Chattanooga Christian School Clubs Activities

High School Clubs & Organizations*

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Apprentices

Apprentices are juniors and seniors who learn and serve in specific areas, and lead other students to do the same. They are chosen by the faculty or staff member who leads that specific area. (Apprentices are appointed in May for the upcoming year.)
Art Club

Art Club is a time to meet other creative individuals and have fun exploring all kinds of art. Whether face painting at football games, bleach art on shirts, or block printmaking, members do not need to be a "good artist." Art Club provides the opportunity to learn new things and even sell your own art without the pressure of doing it alone. It's also a good opportunity to hang out with new people and play a variety of art-related games.
Bass Fishing

The CCS Bass Fishing Club provides an opportunity to participate in the sport of bass fishing while representing Chattanooga Christian School. It is open to all students in grades 9-12. The club aims to excel in the sport of bass fishing through competitive tournaments, activities, and contests. We provide leadership and follower-ship opportunities for all team members. We promote the sport of bass fishing both within and outside of the CCS community and recruit future student anglers from both within and outside the CCS student body. Last but not least, we aim to preserve and protect natural resources of Creation through community conservation projects and initiatives.
Board Game Club

The Board Game Club gives students the opportunity to compete and build positive, healthy relationships while playing games, such as Monopoly, Risk, Settlers of Catan, and more. They learn patience, strategy, resilience, and in some cases teamwork, all while having fun.
The Charger Newspaper

Aspiring writers, journalists, and editors manage The Charger, a student-published, online newspaper that features reporting and commentary from the students, for the students. The mission is to inform, entertain, and enlighten the school community.
Chess Club

The Chess Club gives students the opportunities to build relationships as they develop critical thinking skills and work on problem solving. In addition, they will be provided opportunities to compete with students from schools in the surrounding area.
Class Officers

Class Officers are elected leaders in each class who serve their specific grade level through activities, events, and advocacy. Four or five officers are elected by each class, and serve with a faculty advisor. (Class officers are elected in May for the upcoming year.)
Climbing Club

The Climbing Club is an outdoor educational program that gives students the opportunity to learn why Chattanooga is one of the premiere destinations for outdoor recreation in the country. We encourage students to explore beautiful areas and become the caretakers that God intends them to be. Members experience recreational and competitive rock climbing and bouldering, traveling a couple times a week to local bouldering areas; participate in trail building and clean-up days; and learn the value of building partnerships with groups such as the Cumberland Trails Conference, Southeastern Climbers Coalition, and Access Fund.
Digital Media Club

The Digital Media Club is an after-school organization in charge of photography and videography for games and other CCS events.
French Honors Society

The French Honor society is a national organization which recognizes high achievement in French by high school students and promotes interest in Francophone studies. To qualify for membership in this society a student must be recommended by a French teacher and meet other general requirements. The goal of the society is for students to engage with the community outside of CCS using the French language, and lead in on-campus opportunities to use the language. Students must maintain at least a 3.6 average in their French class during their membership, and participate in the events & opportunities sponsored by the society.
Global Ambassadors

These student hosts serve as points of contact with international students as the latter integrate into student life. Global Ambassadors assist during the International Student Orientation and initiate multi-cultural meetings and activities both on and off campus. Through the Global Ambassador program, students have a unique opportunity to enhance their leadership skills by growing in cultural awareness and intercultural communication.
HOLA

Hispanic Organization of Latino Alumnos (HOLA) is an organized group that meets monthly for mutual support, scholarship and educational opportunities and for connection among the Hispanic/Latino students.
Improv

Improv Team is an auditioned team of actors who perform improvised comedy performances in the spring called "Improv Nite." The team is made up of High School students who have taken at least one Theatre class. The performances consist of short-form improv games, hosted by a senior student, and performed as a competition.
International Thespian Society

The International Thespian Society is the only honor society for theatre students in the country. Members at CCS meet bi-weekly and work together to produce student-driven projects such as showcases, original plays, and service projects in and around the community. ITS encourages participation in all elements of theatrical production, including performance, design, tech, and directing.
Modern Lit. Panel

Students in grades 10-12 who enjoy young adult fiction help to screen books that are being considered for the Learning Commons collection. Panel members contemplate valuable themes, scenes, and characters that foster good questions and a better understanding of the human condition.
Musical Theatre

The musical is a community collaboration! All students are invited to be involved: singers, dancers, actors, artists, and behind the scenes crew members. Auditions are required for all performing roles, and crew involvement is non-auditioned.
National Honor Society

The National Honor Society (NHS) exists to create enthusiasm for scholarship, stimulate a desire to render service, promote leadership, and develop character in high school students. The mission of the CCS chapter of NHS is to foster enthusiasm for scholarship, to cultivate virtue, and to serve our school and local community.
Nonesuch

Nonesuch is a committed group of students striving to cultivate a culture of independent creative writing and artistry in the High School. They promote this culture through a number of platforms: Nonesuch Magazine, an annual literary and visual arts print magazine; Spotlight, an online blog; Sidestage, a weekly lunch performance in the gallery; The Original, a monthly variety show of original student creativity in the FAC. Dedicated team members meet weekly to review hundreds of original works of poetry, prose, fiction, songwriting, film, and visual art submitted over the year, and to plan the best ways to showcase our student body's best work. Click Here for the Nonesuch website.
Pep Band

Nothing gets the crowd going and encourages school spirit like the CCS Pep Band, a fun mix of band students and instrumental enthusiasts! We perform at football and basketball home games.
Praise Band

Leading classmates and teachers in worship through music during chapel is the special privilege of this group of talented students. They collaborate with the Praise Band Director (Mr. Kirk Ward), Chapel Committee, Chapel Coordinator, and Chaplain to select, rehearse, and lead songs in weekly chapel.
Robotics

Using the Vex EDR platform, students design, build, and then program their own robots to compete against other robots across the state of Tennessee.
Senior Friends

A dozen seniors are chosen by application and interview to befriend, guide, and encourage a group of 12 freshmen. (Senior Friends are chosen in May for the upcoming year.)
Service Council

The Service Council provides and leads service activities and opportunities throughout the year, including homecoming t-shirt sales for our Community Partner, holiday collections for various local agencies, and Field Day for local schools. The Service Council is led by students elected by their classes, and any High School student can be a member.
Spanish Honors Society

The Spanish Honor society is a national organization which recognizes high achievement in Spanish by high school students and promotes interest in Hispanic studies. To qualify for membership in this society a student must be recommended by a Spanish teacher and meet other general requirements. The goal of the society is for students to engage with the community outside of CCS using the Spanish language, and lead in on-campus opportunities to use the language. Students must maintain at least a 3.6 average in their Spanish class during their membership, and participate in the events & opportunities sponsored by the society.
Storm Cell

Storm Cell leads spirit activities at games and school throughout the school year. Storm Cell is led by students elected by their classes, and any High School student can be a member.
Student Council

Student Council (STUCO) is made up of five elected representatives from each class. It serves the entire HS through activities, events, and advocacy. STUCO chooses its own officers, and serves with a faculty advisor. (Elections are held in May for the upcoming year.)
Surf Club

Surf’s up! Water-lovers find a new, exciting sport and leisure activity—not to mention a fun community—in the CCS Surfing Club. No experience is needed to join! Members meet weekly for training, surfing instruction, wakesurfing, slacklining, and/or river paddling. Travel club members go camping and surfing in Florida twice a semester.
Writing Center Fellows

11th and 12th grade students nominated by faculty work as peer writing coaches in the Learning Commons during Engage, Lunch, and after school. Fellows may help a student better understand a prompt; create an outline; revise thesis statements and topic sentences; align their essay to MLA Style; or better understand proper use of punctuation.
Yearbook

Yearbook teaches the basics of book production and publishing, including professionalism, marketing and billing, taking photographs, designing pages, using graphics, interviewing, writing copy, editing, and discovering how books are assembled. Students learn responsible journalism as they develop concepts graphically and verbally.
Young Life

The mission of Young Life is to introduce teenagers to Jesus Christ and help them grow in their faith. Young Life leaders build meaningful relationships with students, show them God's love, and invite them to follow Him. This happens through weekly club events and Bible studies, an annual banquet, summer camp, and other fun activities. Young Life leaders are dedicated to meeting students as they are, where they are.

Middle School Clubs & Organizations*

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Art Club

The Art Club offers students a calm place to enjoy drawing—regardless of their skill level—and also to connect with their classmates. Anyone is welcome to join us. We start each meeting with a drawing prompt, and we end each meeting with an informal walk around the room to check out what each person did with that prompt. Students bring their own supplies, but paper is provided.
Board Game Club

The Board Game Club gives students the opportunity to compete and build positive, healthy relationships while playing games, such as Monopoly, Risk, Settlers of Catan, and more. They learn patience, strategy, resilience, and in some cases teamwork, all while having fun.
Book Club

The Book Club offers students a place to share a good book in a more natural way. Students read the same book and come to our meetings ready to participate in or lead book discussion with their friends. Our goal is to enjoy reading in community and discover new stories that we might not have read otherwise.
Card Game Club

Card Game Club is all about playing various types of card games! Since the spring of 2023, the focus of this club is the trading card game Magic: The Gathering. In this club, students can learn and play this exciting (and complicated) dueling game and play against each other in pairs or groups of three or four. You don't need previous experience to join, and if you don't have any cards, you can borrow some for the day!
Chess Club

The Chess Club gives students the opportunities to build relationships as they develop critical thinking skills and work on problem solving by playing chess with their peers and learning more about the game of chess.
Climbing Club

The Climbing Club is an outdoor educational program that gives students the opportunity to have an introductory, yet competitive climbing experience. We occasionally boulder in natural areas, but frequently practice and compete at the High Point gyms in Chattanooga. Members experience recreational and competitive rock climbing and bouldering as well as the fulfilling camaraderie that comes with being a part of a team.
EV3 Robotics League

The VEX Robotics Competition, presented by the Robotics Education & Competition Foundation, is the largest and fastest growing middle school and high school robotics program globally. Each year, an exciting engineering challenge is presented in the form of a game. Students, with guidance from their teachers and mentors, build innovative robots and compete year-round. In addition to learning valuable engineering skills, students gain life skills such as teamwork, perseverance, communication, collaboration, project management, and critical thinking. The VEX Robotics Competition prepares students to become future innovators with 95% of participants reporting an increased interest in STEM subject areas and pursuing STEM-related careers.
Missions Club

Missions Club seeks to serve others through acts of encouragement, prayer, and service. Our primary focus is our CCS Middle School community, but we also serve the Chattanooga area. Past activities have included making exam survival bags for CCS 8th graders, decorating the Middle School for holidays, helping with service projects in Chattanooga, and organizing a school supply drive for Teen Challenge.
Musical Theatre

Musical Theatre productions at CCS are truly a community collaboration. Dozens of uniquely gifted singers, dancers, actors, artists, designers, and stage and tech crew members come together to produce the Middle School Musical each year. Even Lower School students fill specific roles. For this major production, auditions are required for all performing roles, but not for crew involvement.

Middle School students learn and improve upon their acting, singing, and dancing skills in the context of preparing to perform four shows of a selected musical in November. Our 500-seat Fine Arts Center Auditorium is full for our shows! Under the direction of Mrs. Mary Catherine Schimpf, recent shows like James and the Giant Peach Jr. and Peter Pan Jr. have been a big success.
Pep Band

CCS Bands provide music at the High School Varsity Football and Basketball home games as the Pep Band. Middle School Band students can join the Pep Band as an opportunity to grow and perform alongside more advanced High School musicians.
Recycling Club

A team of stewardship-minded students work together weekly to collect and sort recyclables from the Middle School. This initiative is student-driven, and it exists in an effort to serve the school, community, and world through conscientious, God-honoring stewardship.
Service Council

A team of students working to promote service and participation in the Middle School by offering opportunities for students to be together in community and in support of the school.
Student Council

A team of student leaders elected to lead the student in activities to promote and support the school.

Lower School Clubs*

List of 11 items.

Art Club | K-1st

Art club for kindergarten and 1st grade is led by Ms. Patty.
LEGO Club | K-1st

LEGO club for kindergarten and 1st grade is led by Ms. Caldwell.
Sign Language | K-1st

Sign language for kindergarten and 1st grade is led by Ms. Moore.
Let's Move | K-1st

Let's Move for kindergarten and 1st grade is led by Ms. Pannkuk.
Art Club | 2nd-3rd

Art club for 2nd and 3rd grade is led by Ms. Jean.
Minecraft | 2nd-3rd

Minecraft for 2nd & 3rd grade led by Ms. Stokes.
Sign Language | 2nd-3rd

Signing language for 2nd and 3rd grade is led by Ms. Sims.
Ukulele | 2nd-3rd

Ukulele for 2nd and 3rd grade is led by Ms. Cogliano.
Robotics | 4th-5th

Robotics for 4th and 5th grade is led by Ms. Pensinger.
STEM with KEVA Planks | 4th-5th

STEM with KEVA planks for 4th and 5th grade is led by Ms. Gordon.
Creating Comic Books | 4th-5th

Creating comic books for 4th and 5th grade is led by Mr. Green.

Nonesuch

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More than a Magazine

Nonesuch is a committed group of students striving to cultivate a culture of independent creative writing and artistry in the High School. They promote this culture through a number of platforms: Nonesuch Magazine, an annual literary and visual arts print magazine; Spotlight, an online blog; Sidestage, a weekly lunch performance in the gallery; and The Original, a monthly variety show of original student creativity in the FAC. Dedicated team members meet weekly to review hundreds of original works of poetry, prose, fiction, songwriting, film, and visual art submitted over the year, and to plan the best ways to showcase our student body's best work. Click Here for the Nonesuch website.