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Student Government - Based on the Quaker Meeting for Business model, students, faculty, and administration all come together in a Town Hall Meeting style gathering to share opinions about a variety of issues, provide input to student leaders, and make decisions about school policies and approaches. Student government subcommittees include: Oversight Committee (school rules, policies), Query Committee (exploring issues such as hunger, immigration, etc., within small groups as part of Quaker worship), Activities Committee (oversees all grade-wide and school-wide social activities), and Service Committee (oversees all grade-wide and school-wide service projects).
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| Project Eye to Eye (Link) – Each week the high school mentors play board games and do crafts with elementary school students with learning differences from area school districts. The mentors help their young friends develop self-confidence and their natural creativity. |
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S.A.F.E. (Students And Faculty for Equality) – the club is dedicated to establishing an atmosphere at DVFS that is inclusive and accepting of all people.
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Diversity Committee – founded in recent years to provide a space and time for students from ethnic minority groups to gather together and share ideas, joys, and frustrations. A number of members attend the annual National Association of Independent Schools Students of Color Conference.
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Amnesty International – advocating for and standing up for. The club works to raise awareness of cases going on in the world right now where people are denied human rights such as freedom, justice, and dignity, wrongly imprisoned, or forced to suffer inhumane conditions.
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Eco Club – dedicated to improving environmental awareness and promoting sustainability and conservation within the school community and the wider world.
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Improv Drama Club – students interested in drama meet weekly for improvisational acting games and workshops and they perform at the annual Arts Festival in the spring.
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Drum Circle – student musicians (and non-musicians) gather in an informal improvisational drum circle to improve their teamwork, listening skills, and rhythmic understanding through spontaneous composition of improvised percussion pieces. The circle performs occasionally at school functions and outside events.
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Volleyball Club – in 2010, two middle school students, unhappy that the school did not have a competitive volleyball team, started a lunchtime volleyball club for interested students. If interest continues, their goal is to turn the club into an interscholastic sports team.
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Robotics – a group of DVFS students compete with other high schools in a robotics design and engineering project.
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Literary Magazine, everyanything (link to PDF) – published annually, this magazine features middle and upper School authors and artists. Students also act as the editorial staff. The magazine won an American Scholastic Publishing Award in 2010.
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