Keep scrolling. This is the corkboard outside the dining hall, and what happens when it finally organizes itself.
At Rye Country Day School, 102 clubs fight for attention on one crowded corkboard: paper flyers, dead QR codes, rooms that changed last week. The questions pile up in group chats and sticky notes, and nobody has a straight answer. SchoolOrbit takes that same wall and makes it legible: every club becomes a clean card with its category, meeting time, and room. Every meeting lands on one weekly calendar, and joining a club takes a single tap.
wait is it B12 or B21?TUE 5:42 PM
that was last week.TUE 5:44 PM
CANCELLED?
Wed 3:30 4:15?? idk
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How it works today
102 clubs. One wall. Zero answers.
How it works today
Screenshots. Group chats. Guesswork.
SchoolOrbit
The wall, made legible.
SchoolOrbit
Every meeting, on one calendar.
SchoolOrbit
Joining takes one tap.
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Same work, different Tuesday
What actually changes.
Nothing here is new work for a school. It is the same five jobs, moved off paper.
The job
On paper
On SchoolOrbit
Finding a club
A corkboard, a group chat, and someone who already knows.
One searchable page with all 102 clubs, current times and rooms.
Joining
A sign-up sheet at the fair, or a name in someone’s notes app.
One tap. The roster updates and the meeting lands on your week.
A room change
A new poster, if someone remembers to print one.
The leader edits it once; every member sees the change.
Attendance
A clipboard that lives in a drawer.
Checked off on a phone in seconds, visible to the advisor.
Approvals
Hallway conversations, no paper trail.
A request, a decision, and a record of both.
Where it runs
Born at Rye Country Day. 102 clubs run on it today.
Built by a student who got tired of the wall, and used by the clubs on it.
RCDS AI ClubModel UNDECADev ClubDebate ClubMock TrialChess ClubMath ClubScience OlympiadMarine Biology ClubInvestment ClubPhilosophy ClubWomen in EngineeringEngineering & 3D ModelingRCDS AI ClubModel UNDECADev ClubDebate ClubMock TrialChess ClubMath ClubScience OlympiadMarine Biology ClubInvestment ClubPhilosophy ClubWomen in EngineeringEngineering & 3D Modeling
Every school has the same wall. Imagine them all in one sky: AI Club meeting AI Club, Debate meeting Debate.
At Rye Country Day School, 102 clubs come into view around one point, yet most stay invisible to most of the school, scattered across paper posters and group chats. SchoolOrbit gathers every one of them into a single organized place, rcds.clubgo.co, and the clubs settle into one orbit around the school. Then the view pulls back to a dotted map of the United States. Imagine every school on that map: lines spread outward from Rye as campus after campus joins, and ink arcs connect club to club across the country: AI Club to AI Club, Debate to Debate. Every club, every school, one sky.
Rye, New York
One school. 102 clubs.
The Problem
Most of them are invisible to most of the school.
SchoolOrbit
Every club, one orbit. That’s step one.
The Mission
Now imagine every school on the map.
The Network
The clubs at your school, meeting the clubs at every school.
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Every club. Every school. One sky.
SchoolOrbit
Born at Rye Country Day School · clubgo.co
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Every school. One sky.
Yours next.
Bring SchoolOrbit to your school and put every club where students can find them.
Right now, finding a club means asking someone who is already in one. That is the whole problem. SchoolOrbit puts every club at your school on one page, and joining takes a tap.
Three moves, and you’re in.
1
Browse everything
All 102 clubs in one list. Filter by category, or search the one you heard about at lunch. Each club shows its day, time and room, kept current by the people who run it.
2
Tap join
No form, no clipboard, no waiting for somebody to add you. You are on the roster and the leader knows you are coming.
3
Check your week
Every club you joined shows up on one weekly view. When a room or a time changes, your week changes with it.
Try it. This one actually works.
Fourteen of the 102 clubs at Rye Country Day, with their real meeting times and rooms. Search it, filter it, join something. Nothing here leaves your browser.
Live demoA slice of the real directory. Joining here is pretend: it just fills in the week below.
14 clubs
Games & Strategy
Chess Club
MON · 3:15 · RM 118
STEM
Women in Engineering
MON · 3:30 · LAB 1
Business
Investment Club
MON · 4:00 · RM 204
Science
Marine Biology Club
TUE · 3:15 · RM 121
Speech & Civics
Debate Club
TUE · 3:30 · RM 210
STEM
Math Club
WED · 3:30 · RM 209
Speech & Civics
Model UN
WED · 3:30 · RM 301
STEM
Dev Club
WED · 4:15 · LAB 2
STEM
RCDS AI Club
THU · 3:15 · INNOVATION LAB
Business
DECA
THU · 3:15 · RM 302
Speech & Civics
Mock Trial
THU · 4:00 · RM 305
Science
Science Olympiad
FRI · 3:15 · RM 115
Humanities
Philosophy Club
FRI · 3:15 · RM 122
STEM
Engineering & 3D Modeling
FRI · 3:30 · MAKERSPACE
No club matches that. At a real school, the next step is proposing one.
Your weekNothing joined yet
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Join a club above and it lands here. That is the entire point.
Why one place matters.
One place to look. Not a group chat, a screenshot, and a poster that contradicts both.
Conflicts are obvious. Two clubs on the same Thursday sit side by side, before you commit to either.
Announcements find you. Cancelled meeting, moved room, competition sign-up, all from the club and not from a rumour.
Leaving is as easy as joining. Try a club for two weeks; if it is not for you, leave without an awkward conversation.
rcds.clubgo.co/ai-club
RCDS AI ClubTHU 3:15 · INNOVATION LAB
Room change for Thursday: we’re in the Innovation Lab, not Rm 118.
POSTED TUE · SENT TO EVERY MEMBER
Your week updated automatically. Nothing to re-read, no poster to re-print.
WHAT THE MEMBER SEES
Starting a club?
You write a short proposal in the app: what the club does, when it would meet, which teacher has agreed to advise it. It goes to whoever approves clubs at your school, and you get a real answer with a real reason. No lost email chains.
For club leaders
Run the club, not the paperwork.
You are a student with homework. Running a club should not mean chasing people for attendance, reprinting posters, or explaining the room change five times.
Attendance in about twenty seconds.
Your roster is already there. Everyone who joined is on the list before the meeting starts.
Tap the ones who came. That is the whole flow. It works on a phone, standing up.
Your advisor can see it. No weekly email, no clipboard, no “can you send me numbers?”
It adds up. A term of meetings becomes a record you can point at when you want a bigger room or a budget.
Mock TrialTHU 4:00 · RM 305
HERE
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ABSENT
Attendance saved. 3 of 4 members present.
VISIBLE TO YOUR ADVISOR
Member names are left blank in this mockup on purpose. Real rosters are only visible inside your school.
The other four things you do every week.
Post an announcement
Write it once; it reaches the people who joined. Room moved, meeting cancelled, competition sign-up closing Friday.
Ask for a room
Request the space and the time. It goes to the adult who can say yes, and the answer comes back in writing.
Keep your club page true
Edit the day, time, room or description in one place. Every student who joined sees the update. No new poster.
Hand the club over
Graduating? Pass leadership to next year’s officers with the roster, the history and the attendance record intact.
Launch Day instead of a folding table.
The club fair is the one day a year every club gets attention. Instead of a sign-up sheet that gets rained on, students join from their phones while they are standing in front of you, and your roster is real on Monday morning.
For advisors, deans & activities offices
How many clubs do you actually have?
You are the person who gets asked how many clubs the school has, which ones are actually meeting, and who is in them. Today that answer lives in a spreadsheet that was true in September.
What you get on day one.
One directory that stays true
Every club, its category, its meeting slot and its room, all updated by the students who run it, not by you.
Approvals with a paper trail
Room requests and new-club proposals arrive in one queue. You approve or decline with a reason, and the decision is recorded.
Participation you can see
Attendance recorded per meeting rolls up per club, so “is this club actually meeting?” stops being a guess.
A real answer for the school
When a parent, a trustee or an accreditation form asks what student life looks like, the number is one page away.
What it deliberately does not do.
A tool that claims to do everything gets trusted with nothing. This one stays in its lane.
It is not your SIS. No grades, no transcripts, no attendance of record for the academic day.
It does not message parents. Club announcements go to the students who joined the club.
It is not a social network. No feeds, no follower counts, no student-to-student DMs to moderate.
It does not replace advisors. Approvals, rooms and judgement stay with the adults who already own them.
Questions a school should push us on.
Bring the hard ones: who can see a roster, what happens to the data if you stop using it, who administers accounts, what the failure mode is on Launch Day when three hundred students open it at once. Those answers belong in a conversation with your IT and student-life people, and in writing afterwards, not in marketing copy.
This is the path Rye Country Day actually took, in the order it happened. No integration project, no summer of migration.
1
A conversation
Half an hour with whoever owns clubs at your school. What you have now, what breaks every year, and who needs to say yes. If SchoolOrbit is the wrong tool for your school, that is what the call is for.
Week one
2
Your club list goes in
Send the list you already keep. A spreadsheet is fine. Names, categories, meeting days, rooms, advisors. Your school gets its own space, the way RCDS hasrcds.clubgo.co.
Same week
3
Leaders claim their clubs
Student officers get their own club page and fix what the spreadsheet got wrong: the real room, the real time, what the club actually does. This is the step that makes the directory true, and students do it, not you.
Before Launch Day
4
Launch Day
The club fair, with joining on phones instead of clipboards. Students walk out with their week already filled in; leaders walk out with a real roster.
Day one of the year
What we need from you.
One owner. A dean, activities director or advisor who can make decisions about clubs.
Your current club list. However messy. Fixing it is step three.
A way to reach club leaders. They do the most valuable work in the rollout.
Someone from IT, early. Accounts and access are their call, and we would rather hear their rules before building around them.
Honest about the stage.
SchoolOrbit runs at one school today. That means a new school gets unusual attention, and also that you would be early. If you need a vendor with a hundred campuses and a compliance binder, we are not that yet, and we will say so on the call.
Including the awkward ones. Where the honest answer is “not decided yet”, it says that.
Is this actually running somewhere, or is it a demo?
It runs at Rye Country Day School, where 102 clubs use it. The live instance is at rcds.clubgo.co, and every club name on this site is a real club there.
What does it cost?
Not settled. SchoolOrbit is early enough that pricing for a second school is a conversation, not a page on a website, and printing a number here that we later changed would be worse than saying this.
What we will say: cost should never be the reason a school’s clubs stay invisible.
Who can see a student’s roster or attendance?
The intent is narrow: rosters and attendance are visible inside the club and to the adults who oversee it (the advisor and the school), and to nobody else. Attendance is a record of who came to a club meeting, not a behaviour file.
The exact permission model for your school is something to settle in writing with your IT and student-life people before launch, not something to take from a marketing page.
Is our data ours?
Yes. These are the commitments we will put in writing: your school’s data belongs to your school, you can get an export of it, you can have it deleted if you leave, and it is never sold or handed to a third party for advertising.
Does it replace our student information system?
No, and it should not. No grades, no transcripts, no academic attendance. SchoolOrbit covers the part an SIS is bad at: the clubs, who is in them, when they meet, and who showed up.
Is there an app to install?
No install. It is a web app built for a phone browser first, because that is what a student has in their hand at the club fair. Add it to your home screen if you want an icon.
Can students start new clubs, or does that get chaotic?
Students propose; an adult decides. A proposal names what the club does, when it would meet, and which teacher has agreed to advise it. Nothing appears in the directory until someone at the school approves it: the same gate you have now, minus the lost emails.
What happens on Launch Day when everyone opens it at once?
Ask us on the call and we will tell you exactly how the live instance is hosted and what it has handled so far. A club fair is the one predictable traffic spike in a school year; it is worth planning out loud rather than promising in a sentence.
What if we try it and it does not work for us?
You export your club list and your attendance records and you go back to what you had. No lock-in worth the name. The data that matters is a list of clubs, members and meetings, and it should leave as easily as it arrived.
Who is behind it?
A student at Rye Country Day School who got tired of the corkboard and built the thing he wanted to exist. That is the whole team today, which is either the appeal or the risk, depending on your school.
Why “orbit”?
Because a club is something you come back to, on a schedule, with other people. Joining one is entering its orbit. And because the end state is not one school’s tidy list. It is every school’s clubs under one sky.
About
Every school. One sky.
SchoolOrbit started as a corkboard outside a dining hall, covered in paper flyers for 102 clubs, most of which nobody could find.
A club nobody can find is a club nobody can join.
The wall.
Every school has one. Paper flyers with a QR code that expired, a room number that changed last week, a meeting time written as “Thursdays??”. The information exists. It is just scattered across posters, group chats, and whoever happened to be at the club fair. The clubs that thrive are the ones where you already know somebody.
That is not a poster problem. It is a discovery problem, and software is good at discovery problems.
Where it is today.
Built at RCDS
One school, 102 clubs, live
Chess Club, DECA, Debate, Dev Club, Marine Biology, Model UN, Mock Trial, Science Olympiad, Women in Engineering and the rest, on one page, with real meeting times and real rooms.
Now
Looking for the second school
Not a hundred. The second one, whose clubs have the same wall and whose activities office keeps the same spreadsheet.
The mission
Clubs that meet across schools
Once enough schools keep their clubs in one place, the interesting part starts: an AI Club that can find the AI Club forty minutes away, Debate teams that scrimmage without a tournament, Model UN delegations that meet before they meet. That is the sky. It does not exist yet, and it is the reason this is a platform and not a spreadsheet.
What we will not do.
No invented numbers. One school is one school. When there are ten, this page will say ten.
No photos of students. Not on this site, not in a pitch deck.
No selling student data. Ever, to anyone.
No engagement mechanics. Clubs are not a feed. The goal is a student opens this twice a week and gets on with their life.
Every school. One sky.
Yours next.
Put every club at your school where students can actually find them.