Last month, Evergreen Elementary School hosted their annual Family Fun Night event, featuring a variety of games, activities and demonstrations for the grade schoolers and their guardians. Several Diamond Bar High School clubs and organizations like Taekwondo Club, Team Sprocket, DB4Youth and Key Club assisted in the operation of the festivities to brighten up the evening.

While the actual event started at 6 PM, students assembled at the elementary school to set up for the festivities much sooner, as early as the end of the school day. Each club had been preparing for weeks, brainstorming activities and delegating responsibilities to each of their members.

“For weeks leading up to the event, our officer board kept in contact with Evergreen staff to ensure our club could get on campus and manage the various booths,” volunteer Maximiliano Wu said.

DBHS’ Taekwondo Club integrated with a local taekwondo training camp to help the younger generation put on a striking martial arts performance. Fusing the prowess of both the high schoolers and the children, they impressed the crowd by splitting wooden boards at the elementary school’s amphitheater.

Throughout the night, volunteer clubs Key Club and DB4Youth presided over food and fun, splitting up to take charge of each individual station. The volunteers engaged the children in an evening of entertainment with a diverse selection of impressive games and activities, such as whack-a-mole, sack racing and inflatable strength tests.

“I enjoyed working with others in the various stations and saw the smiles on each kid’s face as they lined up for food and games,” Wu said.

To add onto the fun, Diamond Bar High’s robotics group, Team Sprocket, also showed off their spirit by bringing their competition robot to the school. Their activities occupied the school’s entire multi-purpose room and the abundant space allowed attendees to tinker with building blocks, view the team’s past competitions and even control the machine themselves to simulate the competitive settings. 

Engaging the kids, the demonstrators encouraged them to use the robot to throw a large rubber ball into a plastic trash can. This proved to be much more difficult than it seemed with the materials’ immense rebound properties, but many of the kids who tried were successful.

“It was definitely a cornerstone of the night. A lot of parents brought their kids to see our exhibition and we got to answer some good questions related to robotics and STEM,” Sprocket junior Nikkolos Miyoshi said via Discord. “Many of the children expressed their interest in pursuing STEM as a result, furthering our initiative to be a club that is more than robots.”