Clubs & Leadership

Students with a love of animals plan fundraisers for local shelters, raise awareness and volunteer with various animal rescue organizations.

Delve into astrophotography, examine variable stars, track the International Space Station, and build simple telescopes. This club includes a range of outdoor activities with examinations of the night sky.

Students in this club focus on organizing the “Dog Pound" and raising spirit for various activities and games.

Students have opportunities to take part in student-led film productions, whether that be as directors, producers, writers, camera operators, production assistants, cinematographers, and gain hands-on experience with other student creatives.

This group brings together students who take great pleasure in singing.

The Bullis Black Student Union (BSU) is an organization dedicated to encouraging cultural diversity at Bullis School and strive for cross-cultural understanding and appreciation of all of our diverse histories and experiences. BSU is committed to intellectual, cultural, social and ethnic diversity. The BSU's focus is to build awareness, education, and a new level of consciousness about being an African American in today's society.

Upper School students participate in many community service projects, some of which include: serving meals to the homeless at Martha's Table, baking Thanksgiving pies and filling baskets for families in need in Montgomery County, gathering book donations for CASA of Maryland, collecting cereal for Manna Food Center, and visiting and leading craft activities with local senior citizen homes.

Selected by both students and faculty, members of CRB sit in on student disciplinary hearings with designated staff members. They are asked to render fair and impartial decisions based on the facts of a given case.

Students share information and celebrate various customs to honor the diversity that is Bullis. Members present in assemblies and provide workshop opportunities for students to discuss issues that concern them.

Students of this club learn about critical issues and celebrate customs of Asia. Members present in assemblies and broaden community awareness.

Girl Up’s mission focuses on raising awareness and funds to “support United Nations programs that help the hardest to reach girls living in places where it is hardest to be a girl.” They strive for female empowerment through supporting education, safety, and health.

Students explore the fun of improvisational work through various games and activities.

Students gather to celebrate and learn of traditional foods from a variety of cultures. Club meetings include informative sessions on the background of these traditional dishes as well as tastings.

Students compete in contests requiring rapid recall in art, history, literature, mathematics and science. Students compete against other schools and also appear on the “It’s Academic” television show.

KEEN’s mission is “to empower youth with disabilities by providing free, non-competitive one-to-one programs of exercise, fitness and fun, led by volunteer coaches.” Students volunteer their time every other Sunday. There is a selection process.

Logos is the Upper School journal of art and literature and is published annually. Submissions of poetry, prose and artwork are welcome from any student.

The Bullis Upper School Mock Trial Club provides Bullis community members who are interested in law a unique opportunity to gain mock trial experience. The club helps students in building valuable skills such as public speaking, critical thinking, and argument crafting, all while exploring trial advocacy through hands-on fictional cases!

Club members will be able to explore the diverse field of law as they will get to meet and form connections with various attorneys in the DC metro area.

The Bullis Math Club seeks to further explore the beauty of mathematics and challenges itself with problems that stretch their mathematical thinking. Each year, members participate in mathematics competitions and attend math symposiums when offered.

Students become diplomats and meet with other school delegations to discuss international relations, current events and the United Nations agenda. Participants learn how to negotiate treaties, debate issues, and present solutions.

Join other writers to craft and share out various styles of poetry, including Spoken Word.

The Prom Committee is comprised of up to six seniors and up to six juniors. This committee is responsible for planning all aspects of the Prom: the venue, the music, the caterer, the decorations, the theme, the invitations, the publicity, security, and post-prom.

Students focus on spreading kindness through surprises with a “pass-it-on” approach.

RC² provides students the opportunity to follow an interest in robotics, computer or communications by participating in Bullis' First Tech Challenge Robotics Team, learning more about computers and how they work, or exploring the world of amateur radio.

Students provide information and raise awareness through informative assembly presentations and participation in the national event of Take Back the Night.

This club brings students of various skill levels together, united by a passion for snow! The club plans trips, watches and creates skiing/snowboarding videos and establishes community.

Practice your persuasive speaking skills and take a stand on a hot topic.

This club analyzes ethics and controversy behind critical calls and issues that arise in the sports world.

Students provide literature and sponsor speakers and discussion groups to help inform students of the impact of making destructive decisions. The club also provides practical ways to combat challenges.

The goal of UNICEF Club is to help children, mainly in third world countries, gain access to education, immunizations, clean water and emergency relief through fundraising and raising awareness of their struggles in the Bullis community. Club activities include organizing fundraisers and participating in UNICEF events like Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF.

Each year our 8th grade students have the opportunity to partner with a 4th grader or two. The 8th grade students work with the 4th grade teachers to design educational and fun activities. The 4th grade students enjoy the support and friendship and the 8th grade students get hands-on leadership experience.

Do you like watching things fly through the air? Ever wonder how far into Outer Space we can really travel or what makes things go up and stay in space and other objects fall back to earth?

In this club students build vehicles to see how high, how fast or how quickly their speed changes. They also get a chance to experiment with movement and propulsion of all sorts of people and vehicles, from bikes to trains and rockets. The club will also witness a real rocket launched into space at NASA’s Wallops Island, Virginia National Test Range.

Learn American Sign Language and discover deaf culture. Students with different levels of sign language knowledge are welcome to learn basics and simple phrases.

Students will select books to read together and discuss. We also participate in other literacy projects such as reading to younger children, collecting books to donate, chat with visiting Skype authors and plan group trips to local literary events. The group is also involved in creating library contests, incentives and events for the Middle School.

All levels of Middle School students learn and compete. It's a lot of fun, learning and competition!

“It is better to debate a question without settling it, than to settle a question without debating it.” The Middle School Debate Club develops your ability to argue persuasively on current controversial issues. Whether you already enjoy discussing tough questions or you would like to improve this skill, you are welcome.

Speaking skills are as important as writing skills. Being able to argue will help you in many middle and upper school classes. Students choose each topic, divide into two sides, do some research, and argue. Other club members score the debate and decide a winner. Roles will rotate week to week. There is no homework.

This club brings together all students who share a love of horses and who would like to learn more about our equine companions. The students each trimester choose the topics of interest, from such topics as horse behavior, horse care, riding disciplines, training, tack and more.

The Middle School Diversity Club welcomes all students to meet, discuss, and have their voices heard. Through thought-provoking activities and discussions, students will explore what diversity means to a middle schooler and how diversity awareness and understanding can have a positive impact on the community. Most activities will be student-driven to create a school where all feel welcome and valued.

Students explore and learn about what it really means to be an entrepreneur. They study start-up company examples to better understand what entrepreneurs do when they have an idea for a product or service and want to bring it to market. Guest speakers share their experiences and students use teamwork to think of a new way of solving an identified problem and come up with a business plan.

Ethos, the Middle School student e-newsletter showcases current events and interesting stories from Middle School. Students determine the content and handle all reporting and writing and production to be the voice of the Middle School community and keep all students and parents up-to-date about activities, events, teachers and classes. The club also is responsible for the Middle School section of Roll Call, Bullis’ yearbook.

Everyday Technologies looks at how much of what we rely on in our everyday lives came to be: from electricity, clean water, telephone, cell phone, computer games, television, to the internet and more. Students will explore history and discuss what the future might bring, making presentations and working in groups.

Let’s get outside while the weather is good and explore the natural areas of the Bullis campus. Look for and identify flora and fauna that live on campus. When the weather changes, we’ll choose some other things to explore indoors. What we choose to explore is up to the group!

Club members explore a variety of genres and discuss literary and theatrical aspects of film.

Talk about what an entrepreneur is and learn about women who are or were very successful entrepreneurs, including Oprah Winfrey, Sheryl Sandberg, Arianna Huffington, Martha Stewart, Coco Chanel, Elizabeth Arden, and more. Learn how they got started and the characteristics that made them successful. Students also discuss the life and finance skills needed to become a successful entrepreneur.

Sixth Grade students have the opportunity to plant and cultivate a plot in the School garden. Each week the students plan, seed, weed and maintain the land. They also select the plants to cultivate from pumpkins to lettuce and tomatoes. Some of the vegetables are harvested for the Dining Hall.

Each year Bullis participates in a month-long competition around Earth Day to increase our recycling, reduce energy consumption and reuse materials. Bullis competes against area independent schools, charting energy reduction. Middle School students manage the competition and gather data on results on a weekly basis. They also create assemblies designed to change behaviors and increase awareness.

The Bullis Green club helps Bullis be a greener school. We will the School’s participation in the Green Cup Recycling Challenge, a national competition to increase environmental awareness, and set up other competitions of Blue vs. Gold inside our campus to become a green school leader by improving recycling, saving paper, reducing trash, and saving energy and money. The club also explores the natural areas on around campus to explore how to support our resident wildlife.

In turbulent economic times, financial literacy is more important than ever. Through the Investing Club, students will learn how to develop good personal finance habits and de-mystify the stock market.

Middle School Jazz Band is open to instrumentalists interested in pursuing the study of jazz music. Focusing on learning a wide range of fun music and developing improvisation skills, the club will also perform during the school year, including with the Upper School at several Bullis Jazz Cafes.

A fun time for students who love math to conquer math facts, play math games and explore math concepts.

Roleplay as delegates to the United Nations to simulate UN committees as academic competitions. Students learn about diplomacy and international relations through research, public speaking, writing, debate and critical thinking. Students also attend middle school Model UN conferences.

Ever wonder how to make a shelter or what to do if you’re caught in a thunderstorm? Outdoor Ed teaches that and more! Learn how to keep safe in the outdoors through basic wilderness first aid, how to identify edible plants, map reading and more.

Members explore geography, vocabulary and expressions, and festivals and conduct research to learn all about Spanish-speaking countries, people and their cultures.

Enhance your success in middle school (and the future!) by learning basic study and organizational skills.

Send well wishes to school community members when positive or negative events impact their lives. The club’s goal is to spread some cheer to students and staff via birthday wishes, congratulations or sympathy cards, and welcoming new students and staff.

In a digital world, many of today’s newspapers are transitioning away from the paper product or adding digital components. The Bullis Middle School paper has done that as well. Instead of a paper product, students create videos and slide shows about school events, learning filming, editing and sound techniques.