On March 8, 2024, the Student-Faculty Senate hosted the Club Marketplace in the Lexington High School field house, providing an opportunity for LHS clubs to display their accomplishments, raise awareness, and sell items to other students.
This event served as a follow-up to the Activities Fair at the beginning of the school year, which introduced students to a variety of available student-led clubs.
“Like the Activities Fair, the marketplace allows clubs, if they want, to set up their own booth in the field house. However, unlike the Activities Fair, the marketplace is about highlighting what clubs have achieved in the past year or so,” Mrigank Dhingra, a Senate Social Actions Committee Head, said.
In anticipation of the event, Maddie Chang, a Senate Social Actions Committee Head, shared what could be expected from various clubs at the marketplace.
“The marketplace is open to any club, but most of them are art clubs. The Crochet Club and Illustration Club are going to be selling art, including crafts that they’ve made. The Robotics Team is selling 3-D printed items, and other clubs are also selling merchandise, like stickers with their club’s logo on it. And some other clubs are offering activities for people to come and do. For example, the Never Fading Poppy Projects Club is going to have cards that people can decorate to send to veterans. The Henna club will be doing Henna,” Chang said.
Advertisements played a large role in the success of the event. Senate leaders promoted attendance at the marketplace on various platforms..
“We posted on Instagram, and we’re going to create some flyers and posters. We’re also going to ask the clubs that are participating to put the event information on their social media,” Chang said.
For lesser known clubs, , the marketplace was a chance to promote themselves again after the Activities Fair.
“An event like the marketplace is going to be great for building the school community. Some of the clubs are kind of distant. You would never think that the Henna Club and the Robotics Club would come together. However, through this event, we’re hoping to see some connections between clubs. Maybe people can find out about a club that they didn’t know existed previously. Or maybe [people] can gain interest in a club after seeing its accomplishments since the Activities Fair,” Chang said.
Club leaders were hopeful for the success of the marketplace and the possibility of similar events in the future.
“This event is actually a really good opportunity for our members to have experience doing Henna on other people and focusing their time on things that they have learned so far. It’s also a good advertising opportunity and we will be able to raise awareness about our club. I’m actually really excited to see what other clubs have to offer and what they’re gonna bring,” Advika Tuniki, a club leader of the Henna Club, said.
