SLA Clubs

Clubs are a little different at the School of Los Angeles. You’ll find most of the standard student organizations to be sure—from theatre, to our literary magazine, The Lillian, to the student newspaper, the Bowtie Bulletin. But beyond that there will always be a club to surprise you, thrill you, and make you think. The clubs sprout like grass around here because it’s the students who conceive of them, propose them, and grow them. Students have admin and faculty support of course, but it’s their creative vision that drives after school programming. We center students in the design of their own school lives.

At the beginning of each semester, students are given the chance to propose new clubs and participate in a Club Fair to recruit members. Because of this, our active club list is always evolving. But a sample of the stalwart student clubs at SLA include:

  • Bowtie Bulletin

  • The Lillian

  • Environmental Activism

  • SciWhy

  • Roblox

  • Poker Club

  • Chess Club

  • Baking Club

  • Jewelry Making

  • And Many More!

Bowtie Bulletin

The student run newspaper at the School of Los Angeles. The Bowtie Bulletin is student-driven from the top down: from the editor-in-chief, to writers, layout designers, and photographers. It features long form reported articles, along with editorials on pressing topics relevant to School life, city and state politics, and issues of national import.

SciWhy

The perfect manifestation of SLA’s inquiry based, curiosity driven approach to academics, SciWhy was founded by students to continue their own scientific inquiries outside the bounds of the classroom. From the physical qualities of non-Newtonian solids to the intricacies of roller coaster design, SciWhy is a place for students to ask and answer questions with scientific rigor.

Environmental Club

Sponsors of the SLA’s annual Clothing Drive, the Environmental Club works intensively with Mr. Rodgers, Dean of Service and Justice, to integrate their activism and local service work into a more meaningful critical pedagogy considering the barriers to substantive change within political systems such as the City of Los Angeles.

The Lillian

SLA’s long running, one and only student-run literary magazine, the Lillian takes its name from the Lillian Way, the road running between the East and West Buildings on campus.