Student Clubs and Activities

If you are interest in joining one of these clubs listed below, please email studentexperience@digitalacademyofflorida.org to obtain a permission slip. All students must have a parent signed permission slip for each club they wish to participate in.

Always Be Crafting (K-5th)

Club Sponsor: Danielle Maxwell

Description: Students will meet to complete a seasonal multi-media craft. They will share their results for the craft at the end of the session.

Book Club (K-2nd)

Club Sponsor: Kristine Russell

Description: A monthly cub where students will read literary chapter books approved by the school with fun projects incorporated to go along with the book.

Piano Club (K-2nd)

Club Sponsor: Rachel Read

Description: Piano club is a beginner and intermediate friendly club designed to introduce piano to younger students. We will meet every week to learn new songs and share our progress with our friends. Students will need access to a piano, keyboard, or piano app to participate

Ukulele Club (K-5th)

Club Sponsor: Rachel Read

Description: Ukulele club will meet once per week and all levels of ukulele experience are welcome! During our meeting, we will learn new chords, full songs, and we will perform for our friends. Students will need a ukulele to participate.

If you are interested in joining one of these clubs listed below, please email studentexperience@digitalacademyofflorida.org to obtain a permission slip. All students must have a parent signed permission slip for each club they wish to participate in.

Art Club

Club Sponsor: Sheryl Patterson-Coulibaly 

Description: Art Club is a student-led club where members will meet to discuss and participate in all types of arts (ex. painting, sculpting, crafting, etc.)

Chit Chat Club

Club Sponsor: David Haynes

Description: Chit Chat Club is a student-led club where members will be gathering to talk and discuss different topics so everyone can have fun and make new friends.

Audrey’s Math Club

Club Sponsor: Richard Hoffman

Description: Audrey’s Math Club is a student-led club where members play fun math games.

Cinema Circle Club

Club Sponsor: Casey O’Brien

Description: Cinema Circle club is a student-led club where members will play movie trivia.

Debate Club

Club Sponsor: Ben Bennett

Description: Debate Club is a student-led club where members will practice and participation in debates with club members.

Pets and Coding

Club Sponsor: Sugar Kirk

Description: Pets and Coding is a student-led club where members talk about coding ideas for your scratch and share your pets.

Pokemon Club

Club Sponsor: Michael Sokoler

Description: Pokemon Club is a student-led club where members play trivia, games, and chat about Pokemon.

Shades of Love Club

Club Sponsor: Aliza Rast

Description: Shades of Love is a student-led club to offer support for the LGBTQ+ community.

Spanish Club

Club Sponsor: Rachael Stephens

Description: Spanish Club is a student-led club where members learn and celebrate Spanish culture.

Sugar Chasers Club

Club Sponsor: Vanessa Bump

Description: Sugar Chasers is a student-led club where members play fun activities and Kahoots weekly.

The Underground DND Club

Club Sponsor: Mindi Phelps

Description: The Underground DND Club is a student-led club where Dungeons and Dragons campaign with club members.

If you are interested in joining one of these clubs listed below, please email studentexperience@digitalacademyofflorida.org to obtain a permission slip. All students must have a parent signed permission slip for each club they wish to participate in.

Story of Us Club

Club Sponsor: Patricia Parker 

Description: Story of Us Club is a student-led club where members will be gathering to write and share stories that they each make, whether it be fiction or non-fiction.

Pixel Art Club

Club Sponsor: Kiz McLeod 

Description: Pixel Art Club is a student-led club where members will be gathering to share pixel art methods for creating video game sprites, landscapes, or just have fun with creation challenges and learn some new skills in the process.

Book Club

Club Sponsor: Tara Cote 

Description: Book Club is a student-led club where members will be gathering to discuss all kinds of books and having discussions about what they read.

All Things Antiques Club

Club Sponsor: Carina Pineres

Description: All Things Antiques Club is a student-led club where members will be gathering to discuss different types of antiques and the history associated with antique items (ex. cars, signs, toys, video games, etc.)

DAOF’s Got Talent Club

Club Sponsor: Rita Carter

Description: DAOF’s Got Talent is a student-led club where members can show off their talents or enjoy watching other club members perform.

Hand Chat

Club Sponsor: Kiz McLeod

Description: Hand Chat is a student-led American Sign Language club where members will play sign games, watch videos to learn new signs, and explore the deaf community and culture.

Digital Academy of Florida (DAOF) faculty will initiate clubs in K-5 based on student interest and availability of faculty volunteer sponsors. The Community Engagement Specialist (CES) will email families to assess interest in returning/new clubs. If 5 or more students express interest in the club in K-2 or 3-5, the CES will seek a Faculty Advisor to support the club. The Faculty Advisor will provide each interested students’ Learning Coach (LC) with a permission slip which will include the club’s name and description. The LC must electronically sign and return the permission slip which will be housed in a designated SharePoint folder.

Approved clubs will be listed on the school’s website, including the club’s name, brief description, faculty advisor, and meeting details.

Set dates will be established annually to initiate new clubs.

Students in grades 6-12 may initiate the formation of a student group or club.

All club formation shall be initiated only by students. School staff or parents shall not initiate the formation of student groups or clubs.

Set dates will be established annually to initiate new clubs.

All clubs are required to have a Faculty Advisor who will assist the students in the running of the student group or club but who shall not lead or direct the activities of the club. Each student group or club shall have a Faculty Advisor present at all meetings for supervision and support.

All student groups or clubs shall meet when the students who are participating in the club are not receiving academic instruction. Student group or club activities may not interfere with academic or required class time.

Meetings shall not materially and substantially interfere with the orderly conduct of the educational activities of the school.

No club may be formed that would disrupt the school or learning. No club may be formed that would violate any Florida laws or regulations set forth by the Department of Education.

Before the student group or club meets for the first time, the group or club must have a Faculty Advisor, the club must have a name which is descriptive of the focus of the particular club, a description of what types of activities the club will engage in, and a draft constitution for the club which shall indicate that the club is open to all students and no student or student group may be excluded from participation. The Faculty Advisor may assist students in developing these documents.

All student groups and clubs who meet the above criteria, and have at least 5 currently enrolled students interested, shall be approved to hold meetings and engage in activities. There however shall be no mandatory attendance numbers or required number of students to hold a meeting.

The denial of any student request to form a group or club shall be provided in writing, articulate the reason for the denial and provide an opportunity for the student(s) who seek to form the group to modify the request so that it complies with the requirements of this policy.

Information about the student groups and clubs will be available on the school’s website so that parents may learn about the nature and purpose of each group or club.

Club history will be maintained in a SharePoint site that includes when the club was founded, students who founded the club, students who expressed interest in the creation of the club, faculty advisor, club description, and club constitution.

All meetings shall be student initiated and open to all students in the school. Student attendance at any meeting shall be completely voluntary.

Faculty Advisors present at any religiously oriented club meetings will be present only in a non-participatory capacity. (i.e., They cannot lead the students in prayer, preach or teach or determine any specific theological view or religious view.)

The Faculty Advisor for a religious student group shall be present to ensure student safety and supervision.

Outside organizations are not permitted to direct, conduct, control, or regularly attend student group or club meetings. Student groups may invite outside organizations or individual speakers to attend their meetings, as long as the outside organizations or individuals do not direct, conduct, control or regularly attend activities of the group. All outside organizations, speakers or individuals must follow the school’s established procedure for allowing visitors into the virtual campus, including any registration procedures. Guests or visitors must be supervised by school employees at all times.

All student groups shall have equal access to publicize and announce meetings and activities, to the extent the school has these places, the school website, newsletters, and club fairs.

No employee, contractor, or agent shall be permitted to:

• Influence the form or content of any prayer or other religious activity connected with student meetings;
• Encourage or agree to advise any student group or club that would materially and substantially interfere with the orderly conduct of educational activities within the school. The denial of any student request to form a group or club shall be made in writing, articulate the reason for the denial and provide an opportunity for the student(s) who seek to form the group to modify the request so that no material and substantial interference occurs;
• Attend, participate in, advise or facilitate any meeting at which unlawful conduct is likely to occur. Any Faculty Advisor who becomes aware of unlawful conduct shall immediately report such conduct to the Director of Schools;
• Deny formation of a student led group or club based upon any discriminatory basis or personal views of the employees or staff;
• Expend public funds beyond the incidental costs of providing methods to announce the time and location of a group or club’s and the incidental costs of providing the facilities to conduct the meetings;
• Compel any employee of to attend a group or club meeting that is contrary to the beliefs of the employee.
• Sanction meetings that are otherwise unlawful or that would threaten the well-being of students and faculty members.