Every year, you hear their names at the club fair along with calls of “Join Leadership Team! And the Khranicle!”, but here are the secrets of the five biggest clubs, starting with:

EBI Committee:

Meeting Time: Mondays during Lunch

Contacts: Pooja P.

Extra Notes: “You have to cite a reason why you care about shrimp. We want to know you don’t just care about shrimp, because they are shrimp. We want to know why, we need the specifics,” Pooja P., member of the EBI Committee.

“Some dude walked in asking for the Equity, Belonging, and Inclusion club, and I was like we’re just here for shrimp bro,” Sophia D., member of the EBI Committee.

“We’re the Khan Lab School official shrimp appreciation club,” Pooja P. said. The club was started to show appreciation to a “very overlooked marine life” and grew ever since. “We spend a lot of our time researching shrimp, especially cool shrimp, draw a lot of shrimp, and send each other a lot of shrimp memes and shrimp gifs.” In addition to that, they decorate the school. Sadly, it's often difficult to get permission from the shrimp authorities to put up shrimp pictures, so they scramble up ladders and put lanterns and unlit candles instead to please the Elder Shrimpy Ones. In the upcoming Holi celebration, they might be able to hide a shrimp within the colors. “Ebi means shrimp in Japanese,” an anonymous student said—that’s why they chose its name.

“Shrimp are friends not food,” multiple people from EBI.

Leadership Team:

Meeting Time: 4:00-5:30 on Thursdays

Contacts: Just come to the meeting!

Extra Notes: “You should join Frisbee” (contact Sidarth Subramanian (high school Sid) for more information about the Frisbee team)

“We make proposals and things and they sometimes get rejected, but we make proposals and things,” an anonymous student from Leadership Team.

The contestants for the hot sauce competition line up to get hot sauce, each looking nervous to face the extreme heat of the spicy liquid—only to be disappointed by the lack of spiciness. The attendance rate was high at that event, which means we clearly need more disappointingly not spicy hot sauces. Welcome to Leadership Team, where students try to take your advice and convert it into actual material, involving proposals to change the school’s schedule, creating community meetings, and setting up events where half the planning is trying to convince the administration to let them play certain songs. The meetings start with Sita V., the chair of the Student Council, ringing the Gong (yes, there is a physical Gong) and then the members begin talking about planning events, and overthrowing—I mean convincing the administration to change things.

“We change things for the better…sometimes,” an anonymous student from Leadership Team.

Robotics Team:

Meeting Time: 6:30-8:30pm on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, and 9-5pm on Saturdays (lunch is provided)

Contacts: Most seniors, Sophia D. and Nihal V.

Extra Note: “Talk about why you want to do robotics, but also your thoughts on property damage and whether you think that should continue to be prosecuted as a crime…draw out some plans for us, maybe print out some blueprints [for doing property damage]” Sophia D., member of the Robotics Leadership and Pooja P., member of Robotics.

“It’s really a great opportunity to familiarize yourself with architectural techniques [in reference to property damage],” Sophia D.

Around one-third of the school comes together to create robots to destroy—I mean compete in the First Robotics Competition. “This time's game is called Crescendo, where you have to take these circle things called notes, and, you know, fire them into things.” To do this, they do everything from building a chair with eyes to clamping a pneumatics system under a table. “Definitely no ulterior motives involved in that at all—we just really like building robots, because apparently that is something people like to do,” Sophia D. said. The Robotics team has a record of destroying the KLS building, having destroyed the drywall in Collective and removed ceiling tiles in Arena, leaving the teachers’ lounge and bathrooms next to be destroyed.

“It seems that we have a bit of a streak going on for property damage…I’m not saying that if that’s something you enjoy you should join, but it's not something you shouldn’t not do,” Sophia D.

Tabletop RPG Club:

Meeting Time: Tuesdays during Lunch

Contacts: Krish B. and Sam L.

“Don’t quote me on that, please!” an anonymous student from the TableTop RPG club.

The club is split into three clans: the unacquainted, the experienced, and those who—uh—well don’t plan to show up. The unacquainted are sitting in a large dimly lit cave with candles on the walls where they “accidentally beat up the king’s son, so the king says, ‘you’re in jail or you go on my quest and defeat this monster in the swamp land.’” Meanwhile the experienced are selling orange juice while trying not to break the blender and learning how to walk through a door. Welcome to the world of the Tabletop RPG club, where nothing goes as planned: you sometimes end up shouting “woof woof” at a wolf (or apparently “a tentacle dog-cat thing”) to convince it to stop attacking you, but still end up dead in the next turn. Or topple a hut with a person in it (don’t ask).

The unacquainted - “Our world builder is trying to stop us from rizzing up people and trying to make us play the game as intended.”

The experienced - “Finding ways to annoy the game master every week.”

The people who don’t plan to show up - “There’s not a ton of progress being done,” said the game master of the clan (come on people, actually show up to the meetings, your game master is trying:))

The Khranicle

Meeting time: 4-5 pm on Mondays.

Contacts: Sita V., Varin S., Adhya K., and Pooja P.

“One time I chased a source into the parking lot, and we made eye contact as they drove away,” an anonymous student from the Khranicle.

You walk into the room and see a bunch of children talking and typing. Being productive, right? Wrong! One anonymous student is doing a history assignment and another is looking at drivers ed. Are they working on an article? An analysis of different driving schools? Or a satire about the drawings they made for history class? “Or the hottest whiteboard at KLS?” mused Zoya K., self-proclaimed Literature Obsessed Student. “Wait, I kinda wanna write that now… huh.” You’ll never know because articles can be about anything (after all, they wrote an article during J-Camp about how smelly one of their MEs was). Join the Khranicle to find out!
“Our official motto? Procrastination is working tomorrow for a better today,” Adhya K., Managing Editor at the Khranicle.