THE DIGITAL DRAGON
HSMSE Key Club
December 2018 Vol 2 Issue 5
EDITOR'S MESSAGE Hey Key Club! December is a fun time to spend the holidays with friends and family — but let's not forget about helping others this holiday season! This month our club is staying committed to our goals! We've been finding a lot of events and attending them, hosting fundraisers (like at the Divisional), and we're working on our scrapbook for LTC. Now that 2018 is over, it's important for all of us to look at what we've done and how we can improve. Let's make a commitment to do more for Key Club and help out our community even more in 2019! Angelo Lontok Editor
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction
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Board & Committees
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Club, Division, District
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Information & Updates
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Events
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Contact Us
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BOARD MEMBERS
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William Leung President
Linna Cheung Vice President
Mengfan Wang Secretary
Julie Li Treasurer
Angelo Lontok Editor
Kiln Chen Webmaster
COMMITTEE HEADS Aaron Das Events
Mia Akhter Visual Arts
Aiko Gerra Events Luis Pagan Events Karen Wu Events
Hassaan Qaiser Visual Arts
Laura Song Visual Arts 5
club Service gOAL
1,500 HOURS
FUNDS gOAL
$1,500
SERVICE BEST BUDDIES PROJECT INTERNATIONAL 6
division The different Key Clubs throughout Manhattan and the Bronx form Division 11. Each division is lead by a Lieutenant Governor and has its own executive board. The LTG for this division is Mara Yella. All the clubs in the division meet up about once a month at a divisional, which is held at a different school each time.
d11 schools
Bronx science Stuyvesant HSMSE NEst+M LaGuardia Hunter College HS Baruch College HS Millenium fordham Prep
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district The 29 divisions of New York make up New York District Key Club. Each Key Club district is led by a governor and has its own executive board. The governor for the New York district is Erica Swirsky. All the clubs in the district meet up once a year in March at the Leadership Training Conference in Albany.
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Goals
130,000 hours $155,000
PROJECTs
Governor's Project: Comfort Cases District Project: One Tree Planted
Leadership Training Conference LTC is a yearly conference over the weekend for all the New York District Key Clubs to meet up and have workshops, icebreakers, and elect the next service year's District Executive Board! March 29-31 The Desmond Hotel Albany, New York Theme:Â Aloha to Service!
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WHAT IS BEST BUDDIES INTERNATIONAL? Every service year, our club chooses an organization to support, and for the 2018-2019 service year, we chose Best Buddies International! This nonprofit's goal is to help out those with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), from people with Down syndrome, autism, brain injuries, and other disabilities.
promotes both people with and without IDD to be advocates for those with IDD, helping reduce societal stigma and gain increased rights.
HOW WILL HSMSE KEY CLUB SUPPORT BEST BUDDIES? It's no secret that our club hosts many fundraisers! While some of them do go to costs of running the club, such as to pay for LTC and making the scrapbook for LTC, we will donate much of our proceeds to Best Buddies, supporting their cause financially.
HOW DOES BEST BUDDIES HELP OUT THOSE WITH IDD? This organization's 3 Program Pillars are One-to-One Friendships, Integrated Employment, and Leadership Development. Best Buddies creates mentorships and friendships for those with IDD, helping enjoy a better quality of life. In addition, Best Buddies also
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POINTS
Points are assigned for your work in HSMSE Key Club. You can get points by doing things like going to meetings, divisionals, and events, helping out in committees, and more.
SYSTEM
Every 10 points you earn counts as one hour of volunteering.
Be sure to pay the $15 dues for the service year. If you don't, then we can't keep track of your points!
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You take initiative.
BEING A PROJECT LEADER
What you do Project leaders are important to helping Key Club run behind the scenes! Each event can have a different project leader. They're responsible for taking attendance, taking pictures, writing both a scrapbook caption and a newsletter article, and filling out a google form found on our website.
Key Club's four core values are caring, leadership, inclusiveness, and character building. By being a project leader, you get to showcase all of these values. Anyone can be a project leader - even new members!
It helps the club. Through the work of project leaders, our club is able to record volunteer hours and work on our annual scrapbook and bimonthly newsletters.
It helps you. You gain leadership experience from this, and you earn two extra hours of community service!.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS Interested in doing more for ELECTIONS the club? Try running for a position on the board! The positions you can run for are: President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, Editor, and Webmaster. Signups are due on February 1st, and the election will be held on February 12. The January Divisional will be held on January 31 at Bronx Science. This divisional DIVISIONAL is very important as elections will be hosted for the next LTG, and money will be due to buy Division 11's windbreakers! By now you should be thinking about LTC whether you want to attend LTC. It might be expensive (about $300) but it's still an unforgettable experience! Keep in mind that only dues paying members can attend, and those who get elected must attend! Fill out forms for the elections, the divisional, the apparel, and LTC on our Facebook page! 14
PAST EVENTS SEEDS IN THE MIDDLE GIFT-WRAPPING — 12.16.18
DECEMBER DIVISIONAL — 12.17.18
IT'S MY PARK @ LEIF ERICSON PARK — 12.29.18
MEALS ON HEELS — 12.22.18
Seeds in the Middle Gift Wrapping 16
Seeds in the Middle is an organization that promotes better health and more extracurricular programs for children in Crown Heights.
Choosing the perfect present for a family member or a friend can be stressful, but our volunteers made sure that people could have a comfortable experience at Barnes and Noble in Park Slope. We were wrapping gifts, talking to customers, and giving out cards that would allow some of the proceeds to go to Seeds in the Middle. This event wasn't just helpful for customers and the organization due to free gift-wrapping and donations, but it also allowed volunteers to enhance their communication and artistic skills as most of the volunteers engaged in conversations with multiple customers, while others with exceptional artistic skills also got a chance to shine, as gift-wrappers. Even for the volunteers, it wasn't just about gaining volunteer hours! We had an enjoyable time engaging in fun activities like gift-wrapping and arts and crafts with children. Volunteers learned a lot not just about personal skills but they also helped spread happiness. Tahoor Arif Sophomore 17
december divisional
This divisional was held at Baruch. It was nice seeing familiar faces from different schools, and new people too. We talked about LTC and even saw the promo video made by the District Board. HSMSE was selling candy bags and candy canes as minifundraiser, and we made a good amount of money!
meals on heels Meals on Heels is a program by Fifth Ave Presbyterian Church on Saturdays to prepare and deliver food for the homebound elderly in Manhattan.
I've gone to Meals on Heels a lot of times since I was a freshman. Each time it's always a great experience! It's fun helping and getting more experience with preparing food, and interacting with the others there. And it's not just high school volunteers; there are a lot of elderly church members that also want to help out the community. It's also fun to deliver the food, as we get to walk around and personally hand the food to the elderly, who are always happy to see us! Angelo Lontok 19 Editor
K R A P Y M S ' IT on Park s c i r E f i @ Le
During It's My Park @ Leif Ericson Park, the hardworking people in the community joined by HSMSE’s Key Club cleaned the park and planed seeds for the spring. Upon arriving, we found a large group of people gathered all here to clean the neighborhood park. Different roles were assigned in order to increase productivity. We chose to dig holes
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to plant seeds along the side to further beautify the park. We each grabbed a shovel and dug for seeds, presumed to be flower seeds. After planting approximately a thousand flower seeds, we moved on to raking leaves. While raking leaves, volunteers thought of extremely creative ways to effectively clean the leaves. Some used plastic bags to
piles and dispose of them. Others used rakes as chopsticks and impressively got the job done. The younger children used small, tiny shovels and patted the dirt down after filling the holes. Although not the most helpful, these children showed how much
they treasured the park. It was extremely rewarding to see and to work alongside people who cherish their neighborhood. Cleaning the park was laboring work, but in the moment, we were focused and having fun enjoying the rare, sunny New York weather tidying Leif Ericson Park. Brianna Nee Freshman
Brianna Nee Freshman
With the help of caring members of the community, young and old, the event ended in hundreds of bags of leaves and a thousand flower seeds planted!
future events Find more info and sign up for these events on our website or on our Facebook group!
Mulchfest - Fort Greene Park Conservancy
JAN 12 SATURDAY
Fort Greene Park Visitor Center 100 Washington Park Brooklyn, NY 11205 10 AM - 1 PM
Brooklyn Children's Museum
JAN 21 MONDAY
Brooklyn Children's Museum 145 Brooklyn Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11213 10 AM - 5 PM January Divisional
JAN 31 THURSDAY
The Bronx High School of Science 775 W 205th St Bronx, NY 10468 5:30 PM - 7 PM Meals on Heels at FAPC
EVERY SATURDAY
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Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church 7 West 55th Street New York, NY 10019 9 AM - 1 PM
CONTACT US Board Members William Leung 21isolic@gmail.com Linna Cheung lcheung1302@gmail.com Mengfan Wang mengfanwang724@gmail.com Julie Li julie.li3502224@gmail.com Angelo Lontok anelonto@gmail.com Kiln Chen kilnchen02@gmail.com Social Media Website: hsmsekeyclub.weebly.com Facebook Group: HSMSE Key Club Email: hsmsekc@gmail.com Remind: @msekc
Events Committee Aaron Das aaron.das1072@gmail.com Aiko Gerra alydiagerra@gmail.com Luis Pagan stemluis@gmail.com Karen Wu elizabethwu0514@gmail.com Visual Arts Committee Mia Akhter ztakhter-20@hsmse.org Hassaan Qaiser fashionsense1003@gmail.com Laura Song lauraws1234@gmail.com
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Thanks for reading!