The club directory for schools

Every club at your school, on one page.

Search it. See the day, time and room. Join in a tap. Club leaders keep it current, so nobody has to chase a poster or a group chat.

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The old way, meet the new way.

It starts as a wall of paper.

Keep scrolling. This is the corkboard outside the dining hall, and what happens when it finally organizes itself.

At Rye Country Day School, 110 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. OrbitWorks 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.

How it works today

110 clubs. One wall. Zero answers.

How it works today

Screenshots. Group chats. Guesswork.

OrbitWorks

The wall, made legible.

OrbitWorks

Every meeting, on one calendar.

OrbitWorks

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 OrbitWorks
Finding a club	A corkboard, a group chat, and someone who already knows.	One searchable page with all 110 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.

Orbit

The other half: what students are building past the gates.

Clubs are the part of student life your school runs. Orbit is the part it does not: research projects, nonprofits and competition teams that students near you have already started, in the same app and on the same cards.

Filtered the way the directory is. Interest, in person or remote, hours a week, and how far you would travel. Same pills, bigger map.
Open roles, not vague interest. Each listing says which roles are still open and when applications close, so “can I actually join this?” is answered on the card.
Verified means verified. A student’s club roles are read from the rosters, not from what they typed about themselves. Anything self-reported says so.
Nothing is shared until you are accepted. Contact details stay closed while an application is pending, and after a decline.

Also in Orbit: student profiles worth finding, meeting materials other clubs have already written, and one page tracking every application you have out. Walk through it in the demo →

STEM 9Service 6In person 11Nearby 7

STEM5-15 miles

Sound Shore Rocket Challenge

Four schools, one launch weekend, and an egg that has to survive the landing.

Rocketry Club · Demo Academy

Airframe buildRange safety

9 members4-6 hrs/wkIn personCloses Sep 24

Service+1Under 5 miles

Pollinator Corridor Mapping

Map every pollinator-friendly planting between four campuses and fill the gaps.

Environmental Club · Demo Valley

Field surveyGIS

14 members2-3 hrs/wkHybridRolling

Where it runs

Born at Rye Country Day. 110 clubs run on it today.

Built by a student who got tired of the wall, and used by the clubs on it.

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Where this goes next.

One school is a start. The map is the point.

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, 110 clubs come into view around one point, yet most stay invisible to most of the school, scattered across paper posters and group chats. OrbitWorks gathers every one of them into a single organized place, rcds.orbit-works.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. 110 clubs.

The Problem

Most of them are invisible to most of the school.

OrbitWorks

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.

Born at Rye Country Day School · orbit-works.co

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Every school. One sky.

Yours next.

Bring OrbitWorks to your school and put every club where students can find them.

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For students

Find your orbit.

Right now, finding a club means asking someone who is already in one. That is the whole problem. OrbitWorks puts every club at your school on one page, and joining takes a tap.

Three moves, and you’re in.

1

Browse everything

All 110 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 110 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.

Search clubs

14 clubs

Chess Club
Games & Strategy
Rm 118
Mon 3:15 PM
Women in Engineering
STEM
Lab 1
Mon 3:30 PM
Investment Club
Business
Rm 204
Mon 4:00 PM
Marine Biology Club
Science
Rm 121
Tue 3:15 PM
Debate Club
Speech & Civics
Rm 210
Tue 3:30 PM
Math Club
STEM
Rm 209
Wed 3:30 PM
Model UN
Speech & Civics
Rm 301
Wed 3:30 PM
Dev Club
STEM
Lab 2
Wed 4:15 PM
RCDS AI Club
STEM
Innovation Lab
Thu 3:15 PM
DECA
Business
Rm 302
Thu 3:15 PM
Mock Trial
Speech & Civics
Rm 305
Thu 4:00 PM
Science Olympiad
Science
Rm 115
Fri 3:15 PM
Philosophy Club
Humanities
Rm 122
Fri 3:15 PM
Engineering & 3D Modeling
STEM
Makerspace
Fri 3:30 PM

Your weekNothing joined yet

MON

TUE

WED

THU

FRI

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.

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 PM · Rm 305

Roster3 of 4 present

Self

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.

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How it works

From a conversation to Launch Day.

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 OrbitWorks 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.orbit-works.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.

OrbitWorks 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.

See the live instance →

FAQ

Questions worth asking.

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 110 clubs use it. The live instance is at rcds.orbit-works.co, and every club name on this site is a real club there.

What does it cost?

Not settled. OrbitWorks 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. OrbitWorks 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.

OrbitWorks started as a corkboard outside a dining hall, covered in paper flyers for 110 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, 110 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 club at your school, on one page.

It starts as a wall of paper.

What actually changes.

The other half: what students are building past the gates.

Born at Rye Country Day. 110 clubs run on it today.

One school is a start. The map is the point.

Every club. Every school.One sky.

Yours next.

Find your orbit.

Three moves, and you’re in.

Browse everything

Tap join

Check your week

Try it. This one actually works.

Why one place matters.

Starting a club?

Run the club, not the paperwork.

Attendance in about twenty seconds.

The other four things you do every week.

Post an announcement

Ask for a room

Keep your club page true

Hand the club over

Launch Day instead of a folding table.

How many clubs do you actually have?

What you get on day one.

One directory that stays true

Approvals with a paper trail

Participation you can see

A real answer for the school

What it deliberately does not do.

Questions a school should push us on.

From a conversation to Launch Day.

A conversation

Your club list goes in

Leaders claim their clubs

Launch Day

What we need from you.

Honest about the stage.

Questions worth asking.

Every school. One sky.

The wall.

Where it is today.

One school, 110 clubs, live

Looking for the second school

Clubs that meet across schools

What we will not do.

Yours next.

Every club. Every school.
One sky.