US Clubs and Activities

A club that encourages people with different creative skill sets to create a 3D animation and/or VR project.

The Abandoned Animals Rescue Foundation (AARF) is a non-profit club that strives to better the lives of stray animals. We raise awareness for abandoned animals in Taiwan and promote adopting over buying pets. We have various outings, in which club members get to interact with dogs and cats by walking them and caring for them. Furthermore, we hold bake sales throughout the year and all proceeds go to Animals Taiwan. AARF works toward educating the community on the issue of abandoned animals while giving members a chance to interact with these wonderful animals!

The Alliance Football Club is a collection of students who love football (soccer, for the Americans) and want to share that game with others. Fund raising events and gear collections are held to provide equipment and training for children in Taiwan who otherwise might not have the opportunity to play this sport. 

Amnesty international Amnesty International (AI) is an international NGO which conducts extensive research on human rights violations, aims to spread awareness on these issues globally, and seeks to demand justice against human rights abuses. Our club at TAS is nested under Amnesty International in Taiwan. At school, we raise awareness on human rights issues and fundraise through hosting a variety of activities such as AI Cafe, Write for Rights, annual art auctions and our Human Rights Week. Along with our club sales, we set up petition booths where the school community is called upon to learn about Amnesty’s cases and participate in AI’s petitions. It is impossible to eliminate all human rights abuses globally; still, “it is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.”

We are a group of people who enjoy the Japanese subculture and we are hoping to get to know each other better through this common interest to make our high school lives more interesting.

APPS Club is a club that gathers computer science lovers and people who loves/wants to learn computer science together through our various events. We do events such as Codemania, a community-service based event which helps lower school and middle school students of our school learn coding and help them become interested to pursue a career in the computer science field. We also do computer science-related activities which mostly helps the school community.

Taipei American School Art Honor Society is an academic organization that aims to inspire and recognize students who have shown an outstanding ability in and passion for art. AHS honors art in all its sundry forms and the talented, academically rigorous student-artists who create it, with the goal of assisting members in reaching their highest potential in all forms of art and raising awareness of art education throughout the school and community. Ultimately, we hope to revolutionize, redefine, and celebrate art through the education and empowerment of young scholar-artists.

Our goal is to promote an increased understanding of artificial intelligence technology, a revolutionary force in both industry and research, among students at TAS.  Through member presentations and group discussions, we explore the applications of AI to various fields and aspects of society, as well as the more technical aspects of how AI systems work and function.

Athletic Council is an organization known for developing volunteer work geared toward the TAS community and serving for them by cooking food, scoring games and providing a better TAS environment.

This club is being proposed to spread happiness and love by becoming a stress reliever for high school students (especially those that like to bake) while helping the non-profit organization Children Are Us.

Short term goals are to provide a fun experience for students twice a week and provide funds each sale for Children Are Us. Long term goals are to provide stress relief for students through baking and spread more love in the community and in the hearts of those who are in need.

The Big Buddy program provides Upper School students with the knowledge and experience in general child-development milestones, active communication skills, and problem-solving techniques. TAS students interested in impacting the life of a youngster are trained to become mentors for Lower School students in TAS. The Big Buddy Program organizes activities that focus primarily on aiding the relationship between the paired “buddies” through group bonding, which involves playing interactive games and engaging in lots of communication.

Taiwan as well as Taipei alone is filled with phenomenal biking paths. Taiwan as a country has one of the best established biking environment and culture in the world. People from all over the world travel to Taiwan to explore the beautiful bike paths that we have. The Bike Club seeks to establish a bike culture in TAS and to have the ability to share the passion for biking. Rides take place on weekends. Helmets are required.

The purpose of this club is to provide our TAS students the opportunity to have a more in-depth understanding of Taiwan’s business environment, market systems, entrepreneurships, and especially its business ethic. To achieve this goal, this club will offer speeches from guest speakers, site-visits of local companies, and internal discussions.

Nowadays, people tend to rely on the internet too much and forget to interact with each other. By proposing this club, people would have more opportunity to meet face to face and to improve their communication and collaboration skills. This will also provide people with fun and put people with the same interest together.

Calligraphy Club is an interest club that invites not only TAS students but also the faculty and staff to practice Chinese calligraphy and meet fellow calligraphers. In weekly meetings, members immerse in calligraphy, understand the beauty of words, and train their patience and concentration. We also promote Chinese calligraphy in the TAS community through Food Fair fan sales, couplets writing during Chinese New Year, and the annual calligraphy exhibition.

We seek to raise awareness about substandard living conditions in Cambodia through partnerships with Cambodian organizations, service trips, fundraisers, and more. We strive to make a difference for Cambodian people by making positive changes in their lives.

Chinese Honor Society is a community dedicated to the promotion and celebration of Chinese culture and language in Taipei American School. Through educational activities such as games, presentations, and sales, members not only have the opportunity to learn about the Chinese language and culture, but are also given the ability to promote the culture within our school community.

CPAC is a club dedicated not only to the performing arts but also Chinese culture as a whole. We aim to connect our members with the culture through practicing and performing throughout the school year.

Club Crochet exists to create a fun and stress- relieving environment for students while allowing them to obtain a new and creative skill/ hobby. Crocheted items are donated to charity.

ChildAware Club brings awareness and helps out children who are diagnosed with long term diseases and disorders that may appear in early childhood. ChildAware fundraises for this cause through monthly food sales. Members also go on outings and volunteer at the Cerebral Palsy Association of R.O.C. to spend time and help children who are diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy disorders at a young age.  

The Computer Science Team (CST) offers programming experience and lessons on mathematical computer science theories and concepts. The members compete all year round in ACSL, an international competition, in order to qualify to go to the All Stars contest in May.

Get stress relief through playing Super Smash Bros while also building and smashing bonds at the same time. (Interest based group/club)

The criminal justice system refers to a complex that aims to rehabilitate criminals, prevent crimes, and offer justice to victims. However, historically and currently, this system discriminates against minority communities. The goal of this club is to start conversations about why our current solution to crimes is so damaging, and why it’s important to be actively engaged in speaking out against violence. At the end of the year, this club hopes to host a presentation either online or in person that addresses the system’s failures and what you can do to help fight against injustice.

DHS is a society that promotes dance throughout TAS. As an honor society, we recognize the passion and dedication that students put into dance. The students inducted into DHS commit themselves to the art of dance and to spreading their appreciation of it throughout our community. Although applications are required to be a part of the club, many of our events are public, and we highly encourage everyone to join us in celebrating and expanding our dance community.

This club exists to bring happiness to everyone through making cute little dolls and decorations. We also want to express our creativity and imagination that can be concealed due to school pressure. Furthermore, we believe through making crafts mostly made up of recycled materials, we can bring awareness to this serious subject that is often ignored!  

Doctors without borders aka Médecins Sans Frontièresis is a club supporting the organization that supports the idea that health care is a human right. We aim to spread the awareness that medical care should be allowed everywhere, not just places where it's legal. Through fundraising events, we aid medical experts all over the globe helping patients in areas where medical care is scarce. Join to fight for medical rights!

Expression Magazine is a print literary arts magazine, published biannually. Throughout the school year, we host events such as Poetry Cafe and writing workshops, providing a safe space for all writers and artists to express themselves unapologetically. 

This club will teach members the basics of starting a company through entrepreneurship projects, such as the entrepreneurship business dealership plan. We also do entrepreneurship-related activities that helps people become interested in starting a business.

This club is based on the concept that food can be the connector that brings people together. The FAT club aims to become a safe place to promote mental health and wellness for students to talk about their thoughts and problems. Students can share their challenges and difficulties through their love of food and thus creating a more casual and relaxed atmosphere where people feel more at ease to converse.

TAS has a variety of clubs, including numerous clubs that focus on young children and babies, however, there has been no club that recognizes the wellbeing of those living in nursing homes. Most often than not, we tend to forget the older generations of our society when they have so much stories and experiences to offer us, thus I came up with this club in order to help the wellbeing of the older generation. A lot of grannies and grandfathers tend to be a little lonely in those nursing homes as many of their families neglect them and not visit them, making their wellbeing deteriorate as the volunteers cannot hang out with each and every individual for a long amount of time. So, this club would focus on hanging out with them in order for them to enjoy company once in a while as well as having fun.

Short term goal: bring joy to the nursing homes and learn things for ourselves.

Long term goal: let nursing homes know about our club and hopefully more places would be open for us to perform/ do activities with the elderly people. 

Girls in STEM aims to spread awareness regarding the gender disparity in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields. We serve to encourage girls in breaking gender barriers to participate in subjects they are interested in. We are not a femenist club and we don't exclude boys from participating; we simply hope that our activities will provide an environment where girls are inspired to pursue STEM. Events we host include STEMania, an annual outreach event for lower school students at TAS where we guide them through a series of STEM activities, and an annual interactive presentation to eighth graders on Upper School CS/Robotics courses and extracurriculars to encourage them to pursue STEM in high school.

HALO (Holding A Little One) is a community service club driven by the simple belief that every child deserves to feel loved and to be loved. Thus, HALO has one simple goal and that is to be actively dedicated in serving the Christian Salvation Service (CSS Orphanage). Through weekly outings over the school year, we help take care of babies and stimulate them with love and affection. Not only do we provide physical support or care through outings, but we also have face painting activities during the annual Food Fair and Spring Fair. HALO also have various sales throughout the school year to raise money and to provide monetary support to the orphanage. We promise it will make you feel all warm and fluffy inside as you spread love to those who need it most.

This club focuses on collecting and purchasing toys for children who are in long term hospital stays. Toys are delivered in-person as allowed. Come join us for this meaningful and important service work!

Himalayan Service Initiative Club is trying to uplift the poor people of Himalayan through service projects while also spreading awareness and appreciation for the culture of the third poorest country in Asia. We fund raise the entire year in our club sales for an end of the year donation.

The Hip Hop Club is a club that is fully dedicated to hip hop culture. We host club meetings where people are free to rap, breakdance and/or beat-box. Our purpose is to create an environment where people are free to engage and try out these different aspects of hip hop. We welcome anyone from those who are experienced to those who just want to learn and have fun.

Self-explanatory student interest club. Games take place during flex weekly. 

 A club that focuses on alleviating some of the impact of homelessness in Taipei. The club works with a local food kitchen and raises funds to help care for those who are in need in the Taipei area. 

I Care is a interactive service club that strives to create an environment where physical impairments are not preventive measures, empowering our students to freely explore their interests. Our members go to the Taipei School for the Visually Impaired and guide them through activities ranging from doing arts and crafts to applying make-up to playing board games.

iGEM stands for the International Genetically Engineered Machines Competition and it is the world’s premier competition for synthetic biology. Students participating in the iGEM competition will design and build synthetic DNA from standardized biological parts in order to be operated in living cells. All 4 areas of STEM education (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) will be utilized in this competition, making it a truly interdisciplinary endeavor. Last year, the TAS debut team became finalists among 54 other global teams, was awarded with the iGEMer’s prize by being voted best project, and won best website. This year’s high school competition will be held at MIT in June 2015. Members of the club will be introduced to iGEM, and participate in the team’s research, human practice and computer modeling efforts.

ILA Fashion Club is a club where outstanding artists, designers, models, and other individuals come together to celebrate and appreciate the arts and designs within TAS. The ILA Fashion Club holds Fashion Shows, in which talented designers get the chance to showcase their work down the runway and enjoy a fabulous time with a tight-knit community.

Our country’s 400,000 Indigenous inhabitants make up two percent of Taiwan’s population, yet is an often overlooked minority group. Inspired greatly by our club advisor, Mr. Openshaw, and his incredible contributions and initiatives for the indigenous communities, we feel like it is imperative for us to create a meaningful initiative that will help students at TAS to recognize and better understand the original Austronesian inhabitants of Taiwan, to foster mutual understanding and cultural exchange, and to offer service to Indigenous communities in collaboration with community leaders.

Our short-term goals include gaining an understanding of the issues - both historical and contemporary - faced by Taiwan’s indigenous people, and indeed Indigenous people worldwide. 

In the long term, we hope to arrange for regular projects where Indigenous groups or representatives visit the school and offer a chance to learn about their culture and music. Similarly, we could have group trips to Indigenous villages and have collaborative arts or music projects, disaster relief, or other forms of exchange.

With our generation, specifically students of TAS, being raised in an environment consisting of prestigious opportunities, we often fail to aid or even to simply recognize the disadvantaged communities within our own country. While there are already clubs in our school like the Cambodia Service Initiative Club which aim to raise awareness and aid underprivileged communities, we think that it is even more imperative to focus on how we can help people in our own distinct nation of Taiwan. In addition, this club is a place where we can integrate our own interests into projects to make the club more interesting and creative. For instance, the project we are currently working on is art-centric, with one of the main focus being promoting aboriginal art. 

We have a few projects going on this school year, if you are interested in knowing more details, please contact the Dean of Students office. 

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The purpose of Japanese Honor Society is to promote awareness and appreciation for traditional and modern Japanese culture. Japanese Honor Society proudly practices and fulfills the Japanese tenets of loyalty, respect, and diligence. With the assistance of selectively chosen members who show genuine dedication to this cause, Japanese Honor Society works for the benefit of the community while upholding these values.

The Jewelry Design Club is a club that meets to create an opportunity for students to express their creativity and style through designing unique pieces of jewelry. Sale of jewelry supports underprivileged teens throughout Taiwan.

Jumbo Jazz Jam, or JJJ, is a music-filled club where you will hear jazz music all the time. Our goal is for students who aren't enrolled in a music course to practice, play, and perform jazz music. Club members can create multiple combos (small groups) and choose their preferred piece and style. We hope that students can enjoy the music genre of jazz in JJJ outside of school curricular.

This club exists to provide training, assistance, and hardware for students who enjoy the hobby of custom computer keyboard building. Proceeds from fundraising go to local non-profit organizations.

Key Club is the oldest and one of the largest community service clubs in the US. It is a life-changing experience that motivates youth to learn the important aspects of leadership while giving members opportunities to provide service and build character in communities worldwide. In TAS Key Club, we perform acts of service, such as weekly baby home visits, beach and park clean-ups, badminton tournaments, fundraising events, and much more.

This is a club that focuses on acquiring donations of shoes for donation to certain areas in Africa where people are impacted by debilitating and crippling parasite called jiggers. Please consider donating your gently-used shoes for this important cause!

The TAS LGBTQ Alliance strives to create an accepting environment for members of the LGBT community at TAS, in addition to promoting LGBTQ culture at TAS. The TAS LGBT Alliance creates a safe space for the LGBTQ community and promotes compassion, kindness and love in order to support the Matthew Shepard Foundation’s message of erasing hate.

This club exists to gather students who are interested in Mahjong and give them an opportunity to play in school and to educate students on the basics of Mahjong. The long term goals would be to integrate this otherwise traditional game into TAS as a way to preserve Taiwanese culture in an international community.   

Make It Shine! is a club focusing on children with special needs. Outings will be organized through Taiwan Sunshine, and club members will help organize and run an annual Taiwan Sunshine Hero Games event.

March of Dimes is a United States nonprofit organization that works to improve the health of mothers and premature babies by funding their families and the research of premature babies. At TAS, our aim is to raise awareness in the school community, as not a lot of people know about this pressing issue. In our community, we raise money by holding lunch sales and participating in the TAS PTA Food and Spring Fairs.

Taipei American School’s Marine Conservation Club (MCC), the only TAS club that has been featured on CNN, is a student organization whose mission is to protect marine habitats both locally and abroad. As a club, we raise awareness of marine issues and promote sustainable development. MCC is constantly seeks new ways to make an impact, which is evident through initiatives such as the club sustainable utensil business. MCC works with local organizations and hosts events such as beach cleanups, competitions, and scientific demonstrations. With our funds, we contribute a variety of organizations, from NGOs that are conducting valuable environmental scientific research to groups on the front lines cleaning up the ocean and lobbying for sustainable policies.

The Math Team is a group of self-motivated and committed students with an aptitude for math. We collaborate on challenging tasks and instill the value of mutual learning while honing our problem-solving skills, proof techniques, and critical thinking. During our meetings held weekly after school, we provide instruction through presentations and activities, work on problem sets, invite guest speakers, and participate in competitions. If you are interested to becoming part of Math Team, please contact your math teacher to be recommended for membership.

The National Honor Society is based on the principles of academic achievement, character development, service to the community, and leadership. Together, we seek to improve our school and the world around us through helping both others and ourselves.

This club is being established because of the continuous ignorance and misunderstanding of the importance of Neurodiversity. People should be aware that neurodevelopmental disorders should be considered normal. Neurodiversity club is dedicated to solving social problems in TAS. Some activities we would like to do are starting creative projects and websites and creating fun events to spread awareness. The lack of knowledge on this topic should be addressed, which this club will be able to be responsible for by making an impact in this area.

A long term goal for this club is to create a more sensitive and friendly community for people with disorders starting in TAS. Educating students about this topic will allow them to have a deeper understanding of their social struggles and be more sensitive when associating with them.

Even after they successfully move out of North Korea, the only option for these families is either to move to China or South Korea. While the goal of their journey is to obtain a wider selection of choices to make, it is ironic that their options are very limited. If these defectors are educated with English, thousands and thousands of new paths will unfold for them to pursue. Especially in the 21st century, English became a fundamental worldwide language eligible for communication in most countries. Learning English will not only transform their lives but also introduce them to a wider perspective of the world which they were previously restricted to. By acquiring English speaking skills, the North Korean Defectors will gain social status, confidence, and the ability to fight through the thick layers of social stigma and discrimination. We clearly see examples like Thae Yong Ho (Member of National Assembly of South Korea, former North Korean Defector) who had a successful transition to South Korea. We believe our service will encourage and help these students to pursue their dreams. Adding on to educational service, we are looking to provide additional help to North Korean students in helping them find academies, textbooks, resources, and organizations they can reach out for further advancement in their living conditions and quality of life.

Operation Smile is dedicated to transforming the lives of children suffering from cleft lip, cleft palate and other facial deformities. We aim to raise awareness about this birth defect that inhibits the ability to breathe, eat, or smile. All of our proceeds go to families who cannot afford surgery and medical supplies for local communities. Every year, we hope to increase the number of surgeries that we are able to pay for, giving more children around the world the opportunity to smile.

This interest club is designed for students who enjoy photography and would like to have more freedom and flexibility in what they photograph while being able to experiment with different types of photography (film/digital).

This club is focused on connecting people in this school together and creating a closer sense of community. The club identifies ways to encourage others, meets to discuss how to support community and looks for ways to serve.

Reach Out is a service club dedicated to welcoming new students to the TAS community as well as promoting wellbeing in the student body. Reach Out members are nominated by faculty members and are committed to serving students throughout TAS.

Remote English Mentoring (REM) is a club where members volunteer to teach English to students at Dong-Hai Elementary School, Taitung. Through weekly online video chat sessions, we guide them through our topic-based English curriculum. Every winter break, members travel to Taitung to physically meet the kids and host a series of interactive review games.

Girl Up is now Rise Up: "Rise Up aims to foster a safe and inclusive environment within the TAS community for generating in-depth conversations about intersectional feminism, through open discussions and workshops led by teachers and guests. We hope to help students understand the connections between feminism and their own lives, the school community, and the greater world, aiding members to develop their own tools for empowerment." 

We are a group of students passionate about rock climbing and want to provide rock climbing opportunities to other interested students. We also recognize the lack of representation rock climbing has as both a recreational activity and a sport. Our priority is to offer weekly rock-climbing opportunities in the TAS Rock Climbing room, but future goals include some off-campus rock-climbing opportunities in one of Taipei's world-class rock-climbing locations! Come learn and enjoy this great sport!

Sarnelli House is a club that is focused on raising funds for the organization located in Nongkhai, Thailand. While Sarnelli House was initially founded for victims of HIV/AIDS who were abandoned, Sarnelli House has recently had an influx of teenage girls escaping abuse or who have been abandoned. Sarnelli House brings these girls in and provides them with shelter, and a high school and college education. They also help support the children in finding jobs after college.

Save the Children at TAS raises money for the Save the Children foundation, a non-profit organization that helps with immediate disaster relief around the world with essentials and medical care. Together, we join the movement in improving the general communities and environments of needy areas in 120 different countries and counting, providing a better future and more opportunities for children worldwide. We quote: "Children are a divine indication that the world should go on; let us not stop that sign at our generation."

The Spanish Honor Society’s foremost goal is to promote understanding of and enthusiasm for the Spanish language and culture in the TAS community. Our funds go to Sightsavers, an organization dedicated to fighting avoidable blindness and creating equal opportunities for visually impaired people.

This club seeks to help achieve the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals in the context of Taiwan. This is done through looking for service opportunities that directly relate to those goals. 

This club is being proposed as we want to ensure that young kids who have numerous possibilities for their future have an opportunity to learn music without having the burden of worrying about the costs that come along with it. We want this club to be established as learning music is quite costly (considering the prices of the instrument, tuition fees, music sheets and more) which some families can't afford for their children. We don't want these young kids to abandon their musical talent because of financial issues, and we hope by creating this club, we can make their dreams of becoming a musician come true.

One of the short term goals of the club is to hold a small concert in which the children play their instruments at the end of the school year. In the long run, we hope this club helps initiate and develop the children's musical careers so that they can become successful musicians in the future.

Established just seven years ago, TAS Cancer Society has emerged from a negligible minority amongst other clubs into a thriving success on its journey to fulfill its mission: to promote the direct care given to cancer patients, to provide indirect service to cancer research through fund raising, and to raise cancer awareness in the TAS community. Biweekly hospital outings to the Veteran’s Hospital facilitates developing bonds of joy and love between members and children afflicted with cancer and enables members to brighten up the patients’ lives through regular interactions. Furthermore, fund raisers such as Breast Cancer Awareness Day, Movember, and the World Cancer Day bake sale help gather charitable profits that are donated to cancer organizations as well as local hospitals. Cancer Society is dedicated to providing direct and indirect assistance to those suffering from various types of cancer. Cancer Society maintains its greatest efforts in expanding its horizons and continues to work on making a difference in our cancer-plagued world.

The TAS Chess Club welcomes players of all levels of experience to play in both friendly and competitive chess in local, national, and international tournaments. Lessons for members will be held around the year, on topics such as basics, tactical sequences and combinations, exploring and building opening repertoires, strategic attacks and defenses, and endgame theory. Advanced members can focus on the hypermodernism school of chess. Meetings are casual, and members get to play friendly games with other members, in addition to the optional serious tournament preparation available for members interested in competitions.

TAS Journalism is a collaboration between Yearbook and the Blue & Gold. Yearbook is a historically significant part of high school and its crew is trained through diverse workshops to become valid journalists and photographers. The Blue and Gold is an online and print newspaper that is published regularly and is dedicated to providing a greater voice to the student body. Students who participate in this club will have the opportunity to take photographs, write articles, learn layout design, and most importantly, make an impact through journalistic media.

The TAS Law Society is a club where students can pursue their passion and interests in American law. This club gives an opportunity for students to learn about the American legal system through a series of in-depth case review/research , and eventually a mock-trial for our club members. Whether it may be through being a judge, attorney, or a member of a jury, students will gain insight into the way the law functions and is interpreted.

The TAS Red Cross Club is affiliated with the local Red Cross Society of Taiwan. TAS RC serves to raise appreciation of well-being along with awareness of the RC mission within the TAS community. Throughout the school year, we hold fundraising sales for humanitarian means, volunteer for Taiwan Sunshine’s “I Am a Hero Games” (Special Olympics), carry out homeless outreaches, and contribute to TAS food fairs. In particular, we hold Red Cross Blood Pressure Measuring and Basic Life Support License trainings for members to not only learn but apply and educate others of these meaningful and lifesaving skills. The Red Cross club is more than happy to welcome interested students to join because the more dedicated members we have, the more beneficial we are to the community. Join the Red Cross Club to gain invaluable experience and have lots of fun!

The Physics Team (despite the name) is a club for anyone passionate about not only physics, but also math, design, computer science, or even debate. Each year we receive a list of hard physics problems involving diverse topics ranging from fluid dynamics, to kinematics, to light and optics. For each problem, we conduct research, design experiments, and collect data in order to find the best answer. Oftentimes, the process takes several months from start to finish including months of refining our answer until we reach a final presentable form. At the end of the year we participate in a regional debate tournament (TYPT), where we argue the merits of our results against upwards of 20 other Taiwanese teams. Just last year one of our teams achieved gold at the competition, and our second team achieved silver. 

Teach and Reach is a service club dedicated to the spread of education and teaching of English. We work with three different local schools around Taipei to teach and promote the use of conversational English. On our outings, we provide our club members an opportunity to engage in community service through leading lesson plans and interacting with local school students.

A student-created science journal that publishes student-generated research papers while also giving students the opportunity to learn about the publication process.

Our goal is to promote the exciting scientific research taking place at TAS and in the broader scientific community through our magazine issues.  With our ever-growing coverage of scientific advances, as well as with features on scientific topics and interviews with TAS science staff, we aim to promote a deeper love of and increased creative thinking on science.  Members interested in either research, journalism, or both are welcome to join.  

The Thespian Honor Society is an international honor society at TAS that recognizes students’ passion and dedication to theater, both those who pursue the dramatic arts and those who use their knowledge of technical theater to make the drama productions possible. Even though THS is an honor society, many of its events are open to anyone who has a passion for theater. The Thespian Honor Society tries to be as inclusive as possible when it comes to prospective actors, crew, techies, or anyone who just wants to try it out. If you wish to join the Thespian Honor Society the officers will be sure to help guide you through the application process and assist you in achieving everything you need to join. THS is like a big family, and we would love for you to join.

The Toothbrush Club exists to achieve the following goals: to develop a network of TAS students to supply dental supplies to five established schools in Cambodia, and to broaden the reach of the dental supplies and maintain sustainability to the schools that are currently supported.

As a program of the National Association for Music Education, the Tri-M Music Honor Society is an international organization for high school students. It is aimed towards recognizing students for their outstanding musical achievements, rewarding them for service activities, and inspiring others to strive for excellence in music and leadership. Through 5,500 chartered chapters across the globe, the Tri-M Music Honor Society has helped thousands of students provide service through music to their local communities and raise funds for non-profit organizations. Tri-M Honor Society at TAS is focused on supporting and running TAS concerts smoothly by setting up the stage. Tri-M also hosts the Annual Tri-M Charity Concert which showcases the musical talent of TAS students through a formal concert with the proceeds donated to St. Anne’s Home.

TAS UNICEF is a humanitarian organization that serves to fight for children’s rights, survival, development, and protection. We aim to educate, advocate, and fundraise in the TAS community to save children around the globe. Throughout the year, this club will hold various fundraisers such as having lunch sales and participating in fairs. All proceeds go to the UNICEF organization.

Over the summer, 2020, our group has traveled to Dajia, a suburban district in Taichung to teach music to the students in Dong Ming Elementary school, and we also performed in NTUH (National Taiwan University Hospital). Now that summer has come to an end, our club would like to continue to fulfill the goals set for the people in the schools and hospitals. Those goals we would like to pursue include supplying musical instruments to the students in Dong Ming in order to teach them via Skype or in-person and lifting the patients’ spirits in the hospitals. Therefore, we were inspired to continue what we did over the summer, but this time to include students in our school to expose even more people (students and those we are bringing music to) to the opportunity to learn and listen to classical music.

Below are links of our performance at the NTUH hospital: https://youtu.be/WKZSjtIJzWo, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uSE9dvH4bo

Here’s a quick video showing what we did over the summer, 2020.   https://youtu.be/OSkJqx8YdTc

The club focuses on one particular event each year through which funds are raised to assist different refugee organizations. The Walk for Refugees usually takes place in May, and the club seeks officers who are willing to plan this event. 

Wish for Kids is a club that aims to fulfill the wishes of children with life threatening medical conditions. All the money we receive through donations and fundraisers is donated to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, our charity. Throughout the year, we work with the foundation (volunteer training, volunteer work, Wish Granting Ceremonies) and hold multiple fundraisers and donation drives throughout the school year to raise the amount of money needed to grant these wish cases.

World Vision is an organization dedicated to working with children, families, and communities who are struggling economically. We donate money from our bake and rose sales as well as from our food fair and spring fair each year to sponsor about 15 kids in East Asia. We also run the Sunshine Program, in which we volunteer at St. Annes Home for the disabled.

The Writers House is a collection of students who love writing and seek additional opportunities to express themselves through creative writing. Come join us in a casual setting to discuss, share or hone your writing skills!