School Sponsored Activities & Clubs

We offer a variety of school-sponsored clubs that extend our students’ learning and leadership opportunities beyond the classroom, allowing them to make positive contributions to our Northern Colorado community. At Severance High School, these groups, sponsored by SHS staff and led by students, focus on the diverse interests and passions within our student body but also work together collaboratively to support and improve the culture of our school.

If we do not offer a school-sponsored club or organization that meets the particular interests or passions of a select group of students, then we encourage these students to create a student-initiated club. These clubs must find an adult chaperone, get proper Admin approval, and can meet during non-instructional time during the school day to plan activities and events and pursue their collective interests and passions. If you would like to start a new club at Severance High School, please utilize the links on this page to fill out an application and schedule a meeting with Mr. McWain once your paperwork is complete.

Band

  • Time and Place: Daily: depending student schedule
  • Sponsor: Rick Grotzky
  • Description: Concurrent enrollment in an Instrumental Core Ensemble (Concert Band, Symphonic Band, Wind Symphony, Concert Orchestra, Sinfonietta, Symphony Orchestra) is required. The Marching Band performs at football games, parades, field competitions, and other special events within the community.

Choir

  • Time and Place: Silver days
  • Sponsor: Mark Ossip
  • Description: Concurrent enrollment in an Instrumental Core Ensemble (Concert Band, Symphonic Band, Wind Symphony, Concert Orchestra, Sinfonietta, Symphony Orchestra) is required. The Marching Band performs at football games, parades, field competitions, and other special events within the community.

DECA

  • Time and Place: Tuesday & Thursday lunches
  • Sponsor: Lee Oldenburg
  • Description: DECA prepares emerging leaders and entrepreneurs for careers in marketing, finance, hospitality and management in high schools and colleges around the globe.

FCCLA - Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America

  • Time and Place: Tuesdays 8 a.m. - 8:35 a.m. (Officers & Members), Friday lunches (Officers Only)
  • Sponsors: Angela Cunningham, Jen Rice
  • Description: FCCLA promotes personal growth and leadership development through Family and Consumer Sciences education. We focus on the multiple roles of family member, wage earner, and community leader, members develop skills for life through character development, creative and critical thinking, interpersonal communication, practical knowledge, and career preparation.

FFA - Future Farmers of America

  • Time and Place: Wednesdays after school, Friday lunches
  • Sponsors: Brooke Larson, Jane (Toni) Gross
  • Description: FFA makes a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education.

National Honor Society

  • Time and Place: Wednesday lunches in C220
  • Sponsors: Danny Quinn, Anthony Charterina
  • Description: Unveiled over a century ago, the National Honor Society enshrines four pillars at its heart: Scholarship, Service, Leadership, and Character. More than mere badges of honor for NHS members, these principles are transformative keys that unlock potential, enhancing every student’s educational journey, and ultimately empowering them to make profound, enduring contributions to our world.

Key Club

  • Time and Place: Friday lunches in B206
  • Sponsor: Anne Sutton
  • Description: Key Club is an international, student-led organization that provides its members with opportunities to provide service, build character and develop leadership

Literary Magazine

  • Time and Place: Friday mornings 8 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
  • Sponsor: Katie Pace
  • Description: Lit Mag club curates and publishes a magazine made up of SHS student writing and art. The goal is to celebrate the creativity, skill, and ideas of our silver knights.

Robotics

  • Time and Place: Monday, Wednesday and Friday 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Sponsor: Stacey Cornmesser
  • Description: FIRST Tech Challenge is a yearly competition that students aged 12-18 compete in where they build, design, and code a robot fit for an annual competition. FTC focuses on instilling principals such as gracious professionalism, cooperative competition and engineering design processes, like perseverance and teamwork. There are multiple awards given at competitions, along with placement in the event that can help progress teams towards larger events like the state and world competitions, such as the Inspire award, focused on the concept of gracious professionalism; the Think award, for journaling the team’s engineering process through the season in their engineering notebook and portfolios; the Connect award, given for outreach to both technical and non-technical communities; and the Innovate award, awarded for creativity and design of the robot; the Control award, given for coded sensor inputs in both the robot-controlled autonomous period and the human-controlled teleop period. The Severance robotics team currently consists of two teams, Team 20514 CyberKnights and Team 22250 Knights of the Ground Cable. The 2024-2025 season is the fourth for 20514 and the third for 22250. Both teams have made it to the Colorado State competition twice and have both received awards; 20514 receiving two Control award and 22250 receiving the Innovate and Design awards.  

Science Bowl

  • Time and Place: Thursday lunches
  • Sponsor: Stacey Cornmesser
  • Description: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Science Bowl® is a nationwide academic competition that tests students’ knowledge in all areas of science and mathematics. Middle and high school student teams from diverse backgrounds are comprised of four students, one alternate, and a teacher who serves as an advisor and coach. These teams face-off in a fast-paced question-and-answer format, being tested on a range of science disciplines including biology, chemistry, Earth science, physics, energy, and math.

Speech & Debate

  • Time and Place: TBD
  • Sponsor: Carson Wray
  • Description: The CHSAA mission in speech and debate is to provide opportunities and assist its participants in developing diverse communication skills while competing at the highest levels in high school speech and debate. The purpose of this is to instill discipline, teamwork, sportsmanship, honesty and integrity in a highly specialized activity. CHSAA Speech and Debate coaches teach their participants to respect the activity’s core values, work hard and compete honestly.

Student Council

  • Time and Place: 3rd hour on Silver days
  • Sponsor: Shallane Mullison, Maggie Lind
  • Description: This is designed for student council executive and class officers who seek a higher level of involvement and interaction, along with building leadership skills and experience. Students will be responsible for reflection on leadership experiences, as well as completion of projects and a portfolio. Students will be involved with daily student council business including preparation for Homecoming, prom, school policies and procedures, assemblies, community outreach, and other activities. Students in Leadership are required to be active members in Student Council and required to regularly participate in committee meetings. Entry into the class is first reserved for officers of Student Council and then by approval of application.

Theater

  • Time and Place: Navy days
  • Sponsor: Mark Ossip
  • Description: We will discover the relationships and the connections that we have with one another through various types of media. Students will use many tools in this class including monologues, scenes, research, improvisation, character building, pantomime, scene/set design, stage directions, and producing a play to enhance our learning.

Yearbook

  • Time and Place: 7th hour on Silver days
  • Sponsor: Carolyn Jones
  • Description: We will discover the relationships and the connections that we have with one another through various types of media. Students will use many tools in this class including monologues, scenes, research, improvisation, character building, pantomime, scene/set design, stage directions, and producing a play to enhance our learning.