Northside High School is located in

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, United States. It was founded in 2002. Originally, the mascot was planned to be the Wolverine, but after the

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, the mascot was changed to the Patriot. They have outstanding programs like engineering and biomedical science. Northside High School also participates in many local fundraisers through their many clubs and organizations.

Activities

Athletics

*Baseball *Boys'/girls' basketball *Cheerleading (competition and football) *Cross country *Drill team *Football *Boys'/girls' golf *Patriot Marching Band *JROTC Raiders *Rifle: 2005, 2006, and 2007 State Champions *Boys'/girls' Soccer *Softball *Swim Team *Boys'/girls' tennis team *Boys'/girls' track and field *Volleyball *Wrestling: Area Champions 2005 *Northside Patriots Marching Band

Clubs and organizations

Northside clubs and organizations include the following: *

Academic Decathlon The Academic Decathlon (also called AcDec, AcaDeca or AcaDec) is an annual Student competition, high school academic competition organized by the non-profit United States Academic Decathlon (USAD). The competition consists of seven objective mult ...

* Annual * Art Club * Astronomy Club *

BEST Robotics BEST (''Boosting Engineering, Science, and Technology'') is a national six-week robotics competition in the United States held each fall, designed to help interest middle school and high school students in possible engineering careers. The games a ...

* Concert Band * DECA *

Dinner theater Dinner theater (sometimes called dinner and a show) is a form of entertainment that combines a restaurant meal with a staged play or musical. In the case of a theatrical performance, sometimes the play is incidental entertainment, secondary to th ...

* Engineering Honor Society * FBLA *

FIRST Robotics Competition FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is an international high school robotics competition operated by ''FIRST''®. Each year, teams of high school students, coaches, and mentors work to build robots capable of competing in that year's game. Robots c ...

* HOSA * Jazz Band *

JROTC The Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) is a Federal government of the United States, federal program sponsored by the United States Armed Forces in high schools and also in some middle schools across the United States and at US mil ...

* Literary magazine * Madrigal dinner * Marching Band * Math Team *

Mock Trial A mock trial is an act or imitation trial. It is similar to a moot court, but mock trials simulate lower-court trials, while moot court simulates appellate court hearings. Attorneys preparing for a real trial might use a mock trial consisti ...

Model United Nations Model United Nations, also known as Model UN (MUN), is an educational simulation of the United Nations, which teaches students about diplomacy, international relations, global issues, and how the United Nations is run. During a model UN confe ...

Mu Alpha Theta Mu Alpha Theta () is an International mathematics honor society for high school and two-year college students. As of June 2015, it served over 108,000 student members in over 2,200 chapters in the United States and 20 foreign countries. Its main ...

National Art Honor Society The National Art Honor Society (NAHS) is an American honor society for high school students. It was established in 1978 by the National Art Education Association (NAEA) to recognize outstanding accomplishments in the visual arts by students in grad ...

National Honor Society The National Honor Society (NHS) is one of the oldest, largest, and most widely recognized cocurricular student organizations in American high schools, with 1.4 million members. The purpose of the NHS is to create enthusiasm for scholarship, to ...

National Technical Honor Society The National Technical Honor Society (NTHS) is an international honor society for outstanding career and technical students of workforce vocational education institutions. It was established in 1984. Its initiates attend secondary and post-secon ...

* Newspaper * Northside Singers *

One Act Play A one-act play is a play that has only one act, as distinct from plays that occur over several acts. One-act plays may consist of one or more scenes. The 20-40 minute play has emerged as a popular subgenre of the one-act play, especially in writi ...

* Percussion Ensemble * Poetry Club * Science Honor Society *

Skills USA SkillsUSA is a United States career and technical student organization serving more than 395,000 high school, college and middle school students and professional members enrolled in training programs in trade, technical and skilled service occ ...

* Spanish Club * Speech/Debate Team * Symphonic Band *

Technology Student Association The Technology Student Association (TSA) is a national non-profit Career and technical student organization, career and technical student organization (CTSO) of over 300,000 middle and high school student members engaged in Science, technology, e ...

Publications

The yearbook is produced by students in the Yearbook class, a split class lasting all year. The school newspaper is written by the school's journalism class. The literary magazine is written by the journalism class and select students who turn in their original work. *''Amor Patriae'', yearbook *''The Patriot Reveille'', newspaper *''The Lantern'', literature/art magazine

Notable alumni

*'' Katherine Webb (Class of 2007)'' *''Marcus Eberhart (Class of 2016)

References

External links

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Educational institutions established in 2002 High schools in Columbus, Georgia Public high schools in Georgia (U.S. state) 2002 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state) {{GeorgiaUS-school-stub