Many Salk students are involved in community service projects. Whether it is through their place of worship, scouts, community organization or family, the lessons taught by helping others are invaluable, and help to shape empathetic and caring individuals.
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Club Name
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Club Description
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Club Advisor Name
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Art Club
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Work with the students on a variety of mediums. This club is open to all students who wish to join.
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Marion Attias
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Buddy Program
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Students work with the ABA population after school hours. Students will play games and do arts and crafts.
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Richard Cirillo, Colleen Pacillo
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Builders Club
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Work with student population to help coordinate various fundraising activities.
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Kim Welsch
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Chamber Choir
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Students must audition to participate in this performance-based club. The members practice challenging music that will be performed at the school concerts.
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Lisa Grande
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Chess
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Students learn how to play the game of Chess.
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Colleen Eck
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Communications
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Students participate doing daily on-air broadcasts over the "PA".
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Richard Cirillo
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Cooking Club
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Students learn basic cooking techniques. These techniques are applied in the kitchen as students learn how to cook.
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D. Camacho, Donna Kotowski, L. Sforza
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Drama
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Performance-based club.
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Lisa Levenberg, Richard Cirillo
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Early Bird Exercise Club
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Students will have the opportunity to exercise before school in the morning.
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Jeffrey Aiello
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G.O
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Work with the GO student officers in creating school-wide activities.
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Dan Agovino, R. Essex, E. Tuccillo
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Honor Society
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The National Junior Honor Society is an organization open to 7 th and 8 th grade students. This organization promotes appropriate recognition for students who reflect outstanding accomplishments in the areas of scholarship, character, leadership, and citizenship. NJHS is involved in many humanitarian activities throughout the school year.
Requirements of the National Junior Honor Society are maintained.
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D. Cai-Hsiu, L. Ortega
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Jazz Band
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Students are exposed to a different music genre and as a result grow musically
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Richard Alexander
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Junior Leaders
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Select group of 8th grade students take an active role in helping to support the traits of our RISE program.
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M. Lyons, Noreen Williams
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Lighting & Sound
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Students learn how to utilize the sound board to help control the lights and microphones during performances.
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Lisa Levenberg
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Mathletes
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High End mathematics students are prep to compete in the Math Olympiads at Hofstra.
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Kelly DeCunzo
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Movie Maker
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Students use Movie Maker & Power Point programs to create their own topic movies using pictures & sounds found on the web or from pictures or videos taken themselves. Also make short videos for the school.
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Julie Joshuakutty, Nectaria Kourkoumelis
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Multi-Cultural Club
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Introduces the club members to the variety of cultures that we offer in our school.
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Linora Ortega
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Newspaper Club
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Students get to actively participate in the creation of the school newspapers.
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Colleen Eck
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Peer Tutoring
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Formalized students-based tutoring.
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Meghann Hodge
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Pokeman
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Encourages positive interaction among students
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A. Fallo
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Rec Night
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Variety of activities were setup for students to participate in after-school hours.
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Dan Agovino, Erica Tucillo
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RISE
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Club designed to help support our RISE characteristics and values.
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Colleen Eck, Lisa Poggioli
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Robotics Club
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Prepares the students to compete in First Lego League competition.
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Joseph Castelli, Joseph Giardina
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Salk Sprouts Garden Club
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Students will learn how to use a greenhouse to grow flowers and vegetables from seedlings.
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Ronnie Attanasio, Kirsten Murphy
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School Store
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Students may purchase supplies during specified times.
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Jeffrey Aiello
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Spanish Language Club
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National organization for community service.
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V. Miller
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String Ensemble
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Students will be enriched in this field and provided with additional insight that goes beyond the classroom.
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Angela Sposato
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Student Connections
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Club will foster positive relationships and good character among students and promote school spirit through various activities keeping in mind RISE principles.
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JoAnn Papach
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Tri-M Honor Society
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A nationally recognized performance Honor Society.
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Linda Plank
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Visual Media
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Students work and help maintain our information center.
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William Kind
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Yearbook
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Students get to actively participate in the creation of the Yearbook.
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Kathryn Marolachakis, Megan Walsh
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