Arroyo High School teachers typically sponsor a number of clubs, which meet at lunch and conduct a number of activities. During Club Rush Week in the Fall, students have a chance to join any club which interests them. Students who do not find a club that is in their interest are encouraged to approach a teacher who will sponsor one that does. Clubs must be approved by Executive Council and Principal's Cabinet. Clubs on campus include the following at Arroyo High School:

Extracurricular Activities

• Addressing Women's Issues
• Asian Pacific Islander Club
• California Scholarship Federation
• Choral Music Club
• Cultural Dance Club
• Drama Club
• Instrumental Music Club
• Interact club
• Junior States of America
• Kiwins
• LITE (Living in truth Eternally) club
• MEChA
• Math Club
• Rally Squad Club • Robotics Team
• Ski and Snowboard Club
• Straight and Gay Alliance Club
• Students for the Environment


Asian Pacific Islander Club
The Asian Pacific Islander club is a club designed to educate people about Asian and Pacific customs. This is a club for everyone, even though the members of the club are primarily of Asian/Pacific ethnicity. Activities planned this year by the A.P.I. club are: Culture Night and Fashion show, Asian Pacific Islander Awareness Festival, Chinese New Year Celebration, and many more that are not yet made definite. The A.P.I. club has more than one hundred members which makes it the largest club in Arroyo. Community Involved Arroyo Club

California Scholarship Federation
The California Scholarship Federation recognizes the students of Arroyo High School who demonstrate high academic achievement. Each member has met specific academic criteria determined by the state in order to join this prestigious club. To introduce their members to education beyond Arroyo, C.S.F. visits a variety of college campuses in California including U.C. Davis, U.C. Berkeley, Stanford University and San Jose State University. CSF incorporates these trips with "Honors Days" in which members are rewarded for their academic excellence by going to places like the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. The members of CSF deserve special recognition for their hard work and determination. They are the motivated individuals at Arroyo High School that believe in excelling in academics for their personal success.

The Arroyo Robotics Team
The Arroyo Robotics Team works with the Castlemont High School Robotics Team in Oakland. Both schools agreed that it would benefit both teams to collaborate and become one robotics team, the Hybrid Robotics Team. One of the team's biggest sponsors is Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Besides funding the team, the lab provides volunteer engineers who work with students and offer first-hand training on computer animation, website design, programming and robotics construction. In addition, students who are interested in majoring in such fields have the opportunity to talk to the engineers and learn about their lives, experiences and professions.

Many team members' parents, Arroyo teachers and staff support the team and contribute in their own way by helping out with the team's fundraisers and providing rides for the students to the Silicon Valley Regional Robotics Competition in San Jose. At the robotics competition, the team grabbed much attention from television stations and newspapers for their partnership, hard work and diverse student members.

Arroyo Robotics Team welcomes all students, parents, teachers and staff to participate in this rewarding experience.

The Students for the Enviroment Club
The Students for the Environment Club was established in 1990, and is a club that promotes environmental awareness for the Arroyo community. The Club sponsors "Arroyo Earth Week". This week is filled with daily activities and reminders concerning current environmental issues, and cumulates with the annual planting of the "Earth Week Tree". SFE is also a major participate and planner for the annual "Arroyo Beautification Day", and coordinates the "Oro Loma Earth Day Poster Contest". Over the years SFE has sponsored various wildlife assemblies, planted numerous trees and plants around the Arroyo campus, cleaned up local shoreline areas, re-planted the "loop" area, and has helped purchased new picnic tables for the student body. The advisor for SFE is biology teacher Debbie Clark, and is open to all interested Arroyo students.