Kiwanis Club cheers on students to join their club. Photo by: Heather Kim, Photo managerBy Zainab Khan, Staff writer
The beginning of September brought forth Fountain Valley High School’s annual club rush, where clubs advertised and encouraged people to join their clubs. This year, FVHS has a few new clubs on campus, one of them being the Investors Club.
The Investors Club was founded mainly to inform other students how to maintain a fiscal life through safe investments, such as real estate, stocks, businesses, and more.
“Our inspiration [to start the club] came from our passion towards business and our entrepreneurial visions,” said President Omar Younies (’16).
Their hopes for the upcoming year include expanding in the number of students and competing in statewide competitions. They also hope to help students become more financially disciplined and learn skills that will benefit them later on.
“We want people to learn the basics of investing in real life situations and get [them] to see how stocks work,” said vice president Omar Madkour (‘16).
Madkuor and Younies wish for people to join their club because they believe it offers a wide range of financial advice that may be helpful to students in the future.
“Almost anyone can make an investment; you don’t need to like business in order to make investments,” said Younies.
The club plans on getting more underclassmen to continue the club for next year. Their meetings are held in Mrs. Gomez’s class, room 203, on Wednesdays.
“We plan to get underclassmen to be on board so they can continue this club next year. We have a Facebook page, FV Investors Club, and hopefully it expands to many people.” said Madkour.
Along with The Investors Club, another new clubs on campus included Girls’ League, Harry Potter Alliancr, and Boys’ League. Founded by Nathan Quach (’16), the idea for Boys League came when Nathan noticed that there were many service organizations on campus that gave back to the community but didn’t specifically give back to FVHS. By starting Boy’s League, he hopes to be able to fundraise money for different departments on campus for supplies, books, and any other desired equipment.
