The Science National Honors Society hosted their annual Science pHun Night on Nov. 15 with a great number of participants, totaling around 100 young students.

Activities at the pHun Night included skeletal relay races, leaf tracing with crayons, cookie mining and many other scientific activities.

While the punily-named event was mainly targeted towards younger children and students, events like this help connect two groups of students that barely interact: older students in high school and younger students in elementary and middle school.

With the major success of Science pHun Night, more clubs should take after their model and plan similar events with the intention of bringing in young students who are interested in the subject of the event.

This could help clubs with membership down the road. If a club, say SNHS, hosts an event like pHun Night and gets a similar turn out to what they did, that is around 100 students who are being exposed to the club.

Another club who often hosts events for the community targeted at younger students is the National English Honor Society, which goes to local elementary schools and reads books to the students.

When clubs go out of their way to target younger students, it helps the students at the events become more interested in school topics, such as reading or science, making the topics look more fun and appealing to study further as they grow up.

With no plans for another SNHS large-scale event for the rest of the school year, more clubs should host similar events in the vein of Science pHun Night with the intention of setting a trend and encouraging other clubs to do the same.

While rare, more clubs are starting to include younger students in their events. National Honor Society hosts a yearly Trunk-or-Treat to benefit the club and hand out candy for children in the community.

Even though events like Trunk-or-Treat provide students nothing but tasty candy and stomach aches, it provides younger students with students in high school to look up to.

Having clubs that host events like this also would draw in more students at the high school level who are interested in working with elementary-level students.

The exposure of working with young students and the success that the clubs have found, more clubs should host these kinds of events to help promote education to the community.