Student Clubs

ACE (Architecture-Construction-Engineering) Mentor Program

Academic Games

Academic Games League provides a series of Academic Games competitions throughout the nation, resulting in a national championship tournament in late April each year. Students who excel academically have a chance to compete and be rewarded for their accomplishments at the local, state, and national levels. Academic Games tournaments challenge students to use higher order thinking skills in the subjects of mathematics, language arts, and social studies.

Club Advisor: Christina Gray
Minimum GPA: None
Requirements: None
Club Start Time: 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM on Tuesdays

ACES Flagship Program

The Student ACES ACE Flagship Program brings high school student athletes from across Palm Beach County to further develop their leadership skills. Upon successful completion of the program, student athletes will understand what it means to be CHAMPIONS: Command Respect, Honor your Word, Aspire to Greatness, Maintain Courage, Possess a Strong Work Ethic, Inspire Others, Own a Winning Attitude, Never Settle, Sacrifice for self and others.

Club Advisor: David Grad
Minimum GPA: 3.0 and Above
Requirements: Must be a Junior and a Student - Athlete
Club Start Time: 4 Sessions Off Campus throughout the year. They will miss school the entire day of those four sessions.

Arts and Crafts Club

The Arts & Crafts Club aims to foster creativity, develop artistic skills, and provide a supportive environment for students interested in various art and craft forms. The club will offer regular activities, workshops, and projects that encourage self-expression and artistic growth.

Club Advisor: Liliana Sanchez
Minimum GPA: 2.0 and Above
Requirements: Arts and crafts supplies needed
Club Start Time: 8:00 AM

Best Buddies

This extracurricular club promotes inclusion by building one-to-one connections between students with and without an intellectual disability. The club provides opportunities for student leadership positions and trainings as well as serves to educate those with and without IDD on disability awareness and advocacy skills.

Club Advisor: Michael Mayshak
Minimum GPA: None
Requirements: None
Club Start Time: After school

Black Student Union (BSU)

Campus Life

This extracurricular student-led and organized club aims to provide a positive space from the Christian perspective where students can go to have fun with friends, talk about relevant issues and be heard without judgment. It's a place where students are challenged to make good decisions and lead in positive ways in their school. This club provides a positive environment where students can feel safe to be themselves while pursuing a balanced life: mentally, physically, spiritually, and socially.

Club Advisor: Wendy Fernsell
Minimum GPA: None
Requirements: None
Club Start Time: Before school

Cardio Club

This extracurricular cardio-focused exercise club gives students a place to work out with their classmates before school. This is a great opportunity for those looking to learn about health and fitness, get fit, make friends, and get ready for their upcoming sports season. The goal is to promote a healthy activity for students to participate in and apply to life outside of high school, both now and post-graduation.

Club Advisor: Sarah Andrews
Minimum GPA: None
Requirements: None
Club Start Time: Before school

College Life

Criminal Justice: Honor Guard Drill

Dance Team

This extracurricular club promotes strong self-confidence, self-respect, discipline, and appreciation through the fine art of dance. Students will develop and strengthen their agility, poise, body coordination, endurance, and muscle tone through regular dance practice and will perform choreographed dance routines for school events.

Club Advisor: Mirtha Chaparro
Minimum GPA: 2.5 and above
Requirements: None
Club Start Time: After school

Debate Club

This extracurricular club offers students the space and opportunity to acquire and practice higher-level critical thinking skills as well as problem-solving and communication skills that go beyond the traditional classroom experience. The debate club also allows students to acquire and practice analytical skills that foster a strong civic disposition.

Club Advisor: Antonio Alas
Minimum GPA: None
Requirements: None
Club Start Time: After school

Drama Club

Drama Coaching

eSports Team

This extracurricular club aims to provide students with a space to game together as an eSports team. The goals of our eSports team are:

To engage students who are typically not engaged with school, especially outside of school hours
To model acceptable, productive online behavior and digital citizenship, allowing students to become conscientious digital citizens
To promote a safe and open environment for students with similar interests, to form new friendships, to learn valuable interpersonal skills through social interaction within the club, and personal growth
To use the eSports ecosystem to teach sportsmanship, sportsmanlike conduct, marketing, social media, graphic design, and entrepreneurship, among others

Club Advisor: Matthew Shea
Minimum GPA: None
Requirements: Parent consent and release form required.
Club Start Time: After school

F.I.R.S.T. Robotics (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology)

This extracurricular club aims to prepare students for international robotics competitions in which teams from all over the world compete in a unique game/challenge, using similar parts and materials. The club is for members of the F.I.R.S.T. Robotics team and is sponsored by our Choice Academy's affiliation with N.A.F. (National Academy Foundation) and Raytheon Technologies, Inc.

Engineering Academy students who participate in the club and competition are also granted internship credit to be applied to their N.A.F. Academy certification. The club is not just open to academy students, but is open to all interested students and will meet weekly to prepare for the upcoming building season. Our partnership with N.A.F. includes provisions for professional engineers from Pratt-Whitney to mentor students during the season as we prepare for the South Florida Regional FIRST Robotics Competition.

Once the build seasons commences, the club will meet additionally on weekends to design and build the robot.

Club Advisor: Matthew Shea
Minimum GPA: None
Requirements: None
Club Start Time: After school

First Serve

This extracurricular club helps youth develop character, competence, and commitment to personal and community improvement via community service involvement. The club focuses on development of two areas for each student to create lasting change. Internal cultivation of intelligence and character (The cultivation of self awareness and interpersonal relationship skills helps students to be able to see their "blind spots" and lets them better understand their motivations and actions.) and external cultivation, which involves access to opportunities and resources.

(Even with the best self-knowledge, change cannot happen without students having access to necessary resources and opportunities to help them believe beyond.

Club Advisor: Sterling Frederick
Minimum GPA: 2.0 and above
Requirements: None
Club Start Time: After school

Fitness Club

Florida Future Educators Association (FFEA)

The Forest Hill High School chapter of the Florida Future Educators of America provides a forum for students to become aware of career opportunities in education and nurtures their interest in teaching as a career. Students explore education as a career through service projects and campus activities as well as acquire leadership and research skills by running the club.

Club Advisor: Sandra Richards-Hunwick, Karyn Colombo
Minimum GPA: None
Requirements: None
Club Start Time: Before school

French National Honor Society

The French Honor Society at Forest Hill High School will aim at creating a community for learners and speakers of French on campus. In the club, students will get tutoring, homework help, community service opportunities, and have a chance to practice French outside school hours, as well as leadership skills. Students can realize the importance and usefulness of learning a second language.

Club Advisor: Christel Connolly
Minimum GPA: TBD
Requirements: TBD
Club Start Time: 3:35 PM

Freshman Class Board

Freshman Board is open to any students in the Class of 2028 and is dedicated to providing support and enriching activities for all freshman students at Forest Hill Community High School. The Freshman Board is also composed of elected and appointed members of the freshman class at FHHS. Together these students plan and execute a majority of the freshmen events on campus, including making t-shirts and powderpuff jerseys, organizing for Homecoming, as well as fundraising and community service opportunities.

Club Advisor: TBD
Minimum GPA: 2.0 and above
Requirements: None
Club Start Time: After school

Future Farmers

This extracurricular club aims to teach students how to grow and sustain their own food source. Students will learn how nutrients from the earth are able to grow food and ensure food is grown in a safe way free of unnatural substances. Students will see where the food in the supermarkets originated. Students will also learn about pollinators and their role in the human food chain.

Club Advisor: Ryan Nani
Minimum GPA: 2.0 and above
Requirements: None
Club Start Time: After school

GSA

This extracurricular student-led and organized club aims to create a safe, welcoming, and accepting school environment where all students can be themselves, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. The club unites LGBTQ+ and allied youth to build a community and provides support for issues impacting their school communities.

Club Advisor: TBD
Minimum GPA: None
Requirements: None
Club Start Time: Before school

Hospitality Club / Concession

The Hospitality Club aims to provide students with practical experience in hospitality and customer service. To achieve this, the club should take on the responsibility of managing the concession stand during home football games and potentially during the basketball season as well.

Club Advisor: Liliana Sanchez
Minimum GPA: 2.5 or Above
Requirements: None
Club Start Time: 3:35 PM

Interact Club

Interact clubs bring together young people ages 12-18 to develop leadership skills while discovering the power of service above self. Interact clubs organize at least two projects every year, one that helps their school or community and one that promotes international understanding. The Rotary club sponsors mentor and guide interactions as they carry out projects and develop leadership skills.

Club Advisor: TBD
Minimum GPA: 2.0 and above
Requirements: $30 fee
Club Start Time: After school

JLAB

The JROTC Leadership & Academic Bowl (JLAB) is a nationally recognized academic competition created exclusively for JROTC students. By participating, cadets learn the values of citizenship, leadership, academic competition, and college opportunity.

Participate in the Academic Bowl and your team may win the opportunity to compete in the Academic Championship (JLAB) in Washington, DC! Thirty-two (32) Academic Teams will qualify to attend JLAB!

There are many benefits of participating in the Academic Bowl:

Improve SAT/ACT scores
Increase interest in college admissions
Demonstrate academic strength of JROTC program
Boost esprit de corps
Earn the opportunity to travel to our nation’s capital"

Club Advisor: TBD
Minimum GPA: 2.0 and above
Requirements: JROTC Cadets
Club Start Time: Before school

JROTC: Color Guard & Drum Line

The JROTC program is designed to teach high school students the value of citizenship, leadership, service to the community, personal responsibility, and a sense of accomplishment, while instilling in them self-esteem, teamwork, and self-discipline. This club provides the space and time for JROTC cadets in Color Guard and Drum Line to practice and refine their skills/craft.

Club Advisor: TBD
Minimum GPA: 2.0 and above
Requirements: JROTC Cadets
Club Start Time: Before school

JROTC: Drill Team

The JROTC program is designed to teach high school students the value of citizenship, leadership, service to the community, personal responsibility, and a sense of accomplishment, while instilling in them self-esteem, teamwork, and self-discipline. This club provides the space and time for JROTC cadets on the Drill Team to practice and refine their skills/craft.

Club Advisor: Sargent Luis Sousa
Minimum GPA: 2.0 and above
Requirements: JROTC Cadets
Club Start Time: After school

JROTC: Marksmanship

The JROTC program is designed to teach high school students the value of citizenship, leadership, service to the community, personal responsibility, and a sense of accomplishment, while instilling in them self-esteem, teamwork, and self-discipline. This club provides the space and time for JROTC cadets to practice and refine their marksmanship skills/craft.

Club Advisor: Sargent Edwin Velazquez
Minimum GPA: 2.5 and above
Requirements: JROTC Cadets
Club Start Time: After school

JROTC: Raiders

The JROTC program is designed to teach high school students the value of citizenship, leadership, service to the community, personal responsibility, and a sense of accomplishment, while instilling in them self-esteem, teamwork, and self-discipline. This club provides the space and time for JROTC Raiders to practice and refine their marksmanship skills/craft.

Club Advisor: Sargent Steven Thibodeau
Minimum GPA: 2.5 and above
Requirements: JROTC Cadets
Club Start Time: After school

Junior Class Board

Junior Class Board is open to any students in the Class of 2026 and is dedicated to providing support and enriching activities for all junior students at Forest Hill Community High School. Junior Board's primary responsibility involves planning and implementing the Prom for the senior and junior classes. In addition, the Junior Board will be planning ahead and coming up with ideas for senior events. Events include Grad Bash (or alternative), senior picnic, field day, and other related events for the following school year.

Club Advisor: Julie Valenza
Minimum GPA: None
Requirements: None
Club Start Time: After school

Key Club

Latinos in Action

Latinos In Action (LIA) offers an asset-based approach to bridging the graduation and opportunity gap for Latino students, working from within the educational system to create positive change. The program operates as a year-long elective course. The end goal is to empower Latino youth to lead and strengthen their communities through college and career readiness. This is accomplished by focusing on four pillars: leveraging personal and cultural assets, excelling in education, serving the community, and developing leadership skills.

Club Advisor: Mirtha Chaparro
Minimum GPA: 2.0 and above
Requirements: Participation in the following: weekly tutoring, LIA Classroom Committee, one extracurricular activity, all service requirements, LIA behavior expectations, & college-prep coursework
Club Start Time: During school (elective course)

Literary Club / Literary News Journal

The Literary Club is a hub for students who appreciate expressing themselves through both reading and writing poetry, prose, and creative works. Members partake in casual and comfortable meetings where they discuss different works of literature, as well as share their own work.

The Literary Club also compiles and designs The Hill's two literary magazines, The Nest and Leaves, using student writing, art, and photography. The magazine is distributed to the student body in December and May.

Club Advisor: Kristina Pyle
Minimum GPA: None
Requirements: None
Club Start Time: After school

National Art Honor Society

Participation in NAHS provides students, faculty, school, and the community with invaluable benefits, including: peer recognition, leadership growth opportunities, college and career preparation, recognition of your art program, and so much more. Over the course of the year, students are expected to make an art piece for one of their teachers. Seniors who are graduating have the opportunity to earn a cord for graduation and join the national chapter of the NAHS. Students can meet and conversation about art, eat breakfast, and work on artwork for their teachers and other art endeavors. The purpose of this club is to encourage the creative writing flow of students while providing an environment for engagement and inspiration.

The club will produce publications of student work.
All forms of writing will be encouraged.
There are no requirements for joining, all students are welcome to join.

Club Advisor: Kimberly Pirisno
Minimum GPA: 3.0 and above OR "B Average" in Art Classes
Requirements: 10th - 12th grade students who have taken at least one semester of art at FHCHS. Students who are not currently in an art class may participate as long as all other criteria are met. Membership is based upon art scholarship, service, and character.
Club Start Time: Before school

National Honor Society (NHS)

The National Honor Society (NHS) elevates a school’s commitment to the values of scholarship, service, leadership, and character. These four pillars have been associated with membership in the organization since its inception in 1921. NHS students and their peers volunteer in their communities at the highest rates and make connecting with and serving within the community a priority. Thus, the aim of the organization is to promote a positive school climate, provide opportunities to motivate all students to reach their greatest potential in school and in life, and ensure that students are college and career ready. Through the NHS, FHHS recognizes its highest achieving students in grades 10-12 with a unique experience that provides a springboard to life.

Club Advisor: Sandra Richards-Hunwick, Karyn Colombo
Minimum GPA: 3.5 and above
Requirements: $20 fee
Club Start Time: After school

Nuevo Beginnings (NewBs)

Our purpose is to provide an introduction to the school culture and academic information to students who may otherwise not be familiar with the varying processes and systems used in the Palm Beach County School District schools. We also strive to meet the objective of lessening the culture shock of these students, which can interfere with academic success. Participants can benefit from mentorship by peers who also found it necessary to acclimate to the environment.

Club Advisor: Ivette Eligio
Minimum GPA: None
Requirements: None
Club Start Time: TBD

Recycling Club

This club provides FHHS with a waste management service as well as provides an opportunity for FHHS students to obtain volunteer hours on campus through a weekly safe, fun social environment and an opportunity to interact with peers while helping the environment and making the world a better place!

Club Advisor: TBD
Minimum GPA: None
Requirements: None
Club Start Time: After school

SECME

This club serves to increase the pool of historically underrepresented and underserved students who will be prepared to enter and complete post-secondary studies in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), thus creating a diverse and globally competitive workforce. SECME Flyer

Club Advisor: Leah Chalhoub
Minimum GPA: None
Requirements: None
Club Start Time: After school

Senior Class Board

Senior Class Board is open to any student in the Class of 2025 and is dedicated to providing support and enriching activities for all senior students at Forest Hill Community High School. The Senior Class Board is also composed of elected and appointed members of the senior class at FHHS. Together, these students plan and execute a majority of the senior events on campus.

Club Advisor: Jeffery Coriddi
Minimum GPA: None
Requirements: None
Club Start Time: After school

Sophomore Class Board

Sophomore Class Board is open to any student in the Class of 2027 and is dedicated to providing support and enriching activities for all sophomore students at Forest Hill Community High School. The Sophomore Class Board is composed of elected and appointed members of the sophomore class at FHHS. Together, these students plan and execute a majority of the sophomore events on campus.

Club Advisor: Nihara Seedeen
Minimum GPA: None
Requirements: None
Club Start Time: After school

Strength Club

This strength-training exercise club gives students a place to work out with their classmates before school. This is a great opportunity for those looking to learn about health and fitness, get fit, make friends, and get ready for their upcoming sports season. The goal is to promote a healthy activity for students to participate in and that they can apply to life outside high school, both now and post-graduation.

Club Advisor: Sarah Andrews
Minimum GPA: None
Requirements: None
Club Start Time: Before school

Student Government Association

This student-led group serves to represent the interests and needs of all students on campus. The elected student representatives and general assembly members collaborate with faculty and school leadership to positively impact Forest Hill High School's culture and campus atmosphere through organizing and hosting events, activities, and fundraising, as well as providing student representation at School Advisory Council and faculty meetings.

Club Advisor: Jeffery Coriddi, Amy McGregor
Minimum GPA: 2.5 and above
Requirements: Application process; no disciplinary referrals for current school year & regular school attendance
Club Start Time: During school (elective course)

Students Against Melanoma (SAM)

This club provides educational experiences for students which tie together formal and informal learning. Student participation should contribute to the development of personal responsibility, moral values, cooperation, emotional maturity, self-discipline, social competence, individuality and leadership.

Club Advisor: Marvelys Vina
Minimum GPA: None
Requirements: Purchase a club t-shirt
Club Start Time: After school

Suits for Seniors Mentorship Program

Women of Tomorrow

Youth Empowered to Prosper - Young Women Who Win

YEP aims to develop the power, mindset and skillset within youth to rise above challenges, chart a path to prosperity, and grow into leaders of a better world. The YWWW program provides a unique one-to-one school-based mentoring program for the duration of the school year for young women in Grades 9 - 12. Mentees are matched with professional women among the school's faculty and staff. The goals of the program are for the mentees to maintain satisfactory school attendance, improve / maintain effective coping mechanisms for dealing with stress and problem-solving skills, and improve self-confidence and self-esteem.

Club Advisor: Latoya Pegram
Minimum GPA: None
Requirements: None
Club Start Time: During school

Clubs and Extracurricular Activities