When you pass by room LC-3 in the Panther Learning Center on Wednesday afternoons, you’ll likely hear yelling and laughter. You might not guess it would be over a Tech Deck trick.

The club started when sophomore Churro King talked custodian Joey Jennings into being the sponsor of the club.

“I asked him to put together a whole outline of what he wanted to accomplish, what he wanted to see out of it,” Jennings said. “And he put it together. So if he went that far, I might as well support him.”

At the first meeting only three Pro-fingerboarders showed up.

“The next day a bunch of people were just standing in the hallway, so I told them to go to Tech Deck club because they were bored,” King said.

Now the club is bustling with energetic kids doing all kinds of crazy tricks.

The main purpose of Tech Deck club is obviously Tech Deck, but also to hang out with friends.

Sophomore Maya Reyes likes to learn new tricks and teach people how to tech deck. 

Reyes stays shredding on the board.

“I usually just talk to friends during club meetings,” sophomore Beck Niewald said.

Jennings gave the kids an incentive for the club because kids weren’t Tech Decking enough. If you could do two tricks, you got to go to a pizza party.

“We made the incentive that if you made two tricks, you get to go to the pizza party. Now more people are tech decking,” King said.

Everyone can now do two tricks and can drop into the bowl.