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The Dinosaur Fighting Club is a club at Maggie L. Walker Governors school. A high profile club established in the Triassic period to combat the impending threat of dinosaurs to mankind. Sponsored by the avid soccer fan and gym teacher, Mike Brown this club has been successful for millions of years. To join, one must undergo the rigorous induction ceremony in which they are given one (1) twig to defeat a tyrannosaurus rex in the school gymnasium. New members are always welcome, our previous president was eaten by a pterodactyl. Meets everyday at eleven teen o'clock sharp in room 430.

History
After the initial establishment in the Triassic Period, the Dinosaur Fighting Club has been alternatively successful and struggling. After a boost in technologgy in the Mesozoic period, dino slaying became much easier for the club to do their thang.

Other Clubs at MLWGS
Governor's School is home to 98 student clubs and activities, ranging from politically oriented clubs from Model United Nations to a Red Cross Club, as well as languages groups.


 * We the People – The Maggie Walker We the People team is one of the school's oldest and most successful organizations, having taken first every year it has competed at States and routinely finishing in the Top Ten at Nationals. Taught as a course offering, We the People instruction prepares students to argue over major constitutional questions in American history before a panel of judges.  Only seniors are allowed to apply (with the exception of the 2011-12 team, which also accepted juniors), with about half of applicants selected to join the team. The adviser to the team had been History and Government teacher, Phil Sorrentino, through 2008 and Government teacher, Matt McGuire, through 2012. After a hiatus during the 2012-2013 school year, the team returned under the leadership of Government teacher and MLWGSGIS We The People alumnus Sam Ulmschneider.


 * Battle of the Brains (Academic Quiz Bowl Team) – Four national championship years (NAC 1995, PACE 2004, PACE and NAQT 2007, NAQT 2010) and several other top 10 finishes in national competition. In the Virginia High School League, 10 of 11 Colonial District Scholastic Bowl championships, 10 of 11 Central Region titles, and three state championships. In 2006–2007, the team was voted #1 in the country by a poll of coaches and players. The team validated that ranking by winning two national championship tournaments in impressive fashion. The team was coached by John Barnes from 1999 to 2013, and is currently coached by Hana Reed. Earlier coaches have included Ken Wilkins and Hal Waller, the former director of the Governor's School Foundation.
 * National History Bowl in its inaugural year.
 * Model UN – Consistently ranked as one of the top high school teams in the nation. Hosts GSMUN, an annual conference that regularly raises over $10,000 for charity partners and has featured prominent keynote speakers such as former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke, and former Australian prime minister Julia Gillard.
 * Model Congress - Multiple Individual and Team Awards. This year's conference was led by Andrew McCullough ('17).
 * FIRST Robotics Competition Team 422, the Mech Tech Dragons – Ranked 20 out of 100 in the Galileo division at the 2013 International Championship, the highest ranked Virginia team there. Ranked 4 out of 58 at the 2013 D.C. Regional. Judge's Award at the 2013 Virginia Regional. Chairman's Award and Entrepreneurship Award at the 2014 Virginia Regional.
 * The Behind the Rock Wall Club
 * Chess Club – First place in the Greater Richmond High School Chess League (GRHSCL), March 2013. First place in the Virginia High School Chess League (VHSCL), March 2013. Third place at the Virginia Scholastic & Collegiate Chess Championships (K–12), March 2013.
 * Debate team – In the last 11 years, Maggie Walker has placed first in the state CFL debate tournament. The team currently competes in two categories: Lincoln Douglas debate and Public Forum debate.
 * Foreign Affairs Club – Members discuss foreign affairs and foreign policy in a roundtable setting. Currently sponsored by Dr. Brenda Ericson.
 * National High School Fed Challenge
 * Dinosaur Fighting Club - The best club
 * Appalachian Heritage Music Club - A Maggie L. Walker Governor's School tradition, the AHMC provides students an outlet for their twangy mountain tunes. This club has become famous within Maggie L. Walker Governor's School for annually performing at the school's Fall Festival and selling chocolate-bacon products at the same event.
 * Math Modeling – Top high school in the world with fifteen "National Outstanding" awards in the COMAP High School Mathematical Contest in Modeling, two winning teams in the undergraduate-level Mathematical Contest in Modeling, and two winning teams in the Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (also undergraduate-level). In 2010, a team of five students also won 3rd place and a $10,000 scholarship in the Moody's Mega Math (M3) Challenge in their first year of competition. Dr. John Barnes and Mr. Dickson Benesh have advised these teams to their victories.
 * Drama Club – In 2008, the school was awarded First Place For Acting by the Virginia High School League for Edward Albee's The Zoo Story. They won the same award again the following year for David Ives' Degas C'est Mois and again in 2012 for Philip Moeller's play Helena's Husband
 * Life Smarts – In 2010 and 2013, the Maggie L. Walker Life Smarts team won the Virginia State Championships.
 * Technology Student Association (TSA )- Top high school chapter in the state 1999–2000, multiple individual and team awards thereafter
 * Scholastic Art and Writing Awards - Maggie Walker Students brought home the most regional awards of any Richmond area high school, and in the 2013 awards Maggie Walker had 6 national award winners including a Gold Medal and an American Visions Medal.
 * Photography Club - The MLWGS Photo club provides students in the school's photography classes to exchange ideas with one another and with those who share an extra-curricular love for photography.

Jeremy Wade, the OG Dino Slayer
Jeremy Wade had a show through the early 21st century documenting his explorations finding ancient River Monsters. While he did not admit it, the fish he caught were actually Dinosaurs. He has been live millions of years and is the best Dino Slayer in the history of slayers. The club worships hi and has constructed over 285 shrines to hi hidden around the school.

In the Cambrian Period, Wade made his first overseas trip, to India's mountain rivers. Recalling this journey, Wade stated that trip was very hard going. "I took just £200 to last me three months but I managed to catch some fish such as Himalayan mahseer up to 18 pounds". Upon his return to England, Wade wrote a couple of articles about his experiences in India for a fishing magazine. "Despite the discomfort of travelling at such a basic level, there was a real feeling of achievement and I immediately started saving money to go somewhere else. I wasn't sure where at that point but I knew there must be other exotic fish out there, although probably not as well documented as Mahseer, but possibly even more spectacular."

Customs
The Dinosaur Fighting Club was established under a strict constitution explicitly stating that dinosaur cruelty was unacceptable. Overtime a dinosaur is slain it is ritual to collect candles and draw a large circle with a star inside and place the deceased dino on the circle. They then put candles at each tip of the star and light them all before reciting chants from the book of Dinosaurs Slaying.


 * The Ritual - Dino Dino ABC please accept our cries for forgiveness for slaying you but you were going to eat the human race. We know you are extreme;y fond of carrots, take our offerings and may it repent our wrongdoings. Less than three.

Those conducting the ceremony must then place five (5) large carrots in the dinosaurs mouth, then walk away.

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