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Student Clubs & Activities
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Academic Bowl
The Academic Bowl is a game of academic competition between students in elementary grades. The games were established in Cherokee County to promote academic excellence. Students in the 5th grade may apply in September. Practices are one hour weekly and the final competition will be a Saturday in April.
Sponsors - Amber Scharf and Suzy Gebhart
Contact information: Amber.Scharf@cherokeek12.net
Bots known as Technology Club
Sponsors - Jana Cervone, Suzy Gebhart, Jennifer Mendenhall
Contact information: Jana.Cervone@cherokeek12.net
Bascomb's Technology Club will introduce fourth and fifth graders to many different types of technology and tools. The focus of this club is on computer coding. Club members will participate in the Technology Fair. Meetings are scheduled on Thursdays.
Bascomb Technology Club Application
Canvas and Clay -
Sponsor - Molly Mayes
Contact information: Molly.Mayes@cherokeek12.net
Canvas and Clay is a morning art opportunity that Mrs. Mayes offers for Bascomb 5th grade students. Students have the chance to explore art and artists from around the world while trying new and different methods and materials.
CCSD Reading Club
Sponsors - Jana Cervone and Kristy Lyle
Contact information: Jana.Cervone@cherokeek12.net
Reading Club is an after-school opportunity for 5th graders that love to read and would like to become experts in reading the details in selected books. Bascomb's face to face club will meet virtually with other CCSD schools each Monday for some friendly competition about the books. Interested students should complete the application and return it to Mrs. Cervone by September 2nd.
Friends Club
Sponsors - Melinda Martinez and Dawn Beaham
Contact information: Dawn.Beaham@cherokeek12.net
In the Friends Club, fifth-grade students assist and spend time with children with special needs. These role models help students with turn-taking, communication, and many other important life skills. Students spend their recess and lunch period one day a week at Friends Club. Interested students may obtain an application from their homeroom teacher and turn it in before the deadline.
Junior BETA Club
Sponsor- Elizabeth Breitbarth and Felicia Berenger
Contact information: Felicia Berenger
The Junior Beta Club’s mission is to promote the ideals of academic achievement, character, service, and leadership among elementary school students. This club begins the second quarter of the school year.
Math Competition Club
Sponsor- Sarah Freeman and Mackenzie Wallace
Contact Information- Mackenzie.Wallace@cherokeek12.net
Music Makers
Sponsor - Jenn Melvin
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Contact information: Jenn.Melvin@cherokeek12.net
Paws and Claws Club
Sponsors - Laura Wagner, Sandra West
Contact information: Laura.Wagner@cherokeek12.net
Open to 4th graders only
The Bascomb Paws and Claws Club is open to fifth graders. Our mission is to support the taxpayer-funded Cherokee County Animal Shelter through fundraising, a donation drive, and educating students on the responsibility of pet ownership and the variety of ways to help animals. We will meet on alternating Tuesdays from 2:30-3:15. Club members are encouraged to visit the animal shelter for a tour.
Student Council
Sponsor - Krystle Lopez, Kim Holstein, Katie Barrie
Contact information: Kim.Holstein@cherokeek12.net
Student Council is a club for 5th-grade students who set a positive example for others and promote kindness initiatives throughout the school year. The peer leaders will work together to develop ideas for school-wide projects that promote inclusion, teamwork, and kindness and help to assemble the completed projects.
Running Club
Sponsors - Ed Koschewa, Janet Roach, Stephanie Cockrell,
Contact information: Edgar.Koschewa@cherokeek12.net
Students in 4th and 5th grade are welcome to join Running Club. We meet after school every Tuesday from October to May from 2:25-3:10. A healthy heart is a happy heart. If you run, you are a runner; it doesn’t matter how fast or how far. One run can change your day, many runs can change your life. Running/walking makes you feel powerful, free, and fearless. Come move with us on Tuesdays! See Coach Koschewa for a permission form.
Science Olympiad
Science Olympiad is a great extracurricular for fourth and fifth-grade students who enjoy science, math, or engineering.
Sponsors - Tammy Videkovich, Kaitlyn Eagens, Kendra Hipps, Jennifer Mendenhall
Contact information: Tammy.Videkovich@cherokeek12.net
Safety Patrol
Sponsor - Jeannine Miller
Contact information: Jeannine.Miller@cherokeek12.net
Students assist other students during morning arrival and help keep the school safe in the hallways, bus arrival area, front entrance, and cafeteria. Deadline: Aug. 16, 2023
Sprouting Stems Club
Sponsor - Amanda Brendel and Leah Beckman
Contact information: Leah.Beckman@cherokeek12.net
The Sprouting Stems club is through the Women in Stem club at Etowah High School. The high school girls plan activities with club members once a month at Bascomb in Mrs. Murnan's classroom from 4:00-5:00 p.m. it will begin in November and it is open to all third through fifth graders.
Technology Fair
Sponsors - Jennifer Mendenhall
Contact information: Jennifer.Mendenhall@cherokeek12.net
Click on the link below to see categories. Make sure they are applicable to our grade levels.
https://www.gastc.org/category-information
WBOB-Morning News
Sponsor - Jana Cervone
Contact information: Jana.Cervone@cherokeek12.net
Bascomb’s morning announcements are televised within the school building. Fifth graders are the anchors, camera-person, and producers. Students interested must submit and application and record a video audition (information included in application) The deadline is noted on the application.
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