Malverne High School

Members of this club can practice the arts and focus on their individual skills. Students experiment with different mediums and express their creativity. 

Advisor: Mr. Alleva

This club is dedicated to creating a safe, welcoming and supportive community where younger students can form lasting friendships with older members of the Malverne family. Members will provide incoming high school students with a trusted mentor and friend as they transition from middle school.

Advisor: Ms. Lewis

The purpose of this club is to provide information to its members encourages them to understand and appreciate the cultural differences existing in a multicultural student body. Members of the club engage in discussions, video presentations, lectures, host guest speakers, and workshops. The club runs a Kwanzaa Celebration, Apollo Night, Talent Show, field trips and a college tour. 

Advisors: Ms. Thompson 

This club will explore literacy with a focus on comparative litera-ture and aesthetic judgment. Students will read poetry, drama, and fiction, and would meet to discuss and share interpretations of their readings. Students would also research literacy criticism and interpretations by noted persons in the academic and literacy world. 

Advisor: Ms. Thomson

This club highlights the more advanced mechanics of gaming producing higher performances and levels in video gaming while exploring multiple genres. 

Advisor: Mr. Link 

Members of this club will compete in a range of activities from the STEM field to history & geography, spelling and much more. 

Advisor: Mr. Furman 

The color guard performs flag routines in conjunction with the marching band. The corps performs in parades, football half-time shows, and various competitions in the Tri-State area. 

Advisor: Ms. Beaumont

This group prepares drummers for several performances during the year. They perform with the marching band at parades and football games. They also perform at the district open house, as well as all Pep Rallies. 

Advisor: Ms. Beaumont 

GIRLs is a group founded to serve the young ladies of Malverne High School. Our mission is to cultivate our girls into young leaders and role models at a critical time in their lives when they transition into adulthood. Our goal is to bring about self-confidence among our girls, raising awareness of social issues, promoting volunteerism, building a network of local affiliates, while creating a forum for their voices to be heard. MHS GIRLs is about Growing Into Responsible Leaders/Ladies who will exemplify the virtues of a woman. 

Advisor: Ms. Bowman 

This club conducts charity drives, community projects, and actively seeks ways to serve the school and general community. The club involves itself in seasonal charity projects, Toys For Tots, etc. as well as becoming involved in local community projects. 

Advisor: Ms. Caputo

The Gay Straight Alliance Club offers a support group to teens and educates students in creating a school environment where students learn to appreciate and respect differences in people. Activities include: A Day of Silence, Bully Awareness Month, Pride and LGBT History Month. 

Advisor: Jared Zeller

The marching band is a group of instrumental musicians who generally perform outdoors, and who incorporate some type of marching with their musical performance. In addition to traditional parade performances, we perform field shows at special events (such as football games) or at competitions, in addition to any “pep rally” duties, that implement many of the songs, traditions, and flair from outside performances. 

Advisor: Ms. Sitler 

The purpose of the Media Club is to record and live stream all sporting events, concerts and special presentations to YouTube using our 4K camera equipment. Each scheduled team is responsible for setting up the equipment before the event, recording the event, “Tweeting” out a hyperlink for the stream and cleaning up the equipment when the event is over. 

Advisor: Mr. Severino 

The mission of the Model U.N. club is to engage students in the debates and issues of the world. Students will learn to debate, overcome their fear of public speaking, attend competitions and attain real world business skills. 

Advisor: Mr. Nadeem 

The musical offers a lot of opportunities. It takes many people to make each year’s musical successful. Each year, we hold auditions for singers, dancers, and actors to be part of the musical. If you are shy about being on stage, you can work behind the scenes with stage managing, costumes, make-up, hair, set de-sign, set painting, lights, sound, and stage crew. 

Advisor: Mr. Coonan 

Member chapter of the National Honor Society. Membership in this club is by election only. Members are chosen by a board of faculty members chaired by the advisor of the honor society. Members are encouraged to perform community service and must submit monthly logs of service to the advisor. 

Advisor: Mr. Nadeem

Students design and build a robot to be entered in competitions. The robots will feature pneumatics, electronics, and mechanics in its construction. 

Advisors: Mr. Link and Mr. Severino and Mx. Williamstyer

The Science Olympiad are a team competition where students compete in events pertaining to various scientific disciplines, including earth science, biology, chemistry, physics and engineering. Emphasis is placed on active, hands-on group participation. Teamwork is a required skill in most scientific careers today and Science Olympiad encourages group learning by designing events that forge alliances. 

Advisor: Dr. Cressy 

Select Choir is for students who excel in singing, and wish to be part of a more advanced singing ensemble. Select Choir sings every year at the Malverne Christmas Tree Lighting, “Music in our schools” month performance in Albany, as well as other possible competitions throughout the year. This choir is also featured in the winter and spring concerts at MHS. This group also takes trips to go see Broadway shows, and other performances in NYC. The choir has rehearsals twice a week. Select Choir is open by audition only. Auditions are the first week of classes. 

Advisor: Mr. Zagare 

Modeled after the Molloy College Energeia for Teens program, students will participate in a project-based learning initiative. Team building and reflective practices will be developed by participating in a community service project involving experimental learning. These experiences will help students gain a deeper understanding of social needs. They will develop the skills necessary to become civic-minded young leaders. 

Advisor: Mr. Mach 

This club is a space where students, regardless of race, religion, gender identity, or socioeconomic backgrounds, can come together and express themselves creatively, freely, and emotionally while simultaneously being active members in their school’s community through the use of words. Spoken Word Poetry Club will bring young writers and poets together and motivate them to branch out and explore different means of writing and expression! Students share their thoughts and use their imagination. They can engage others with word play, intense imagery and self-expression, collaborate, write, speak and show who they are. 

Advisor: Ms. Bowman 

This program is designed to improve the overall fitness of each participant. Members utilize a combination of stretching, calisthenics, aerobic exercises, and universal weight training. The club meets two days per week and throughout the summer.

Advisor: Mr. Gersbeck

Elected students meet to bring student concerns to the administration and to provide the framework for communication between faculty and the students. This group conducts student elections.

Advisor: Mr. China

Members learn the basic skills needed to design robot with programming, fabrications and mechanics with the aide of senior mentors. Teams will prototype, build and test robots. Robots will be entered in local competition.

Advisor: Mx. Williamstyer

Do you love to sing? Join our Vocal Ensemble and be part of a welcoming, fun, and musical community! Our club features two non-auditioned groups: one for treble voices and one for lower voices, ensuring everyone has a place to shine.

Both ensembles rehearse on Monday evenings, and no prior experience or audition is required – just bring your enthusiasm and love for music. Whether you're a seasoned singer or just starting out, there's a spot for you here. Come make music, build friendships, and enjoy the joy of singing together!

Advisors: Mr. Zagare

This club will focus on exploring languages and cultures other than English speaking societies. The club will concern itself with cultural events and aspects of language immersion in Italian and Spanish. The club’s goal is to foster an appreciation of the non-English speaking world. 

Advisor: Ms. Ortiz 

The yearbook has four areas in which students can participate; the sale of ads and books, the taking of pictures, the layout of the book and the literary information that accompanies the photos. The students must attend meetings but can also do work on the book from any home computer. Deadlines are staggered throughout Sept. and March.

Advisors: Mr. Toscano and Ms. Thomson

This group exposes students to unique experiences and educa- tional opportunities outside of the school setting. The hope is that these opportunities will strengthen their educational founda- tion and hopefully ignite interest in new things. This club will utilize school busses on weekends to minimize costs and ensure that class time is not impacted. Possible trips include: Museum of Natural History, Tour of Harlem, Broadway Show, South Street Seaport & the Brooklyn Bridge, Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island.

Advisor: Mr. China