Upper School Clubs

Asian/ Pacific Islander affinity group to get together and have fun, in addition to holding cultural celebrations and other related activities and discussions.

Gender and Sexuality Alliance is a space for LGBTQ+ students and allies to discuss issues facing the community, organize pride, educational, and awareness events, and eat snacks in a safe and welcoming environment.

A club where anyone can learn about Judaism, Jewish values, discuss Jewish history, debate current events and philosophy. Each club meet we will be discussing a different topic ranging from the bystander effect to biblical contradictions.

"Our main goal is to bring more representation to the Latino community at Nueva. We organize events and discuss different topics while eating good food.  Overall, we want to provide a space for Latinos at Nueva while bringing our traditions and stories to the rest of the Nueva community.  This club is open to all."

A space for trans and gender-questioning folks to hang out and get help with trans-related matters.

The babysitting club will link parents at the lower school to students at the upper school who would be interested in helping out the community by offering to babysit. It's pretty straightforward, there probably won't be any meetings, I'll just shoot all club members an e-mail when a teacher or parent reaches out and the first to respond will be linked with the adult to discuss times, locations, and rates.

We organize community service initiatives for both the entire school and just the club members. Through fundraisers and activities, we try to enact both a local and international impact. At the end of the year, we take a trip to Los Angeles to attend WE Day!

"Curieus (curieus.org) is a non-profit organization run by high school students. It aims to make STEM concepts more accessible to children from underrepresented communities, thus sparking a lifelong curiosity and love of science and empowering them to become the changemakers of the future through science and technology. 

The goal of the club is to organize after-school or weekend workshops and classes for elementary school students. Club time will be used every month or so to craft and review the programs run through the Nueva chapter. Programs include both workshops at libraries and after-school classes for students participating in programming with partner organizations. 

Invention Studio is a club where teams design and build products for social impact. Teams have designed for everyone from blind individuals to English language learners. Our goals include making a difference in our communities, giving members the skills needed to make a difference, and empowering others using human-centered-design.

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The purpose of the Nueva Spirit Club is to promote school spirit and pride throughout our student community. For our inaugural year, our Club’s goal is to encourage students to get involved in our sporting events by attending and cheering on our teams. In future years, we may expand to include spirit-building activities beyond the sports field or court.

We are looking for enthusiastic students who would like to promote school spirit and cultivate positive vibes throughout Nueva! Students will get to lead, plan and participate in Spirit events throughout the year such as theme days for home games and other exciting events. Spirit Club is for everyone! Come join the fun! Go Mavs!

The goal of Nueva’s peer consultancy program is to provide an educational and practical experience to students interested in providing peer support, and to provide peer assistance to students facing social and academic challenges. This program strives to increase connectedness to peers and to increase feelings of competence and self-efficacy. Peer Consultants lead group conversations, one-on-one consulting, and positive mental health programming. Annually, in May, students in 10th through 12th grade will have an opportunity to apply to become a peer consultant which includes participation in a mandatory training course. All Nueva students are invited to participate in the ongoing programming of the group which will be advertised throughout the year.

Spirit and social is the spirit and social representative’s committee and we meet once a week to plan all of the fun grade wide or school wide events (like prom, bonfires, movie nights, and formal). 

The TEDx Club organizes the annual TEDxYouth@TheNuevaSchool conference, which showcases a variety of speakers from different fields. As a club, we focus on connecting with potential speakers, publicizing the event, and planning all the logistics to have a successful conference. The club is divided into different sub-teams, so each person can focus on an area of their interest.

The Nueva Kindness Club works to bring joy to members of the Nueva community through acts of kindness. We encourage our members to be aware of the needs of others and to make kindness a habitual part of their lives.

Le Ballon Rouge, Le Petit Nicolas, croissants, the Large Hadron Collider, real French classes...the list goes on. Come explore the cuisine, cinema, science, literature, and language of France and French-speaking countries!

Have you always wanted to learn American Sign Language and be able to communicate without speaking? In this club we will work together to learn ASL through songs and other recourses!

Spanish Club! We're going to do fun spanish things, open to suggestions. Some examples include movies, games, and more.

The egg dropping club focuses on design engineering based around creating a device or structure focused on preventing eggs dropped from a fixed height from breaking. This involves challenges and constraints of varying difficulty, such as an inability to use adhesives, dropping two eggs and having only one breaking, or time/material constraints. Club members forms groups and participate in competitions based on who can create the most effective device for each challenge. The club hopes to, and is currently working to, expand into competing with other schools during the school year, but no definitive interscholastic structure currently exists.

Future Problem Solving is a competitive team-based program in which students tackle near-future scenarios with a six-step process. Practices involve learning and honing said process and practicing for bowls; the bowls themselves are two hours long and allow your team to demonstrate your ability to apply the six-step process. Returning and new participants are all welcome!

Topics for 2019–20 included international travel, sleep patterns, and gamification.

LiMPETS is a long-term monitoring program and experiential training for students. The goals for the program are to provide students with hands-on fieldwork experience, data analysis, and research as well as leadership opportunities within the club. While the monitoring events will be open to all Nueva students, the program will be run by a core of program leaders that attend all 2-3 monitoring events during the year, and meet weekly to enter, analyze, and eventually present the results. Before monitoring events, students will learn the data collection techniques, as well as practice identifying the 27 groups of algae and invertebrates monitored in the program.

Flying things (rockets, drones, airplanes) are super cool! Building those things is even cooler. Join the model aviation club for the opportunity to work on various flying things with a group of supportive, fun people! This is a first-year club so there will be no agenda besides having fun, doing what we want, and learning as much as possible! Topics you can learn include foam building, laser cutting, 3D printing, electronics, computer aided design, and rapid prototyping. 

The math club serves to promote and develop math talent through competitions and guest talks.

The NuevaHacks leadership team is a group of inspired visionaries who work together on organizing Nueva's annual hackathon. On the organizing team, you get to learn and apply skills in professionally applicable areas like operations, fundraising, design, and marketing. In total, 8–12 people are selected on the NuevaHacks organizing team out of all the applications submitted. 

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This club is dedicated to studying the ecology of the redwood forest. We have a four-acre plot 18 minute from Bay Meadows that will be the primary base for forest visits. Emphasis will be on redwood growth rates, banana slug microbiome and mating behaviors, mountain lion ranges, camera trapping, natural water spring monitoring, and more. Collaborations with UCSC and Stanford Faculty will allow for ongoing research.

The robotics team, Team 4904: Bot Provoking, competes in the FIRST Robotics Competition, where we design, build, wire, and program a robot from scratch for a new challenge each year. In addition to the robot, there are also many opportunities to delve into business, STEM outreach and inclusion, fundraising, strategy, and more.

Join the creative writing critique club for monthly meetings to edit your writing with peers. All genres are welcome, from poetry to short fiction to memoir to chapters of long-form work. Whether you're trying creative writing for the first time or have finished work you want edited, critique club is a great place to get constructive criticism or to work through writer's block.

Inklings is a club focused on all things literature. Readings will include short stories, extracts of books and longer works, poetry, plays, and suggestions by club members. The goal is to explore and expand our understanding of literature together in a fun, relaxed setting.

The literary magazine publishes student work once a year. We focus primarily on short fiction, poetry, and artwork, and are open to many genres from students of any grade. Students who like writing, editing, and/or design get to create the magazine from scratch every year, with an emphasis on curation and a cohesive publication.