Academic Clubs
Academic clubs are part of the Student Participation pathway in High School; they are complemented by the Model United Nations (UN) Club, which is also open to Upper Basic Education students. In each weekly meeting, students learn to observe reality more deeply, ask rigorous questions, and apply their talents in service of the common good. These clubs provide spaces to exercise communication, critical thinking, and collaboration, guided by the Ignatian magis. Each academic year, the offerings are renewed according to students’ interests and initiatives.
In this context, we offer sports and artistic activities for our students during extracurricular hours, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
CLUB ONU
The ONU Club is an extracurricular space where students analyze local and global issues from a critical and humanistic perspective. Through research, debate, public speaking, and participation in Model United Nations (MUN) simulations, participants assume the role of diplomatic delegates, strengthening their dialogue skills, critical thinking, and ability to propose ethical and peaceful solutions to contemporary challenges.
In recent years, the ONU Club has grown significantly, from 14 to over 60 members, and now includes a Junior Club for Upper Basic Education students. With nearly 60 awards received and over 100 projected for the 2025–2026 period, it has become one of San Gabriel’s most solid academic spaces, enriching student profiles and offering opportunities to participate in MUN events at local, national, and international levels, in alignment with the RUEI student model.
Astronomy and Astrophysics Club
This club provides an extracurricular space for students to learn about the universe, develop astronomical observation skills, and deepen their understanding of physics and mathematics applied to astrophysics. Students explore concepts such as planetary motion laws, star formation, galaxies, and cosmology through both theoretical and practical activities.
Chemistry Club
The Chemistry Club aims to form Ignatian leaders who, through rigorous scientific research and spiritual discernment, engage in reconciliation with nature and societal transformation. It serves as a hub for innovation and service, using chemistry as a tool to understand, care for, and protect our Common Home, actively contributing to building a more just, sustainable, and reconciled future with oneself, others, nature, and God.
ConCiencia Club
The ConCiencia Club implements the ECO-Lego Builders project as its central strategy to develop students committed to sustainability. Using the Scrum methodology over eight sprints, the project progresses in an agile and collaborative manner, promoting responsible PET bottle collection, developing technical skills for creating eco-bricks, and designing sustainable school furniture.
Journalism Club – La Voz Gabrielina Magazine
This collaborative pedagogical space fosters student leadership, critical thinking, and social commitment, aligned with the mission and vision of the school. The goal is to create and manage a quarterly digital magazine that allows students to research, write, and reflect on topics relevant to the educational community and society at large. The club promotes holistic, community-based, and Ignatian formation, providing students with communication tools to become agents of positive transformation. The magazine also allows students to explore interests in journalism, history, civic action, science, and the arts-literature while developing self-directed learning skills.
Robotics Club – Fenrir Robotics
This club enhances executive functions (planning, working memory, etc.) and computational thinking as tools for well-being through engineering challenges aimed at preparing for formal robotics competitions (speed, mini-sumo, and impact projects). Students document, validate, and communicate results to professional standards, integrate healthy habits (active breaks, ergonomics, conscious breathing), and focus exclusively on the Health and Well-Being PPE Axis. The team demonstrates its impact inside and outside the school, fostering mutual support, prudence, and the Ignatian magis. Externally, Fenrir Robotics participates in competitions and innovation fairs using standardized rules and documentation as platforms for ethical learning, working under pressure, and fair play, while installing and maintaining well-being solutions within the school and sharing learning through exhibitions, publications, and campaigns.
Music Club
This program seeks to develop students’ musical understanding and sensitivity through instrumental experimentation and singing, integrating theory and practice with artistic methodologies to cultivate a love for music and contribute to the holistic formation of students according to the 4C model. It also serves as a space for active participation and integration within the school, strengthening social, cultural, religious, and emotional skills across different areas and educational levels. Students take part in school events, projects, and celebrations, collaborating in ensembles, choirs, or instrumental groups, reinforcing identity and belonging by recovering local music and traditions, creating community encounters (concerts, fairs, or art exhibitions), and developing values such as cooperation, discipline, and mutual respect through musical practice.
