Academic Competitive Organizations
Advisors of these organizations
Chess Club
The
Chess
Club organizes in the fall and participates in the Upstate Eight Conference and the
IHSA State series. The club offers students two levels of play: a social club play and the
competitive squad. The club meets all year.
Color Guard
Color Guard students perform with flags, sabers, and rifles as a part of the Marching Band. Color Guard incorporates flag routines and dance movement into the drill that the band marches. Color Guard begins in the spring and maintains the same schedule as the Marching Band.
Contest Play
Contest play offers student actors and stage technicians the opportunity to participate in IHSA sanctioned competitive dramatics. Auditions take place in the winter and they compete in March.
DECA
Lake Park’s business club is an Association of Marketing Students. DECA focuses on developing skills in leadership, business etiquette, career exploration and civic awareness. DECA members are eligible to compete at the local, state and international level. DECA meets all year.
Skills-USA-VICA
Skills-USA-VICA offers students the ability to develop skills in leadership, social etiquette, vocational understanding, and civic awareness. SkillsUSA members also participate in state competitions. This club meets all year.
Group Interpretation
Group Interpretation offers student the opportunity to participate in IHSA sanctioned competitions in the interpretation of literary works in a group presentation. Auditions take place in the winter and they compete in March.
Marching Band
The Lake Park Marching Band organizes in the spring of each year, holds a summer camp, and competes each fall at invitational tournaments and the Bands of America series of competitions. The Color Guard/Winter Guard performs with flags, sabers, and rifles as part of the Marching Band. Color Guard incorporates flag routines and dance movement into the drill that the band marches. Winter Guard performs in a similar manner without the band in the winter months.
Math Team
The Math Team offers students an opportunity to improve their math skills through several different math competitions including Upstate Eight Conference meets. They also host the annual math competition for local junior and middle schools. The Math Team meets all year.
Scholastic Bowl
The Scholastic Bowl meets all year and offers students the opportunity to compete in an academic competition between Upstate Eight Conference schools and in the IHSA State series.
Science Club
The Science Club meets all year and offers students the opportunity to use their skills in the area of science in interscholastic competition hosted by the IHSA.
Speech Team
Speech Team offers students the opportunity to participate in interscholastic competitions in eleven different Individual Events categories of drama, public speaking, and oral interpretation. Auditions are held in the fall. The Speech Team competes at invitational tournaments, Upstate Eight Conference meets and in the IHSA series. Competitions begin in November and run through March.
Winter Guard
Winter Guard uses the same skill sets as the Color Guard but performs as a solo unit in the winter and early spring.
Youth & Government
The Youth & Government program is designed to involve students in as many phases of state government as possible—legislative, executive, press, page, and lobbyist. Through the year, students will meet for Pre-legislative assemblies with advisors and students from other high school delegations where they refine: legislation, judicial briefs, legal arguments, press articles, campaign strategies, and lobbyists’ position papers. The culminating activity is a statewide three day take over of the state government complex in Springfield in March. The program is open to sophomores, juniors and seniors.