Student Activities
Panther Clubs and Activites
ACADEMIC TEAM, Kelly McGrath-Malahy, kmcgrath@putnamcityschools.org
Academic Team provides students the opportunity to take the information they have learned in the
classroom and compete against other schools in a fast paced academic quiz bowl format. Topics range
from against subjects to pop culture, and general knowledge questions.The Team competes during the
year and practices every Wednesday in the College Office.
ANIME CLUB-Mary Mendus mmendus@putnamcityschools.org
Purpose of the club is to read, watch, and enjoy anime and to spark and interest in different
cultures at PCN.
ART CLUB-Vanessa Lango, vlango@putnamcityschools.org
Art Club offers students an extended and enriched visual art program that is open to every student.
$5 fee allows you to attend field trips and be part of a creative team.
BPA, BUSINESS PROFESSIONALS OF AMERICA
Katy Powers, kpowers@putnamcityschools.org
Business Professionals of America has the ability to enhance student participation in professional,
civic, service and social endeavors. Through BPA, members learn how to go from student to
professional in knowledge, skill and ability.
BLACK STUDENT ALLIANCE-Marie Paige and Christine Cooper, ccooper@putnamcityschools.org
The Black Student Alliance cultivates African-American culture for the benefit of all students to
promote cultural education, provide academic and social services, and provides activities that
relate to meeting students’ intellectual needs to. BSA also establishes unity and communication
within the PCN student body, as well as the African-American community. Meetings will be held
monthly in the Little Theatre.
CREATIVE WRITING CLUB-Kristi Romine, kromine@putnamcityschools.org
The Creative Writing Club meets every other Thursday and consists of students who want to write.
There are no dues; members engage in a number of different fun writing activities. Members may suggest writing prompts, share writing with others (but are never forced to), and support each others efforts.
DECA-Marie Page, mpage@putnamcityschools.org
DECA is an association of marketing students that prepares emerging leaders and entrepreneurs in
marketing, finance, hospitality, and management.
DRAMA CLUB-Lisa Hamilton, lhamilton@putnamcityschools.org
Drama Club provides an opportunity for all interested Putnam City North High School students to
participate in theater related activities throughout the school year, while providing and promoting
a healthy learning environment where students can explore and master the theatrical arts. Students
do not have to be enrolled in theatre to participate.
ECO, Kenda Kirby, kkirby@putnamcityschools.org and Azure Lutz, alutz@putnamcityschools.org
Dedicated to raising awareness about the environmental impacts within our community.
Esports, Joseph Vucic, jvucic@putnamcityschools.org
E-Sports turns online gaming and console gaming into a spectator sport. As with traditional sports,
these games are broken down into competitive leagues and tournaments for people to compete against
each other in either solo or in team events. Get in the game and come join the E-Sports team.
FCCLA
Amanda Davis, adavis@putnamcityschools.org andTyra Roberts, troberts@putnamcityschools.org
Family, Career and Community Leaders of America, or FCCLA, is a nonprofit national vocational
student organization for young men and women in family and consumer sciences education. FCCLA members make a difference in their families, careers and communities by addressing important personal, work and societal issues through family and consumer sciences
education.
FRENCH CLUB-Hank Roberts, hroberts@putnamcityschools.org
French Club serves to promote the cultures of the Francophone world through social gatherings that
provide an array of activities such as culture presentations, skits, games, videos, holiday
celebrations, field trips and service learning opportunities.
HISPANIC HERITAGE CLUB-Mollie Brue, mbrue@putnamcityschools.org
Promotes Hispanic and Latin culture and offers insight into multicultural events.
HOSA-Christin Jantz, cjantz@putnamcityschools.org
Health Occupation Students of America is to enhance the delivery of compassionate, quality health
care by providing opportunities for knowledge, skill and leadership development of all health
science technology education students, therefore, helping students to meet the needs of the health
care community.
INTERNATIONAL THESPIAN SOCIETY (ITS)
Lisa Hamilton, lhamilton@putnamcityschools.org and Gil Guptill, gguptill@putnamcityschools.org
The International Thespian Society is an honor society for high school and middle school theatre
students. It is a division of the Educational Theatre Association. Thespian troupes serve students
in grades 9-12; Junior Thespian troupes serve students in grades 6 through 8. A few famous ITS
alumni include Tom Hanks, Val Kilmer, James Marsters, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Stephen Schwartz.
Festival are held annually at the district, state and national levels. Each June the International
Thespian Festival is held at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Membership currently stands at
approximately 100,00 student members across 4,700 schools. The one millionth Thespian was inducted
in 1976 and the two millionth Thespian was inducted in 2009. As of 2017, there have been over 2.3
million Thespian inducted.
KEY CLUB-Melody Adams, melodya@putnamcityschools.org
Key Club serves the community through volunteer work in many different areas.
Dear PCN Key Club Parent: We feel it is important to inform you that Key Club is sponsored by the
Mayfair Kiwanis Club of Oklahoma City according to the Club’s Bylaws. While PCN teachers support
the club, they attend activities directly sponsored by the PCN Chapter of Key Club, like the PCN
Key Club Social at the end of the month. There are numerous community-wide activities in which any
student may opt to participate, walk-a-thons, for example, that are sponsored by other agencies. We
encourage students to participate in many community service activities and wanted to apprise you
that sponsors may not be present at every event so that you and your student can make informed
choices about attendance. These teachers have been asked to volunteer their time and are not liable
in any way because they were not present in a non-chapter sponsored activity.
LINK CREW-Margaret Leftwich, mleftwich@putnamcityschools.org
Link Crew provides a mentorship program for the incoming freshman. This organization allows juniors
and seniors to closely mentor freshman throughout the year.
NATIONAL SPEECH AND DEBATE ASSOCIATION-Lisa Hamilton, lhamilton@putnamcityschools.org
The National Speech and Debate organization believes that all students should be empowered to
become effective communicators, ethical individuals, critical thinkers, and leaders in a democratic
society. We exist to promote secondary school speech and debate activities and interscholastic
competition as a means to develop a student’s life long skills and values and to increase the
public’s awareness of the value of speech, debate and communication education.
NATIVE AMERICAN CLUB-Becky Gault, bgault@putanmcityschools.org
Providing learning opportunities for the native American students Providing a support system and
networking opportunities in the community.
NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY- Sarah Wylie, sarahw@putnamcityschools.org
A national society recognizing students with a 3.5 GPA with emphasis upon character, knowledge, and
volunteerism in the local school and community. You must be a Jr. with a weighted 3.5 GPA and no
U’s in conduct to be invited. Invitation is only offered once.
PSYCHOLOGY CLUB-Brook Fonzi, bfonzi@putnamcityschools.org
Purpose: to further our knowledge of the broad field of psychology through experiments and surveys
PUP CLUB-Michelle Hopper, mhopper@putnamcityschools.org
Pup club is an organization for students who share of love of dogs, and a heart for dog rescue. Pup
club regularly meets to volunteer with different animal rescue non-profit organizations and bring
attention to dog adoption and rescue. Dues are $5.
SIGMA CHI IOTA, SCIENCE CLUB
Sam Hendrix and Kelly Malahy, Shendrix@putnamcityschoos.org
Science club promotes science and engineering principles through activities, field trips and
competitions. All students are welcome.
SPANISH CLUB
Michelle Hopper, mhopper@putnamcityschools.org
The purpose of Spanish Club will be to promote and encourage students’ interest in the study of the
Spanish language and the different cultures who speak Spanish through club activities by student
participation.
SPECTRUM
Aaron Baker, abaker@putnamcityschools.org
Devoted to internal improvement, service, discussion and the passive combat of discrimination and
also to promote toleration and appreciation of all lifestyles and cultures.
SUN, STUDENT COUNCIL
Margaret Leftwich, mleftwich@putnamcityschools.org
S.U.N. is Putnam City North High School’s form of student government, standing for Students United
of North. It is a school wide organization consisting of the leadership of 14 officers with student
representatives from each grade. Together, SUN organizes school wide events including, but not limited to, school dances, p p assemblies, the talent show, blacklight shows, and Heisman week.
TABLETOP ROLEPLAYING GROUP
Kim Francis and Sam Hendrix, wfrancis@putnamcityschools.org
Tabletop Roleplaying Group is promote the creativity and imagination of PCN students, as well as
develop social and interaction skills with others through tabletop roleplaying games (Pathfinder,
Star Wars, D&D, Settlers of Catan, WoD, Small World, Magic: The Gathering, Marvel Superheroes,
etc.) with an emphasis on fun and friendship. All PCN students and staff are welcome to attend.
TSA, TECHNOLOGY STUDENT ASSOCIATION/ROBOTICS
Joe Gravitt, jgravitt@putnamcityschools.org
Membership is open to current Technology Engineering Students, exceptions can be made for past
Technology Engineering students at the Advisor’s discretion. Membership dues are $20.00 annually.
This pays State and National membership dues. All members have the opportunity to compete in a
variety of STEM aligned activities, on a regional, state and national level. Members are also
afforded leadership opportunities. All conferences require an entry fee which varies depending on
the particular conference.
Meetings are Tuesdays from 3:30 to 4:30. This year Nationals will be held in
Washington DC it is our goal to attend.