Clubs

and Alliances

A space for christian deerfield students to fellowship with each other and began/maintain their relationship with God. This is a student lead and student ran church group. Services are Sundays from 9-10:30 in the Hess 213. There is worship, a sermon, prayer, and group fellowship. Ephraim Tony Tutu leads the group as the main preacher and vocal director. Tyler Christopher Long leads prayers. Janis Zempare is the leader of the choir. Kwasi Adu-Gyamfi is the leader of the instrumentalists. The main goal of this group is to create a space for students to get closer to God and learn more about Christianity through fellowship with each other.

Deerfield’s chapter of Active Minds is dedicated to improving mental health at Deerfield and facilitating conversations about mental health, stress, and self-care. We host a “stress-less week” on the penultimate week of every term, where we have stations around campus where students can access resources to help de-stress during exam weeks.

Albany Road promotes the belief that art and literature are vital to sustaining vibrant and visionary expression for all. Our mission is to offer a space for student writers and artists to showcase their craft in ways that foster original thought and insight for our community and beyond. We sustain this mission through publishing, at least three times an academic year, Albany Road, the literary and arts magazine of Deerfield Academy; the hosting of coffee houses; and a governing student board that hosts events celebrating extraordinary achievement in the literary and visual arts.

The Baking Club hopes to provide space for students to explore their love of baking and be able to do it together. The club began last year as we coordinated with the faculty advisors to provide kitchen space for students to bake. The goals of this club are simple: they allow students to have fun and come together to share a common interest (and food, of course!).

Deerfield’s leading fashion publication, fully student run! Bring in fashion ideas from the valley and beyond.

Deerfield Classics literary and linguistics journal Calliope allows students to publish their work and share it with peers for the benefit of our collective community. We welcome submissions from students of all grades, levels, and interests.

Deerfield Chess Club is an engaging club that aims to introduce the ancient game of chess to the Deerfield community and beyond. We keep it casual with weekly lessons and monthly tournaments for students who like playing chess with a bit of a competitive edge. We want to offer students a relaxed opportunity to learn about and play chess through fun activities such as Chess and Cookies and blitz tournaments. Deerfield Chess Club promotes critical thinking, sportsmanship, and new friendships. We welcome everyone regardless of experience level!

The Deerfield Classics Club hosts meetings for students with interests in the language, history, and culture of ancient Roman and Greek civilizations. We host meetings and competitions called “certamina.” We also can register to take teams to certamina that are hosted at Princeton, Harvard, and Yale.

We accept students of varying experience who are interested in learning/practicing anything from basic algorithm learning all the way up to ACSL and USACO competition preparation. We host weekly meetings, coffee houses, and talks where an assigned presenter researches and presents an interesting topic of their choice. Our themes span from Artificial Intelligence, Big Data Analysis, Data Structures and Algorithms, and much more. We will also help students learn new languages and try implementing them in programs such as Jupyter Notebook, PyCharm, VSCode, Codeforces, and much more.

The goal for DA Manis is to be a calming and laid-back club. We want everyone of all genders and ages to feel comfortable in their own skin, even if that means starting first with their nails.

DA Manis is a free service for people who want to get their nails done before big events or those who want to relax before or after a big test.

As we progress to another year of dances and musical events, we had the idea of compiling a survey that included possible requests for songs to be played at these dances and events. Not only would this diversify the types of music played at these events, but it would make the environment more inclusive as well. 

The students involved in the Deerfield Academy Beekeeping Club meet regularly in the fall and spring, and less frequently in the winter. Students maintain the hives with the help of Deerfield Academy employees. Our club is also supported by local beekeepers, and the DApiary is registered with the Franklin County Beekeepers Association and the Massachusetts Beekeepers Association.

We are a magazine that has been running for three years now. Our work focuses on culinary topics, including articles, interviews, recipes, and student polls. 

Bring awareness and action to environmental issues in the Deerfield community and beyond.

Our goal as a club is to give Deerfield students the opportunity to try their hands at the fantastic hobby that is fly fishing. We hope to inspire the same love that we hold for fly fishing into members no matter their level of experience! (We also are hoping to facilitate any kind of fishing that a student or faculty would like to try)

The Focal Point Magazine is a student-run magazine aimed at promoting the campus community’s interest in STEM(Science, Technology, Economics, Mathematics). We want to make some of the newest and most exciting news from the science field accessible for the DA community. In the past, our writers have been creative and enthusiastic, and our content has ranged from the black hole to Chinese medicine to personal internship experiences.

This club is a space for people to get their hair cut and/or braided by deerfield students, or learn how to cut and or braid hair also by Deerfield students.

We want to bring together a group of students who share the same love for the outdoors and hiking and hike all around the Valley on weekends.

The Improv Club aims to bring theater to the wider Deerfield community. We plan to meet every other Friday night in the Acting Lab, and people can stop by for as little or as long as they’d like. No need to officially sign up if you want to pop in either. It’s a great way to meet new people, feel free to be yourself, and maybe even get better at improv! We hope to have a few games in mind to play each night, but we’d love suggestions too–and you can choose to either play or just watch!

Investment Club strives to help students understand the mechanics of investing in the market. In the investment club, we learn topics such as macroeconomics that help create an investor mindset. We welcome members of all investing abilities and host activities to introduce new investors to the stock market, such as the MarketWatch virtual investing game. Those familiar with investing are welcome to join the Securities and Analysis club, where we will manage 15k dollars in the NYSE. We will have monthly pitches and will vote on which stocks to purchase.

The Malala Fund at Deerfield works to highlight the importance of girls’ education to the Deerfield community and beyond through fun activities on the International Day of the Girl and Women’s History Month, as well as infographic posts about girls’ issues on their Instagram account @malalafundda.

Deerfield Academy Math Club shares the beauty and fun of mathematics with the Deerfield community. We organize various activities, from seminars to practices, every week. Our math team competes in local and national competitions like WMML (Western Massachusetts Math League), NEML (New England Math League), HMMT (Harvard-MIT Math Tournament), PUMaC (Princeton University Mathematics Competition), etc. Most notably, we organize the annual DMC (Deerfield Math Competition) in the spring, welcoming middle school students around the region to compete at Deerfield.

In the MUN club at Deerfield, we prep students for MUN conferences at various universities. MUN is a mock version of the United Nations, and students work to represent different countries and solve real-world international issues. While working with delegates from around the world, MUN teaches participants research, public speaking, debating, and writing skills. We also aim to help students with their critical thinking, teamwork, and leadership skills.

OneLove teaches about healthy and unhealthy relationships, whether platonic or romantic. We want to help the Deerfield community learn to love better, spot toxic signs in their relationships, and/or encourage healthy signs in peers.

The goal of the philosophy club is to present the beauty and wisdom of philosophy to the Deerfield community. We organize a variety of activities, such as holding seminars and guest lectures and organizing on-campus or off-campus trips while discussing philosophy. It is.a great place to learn about everything ranging from the thoughts of Ancient Greeks to the more modern philosophical concepts and groups.

Our goal for this club is to invite people to have a fun time playing paddle tennis and hopefully organize weekend events like tournaments or get togethers.

We provide an opportunity for students to learn coding, engineering, and how to build robots. This is especially helpful for those who want to try out robotics for the first time, learn the fundamentals before joining the team, or who have cocurricular conflicts but still want to participate in robotics. People of all experience levels are welcome!

Science club is oriented towards a more enriching experience with science on top of what students learn in classrooms. For the Science Club, we will focus on two main competitions: the Science Olympiad and the Science Bowl. Science Olympiad is a competition with 23 events, and groups of two can compete in each event. These events vary from Disease Detectives to Circuit Lab to Codebusters. Science Bowl is a jeopardy-like competition, where Deerfield can bring a team of 5 to regionals to compete for a spot at Nationals. We hope to have 2 Science Bowl teams this year to encourage more students to study and compete. Meetings will consist of practice for the Science Olympiad and the Science Bowl. Furthermore, we wish to have opportunities for guest speakers to talk about their work and research, providing students with insight into a more practical side of science. Finally, we will help students study and sign up for individual olympiads, including USABO (Biology Olympiad), USNCO (Chemistry Olympiad), and USAPHO (Physics Olympiad).

The Scrawl is Deerfield’s satirical newspaper, offering a little humor to your day and bringing light to some issues we feel strongly about. Being well-informed about school and national and international issues is an important part of being a citizen in the community. We support that notion fully and try to keep you informed in the only way we know how: through humor. Mary O’Hara, a writer for BBC, wrote that, “Humour is a great way for us to have evolved so we don’t have to hit each other with sticks,” and we completely agree. In a world where tensions are on the rise, humor allows us to release emotions we would not otherwise be able to let out. At the Scrawl, we have the unique ability to ease some of the stress surrounding the issues we care most about. You may not be used to hearing your news in the form of memes and jokes, but we hope you enjoy it more this way.

Ya Hala aims to be a platform for Arabic language education at Deerfield. The club will host numerous activities related to the Arabic language and Arabic culture, including but not limited to calligraphy workshops, dialogue with King’s Academy students, words of the week at sit-downs, and food or tea events in the foyer. Students with no experience with the language are welcome to join with numerous events involving no previous Arabic knowledge required. There will also be a segment of the club dedicated to Arabic learners that can connect in Arabic with King’s Academy students in interviews or discussions about culture. The goal of the club is to generate interest in the Arabic language, culture, and the Arabic program at Deerfield Academy. In the future, working with other schools on creating interest in the Arabic language and community work with local schools will be an opportunity as well.

The Pocumtuck is Deerfield Academy’s yearbook. Each yearbook is a collection of some of the most memorable moments of students’ Deerfield careers, eternalized. Creating the yearbook is a complex process that involves creating ideas for pages, creating layouts, making sure students are represented equally, taking photographs, and more. This year, our goal is to involve as many members of the Deerfield community as we can in the creation of the yearbook. Knowing that many people from the Deerfield community helped to create the yearbook will make it all the more special.