interests and disciplines. The various student clubs in San Marin are: Anime Club, Art Club, Artemis: An Animal Rights Club, Card Game Club, CSF (California Scholarship Foundation), Current Events Club, Environmental Club, French Club, Friday Night Lights Club, The Vinyl Frontier (vinyl record club), Games Club, Gardening Club, Gossima Cult (Ping-Pong Club), Interact Club, Me to We Club, Mock Trial, Mock UN , Random Acts of Kindness Club, Save the Waves Club, Speech and Debate Club, the Robotics Club (Penguin Empire Robotics), NAQT Quiz Bowl, and Ultimate Frisbee Club. The San Marin School Website was developed by the Website club and maintained jointly by the students and PTSA. The Robotics Club won the Rookie of the Year, 2nd place overall and the website awards at their first FIRST Robotics Competition UC Davis Regional Competition and regional tournament in March 2008. The club went on to compete at the FIRST World Championship in Houston, TX during the 2019 season. In the 2011–2012 season, San Marin's Speech and Debate team secured six medals/trophies during their first year of competing in the Parliamentary Debate category. Notable Controversies During the 1990s and early 2000s, San Marin received significant media coverage locally and nationally for the intolerant behavior of some students and parents. Until it was banned in 1992, one of several themed annual "spirit days" was Slave Day. According to a 1999 Salon article written on the school's history, "students dressed in tattered clothes and chains were "auctioned" to other students, whom they were then required to serve for the day." Images of this day from the 1987-1988 year book circulated in 2020, drawing shock from students and community members. Reports of racial and ethnic intolerance began as early as 1995, when an American-born Asian-American senior at the school was beaten by a group of teenagers shouting racial slurs and telling him to go back to China. The one assailant who took responsibility was sentenced to 20 hours of community service. In early 1998, a student yelled racial epithets at members of the visiting Tamalpais High School basketball team. In reaction to the slurs and actions committed by the San Marin High student, parents of four of the black students from Tamalpais filed suit against the Novato Unified School District, charging that a "climate of intolerance" was allowed at San Marin. The Marin County Athletic League put San Marin on probation for more than