Clubs & Organizations

The American Sign language club is for students to socialize and practice their sign language in a community setting. The ASL Club will provide a community deaf, hard-of-hearing, and ASL students to interact and encourage the use and practice of American Sign Language in the MassBay community.

Meeting times: TBD

Club Contacts: Advisor, John Dunn jdunn@massbay.edu President, 

The Brazilian Club welcomes students of all academic fields who wish to help the community through volunteer activities; the main focus is to help the Brazilian community living in Massachusetts. Also, we are happy to share and teach a little about the warm Brazilian culture and create a network to support each other during the school year.

Meeting times: TBD

Club Contacts: Advisor, Sarah Cooper scooper@massbay.edu, President, Larissa Katinskas

The Mission of the Business Club is to enhance interest in business, encourage ethical business behavior, promote professionalism and leadership and encourage more participation in philanthropic endeavors. The Club provides an opportunity for students using learned business skills to engage in fund raisers for worthy causes and community service. The Club also provides students interested in business an opportunity to network with business professionals and leaders, to learn more about, and understand the role of business in our society.

Meeting times: TBD

Club Contacts: Advisor, Carolyn Gould cgould@massbay.edu President, Pedro Garcia p_garcia6@massbay.edu 

The Civic Engagement and Student Advocacy Club is dedicated to providing opportunities for students to become involved with legal, political, financial, environmental and educational issues that affect our students. CESA  will focus on increasing voter participation, enhancing civic literacy, publicizing the Living the Law Speaker Series, promoting renewable energy,  hosting the Veteran’s Day Star Event, supporting initiatives for OER resources, lobbying for fair student loan practices,  promoting employment opportunities for those interested in criminal justice and public interest careers, and facilitating opportunities for students to communicate with state representatives about legislation that affects MassBay students. 

Meeting Times: Mondays, 5pm 

Club Contacts: Advisor, Heidi Getchell-Bastien hgetchellbastien@massbay.edu, President McKenzie Saunders

Join us for a Vice Presidential Debate Watch Party, Wednesday 10/7 at 8:45pm: Join Here 

The Creative Writing Club’s mission is to foster a supportive environment at MassBay for writers of any form or genre to create, share, workshop, and showcase their writing.

Meeting times: TBD

Club Contacts: Advisors, Matt Walsh mwalsh@massbay.edu President, 

The Cyber Security Club provides an opportunity for students of all majors who have a vested interest in cyber security in all aspects of the field from its history to modern day trends. The club will focus both on educating members concerning different concepts of information and cyber security and application in hands-on group projects and collegiate cyber competitions.

Meeting times: TBD

Club Contacts: 

Disney Dreamers is a group dedicated to gathering students to discuss, analyze, and share Disney knowledge and experience through knowledge, trivia, movies, songs, and current social media for student enjoyment and community. 

Meeting Times: Fridays, 3pm 

Club Contacts: Advisor, Josh Cheney jcheney@massbay.edu President, Alex Szarka a_szarka@massbay.edu 

The Early Childhood Club offers students an opportunity to work as a team on service projects which impact families in need of assistance with children in local early childhood programs.

Meeting times: TBD

Club Contacts: Advisor Rita Rzezuski rrzezuski@massbay.edu President 

The Engineering Club has the common goal of expanding student skills and knowledge of engineering disciplines. Students develop projects using Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and SolidWorks. Members of the club will prototype SolidWorks modules and print them on the MassBay 3D printer, and will learn programming languages to program them.

Meeting Times: TBD

Club Contacts: Advisor, Marina Bograd mbograd@massbay.edu  President, 

The mission of the Equality Alliance is to provide the MassBay community a safe space to be themselves and provide awareness and education about issues facing the LGBTQ+ community in the local area and in the world.

If you are interested in joining the Equality Alliance, please email Katie Cronmiller at mcronmiller@massbay.edu to be connected with the organization

The Massbay Gamer’s guild is dedicated to fostering a community at Massbay through games of all sorts. It’s our mission to ensure members of our club have fun and make friends through the games that we all enjoy or play. The club is representative of all kinds of Gamers, whether you play Tabletop Games, Board Games, Video Games, Card Games, or just really like Rock, Paper, and Scissors.

Meeting times: TBD

Club Contacts: Advisor, Sean Fortney sfortney@massbay.edu  President, 

The Human Services club is an organization to have students meet with Human Services professionals and other students interested in the Human Services Field. The club does a variety of things such as go to conferences, attend special events, meet professionals, raise money for causes, fundraise for the scholarship fund for Human Service students at MassBay and work together for the greater good.

Meeting Times: TBD

Club Contacts: Advisor Elizabeth Watson ewatson@massbay.edu President

The purpose of the club is to hold social, cultural, and educational events to inform and educate the community at large about the Vedic tradition and heritage of Indians. It is open to all students and MassBay community The Club serves students and college community by holding large events.

Meeting Times: TBD

Club Contacts: Advisor Mona Khaitan mkhaitan@massbay.edu President 

The club serves MassBay students by promoting tolerance and acceptance amongst different cultures and lifestyles present in our student population. We are hoping to create awareness of the issues that international students are affected.

Meeting Times: Fridays, 12pm 

Check out the next International Club Lunch Hours: India: Friday November 13th 12:00pm

Club Contacts: Advisor Claudia Ortiz cortiz@massbay.edu President Dolon Bose 

The iWARP (Internet of Things, Wearables, Arduino, Robotics, and Raspberry Pi) Club provides students the opportunity to learn and work on hands-on multidisciplinary projects using physical computing. Students are encouraged to experiment with new ideas and express their creativity by building interactive physical systems using software and hardware that allows you to sense and respond to the physical environment. No previous experience required! Students will have the opportunity to work on a state-of-the-art lab designing and developing projects of their choice. They will be able to learn how to use IoT (Internet of Things) devices, wearable technologies, microcontrollers (Arduino & Micro:Bit), robotic components, and/or Raspberry Pi (RPi) mini computers. Students will also have access to a variety of equipment like sensors, LEDs, cameras, motors, computer networking equipment, and IoT devices such as Amazon Alexa, Google Home, wireless speakers, IP cameras, environmental sensors, Wi-Fi lights & outlets, home control systems, etc. Students from any discipline are encouraged to join, and learn how to create cool projects that use some or all of these components.

Meeting Times: Wednesdays, 10am-12pm and Thursdays, 1pm-3pm

Club Contacts: Advisor, Tony Sena gsena@massbay.edu President, Eric Hormeku

The Life Sciences Club provides the opportunity for students of all majors who have an interest in biology, zoology, botany, or any other studies related to living things. The club will focus on educating members in key biology and genetics concepts through discussions of science news and journal articles, and hands-on group projects such as hydroponics and aquaculture.

Meeting times: TBD

Club Contacts: Advisor, Jessica Smith-Rohrberg jsmithrohrberg@massbay.edu President, 

The MassBay Film Society provides students with a chance to view and discuss movies of all types as well as to provide an opportunity to learn about and engage in making films.

Meeting times: TBD

Club Contacts: Advisor, Richard Williams rwilliams@massbay.edu President,

The purpose of this organization is to unite students with the common goal of looking after the personal, academic and social wellbeing of MassBay Veterans of the United States Armed Services.

Meeting times: TBD

Club Contacts: Advisor, Adam Nelson anelson@massbay.edu  President, 

The Nature club brings together students to enjoy the beauty of nature and help to preserve it. Our goal is to enjoy nature through hiking, camping, and other fun activities! We also want to do our part to help in its preservation through volunteer work.

Meeting times: TBD

Club Contacts: Advisor, Dennis Walsh dwalsh@massbay.edu President, 

The Nurses Club is a club comprised of students from all academic fields who wish to contribute to the community by performing volunteer activities. It is also a supportive network of students who meet once a month to discuss the challenges of being a college student and help one another to resolve some of these challenges.

Meeting Times: TBD

Club Contacts: Advisor,  President 

The Photography Club is a dedicated place for all photography enthusiasts at Massbay to talk about and share their work. We encourage both digital and analog photographers to attend. Even if you're just really into taking selfies, drop by! Our mission is to provide an encouraging and positive environment for Massbay students to be able to show off their work, talk about upcoming projects and works of theirs, and discuss technical aspects of cameras and other photography processes.

Meeting Times: TBD

Club Contacts: Advisor, Ryan Welch jwelch@massbay.edu President, Martha Anderson

The Psychology Club will provide students who have an interest in psychology a chance to discuss ideas and topics and find pathways in the field

Meeting Times: TBD

Club Contacts: Advisor,  President, Keith Miller

The Rotaract club provides students with the opportunity to exchange ideas with leaders in the community, develop leadership and professional skills, and have fun through service. The Rotaract Club provides students with professional development opportunities in conjunction with the Wellesley Rotary Club and through providing service to the community.

Meeting Times: TBD

Club Contacts: Advisor, Julie Ginn jginn@massbay.edu President Nathan Persampierri