El Camino College held its three-day Club Rush event on Sept. 13-15, with the first three days being in person near the Student Services Plaza and the last day being an online-only event.

Club Rush is held during the third week of the fall and spring semesters from 10 a.m.- 2 p.m. on campus where club representatives strive to recruit new members and provide information about their organizations.

This semester’s Club Rush event included clubs such as the Astronomy and Astrophysics, Warrior Esports, Society of Music, Tabletop Gaming, Alpha Gamma Sigma Honor Society and more.

Joshua Casper, the advisor to Alpha Gamma Sigma Honor Society, said the club is about service and support.

“It’s an honor society,” Casper said. “They do community service as well as support getting good grades.”

Kaitlin Hooper, a 20-year-old biology major, said people should join because it keeps students on the right track.

“Not only does it keep you on the right track in school, and it encourages you to maintain a good education, but it’s also giving back to the community,” Hooper said.

Edrin Abrigo, 23, said he gives back to the community by volunteering for the Salsa Club. According to Abrigo, the Salsa Club covers two types of dances, “Latin genre salsa and bachata.”

Abrigo said people should join the club because of the opportunity to meet new people.

“Dancing is fun, dancing is a language, dancing is a conversation,” Abrigo said. “And I think learning how to dance and dance with other people is a great way to meet people.”

Dominic Torres, 18, echoed similar thoughts in regard to the Warrior Esports club.

“If you’re trying to just meet some new people, you can always come here,” Torres said. “I would have never met any of these people outside my club.”

Torres said Warrior Esports offers a variety of competitive games that make the club worth joining.

“[We have] League of Legends, Valorant, Overwatch 2, and [Super] Smash Bros.,” Torres said.

While Warrior Esports offers virtual competitive action with video games, the Tabletop Gaming club offers tangible competitive action through the use of board games.

Vice President of the Tabletop Gaming Club, Sebastian Wade Amaral, said the club offers a variety of games, including their newest addition of card games scheduled to be added during the fall semester.

“We do board games, war games, role-playing games, and we’re just starting up to do card games like Yu-Gi-Oh!,” Amaral said.

Amaral said that the accessibility of the club is one of the biggest reasons why people should consider joining Tabletop Gaming.

“Nerds are nerds,” Amaral said. “We’re also one of the more accessible clubs on campus where plenty of people heard about Dungeons and Dragons or heard about other board games that are obscure to most.”

As the games continue near the Student Services Plaza, the Astronomy and Astrophysics Club plays a different type of game that is out of this world.

Eugene Randle, a 19-year-old astronomy major, and president of the Astronomy and Astrophysics Club said the club discusses various space-related topics.

“We discuss different types of topics of astronomy,” Randle said. “We talk about upcoming events and how NASA would be going back to the moon.”

Randle said that the diversity and the various activities they indulge in is the reason why people should join their club.

“It’s a really diverse club,” Randle said. “We have camping trips, we go out, we take pictures, we talk about discussions… it’s pretty much a lot of fun.”

Randle said that their planetarium shows are open to the public, giving all El Camino students an opportunity to look into the galaxy.

“We host planetarium shows,” Randle said. “The public could come, enjoy the show, and after the show, they could go look through an actual telescope and look at different planets like Saturn and Mars.”