Club Day funds clubs one bite at a time
Asian Culture Team / Contributor
(Left to right) Leona Jones (’26), Kiki Parker (’26), Sahana Lindsey (’26) and Grace Cao (’26), are all members of the Asian culture club. They helped with the club during club day.
On Feb. 19, Samo hosted its second club day of the year to support students who need fundraising for their clubs.
Club Day is an activity planned by the Associated Student Body (ASB) in which multiple clubs set up tables in the Innovation quad. Flex was cut short, being only thirty minutes instead of the usual hour, so students had more time to enjoy the special club day- though the rest of the schedule remained unchanged. The big draw of this club day was the food being sold and the funding for the clubs participating. There were twenty-five clubs in total, some of which were Hope for Homeless, French Club, Immersion Club and 4 Paws Club. Some available food was In-and-Out from the Surgical Skills Club, Dominos Pizza from Chicanx/Latinx Club and SWENext Samohi, C&O garlic knots from Student Wellness Advisory and many kinds of candy from other clubs. Ava Adamucci (’26), the club president for the SWENext Samohi, describes the effect the club day has had on the club.
“We just started it,” Adamucci said. “We started it this semester. [Club day] was a great way to start off the new semester, especially for new clubs, to give us something to fall back on and help us start fundraising. We actually sold out. We only had four pizzas, but we made $101 dollars, so we had a good profit.”
Some non-fundraising clubs, such as The Writers Room Club, gave out free sweets. The Reflect Empathy Samohi Chapter gave out muffins and pamphlets about empathy. One club sold non-food items, the Asian Culture Team, which sold lanterns and origami— an important part of Asian culture. Kiki Parker (’26), president of the Asian Culture Team, talks about why they sold non-food items.
“At our club meeting, we usually do an activity,” Parker said. “So, the [meeting] before, we made the lanterns, and then we thought we might as well sell them for club day. We ended up selling a lot.”
The first club day, Sep. 18, had its focus on simply promoting clubs- where students could wander around I-quad and other locations to check out tables. Also, all clubs were required to participate in the first club day, while only a specific handful participated in the second one to fundraise. Archie Windsor (’26), the ICC and Club commissioner for ASB, discusses the difference between the two club days.
“This was a lot different,” Windsor said. “This was purely for fundraising. You could recruit a little, too, but this was just for fundraising. This was only about 25 clubs, but back in September, it was all the clubs, so we had like two hundred. This was a lot more concentrated, just in I-quad.”
ASB had been planning for the day since the beginning of the school year, though they began to focus on getting it all done mostly this semester. They started by getting clubs to sign up and letting the clubs plan the various foods they wished to sell. The clubs filled out financial forms, discussing if they wanted to spend money and estimating how much money they could make. This was due to ASB being audited this year— a tax specialist will sort through their forms to make sure the funds are where they need to be. The promotions began in early February, sending out menus, putting out posters, making announcements and posting on Instagram. Windsor discusses the struggles ASB had with promoting and planning the club day.
“I think it was really good that kids could see the menus on Instagram,” Windsor said. “It’s hard to target everyone [though], so maybe next time we could put up more posters and stuff like that. [Planning] was kind of [disorganized] on ASB’s end. We didn’t know exactly where the tables were going to be or anything like that. So I should have just made a map before, just so everyone could know where they were.”
Despite those struggles, the clubs who needed fundraising were able to sell food and raise money, making it a success for many. Parker describes the opportunity given by ASB with participation in club day.
“Our club is trying to do more events,” Parker said. “This was a good opportunity. It was already organized, and then people were already aware of it, so we [thought] we might as well participate.”