Cube Club Craze
Hope Fahler (‘26), Campus News Editor
This year, a new club has stood out among over 30 student organizations at Casady. Rubik’s Cube Club, dedicated to the colorful, rotating puzzle known as a Rubik’s Cube, has quickly become the most popular club at school. Despite its recent creation, the club’s exciting meetings and energetic leaders have quickly turned it into a favorite of many students.
The idea for this new club came to founders Ayden Kerr (‘25) and Jack Lee (‘25) in what Kerr describes as a “religious-like epiphany.” They felt that the Casady student body needed such a club, and knew they had to take on the responsibility of creating it. To bring their idea to life, they asked Mr. Davis to act as the club’s sponsor, and he agreed after hearing their “visionary idea.”
Starting the club and gaining members took “pure grit,” Kerr explained. Despite many late nights and worries about how Casady students would receive the club, the founders pushed through and made it to the club fair. Over 120 students signed up for Rubik’s Cube Club, making it the largest club in Casady history.
The club meets every other Friday, with a new activity each meeting. To plan each Cube Club assembly, Kerr and Lee “empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test” to create an exciting and productive agenda. Their meeting activities include cube-offs, speedcubing documentaries, and even calls with famous Cubers.
“My favorite memory of Rubik’s Cube Club,” Mr. Davis says, “was probably getting to hear from a direct descendant of the inventor of the cube.” In an especially exciting meeting, Mitsubishi Rubik, the grandson of Erno Rubik, called in to speak with club members about cubing. Mr. Davis described the call as “an honor.”
Kerr and Lee structure their club to welcome all cubers, both skilled and inexperienced. For example, cube-offs are split by skill level. While the advanced cubers rush to complete the puzzle, newer members work to solve a single side. Additionally, many meetings are spent watching inspirational cubing videos to encourage and motivate beginners.
Students throughout the upper division have found a community in Cube Club. One such member is Luke Woodruff (‘26). Despite his current inability to solve a Rubik’s cube, Woodruff describes the club as “one big, happy family.” He is especially proud of his first cube-off win, which consisted of him solving one side against fellow cuber Andrew Lawrence (‘26).
While Kerr and Lee are seniors, they plan to keep the club’s success going for many years after graduation. The founders are waiting to announce who they plan to pass the club down to, but Kerr promises that the club’s future is bright. No matter what the future of the club may hold, it has undeniably had a successful year and inspired many Casady students to become dedicated cubers.
