that meets regularly to share creative writing pieces, offer praise and constructive suggestions, and seek out new publication venues for writing.

• Eligibility Requirements: any code approved student may participate.
• Time Commitment: Weekly meetings to share writing.
• Procedures for joining: Attend a weekly meeting on Mondays 3:15-4:00.
• Activity Time Period: September-June
• Membership Limit: Unlimited
• Advisor(s): 

Black Student Union will create a sense of community among African American students at DPHS. We aim to foster an environment where individuals can uniquely and authentically be themselves. 

The club will also cultivate a support system that encourages all to aspire to and reach their full potential.

• Advisor(s): Mr. Mohar, Room A147

A group of students who enjoy sharing about our culture and lifestyle with students from other cultures via Google Meets. Hoping to add a travel option as the club grows and expands.

• Eligibility Requirements: This group is open to all students.
• Time Commitment: 2 meetings a month for about 30-45 minutes
• Procedures for joining: contact a teacher, be code approved, come to our next meeting, we are pretty flexible.
• Activity Time Period: This group functions all year. Based on time zone differences we often meet at 7:00 in the morning.
• Membership Limit: There is no limit to the size of our group.
• Advisor(s): Mr. Soquet, room E110

 A casual bike club looking to enjoy the outdoors with similar minded folk going on group rides for 2 to 10 miles. 

• Eligibility Requirements: De Pere High School student who is code approved and has signed a waiver. 
• Time Commitment: 2-3 monthly rides right after school during the week. 
• Procedures for joining: Contact Ms. Nelson or join the google classroom using code “k2qgang”
• Activity Time Period: Yearly with flexibility to ride based on weather conditions. 
• Membership Limit: None
• Advisor(s): Ms. Nelson room E212

This club is a safe place for girls (and guys) to discuss ways to help women in need. We will set up fundraisers with proceeds going to organizations such as Equality Now, and helping to pay for wigs for women in chemotherapy. Funds raised also will help purchase hygiene products/diapers for homeless shelters. 

• Advisor: Mrs. Peterson, Room E206