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HFI Student Clubs 2016


Club Name   Introduction
Mathematical Modeling Club Our club focuses on helping students learn the knowledge about mathematical modeling and apply it to the practice through lectures, related courses and discussions. This also helps students gain the ability to do teamwork. We will organize students to take part in the High School Mathematical Contest in Modeling (HiMCM) and other mathematical modeling competitions and give them some guidances. We will also cooperate with other clubs in some mathematical modeling projects.
three dimensional modeling club 3D modeling club dedicates to learn the usage of 3D software named Solidworks and tries to build many different kinds of models on the computer. We intended to design our own products and print it out through 3D printing machine. Nowadays, 3D modeling involves in numerous fields, such as medical devices, tooling design, toys design, mechanical engineering, electric engineering, material engineering and rockets and cars design etc. Three dimensional modeling is an indispensible part in many fields and our club really wants to recruit people who are curious for 3D modeling to learn and discuss.
ACG Club HFI ACG Club is a student-run school club where students interested in Anime, Manga, and Games come together and form their small community. There are approximately thirty active members in the club, all allocated in different sections that focus on drawing, music, model, commentary, and other subjects related to anime, manga, and games. ACG club holds activities related to the member’s interests while the club also cooperates with other clubs occasionally. The club aims at helping the club members effectively combine their academic life with their interests in anime/manga/games, helping them develop their knowledge in the aforementioned areas into more useful and possibly professional skills. 
Archive Patronage We are a group of aspiring teenagers with zealous and sincere hearts, helping others selflessly. Despite the tradition donation of books to the remote areas, we also furthers our plan: we will cooperate with other clubs in HFI, including U Library’s recycling of text books, donating books in rewards of cuisine clubs’ little cakes and donating the profits’ of Fashionists post cards. What’s more, we will also contact near hospital or recovering center to help those children with infantile autism, and we will hold environmental lecture. All in all, we dedicate our vigor to things that are helpful and meaningful to our society. 
COMPREHENSIVE LEARNING & ACTIVITIES PLAFTFORM ——C.L.A.P. Club is the organizer of The Voice of HFI, Lantern Festival Party and other activities. C.L.A.P. was founded in September, 2011 in order to make HFIer’s life more colorful by organizing diverse activities.
Finart Inspirationcrashcreation. As a club that has only founded for a year, we are young.As the only art club in our school, we are longing for more.We talk about art wherever we are: from Lascaux cave to pop art, from colors to touch, from eyes to hands. We try our best to understand what art is, and we feel pleased that art can never be understood.Beginning with stop motion animation, we hope to make art a part of your passionate and aspiring life.We are finarters.
HFI UNER UNER is a platform for students who want to participate in volunteering activities authorized by United Nation Emergency Relief Center in China. Our main activities include: -Lectures on emergency treatment;-Cooperation with UNER China and several volunteering activities;-Cooperation with other HFI clubs;-Field studies and researches.
Mixes Mixes, a dance club which covers a wide field of dance, developed in diversification of dance.
S.A.KIE Street Dance Crew S.A.KIE Street Dance Crew was established in 2011 and is the one of the oldest clubs in our school. Our crew focuses on street dance. Now we have developed a mature system, including several departments of Hiphop, Locking, Jazz, Breaking, and Kpop. We intend to offer a chance for students who love street-dance to show their ability and meet like-minded people. At the same time, we believe that we can prosper street dance performance and pop culture in our campus and community. We participate actively in all important events in our school, such as VOICE, Christmas Show, and the International Day. Also, most of green hands get a huge development after one-year training in S.A.KIE. 
TEDxHFI TED×HFI is a warm-hearted team, the members of which are all active thinkers with thousands of amazing ideas. We built this platform to exchange knowledge, share experience, and stimulate thoughts collision. In the past year, we held a lot of high-quality TEDx talks, included talks related to the Big Data, LGBT, Russian literature, critical thinking, electronic sports, the unique experience of cycling across Vietnam, and so on. Our audience and speakers together explored various exciting new areas and thought-provoking topics which they may have not thought of before in these speeches. 
URTeacher URTeacher devotes to improve the sharing of knowledge outside classes in HFI. We provide a platform for open classes to club members who want to share their experience and knowledge without constraints on the topics and formats. At the same time, other club members provide the speaker with support in advertising, organizing, promoting and giving feedback on the open classes. Established in September 2015, URTeacher has successfully organized many open classes that not only help club members build up their influence and show their interests but also help non-members who attend those classes gain useful or interesting knowledge.
VOICE VOICE Club is the official school magazine publisher in HFI. Publishing two issues per year, VOICE Magazine records coverage of recent school and club activities, and interviews the talented teachers and students. It also contains film and music reviews and other types of articles written by students. VOICE is an honored campus magazine greatly recognized by students, teachers and parents. Members of the VOICE Club are responsible for the whole process, from the initial palnning to the final publication. What’s more, VOICE recruits eight to ten new members every year, the process of which is highly selective. However, those who passed the assessment may still be eliminated from the club if they are lack of responsibilities and abilities.
Cat. Advocacy. Team.(C.A.T) HFI Cat Advocacy Team (A,K.A. C.A.T.) , based on the principle of community service, devote ourselves to providing foods, shelters, and necessary medical care for stray cats in the neighborhood. Meanwhile, C.A.T. plays the role of intermediate for stray cats, looking for suitable foster families for them. The heart of C.A.T. is cats, but we never deviate ourselves from people. We take creating  the harmony between people and cats as one of our missions while we certainly feel sincerely thrilled seeing more and more students begin to love cats in HFI. As an entirely student-operated club, our major financial sources are annual charity fair and donation from students, faculty, and society. C.A.T.’s major public platform is our WeChat official account, including information of foster announcement, activities notifications, fun stories of cats, etc. Since the establishment of C.A.T. in 2013, the club continues to enlarge and enrich. Looking into the future, we hope for  old and new members of C.A.T. working together and enriching each other towards our goals and missions.
HFI Programming HFI Programming is the most tech-oriented club, because we believe technology can challenge the status quo most drastically. Creating the HFI information sharing platform NoticeBoard, adding the live comment system to the Christmas party, providing the used books sale system, and assisting in improving the school network, HFI Programming never worships technology but devotes to improve HFIers’ life quality by its strength. We are not mad coders, but life hackers. “Talk is cheap, show me the code.”
Debate Club HFI Debate Club is the only debate organization in HFI, with experience of holding the 2014 and 2015 HFI Public Forum Debate Competition and the 2016 HFI interscholastic Public Forum Debate Competition. Every year, HFI Debate Club sends out several teams to attend the NHSDLC Public Forum Debate Competition all over China. HFI Debate Team focuses on international and social hotspots as debate topics, such as patent, military intervention, carbon tax, urbanization and so on.
Geography Club We study Geography. Our researching subjects include hydrology, landscapes, weather, which mostly encompass everything about Earth. Our club is definitely a serious and academic club.
the Movie Club This movie club is a place where students and teachers alike can gather together to reflect and critique on some of the greatest movies ever made! Starting off, we are holding a movie marathon of a variety of movies from a plethora of genres. Following this, a short movie contest will be held encouraging all students to write a script and shoot whatever they want, whether it be a documentary or a stop-motion animation. The underlying academic gain of participating in a movie club is the opportunity for students to improve their ability in analysis and listening. Specifically, students will gain a more advanced comprehension and understanding of how different individuals of different backgrounds respond to plot development, character motivations, narrative techniques, different genres, and other stylistic elements by cross referencing questionnaires and movie reviews in group 
finance club Affiliated High School of South China Normal University. Originally, the club was founded by Tingyi Zhou in 2012, November. At its second year, 2013, the club merged with HFI Economic Club, bringing more active members into the case. It now has an experienced instructing teacher from HFI Academic Department—Mr. Wilson, and contains 40 students from different grades in HFI. Department—Mr. Wilson, and contains 40 students from different grades in HFI. HFC weekly holds intramural activities for all the students in HFI and organizes activities outside the school with other high schools in Guangdong. Students are responsible for organizing all the activities
Mad Scientists Mad Scientists is one of the oldest clubs in our school, but one of clubs which have most members. MS has good reputation among many students and teachers in past few years. In the new school term, MS will hold the lectures (lectures will cover many subjects like chemistry, physics, biology, math, IT, etc). Presidents will try to make contact with people who take responsibility for labs from other university to get the opportunity to hold experiment. All in all, MS will hold everything which relate to science.
HFIMagicism  HFIMagicism is established because our fondness of Magic. Magic is an art, but many people don’t have the chance to appreciate it. Magic club provides the opportunity for students to learn about the art, and share the wonder of magic with people.
HFIPhotos  HFIPHOTOS, one of the most active clubs in HFI, consists of numerous photograph lovers. HFIPHOTOS organizes photograph activities for at least five times a year and provides club members with photography lessons. What’s more, HFIPHOTOS is the sponsor of the Guangdong Middle School Photograph Tournament and has successfully held up two tournaments in 2015 and 2016. HFIPHOTOS is not only a club for members to learn and practice photograph skills, but also a stage for them to broaden horizons, improve organization skills, and receive invaluable experiences. 
BIOLIFE BIOLIFE club tries to offer a platform to help the students to process a deeper conversation and discussion about biology and provide variety of out-school activities to increase students’ interest in biology. The club focuses mainly on the lecture held by professionals and students while takes out-door activities as supplements. During the process, instead of restraining the knowledge within the class, we want to increase students’ cognizance about biology through conversing with professionals, enrich the after-school life and improve hands-on skills via activities.
Fashionists Fashionists club is a student-run club in the International Department of The Affiliated High School of the South China Normal University. There are currently 30 members in the club. Fashionists club was found in August 2015. The club mainly focuses on fashion, specifically designing clothes, creating accessories, and organizing fashion shows. The club aims at deepening students’ understanding of fashion and offers a platform for those who love design and fashion. 
HFI Astronomy Association  HFI Astronomy Association--home for amateur astronomers in HFI. HAA regularly posts celestial phenomenon forecasts, observation tricks and club activities on the Wechat Public Platform, and irregularly holds lectures on related topics in school. Before the provincial and national astronomy Olympiad in November and March, we offer study groups to help members achieve what they aim for. In addition, during great astronomical events like meteor shower or lunar eclipse, we will hold observation activities, either on campus or off campus, with Hua Fu Astronomy Association and other local astronomy unions. Our goal is to help everyone recognize the splendor of night sky despite being overwhelmed by artificial light of downtown Guangzhou.
HFI Badminton Club HFI BADMINTON CLUB intends to provide a stage for badminton lovers to practice, meet friends with the same interest and organize badminton competitions. From 2014 to present, we’ve hold many activities include “Guangdong Province Interscholastic Badminton Tournament” and several intramural badminton games. We believe our club can work as a unity to spread the spirits of badminton and essence of sports to the more and more people.
HFI Soccer Club HFI Soccer Club is founded for those who love soccer. This club provides necessary training and an arena for improvement to students. We love soccer as our faith. 
EAC EAC is a platform for HFI students and clubs to show their talents and works. Also it a bridge between HFI students and students of other schools. In this school year, EAC is trying to run a new charity program with other schools. This program can not only build a better connection between schools but also make contribution to the society. It also provides opportunities for clubs to show themselves out of school.
HFI Muse HFI Muse is consisted of two departments: the Department of Performance and Planning Division. Performance Department is responsible for musical performances and planning while the planning department is responsible for matters relating to other schools as well as community outreach activities planned.
HFI    TV (English Introduction for our club)HFI TV is a club which aims to record our campus life, and brings pleasure to all HFI teachers and students to help them relax from their everyday busy work. Our major activities include the followings: 1. Interview with HFI teachers from unique and intriguing perspectives (videos of the interview will be uploaded onto social media including Tencent, Youtube, etc.); 2. Production of the propaganda film for HFI; 3. Recording videos of activities of different clubs in HFI; 4. Recording videos of large-scale school activities in HFI (e.g. The Voice, the X-mas Party, the Halloween Party, International Day, etc.).
Music Bazar Music Bazar seek to breaks barriers between lovers of different music school, to invite music listener to unexplored realm of music, to provide them opportunity to share their favorites, and to create a community of music lover who share and appreciate music together.
A Cappella club A Cappella club is a club which focuses on vocal music for performing as multiple instruments. People who like singing or would like to improving singing skills are expected to enter out club. By finding out problems of the singing skills of club members in normal rehearsal, we will put much effort on improving them. Normally we participate in some activities in school as special performer, and we hope we can gain the opportunity to perform or compete outside of school. 
The main activity of our club The main activity of our club is to practice "The Roots" family investigation project. This project is an activity to investigate the history of a single family or a small community by interviewing, videotaping, voice recording and organizing different information. Our team has already had gathered information and presented to different communities for a year. The main purpose of our club is to imprint the memory about their own family history and cultural history in Chinese teenagers' minds, even if most of our members tend to go abroad to seek higher education. We hope that our generation would not hold their cultural pride, their "roots," wherever they go in the future. 
Kungfu club As the representative traditional Chinese culture, Kungfu is worth for students to learn. Kungfu club now has been found for three years. It was established in 2013 by Zoela, who was graduated in 2015. Kungfu is the best way for students to exercise their body and cultivate a healthy life style. Every week, students can learn the basic knowledge about Chinese Kungfu in order that they can spread the traditional culture effectively. In order to create an efficient way to study and comprehend the Kungfu, we invite a famous coach – Zhangyi, who is the founder of Kungfu institution of Guangzhou Sport university, mastering every kind of Chinese Kungfu. Under his instruction, our previous members have already mastered spear, Tai Chi, boxing and so on. 
MUN The HFI MUN is mainly responsible for the organization of MUN activities in HFI, including lectures and model MUN conference. We hope through our activities, students interested in MUN, public relations and social science can have a chance to express their opinions and distinguish themselves from the crowd. While holding MUN activities, the MUN club will also combine various topics and forms of activity, enhancing its diversity and digging up the true essence of MUN activity. 
HFIcuisine Cuisine club shows the enthusiasm that we have in cooking and shares our happiness to everyone. It  has two position— selling and cooking.  We will sell our home-made food every Monday and teach our members how to make delicious desserts.
FIND F.I.N.D. Club focuses on inquiring into the heated issues in the society and topics relevant to campus life. In this year, the club members will divide the investigative process into four parts—researching on the topic investigated, investigating the issue by different means, doing statistics and analyzing the data, and publishing the result. The first part requires every club member to do research on the topic that we will investigate and thus have a broad understanding of the issue. The second part requires members to use choose the optimal method among different investigative means to carry out an investigation on the issue. The third part practices students’ ability to do statistics, analyze the data, and find the answer to the question proposed at first; students can also gain an insight into this issue after analyzing the statistical result. The fourth part is to publish our results on WeChat; we may also write the investigative report in English, depending on the members’ ability. Throughout the whole investigative process, members have chance to practice different abilities and accumulate valuable experience. 
American Football Club AFC (American Football Club) is a sport club set up by Zhehao Yang in 2013. All the members in the club compose an American Football team named Crows. Inside the school, we hammer at the expansion and dissemination of American Football, the popularization of American sports culture, and the enrichment of students' extracurricular life. Also, to promote the communication between teachers and students, we are lucky to invite Mr.Wilson and Mr.Bell to take part in our inner competition and give us instruction. Outside the school, Crows has joint the Guangzhou American Football Association(GAFA), organizing and participating in inter-school competitions with Hengfu High School, Guangdong Experimental High School, No.7 High School and so on. We believe that Crows will be stronger in many aspects with the participation of new players. 
HFI U Library HFI U Library club is student-run club in the International Department of the Affiliated High School of South China Normal University. Originally, the club was founded by Hongru Luo in 2011, November.U Library holds annual activities for all the students in HFI and organizes activities outside the school with other primary schools in Guangdong. Students are responsible for organizing all the activities.
  Club objectives
- HFI U Library club aims to help HFI students to build and manage a public library, as well as the annual book sale, provide students with varied kinds of books such as textbook, test practice books, fiction novels, etc. Additionally, other kinds of services and activities are held regularly for all the HFI students. 
HFI Robotics HFI Robotics club is founded by members of the school’s robotics competition team. However, different to the competitive nature of robotics team , HFI robotics club aims to provide a platform for robot lovers to learn and explore the field of robotics together. Therefore, all students, including those who are not part of the team, are welcomed to join the club. Club activities will be organized around the goal of exploring the field of robotics. One of the activities we are organizing is discussion session with specific topics; Some of the likely topics are using computer-aided designs in robot designing, applying design cycle in the building robots, and the use of feedback control loops in controlling robot movements. We could organize lectures since members of our competition team have plenty knowledge and experience to share about working on robots. However, we believe there are also a lot to learn from other robot lovers, and group discussion session could maximize our learning from each other.
Giver The purpose of starting Giver Club is to create a platform where we can interact with the community around us, and give our help to the society. We hope to make volunteer activities a part of the students’ lives through the form of this club. From taking part in volunteer activities to organizing these activities ourselves, we hope to exercise the creativity and leadership of our club members. There are many ways to help others and give back to the society around us. The activities can be as simple as walking a few steps to the neighborhood and picking up the trash, or as significant as travelling hundreds of miles by car to teach in remote areas. The opportunity to help is all around us. Sometimes, a few friends with the same interest is all you need to add pleasure to your volunteering life.
hfi A.I. Artificial intelligence, which has developed rapidly in recent years, is promoting the revolution of information technology and has become the new field for the future global economic governance.  HFI artificial intelligence club is committed to reunion the students who share interest in artificial intelligence and enables them to learn the latest trend of the development of artificial intelligence.   Artificial intelligence will change the lives of modern people enormously, for domains like mobile intelligent terminals, driverless cars, unmanned aircraft, intelligent medical diagnostic, intelligent household are inseparable from it. It is a typical subject of STEMScience Technology Engineering Math education and a combination of many subjects such as science, engineering, technology and math. HFI artificial intelligence club aims to promote students' interests in the field of STEM and capacities such as team spirit, leadership and problem solving skills through mutual understanding, learning, and participating in the activities related to artificial intelligence. AI club is an innovative group in which students can learn programming, design, engineering, speech and image recognition technology, participate in some scientific projects of artificial intelligence.
   OXA OXA club is an orchestra the offers a platform for all students who love playing musical instruments. We can help students to process a deeper conversation with not only the members of the orchestra, but also with music itself. The main activities of our club involves practice once a week, attend performance at school, and also take part in a variety of out-school activities. During the process, we can not only practice cooperation, but also increase students’ understanding about music through conversing with members in the orchestra.
Social Observation and Study SOS focuses on organizing students who are interested in social science to do research, show themselves and make friends with the ones who have felt the same responsibility for the society as well. We mainly focus on: environmental stewardship, economic development, globalization, social equality, education, arts and culture, technology, health and safe. By encouraging HFI students to step out of their daily-life, think about the big picture and ask the right questions, HTB hopes to inspire participants to come up with innovative and actionable local solutions for global problems.
College Reception Team This team emphasizes student autonomy, with assistance from the college counseling department.1. College Reception. As exemplars of HFI students, members serve as school ambassadors and guide visiting officers from overseas colleges and universities. 2. Campus tour guide. Members design campus tours and introduce the school to prospective students and parents. 3.. College info sharing. To promote the general student body’s interest and understanding of global universities, team members deliver effective information and guidance on different types of universities. The team serves as the connecting bridge between universities and HFI.