Clubs, an essential part of the school, are important to South. With clubs ranging from video games to yoga, there is a wide variety of clubs to choose from. However, many kids have decided to migrate to the South Asian club this year with a record-breaking 25 people in attendance for their first meeting, nearly doubling from the previous year. Advised by English teacher Elizabeth Lulis, and led by both Omar Siddiqui ’25 and Luca Parlangeli ’25. With fun activities at every meeting, and students encouraging their friends to join, Parlangeli only sees the club’s attendance growing.
“The success of the club can be attributed to the fun we have during meetings,” Paralangeli said. “We combine an informative lesson and discussion with fun and engaging games like Kahoot and Gimkit to keep everyone engaged in the discussion while still teaching them new things.”
Even though there are lessons built into each meeting to learn something, many students such as Jack Danielewicz ‘26 find it fun to learn new things because of the games built into it and challenge him to improve on the topics.
“During the first meeting I was surprised at how many people showed up,” Danielelewicz said. “I ended up taking home first place in the main game we played during the meeting the Gimkit, I won a total prize of six dollars and was thrilled.”
Even though many of the returning students ended up doing better than the first-time people, they still had a blast according to Peter Horst ’26, and are looking forward to future meetings where they can improve their skills.
“I was optimistic about the club”, Horst said. “If it wasn’t for a few friends convincing me to go and try out the club, I don’t think I would’ve gone, but as soon as the meeting started I could tell that I would enjoy it. The club was a ton of fun and I am going to be there next time.”
Although many people had a very good time, Parlangeli and Siddiqui strategically structured their lessons around so that they could be taught to all sizes of students.
“The use of multiplayer games and activities allows us to teach a variety of skills to people while being fun,” Parlangeli said. We saw from last year that online games have been a big success so this year we are mainly focusing on using those.”
