A Summary of all Organizations

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ACADEMIC TEAM plays a fast-paced competitive team game quizzing students on their knowledge in the areas of math, science, literature, social studies, and fine arts with a few sports and popular culture questions thrown in for fun. The Helias team participates in 10 to 12 Saturday tournaments and two online tournaments each year. Practices are held two or three days right after school from mid-October through mid-April. 

Sponsor: Mrs. Shelley Swoyer sswoyer@heliashighschool.com
Meeting Time: Varsity-Monday and Wednesday 3:00-4:30
JV-Tuesday and Thursday 3:00-4:15
Meeting Place: Library
Fees: all MSHSAA activities are required to pay $100 participation fee and sell five football raffle tickets OR sell 15 raffle tickets.

 ARCHERY CLUB practices the art of Archery

Sponsor: Mr. Chip Malmstrom cmalmstrom@heliashighschool.com
Meeting Time: Wednesday, 7:00 a.m. weekly
Meeting Place: Old Helias Gym
Fees: $10 membership/$2 trial membership (pay as you go)

 ART CLUB is open to any student who enjoys working on art projects

Sponsor: Mr. Friggle mfriggle@heliashighschool.com
Meeting Time: Varied—Will be on announcements
Meeting Place: Art Room – Room 12
Fees: $5.00

 BAND consists of Concert Band, Marching Band, Drumline, Color Guard, Woodwind Choir, Jazz Band and Musical Orchestra

Sponsor: Mr. Eric Veile eveile@heliashighschool.com
Meeting Place: Band Room-10
See Mr. Veile for details on each of these groups.

 BOOK CLUB is an organization open to freshman through seniors. This club is primarily for individuals who love to read and discuss what they have read.

Sponsor: Mrs. Swoyer and Mrs. Noonan sswoyer@heliascatholic.com or dnoonan@heliascatholic.com
Meeting Time: Once a month—date and time varies 
Meeting Place: Varies
Fees: Occasionally, the cost of the book being read

 CAMPUS MINISTRY CREW focuses on Service, Prayer and Sacraments. Help with coordinating and promoting Mission Trips, Service Hours, Mission Collections, Prayer Line, Morning Prayer, Retreats, Catholic Schools Week activities, Masses, Reconciliation, Eucharistic Adoration, Vocations Day, etc.

Sponsor: Mrs. Bockwinkel-Baker cbaker@heliashighschool.com
Meeting Time: Before morning masses—announced over the PA
Meeting Place: Campus Ministry Office
Fees: None

 CHORUS/CONCERT CHOIR naturally is involved with SINGING.

Sponsor: Mr. Eric Veile eveile@heliashighschool.com
Meeting Place: Band Room
See Mr. Veile for details.

 CLUB INTERNATIONAL is an organization made up of foreign language students. The club meets to have dinner out at a local restaurant typically on Tuesdays or Wednesdays. and also participates in service projects for Helias and community organizations.

Sponsor: Mrs. Connie Rodeman crodeman@heliashighschool.com
Meeting Time: When announced—Typically once a month
Meeting Place: Will be announced—restaurant or at Helias High School
Fees: None 

 CRUSADERS FOR LIFE is a Pro-Life Club at Helias High School that meets once a month to pray for pro-life needs of our school, city, state, nation and world. Fundraisers include selling T-Shirts in March for National Pro-Life day. Other activities include planning a mass, poster contests, trivia week, service projects, lobbying. 

Sponsor: Mrs. Bockwinkel-Baker cbaker@heliashighschool.com
Meeting Time: Every first Friday of the month at 7:07 a.m.
Meeting Place: Helias Chapel
Fees: None

 FRENCH CLUB is a group of French students

Sponsor: Mrs. Paula Zeitz pzeitz@heliashighschool.com
Meeting Time: Announced
Meeting Place: Room 19
Fees: None

HELIAS MISSION TRIPPERS are Helias students of all ages who are interested in participating in Mission Trips. Plans are underway for a minimum of five mission trips this school year.  Dates will be announced as soon as details are finalized. 

Mission Trippers’ Vision and Mission Statement

Vision Statement:

Excelling students centering on Christ.

Mission Statement:

1.     To provide opportunities for participants to live as disciples of Christ through service;

2.     To foster the spiritual growth of each participant through the sacraments, Catholic faith sharing and prayer;

3.     To promote the mission and charism of the School Sisters of Notre Dame and La Salle Christian Brothers through direct service to the poor;

4.     To build a sense of dedication and loyalty to Helias Catholic High School through involvement;

5.     To lead students to a deeper relationship with Christ through a positive learning experience outside of the traditional classroom;

6.     To develop camaraderie, respect, and friendships among students and staff;

7.     To promote a lifetime of service.

Sponsor: Mr. Didier Aur daur@heliashighschool.com
Fees: Varied

JOURNALISM CLUB is open to any student who enjoys writing or newspaper production along with editing, newspaper layout and creating art.

Sponsor: Mr. Brandon Martin bmartin@heliashighschool.com
Meeting Time: After school or in the evening
Meeting Place: Room 207
Fees: None

LIBRARY SQUAD is a group of students who plan fun reading related events for the school. Activities have included a poetry slam, book fair, book swap, and a multitude of activities for National Teen Read Week.

Sponsor: Mrs. Shelley Swoyer sswoyer@heliashighschool.com
Meeting Time: 7:15 a.m. as needed
Meeting Place: Helias Library
Fees: None

MATH TEAM meets approximately 8 times throughout the year, starting in October. The Math Team competes with other schools in math competitions.

Sponsor: Mr. Matt Zeitz mzeitz@heliashighschool.com
Meeting Time:Varies
Meeting Place: Room 107
Fees: $10

PING PONG CLUB simply plays Ping Pong

Sponsor: Mr. Chip Malmstrom cmalmstrom@heliashighschool.com
Meeting Time: varies depending upon facility availability
Meeting Place: Helias Commons or the Old Gym
Fees: $10.00 membership

SPEECH/DRAMA TEAM is a fun way to build confidence in public speaking and a creative outlet for those interested in drama. Students can choose from individual events or work with a partner in duet acting. Six to seven tournaments are attended during the school year. Students will rehearse their selections with the moderator to ensure proper preparation.

Sponsor: Mrs. Sharon Crider scrider@heliashighschool.com
Meeting Time: Before or after school
Meeting Place: Room 201

SPORTS MEDICINE CLUB is a club for all students interested in sports medicine. Students learn from medical professionals in the area who speak on the health care of athletes. You do not have to be a student athletic trainer to be a member of this club.

Sponsor: Mr. Ron Dunn rdunn@heliashighschool.com
Meeting Time: 7:00 a.m. once a month
Meeting Place: Room 205
Fees: None

TEAM SPIRIT/DARE ROLE MODELS is an organization that promotes healthy lifestyles. Students participate in a variety of educational activities AND serve as role models for younger students in our parochial grade schools. 

Sponsor: Mrs. Mary Flowers mflowers@heliashighschool.com
Meeting Time: Varies
Meeting Place: Counseling Office
Fees: None

Z (ZONTA) CLUB is a program of Zonta International and provides opportunities for young women in high school to develop leadership skills,explore career alternatives and improve international understanding through service projects. Z Clubs are formed on high school campuses. 

Sponsor: Mrs. Mary Flowers mflowers@heliashighschool.com
Meeting Time: 2nd Tuesday of each month 7:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m.
Meeting Place: Central Bank, Financial Center, 111 East Miller
Fees: None

DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS OF CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS:

Academic Team

Academic team plays a fast-paced, competitive team game quizzing students on their knowledge in the areas of math, science, literature, social studies, and fine arts, with a few sports and popular culture questions thrown in for fun.  Academic team is a MSHSAA activity so teams participate in district and state competitions, and students can earn letters.  The Helias team participates in 10 – 12 Saturday tournaments and two online tournaments each year.  Practices are held two or three days right after school from mid-October through mid-April.  If you enjoy TV shows such as Jeopardy or Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, you’ll like academic team.  Shelley Swoyer is the moderators of the Academic Team with assistance from Patty Lockenvitz.

Art Club

Band

Drumline:  A subset of the Marching Crusaders, the Helias Drumline in recent years has started learning and performing a second show in addition to the full Marching Crusader field show.  The Drumline is not for percussionists only. 

Musical Orchestra: The Helias spring musical would not be complete without the addition of instrumental music; music that is provided by the orchestra.  The Music Orchestra is comprised of Helias Concert Band students, Helias alumni, and Jefferson City community musicians.  The music for this orchestra is often more difficult than typical high school level music, providing a unique challenge to participating students.

Book Club

The book club is an organization open to freshman through seniors.  Students meet once a month to discuss a book selected by the students.  The club is not necessarily for “brainiacs, but for those who enjoy reading.”  The monthly meetings are a very relaxed way to meet with others to discuss a novel on a level that the group chooses.  You will meet new people and read books that you may not have chosen on your own, so the club opens you to a variety of new things.

Campus Ministry Crew

Campus Ministry Crew

La Sallian Youth Branch (at the service of Christ and neighbor)

Service hours

·         enter data on service hours for students

·         work to locate need in our immediate mid-MO area

·         assist with monthly service projects sponsored by campus ministry crew

·         post service hour opportunities

Mission trips

·         Memphis – Poor Clares, Holy Name, Miguel Schools (spring)

·         St. Louis – ND pre-school, Marian Middle School (fall)

·         Homestead, FL – De Lasalle Center (late spring/summer)

·         Springfield, IL – Habitat for Humanity (summer)

·         Guatemala – still uncertain (???)

·         others

Mission collections

·         remind people

·         help with any challenges, develop and decide winners

·         Giving Tree for Samaritan Center, help with organization and taking gifts to Center

Mission selection committee – meet at the start of each to semester to evaluate suggestions for mission collections and set the calendar of which organizations those collections will be for service hours and awards (new this year)

Community organizers fair – work with Mrs. Flowers

Possible Marian grotto to be built – details are still to be worked out

ND Youth Branch (our work is prayer and prayer is our work)

Prayer line

·         attend morning communion service, morning rosary, lunch communion service or Friday morning Mass twice a month; intent to pray for the need of our Helias community both prayed for over morning prayers and those kept in the depths of people’s hearts

·         assist with morning prayer, either by finding prayers or leading prayers

·         cooperate with parents prayer group (new this year starting in October)

Morning prayer

·         help select morning prayer for all of school

·         write a morning prayer for all of school

·         lead the morning prayer for all of school, once, once a month, once a week retreats

* All School Day of Prayer – evaluate and select speakers, decide on the format
for the day

* Freshmen Retreat – help re-design and lead the day through giving a witness to
the whole class or leading a small share group of freshmen (open to seniors only)

            * Evaluation of retreats

* Lenten Day of Renewal for Mothers (new this year) – assist with serving light
continental breakfast, invitations sent out, possible phone calls, and serving lunch to moms

Catholic Schools Week – work closely with team of faculty to select speakers and activities for the week such door decorating contest, assemblies, hidden prizes about school, dress up day, basically come up with Catholic Schools Spirit Week, Catholic Christian pride

Prayer aid for teachers and students

Conferences

            * ND Vision

            * Steubenville – Mid America

            * NCYC

Peer mentors (new to add)

Morning rosary

Bible study group (new this year)

Lenten morning prayer for young men with Fr. Corel

Lenten morning prayer for young women with ??? (new this year)

Create CD’s for athletic warm-ups

Write or find prayers to pray before competitions at Helias

Plan field trips to see religious works of art, the Cathedral Basilica in St. Louis, JPII writings on Judaism at Avila University in Kansas City, and the like.

Fr. Helias Branch (bringing sacramental life to the our school)

Masses

·         set-up for Mass 7 a.m. Mass days or during 1^st or 2^nd hour (new this year)

·         clean-up from Mass, immediately following Mass or 7^th hour (new this year)

·         create power point for Mass using template from Campus Ministry

·         run power point at Mass

·         make music suggestions for Mass

·         sing at Mass (requires rehearsal time with director)

·         play instrument at Mass (requires rehearsal time with director)

·         create environment for Mass (holy water fonts, plants, statues, pedestals, etc.)

·         introduction before Mass (with assistance of Mrs. CBB)

·         usher Mass (help to seat fellow students)

·         sit in Campus Ministry Crew section to lead the rest of school in prayer by example

·         create list of priests to invite for Mass

·         send thank you’s to priests you have joined us for Mass

·         send thank you’s to music ministers

Reconciliation

·         set-up for Reconciliation 7 a.m. morning of confession day

·         meet and greet priest each hour and show them to the gym

·         create power point for the Reconciliation day

·         create Reconciliation CD of music (include 2/3 instrumental music), must be approved by Mrs. CBB

·         pick-up donuts for priest in AM; help with coffee, water and soda set-up

·         bring down tray of lunch items for priest at 10:45 a.m. on Reconciliation day

Eucharistic adoration – at school and at the Catholic Center on West Main

Ash Wednesday activities

·         collect palms for one month prior

·         assist to burn what we have collected

·         hold lit candles lining the way to the field house prior to Ash Wed Mass

6^th Grade Vocations Day – help Office of Vocations with running games and creating skit for the 6^th graders of the Diocese of Jefferson City; includes t-shirt, lunch and Mass

Stations of the Cross

·         live people create the scenes from the Stations

·         write reflection for a Station based on scripture

·         create power point for Stations

·         part of group to lead school in “Were You There” at the 13^th Station

·         emcee the Stations; announce the start of each one and begin the prayer with “We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you” response: Because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world.

·         Serve as candle bearer or cross bearer for the Stations

Chorus/Concert Choir

Club International

Crusaders for Life

Crusaders for Life (Helias High School Pro-Life Club)

We have been pro-life since conception.

Activities

• meet once a month on the First Friday of the month at 7:07 a.m. for meeting and then Mass to pray for pro-life need of our school, city, state, nation and world
• fundraiser each March by selling t-shirts for National Pro-Life T-shirt day on April 24^th
• promote and send students on the March for Life every January
• sponsor a school Mass in October for pro-life needs
• create poster that speak to pro-life issues
• pro-life trivia week in October
• service project(s) to support the pro-life organizations in our city
• participation in Pro-Life Lobby Day at the Capitol

Possibilities

• have information at school about couples who want to adopt children
• see what other high school pro-life groups do
• attend pro-life movies together
• sponsor a pro-life movie night
• provide babysitting service at Helias during Christmas shopping season for fundraiser
• visit prison
• how to share the pro-life message with others

French Club

Journalism Club

Lasallian Youth

Library Squad

Library Squad will meet Wednesday, Feb. 3, at 7:15.

Library Squad, now in its second year, is a group of 15 – 20 students who plan fun reading related events for the school.  Last year’s activities included a poetry slam, the Scholastic book fair, a book swap, and a whole slate of activities for National Teen Read Week.  The group meets at 7:15 a.m. in the library on an as-needed basis.

The week of September 26 – October 3 is Banned Book Week, the national week to celebrate your freedom to read and to take notice of frequently challenged books ranging from the Harry Potter books to Of Mice and Men.  As part of this week’s activities, the Library Squad is sponsoring a poster contest in which you design a book cover for a frequently challenged or banned book.  See Ms. Swoyer in the library for details of the contest and a list of books from which to choose.  Posters are due by Tuesday, September 28.  There will be cash prizes for the top two posters.

Teen Read Week will be celebrated during the last week of October.  The theme is Books with Beat.  There will be various contests throughout the week, and the highlight will be a Poetry Slam on Oct. 28.  Anyone interested in reading poetry, either original or written by someone else, is invited to participate, and everyone is welcome to attend.

National Honor Society

NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY is an organization which honors Juniors and Seniors who possess outstanding qualities of ACADEMICS, SERVICE, LEADERSHIP, and CHARACTER.  This organization is sanctioned by the National Association of Secondary School Principals, which established these criteria for membership.

Ping Pong (Table Tennis) Club

Poetry Club

Speech/Drama Team

Speech Team is a fun way to build confidence in public speaking and a creative outlet for those interested in drama.  Speech is a MSHSAA sponsored activity, and therefore, team members may earn a varsity letter for participation.  Earning a letter in speech can also count toward the Helias Triple H award given at the end of the year.  Speech competition offers both individual and duet performance options.  The Speech Team participates in six to seven tournaments during the regular season and if eligible, can participate at the district and/or state tournament.  Students will practice with other team members and with the Speech Team moderator prior to competitions.  Practices  are scheduled according to the student’s and moderator’s  availability-usually before or after school.

Sponsor: Sharon Crider (scrider@heliascatholic.com)

Meeting Time: varied- usually before or after school

Meeting Place: Room 201

Fees:    Sell 15 NFL cards and pay no additional fee, or sell 5 NFL cards plus pay $100, or pay $200 participation fee and sell no NFL cards.

Sports Medicine

Student Ambassadors

The Student Ambassadors are students who represent Helias by giving tours of the school to visiting groups and individuals such as the incoming 9th graders, alumni and spouses revisiting the school during reunions, Leadership Jefferson City, and local Rotary Clubs.  They also work closely with the Helias Foundation in serving at special events.

The Student Ambassadors are nominated and selected by all the Helias faculty members.  Students are selected by what the teachers see as the students' ability of being outstanding representatives of Helias High School.  The students must be able to interact with and speak in front of large groups as well as field questions from potential students, parents, and alumni.

There are about ten students from each class selected to be Student Ambassadors.

Student Council (Stu-Co)

• Elected by their classmates, the Student Council is a co-curricular organization that serves a critical role in assuring that a variety of enjoyable, wholesome student activities are offered throughout the year.  Secondarily, the Student Council serves as the student government and, therefore, as the liaison between the students and the administration.  The role of the Council is limited only by their collective imaginations as they strive to enhance the efforts of Helias to develop well-rounded students by providing enjoyable, entertaining, social experiences.
• Student Council activities are conducted throughout the year, but a major undertaking is the organization and conduct of all homecoming activities.
• A member of the National Association of Student Councils, Helias utilizes the Student Council to communicate important information about school and school events to the student body while providing a valuable leadership and responsibility opportunity for the membership.

Thundercats

Do you like to eat, spend time with a group of fun people, read, and talk about books?  Then Thundercats Book Club may be for you.  Thundercats is a very lively, informal group that meets monthly at 5:45 in the library to talk about a book you select.  Anyone can suggest a book, and the group votes on the book to read for the following month.  Members take turns coming up with questions and leading the discussion for a book, but no one has to lead if he or she feels uncomfortable doing so.  Students from every grade level are welcome.  Oh yes, eating – we buy Little Caesar’s pizza (entirely optional but cheap) to munch while talking, or you are welcome to bring your own food.   Come check us out or talk to Ms. Swoyer in the library for more information.