ACADEMIC TEAM
The Gunston Academic Team aims to promote general academic and cultural knowledge through a
competitive quiz-bowl style format. Practices will be held weekly, and students will compete with other
schools throughout the year. All are welcome!

ENVIRONMENTAL CLUB
Embracing Gunston’s waterfront location and a strong connection to the natural world, the club seeks to offer members of the community opportunities for outdoor recreation, including fishing, camping, canoeing, kayaking, and hiking (in appropriately socially distanced fashion). The club builds on our
love for the natural world with our recognition that it is our responsibility to preserve our natural
environment. As part of this important agenda, the club works to reduce our school’s ecological footprint. Some of these initiatives are accomplished and managed by the club: waste reduction, water
and energy conservation, as well as the organization of Gunston’s annual Earth Day Celebration.
Members of the club meet regularly to actively improve the sustainability of our campus and to plan
future outings for club members and the wider Gunston community.

The Gunston Gender Spectrum Alliance is committed to promoting a welcome and inclusive
environment for LGBTQ+ students and allies at Gunston. The GSA has three core values: action, support, and community-building. Students will spend club periods discussing current events, planning advocacy-based programs, and educating the larger Gunston community about LGBTQ+ issues. All students are welcome to join, and you do not need to be LGBTQ+ to participate.

MATH CLUB
The Math Club’s objectives are to be inclusive and connected, to promote mathematical skills, to help students with homework and prepare for exams, and to share ideas. Activities may involve mathematical applications, modeling, competition, and multidisciplinary problem-solving. Club members will be encouraged to find opportunities to help teach and tutor their peers, as well as discuss
challenges, share presentations, review publications and inventions, and become involved with broader student and professional organizations.

CHESS CLUB
Do you dream of being the next grandmaster? Maybe you just binged The Queen’s Gambit, and all of a sudden, you find yourself wanting to learn what the queen’s gambit actually is. Yeah? Great! But, it
doesn’t matter if you’re a chess prodigy, a chess newbie, or somewhere in between; if you’re interested in chess then Gunston’s Chess Club is for you. Established as an inclusive space for anyone at any skill level to learn the fundamentals of chess and to develop more advanced skills, we will also work together as a team to solve complex chess puzzles, to compete recreationally and competitively, and to discover how the game of chess can help us learn something about life and ourselves along the way.

DIVERSITY LEADERS - (STUDENT DIVERSITY LEADERS GROUP)
Diversity Leaders, inspired by the NAIS Student Diversity Leadership Conference, promotes diversity,
equity, and inclusion at Gunston. Diversity Leaders is devoted to recognizing and celebrating Gunston’s
diversity of identities and beliefs. In addition to advocating for equity and inclusion on campus, Diversity
Leaders plans Gunston’s annual Unity Day and Global Awareness Day events. Diversity Leaders also
create a safe space for dialogue on issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Active members of
Diversity Leaders will have the opportunity to apply to attend NAIS’s Student Diversity Leadership
Conference, but attendance at the NAIS Student Diversity Leadership Conference is not a requirement
for participation in this group.

FILM & SCREENWRITING CLUB
The Film and Screenwriting Club hopes to encourage the discussion and learning of art through moving
images. More specifically, the primary focus would surround movies and television. The objective is to
gain a better understanding of a different element of film every month. Members of this club are often involved in collaborative group projects as well as after school movie nights.

MOCK TRIAL
Gunston's Mock Trial Team aims to build students' rhetorical skills, research abilities, and public speaking confidence. Mock Trial is a perfect opportunity for any student who is interested in the
American judicial/legal system. It is also an outlet for students who may possess, or would like to practice their dramatic talents. The Team will work its way through a single criminal or civil case which is maintained by the Maryland Youth and the Law (MYLAW) and which is released to all participating
Maryland schools. In recent years, Virtual Competitions between area schools were held on school days in the afternoon, December through March, with the most successful teams advancing to the
Mock Trial State Championship held each year in April.

SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
Participates in near space balloon missions, FTC (First Tech Challenge) robotics competition, and
TARC (The American Rocketry Challenge). We will also participate in other activities such as rocket launches sponsored by the Maryland Delaware Rocketry Association, field trips, and other exciting science-related events such as the USA Science and Engineering Festival and the Extreme STEM
symposium.

ART “CURATORS” CLUB
The Art “Curators” Club, will be responsible for seeking out, acquiring, or (if they choose) creating new artwork for our campus. Students will learn how to professionally prepare work for display (matting, framing and mounting). This club will stay busy refreshing the artwork around campus throughout the
year, preparing work for the Night of the Arts in December, acquiring work to be submitted to a variety of art competitions, and assisting with contributions to Gunston’s Effectrix magazine. Students should anticipate excursions to other galleries in DC, Baltimore, and NY throughout the year to better understand how we might prepare, display, and protect artwork.

BUSINESS & INVESTMENT
This club has been established to educate students in the stock market and in general business. The
club will invite speakers to inform our students, we will participate in simulations of the stock market,
learn how to start a business, and work toward making decisions on our own investment account.

EFFECTRIX - LITERARY MAGAZINE
Effectrix is Gunston’s online and print publication celebrating student writers and visual artists.
Committed to getting student work visible to the community eye, Effectrix invites submissions of student
writing from any and all genres. In addition, Effectrix features original artwork and photography from
Gunston students. The club is seeking students who are interested in the editorial and publication process, graphic design, website design, and social media, as well as content creation.

G.I.V.E. - GUNSTON INITIATES VOLUNTEER EFFORTS
G.I.V.E. works toward school support of at least three charitable causes each year; one charity that is local, one that is national and one that is international. The organizations supported are voted on by the student body. Another goal of G.I.V.E. is to find volunteer opportunities in the local community and invite the school community to participate.