Tips for Forming and Successfully Running an ICT Club

  • Share your idea with other students interested in ICT and create a steering committee.
  • Market your idea to an interested and supportive teacher.
  • Document clearly the aims and objective and planed activities of the club.
  • Share your club idea with school administration to seek approval.
  • Develop a work plan/action plan of at least one year and make it available to all members.
  • Convince other students to join.
  • Dissolve the steering committee and elect officials to run the club.
  • Keep club records: minutes, reports, photos, etc.
  • Be relevant to your school, community, country and the world. Align your program to the SDGs.
  • Have activities running at any one time
  • Let all members remain active
  • Keep good record of what you do in the club
  • Work as a team; be supportive and have respect towards each other.
  • Have regular meetings
  • Have clear agenda for your meetings
  • Be good role models in your ICT Department, school and community.
  • Have clear ground rules; aims and objective; must be well understood by all members; stick to club rules
  • Strive to excel in ICT and Computer Studies

Possible Club Activities

  • Participate in ICT lab and equipment maintenance
  • Hold regular study discussions in ICT and Computer studies
  • Regularly share your activities with the school at assembly, school notice board, etc.
  • Identify resourceful websites for studies in all subjects make it available to other students
  • Create a website, blog or word press on which to share club activities
  • Initiate and participate in problem-solving project(s)
  • Use obsolete computers and accessories by turning them into device identification platform.
  • Create a website, blog or a word press for a specific objective
  • Do pictorial display of school activities on school notice board, website, etc o Have an online conferencing with students, teachers or other resourceful persons.
  • Invite a resource person to talk to and inspire students on value of lCT for their career, etc.
  • Design certificates for clubs etc
  • Design brochures and pamphlets for your school.
  • Support other clubs with use of ICT to meet their objectives.
  • Record school events on video

Project Ideas for Clubs

  • Creating digital instructional material for learning
  • Creating a blog, word press or website to share your learning outcomes in geography, history, etc.
  • Creating a youtube channel for the club
  • Producing  skit  videos for learning purposes.
  • Creating an anthology in literature mm poetry, short stories, fables etc
  • Creating of apps for solving real life problems
  • Present a well-researched community issue to your Member of Parliament
  • Labeling flora in the school with their common and scientific names.
  • Compile a well-researched study of history of the local community you live in
  • Make a geographical study of your locality