Activities & Clubs
Here you will find a complete list of HS and MS Clubs and Activities
AIS also offers students the chance to start their own HS clubs in areas that interest them. Students need only bring their ideas to Jarret Lambie, HS Principal.
For a year view of all MS and HS Athletic & Activity teams please click here.
The various clubs and activities start throughout the year. When an activity begins they will be announced in the Daily Bulletin and at MS and HS assemblies. In addition the HS has a Club & Activity Fair (during the school day) at the start of each school year where all activities are introduced.
HS Clubs & Activities
Click the name of a club or activity for more information.
Amnesty Youth
The HS Amnesty Youth Group meets regularly during the school year. We take part in letter writing and petition campaigns related to documented cases of violence in the light of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In addition, we create informational displays for the school, we organize Saturday activities for children of the refugee home “Haus Karwan” and we play with children of the refugee home “Rossauer Lände”.
For more information contact Ditas Amry and Hubert Zunzer.
Bridges of Peace and Hope
Bridges of Peace and Hope is designed to help build bridges between AIS and the Mukwashi Trust School in Zambia. Students can work together with the elementary student club to raise awareness and funds through artistic projects and events.
For more information contact Elissavet Pontikakis.
Bullet Journal Club
Learn a great way to better your self management skills, and better express yourself in a creative and fun way with friends. Engage and collaborate!
For more information contact Gabi Jendretzki.
Chess Club
We hope to accommodate all interested HS students from all skill levels from beginners to champions. Students can come as often or as rarely as they like. This is a student chess club, so the students will decide if this club will become a quiet place to play chess or a scene of competitive tournaments.
For more information contact Michael O'Shannassy.
Dance Club
Did you want to take Dance class but could not fit it into your schedule? Dance Club is open to all skill levels.
For more information contact Daya Varkonyi.
Diplomacy Club
Diplomacy is a strategic board game set in WWI Europe that allows students to solve global issues.
For information contact Stephen Patoprsty.
Entrepreneurship Club
This club allows students, through experience, to learn about starting up and trying to run a business.
Environmental Club
The Environmental Club is a High School organization open to all students and staff. The purpose of the Environmental Club is to uphold the AIS community goal of becoming a “green school” through increased awareness about protecting the environment as well as conserving and recycling resources. We identify school practices that could be modified and promote change through research and action. Accomplishments include collecting and presenting data about school printer usage, which led to printers being set to double-sided, and a campaign to reduce plastic bottle usage.
For more information contact Chrys Pappas and Ryan Carey.
G.O.A.L.
Group of Activity Leaders is a club for a select number of students who will develop their own leadership skills by promoting and celebrating activities and athletics at AIS.
For information contact Nick DeForest.
H.O.S.A.
Are you thinking about studying medicine, or are you just curious about all things medical? Join us for research and student presentations on surprising and interesting developments in the medical field.
For information contact Khadijah Mumtaz.
Habitat for Humanity
This team of enthusiastic, hands-on, service learning student volunteers works on projects to raise money and then travels the world to build homes for families in need, in conjunction with the international non-profit organization Habitat for Humanity.
Throughout the school year, the club works on creating projects and events at school to raise money to fund trips and to support the people for whom home are built. The club has a lot of fun taking the lead in events like Halloween Activity Night, waffle sales, bake sales, and other events for the Elementary and Middle School students.
For information contact Luisa Forsgren and Peter Forsgren.
HeforShe
HeforShe follows a UN initiative to support and understand the development of gender roles in a variety of cultures and contexts. From tradition to feminism, there is so much to understand and som many people to support.
For more information about contact Jennifer Lahue.
Human Writes Creative Writing Club
This club provides young and aspiring writers with fellowship, workshops and feedback of fellow peers, as well as give them a chance to discover their talent.
For more information contact Lucinda Edmunds and Jennifer Lahue.
Junior Math Team
The Junior Math Team is open to Grade 9 and 10 students interested in participating with many competition opportunities. Our Junior Math Team competes in the International Schools Mathematics Teachers Foundation Tournament (ISMTF).
For more information contact Cindy Harrison.
Knights Student Network
The Knights Student Network is an online media and journalism club. The club provides young journalists an opportunity and an outlet for their interests in writing, video, photography.
For more information contact JT Hilliard.
Knowledge Bowl
Our HS Knowledge Bowl teams compete each year in the CEESA tournaments, which pose knowledge-based questions to teams in head-to-head competition.
For more information contact Chrys Pappas.
Library Volunteer Squad
Library Volunteer Squad offers an opportunity to promote library programs, learn the ins and outs of volunteering, and collaboratively create bookish CAS projects.
For information contact Mischele Jamgochian.
Limbs Club
This club fund raises for Limbs International, who provides low cost prothetic legs for amputees in developing countries.
For information contact Elissavet Pontikakis.Madame Defarge's Tricoterie
Knitting Club is a great place to develop the medatative skills that come from knitting for yourself, or in support of others.
For more information contact Lucinda Edmunds.Mosaic Club
Mosaic Club is intended to celebrate the cultural diversity with the AIS student body. Food, holidays, curiosity: Mosaic is a metaphorical microcosm of our increasignly diverse cities and countries.
For more information contact Simmo Cheng.
NHS
The National Honor Society (NHS) is a High School student organization committed to the principles of scholarship, service, leadership, and character. While there is a minimum grade point average required for membership, the organization is much more than an honor roll. NHS provides a forum for students who have exhibited excellence and leadership to collaborate and make a difference in their community.
Because one of the four pillars of NHS is service, the AIS chapter has established projects that reach out into the local and global communities. To cover our project expenses, we hold fundraisers throughout the year. These include the famous Singing Valentines in which students and faculty can pay for NHS members to serenade their loved ones during the week before Valentine's Day.
The AIS chapter of NHS invites new members in the spring according to these selection criteria.
For more information contact Amy Carey and Ryan Carey.
Paws for a Cause
This club helps to rasie money and spend time making life better for animals in shelters.
For more information contact Cinder Merritt.
Politics Club
History class let's students build opinions about the past, politics club is for students to build opinions about the present.
For more informaiton contact: Lindsay Rowland
Robotics (HS)
The HS Robotics program builds and codes robots from scratch and competes against other schools in CEESA tournaments. The HS Robotics Team starts in October and finishes with their tournament in February.
For more information contact Kevin Healey and Christophe Ganneval.
Romanian Children's Relief
Romanian Childrens' Relief works with orphaned, disabled and disadvantaged kids in Bistrita, Romania. We fundraise, gather supplies and take a trip to Romania in the fall. Visit http://inocenti.ro/.
For more information contact Kevin Healey.
Rossauerlände Group
Students visit the refugee home in the Rossauer Ländespend and spend time playing with the children of the asylum seekers living there in an attempt to better understand their situations as unwelcome foreigners in Vienna. We try to encourage a connection with and integration between our international community and these displaced families.
For more information contact Elissavet Pontikakis.
Running and Venturing Club
Do you like adventure? How about the outdoors? If so, then think about joining the Running and Venturing Club. We do almost anything we can; running, hiking, biking, kayaking, canoeing, etc. and we do it just for fun. Venturing is a youth development program of the Boy Scouts of America for young men and women who are 13 years of age and have completed Grade 8 and under 21 years of age. The purpose of Venturing is to provide positive experiences to help young people mature and to prepare them to become responsible and caring adults.
For more information contact Peter Forsgren.
Senior Math Team
Our Senior Math Team is open to Grade 11 and 12 students interested in participating with many competition opportunities. Our Senior Math Team competes in the International Schools Mathematics Teachers Foundation Tournament (ISMTF).
For more information contact Elissavet Pontikakis.
Speech, Debate, & Acting (SDA)
Our HS Speech, Debate & Acting Team meets throughout the year and competes in the New European Speech and Debate Association (NESDA) tournament.
For more information contact Lindsay Rowland and Cinder Merritt.
Student Ambassadors
This group uses their social intelligence and empathy to facilitate school events and supports new students transitioning to AIS.
For more information contact Amy Carey and Simmo Cheng.
Student Council
A group of students elected by their peers to address issues of concern and organize student events and activities.
For more information contact Michael Chao.
Student Led MUN Club
This club will meet to discuss international events and prepare for attending one or more MUN conferences. At the conferences, students compete in an authentic simulation of the UN General Assembly and other multilateral bodies. The location of the conference may vary from year to year.
For more information about the MUN Club contact Elissavet Pontikakis and Matt Meyer.
SWAT (Students Working to Advance Technology)
SWAT is for students with interests in technology who would like to work on projects that improve the student experience.
For information about Tech Committee contact Andrew DiGiovanni.
The Knights Chronicle
The Kngihts Chronicle is an online student run school newspaper. Write, edit, and publish stoires of parituclar interest to AIS students.
For information contact JT Hilliard.
MS Clubs & Activities
Click the name of a club or activity for more information.
Digital Broadcasting - MS KSN
Our digital broadcasting activity has a main goal of broadcasting, live over the web, the SCIS and ISST tournaments that we will be hosting this year.
For more information contact Jim Ellis.
MS Honor Music
AIS is a member of AMIS (The Association for Music in International Schools). AMIS is dedicated to the promotion of excellence at all levels of music education and sponsors a variety of festivals annually, which are especially designed to benefit students in international schools in Europe and the Middle East.
Students that are taking MS/HS music classes can audition for a place in the Honor festival. There are no guaranteed places for AIS students.
Contacts;
Choir: Kathy Heedles
Band: Susan Seekirchner
Strings: Ben Detrick
More information about AMIS can be found at
http://amis-online.org/.
MS Math Team
Our MS Math Team competes in the ISMTF or the CEESA tournament. Visit http://www.ismtf.org/.
For more information contact Jim Ellis
MS Robotics
AIS has a successful MS Lego Robotics program that competes in CEESA tournaments. The MS Robotics Team starts in early September and finishes with their tournament in November.
For more information contact Mirko Jovanovic.
MS Speech and Debate
Our Middle School Speech and Debate Team competes once a year in the CEESA Speech and Debate Competition.
For more information contact Connie Miller.
Other Clubs and Activities
Click the name of a club or activity for more information.
Scouting
If you are interested in joining Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, or Girl Scouts, or need a Troop to transfer to, you are in luck.
Contact:
Boy Scout Troop 427
Tini Carmine
Scoutmaster
Cub Scout Pack 427
Tini Carmine
Cubmaster
Girl Scout Troop 84
Vanessa Vaughan
Girl Scouts Coordinator
Venturing
Do you like adventure? How about the outdoors? If so, then think about joining the Venturing Club. We do almost anything we can; hiking, biking, kayaking, canoeing, etc. and we do it just for fun. Venturing is a youth development program of the Boy Scouts of America for young men and women who are 14 years of age or 13 years of age and have completed Grade 8 and under 21 years of age. The purpose of Venturing is to provide positive experiences to help young people mature and to prepare them to become responsible and caring adults.
Contact: Peter Forsgren
