THE KIWI
BRONX SCIENCE KEY CLUB
AUG '21 VOL 10.6
“No matter how hard or impossible it is, never lose sight of your goal.” – Monkey D Luffy
EDITOR'S NOTE Hey there! How you doing? Personally, I'm kind of sad because summer's over and school's starting, but also kind of excited. As with literally everything, in person Key Club meetings are so much more fun than virtual, and in person school in general has been something I'm really missing. It's going to be a challenging year, for the seniors who have to transition back to high intensity in person schooling during college season, and for everyone who hasn't even completed a full school year at Bronx. But! We'll all make it, and as always, we'll always have our Key Club community here to support each other. See you soon :)) Laura Pong '22
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Meet the Board
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Meet the Co-Heads
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Service Progress
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Looking Back
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Looking Forwards
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Announcements and Links
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Find Us
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PRESIDENT
VICE PRESIDENT
SECRETARY
Loretta Eng '22
William Wu '22
Shiya Lin '23
engl@bxscience.edu
wuw@bxscience.edu
lins10@bxscience.edu
MEET THE 21'-22' BOARD
TREASURER
Stephen Ogunbiyi '22 ogunbiyis@bxscience.edu
WEBMASTER AND BULLETIN EDITOR
Laura Pong '22 pongl@bxscience.edu
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MEET THE C CO-HE Awards SULTANA@BXSCIENCE.EDU
LIMM2@BXSCIENCE.EDU
ADAM SULTAN '23
MANDY LIM '23
Fundraising LUUL@BXSCIENCE.EDU
LINH LUU '23
YUH2@BXSCIENCE.EDU
HENRY YU '23
Projects JUNGC2@BXSCIENCE.EDU
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CHRISSY JUNG '24
ARANHAJ@BXSCIENCE.EDU
JOSLYN ARANHA '23
OMMITTEE EADS Public Relations JIANGM2@BXSCIENCE.EDU
MELODY JIANG '24
XIER@BXSCIENCE.EDU
REBECCA XIE '23
Scrapbook LEEJ16@BXSCIENCE.EDU
JEONGWON LEE '23
HEESCHF@BXSCIENCE.EDU
FINLEY HEESCH '23
Social Media CHENA19@BXSCIENCE.EDU
ANNY CHEN '23
YIPC@BXSCIENCE.EDU
CHLOE YIP '23
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SERVICE UPDATE
4,680 // 42.5%
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FUNDRAISING UPDATE
$2,285 // 38.1%
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LOOKING BA 8/7: Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival Members volunteered at the annual Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival in Corona Park!
8/8: K Bridge Park Members cleaned up one of Brooklyn's newest parks!
8/13: Dream Lab Members helped cancer researchers by lending their phone's computing power!
8/14: NYC Animal Care Center Members drew animals to help them get adopted!
8/15: Bronx Science Key Club’s Summer Meeting Members had their first in person meeting since the start of the pandemic, and completed a surprise service project!
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ACKWARDS 8/21: Help a Disabled Adult Members spent a day with an adult with a disability to keep them company!
8/22: TD Five Boro Bike Tour Members volunteered at the TD Five Boro Bike Tour!
8/24: Project Sidewalk Members identified possible problems with sideswalks in cities all across the country!
8/26: Charity Miles Members ran, biked, and walked to raise money for the Thirst Project!
8/28: Market Games and Activities Members helped volunteer by playing educational games for kids!
8/29: Freerice Members answered trivia questions to donate food!
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Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival
The Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival was amazing! It was my first time attending this event and I was lucky enough to have come with a handful of friends. During the event, I was working on the land side so we, the volunteers, helped set up booths, deliver items, and direct visitors to where they needed to go. My friends and I stood together in parking spaces to instruct incoming visitors where they could park; during those slow moments, we found delight in interacting with other Key Club members from other schools on our
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volunteer site. Later on, we were given pizza for lunch and an opportunity to explore the festival for ourselves. We saw a few performances such as a Chinese classical orchestra and a lion dance! Surprisingly, the entire event had lasted ten hours, but with friends, time flew by rather quickly. After the event, my friends and I went to the night food fair also located in the park and had a delightful time. I’d definitely recommend this event for any Key Clubbers, although it was hot, we were given plenty of refreshments and cool opportunities to help out! -- Anny Chen '23
I participated in the Under the K-Bridge Event. While I did get lost trying to get there, I did have fun in the park clean up. I never experienced pulling out weeds before, so it was a learning experience in doing so. In addition, I also helped pull out thorny weeds, which the people I participated in had trouble in doing, so it was also a mild ego boost I got during the event :D I’m more enthusiastic and excited about park cleanups now! -- Linh Luu '23
Under the K Bridge
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DRE LA
When I first read about this event, I wondered how simply charging a phone can help cancer research. I watched an explanation video to understand how the I loved participating in the virtual D Dream Lab app works and I realized that a on August 13th! It was incredib virtual supercomputer can be created when participate in and I thought it was s a large number of people simply charge different compared to other even their phones while sleeping at night. This doing. The Dream Lab app lets me d to a good cause: my phone’s com was such an interesting event, and I was glad to be able to help to solve the lifelong Scientists need massive amounts o power to crunch data in order to so question of innumerable scientists. -problems. All I had to do was plug i Jeongwon Lee '23
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stay in the Dream Lab App. Althou done this overnight, I ended up doin day! Not only was it helping medi allowed me to stay off my phone for Despite being a virtual event, I felt l an impact on my community by calculations in the research related was the cause that I chose to help o because I was able to see how many phone was solving! I definitely w continuing to plug in my phone participate in Dream Lab! -- Chr
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NYC ANIM CEN
The NYC Animal Care Center event was very fun to participate in! The objective of this event was to draw portraits of an abandoned animal on the Animal Care Centers of NYC website, include their name and ID on the portrait, and the center will use the portrait to help advertise for the animal’s adoption. All the animals on the website were adorable, and it was a pleasure to help them! Although my drawing skills aren’t that good, it was exciting to help these animals find a home by drawing them a little portrait. After the event, I got to share my drawings with a few of my friends who also participated in the event; we were all hopeful that these animals would find a new home with our help. All in all, it was a wonderful event to take part in; I'm glad to have helped these animals in such a unique way and I look forward to future events like this one! -- Anny Chen '23
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MAL CARE NTER
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gniteeM remmuS
The Summer Meeting was so much fun! It was nice meetin clubbers, and the service project was fun as well! There wa few of us went to, and it was so much fun going there as we to meet some people I met online, along with happy m
On August 15, I attended the Bronx Scie Overall, the weather was very nice a club members. There were many diffe nice view of the Manhattan skyline, so volunteers created kits for the homele during this pandemic. It felt super re good food that was organized an
The Summer Meet was nothing short of fun! We gathered at Gantr and left our snacks in the middle. Being a co-head, I had to arrive ea other co-heads and board members (for the first time in a while). meeting time, I was elated to see so many familiar faces. I met an during the meet; there couldn’t have been a more perfect day to ha on a hammock with a few of my friends, chatting, enjoying the bree was a very lofty experience. Towards the end of the meet, Loretta h creating care packages for the Bowery Mission, which provides ne The teamwork exemplified while participating in the service proj meant so much more to me now that we’d gone through a year connection to a greater cause. All in all, the Summer Meet will be love— I’m looking forward to future events more than
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ting all the Bronx Science key was also a playground which a well. The meeting allowed me y memories! -- Linh Luu '23
ence Key Club’s Summer meeting at Gantry Plaza State Park. nd it was super fun connecting with other new and old key erent board and card games to play and the park also had a it was not boring for even a moment. For the service project, ess to help with hygiene and in general, stay safer especially ewarding to complete the service project and to eat all the nd I would definitely attend again. -- Arham Akhyer '23
ry Park, set out our picnic blankets, arly, but it was pleasant to chat with . As people came at the appointed nd talked to new, familiar people ave a picnic. I found myself relaxing eze, and admiring the city skyline; it had introduced our service project: ecessities for the homeless in NYC. ect was touching; in-person events without experiencing a greater an event that I will remember with n ever! --Anny Chen '23
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PROJECT SIDEWALK For this event, I was able to virtually explore streets and label problems on the streets that could pose a threat to those in wheelchairs, such as missing curbs, narrow sidewalks, and much more. This event was memorable because I was able to help people in an entirely different place (I mostly did the exploring in the Seattle area) through my computer. It also made me aware of a prevalent issue, which is that many places are near or completely inaccessible to those in wheelchairs. -- Adam Sultan '23
CHARITY MILES
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Honestly I love doing Charity Miles since it's such a nice way to be giving to a charity while also being able to keep track of how many steps or what distance you went in a day. This time around was for the Thirst Project and it's pretty easy to do, you pick a charity and then you just make some movement (walking, biking, hiking, etc...)! For someone who's normal day involves a decent amount of walking it's a pretty convenient and simple way of giving back. I've found that after some time it can become a bit of a one-person competition to see which days I can do more steps :) It's always fun to be a part of Charity Miles and help out however we can. -- Molly Quito '22
MARKET GAMES AND ACTIVES In person events are finally back, so I knew I had to immediately sign up for The Market Games and Activities Event. As the project captain of the event, I was looking forward to meeting new members and spending some time playing soccer and mini games with little kids. When we arrived at the playground, my friend Eva and I were in charge of making a scavenger hunt for the kids. It was actually pretty difficult trying to come up with clues that both rhymed and made sense for the children. In the end, however, the kids were able to complete the scavenger hunt in a shorter amount of time than it took Eva and I to make it. To be honest, I don’t know if that means we did a good job or not, but the kids seemed satisfied with their surprise back to school prizes at the end of the hunt. Overall, I am really happy that I was able to attend this event and make some new memories with the members. This day truly reminded me of how much I love in person events. -- Jessica Alonso '22
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TD Five Borough Bike Tour The TD Five Boro Tour was an event where Key Clubbers, volunteers, and staff came together to organize the Astoria Park rest station for the bikers participating in the marathon. The rest station was where bikers could stop for a moment and recharge their energy before heading back on the route. We organized the food and drinks so the bikers could grab them and go as well as cleaned up trash afterward. I had a ton of fun participating in this event because I’ve made amazing new friends and got to be a member of a small team managing the station. -- Rebecca Xie '23
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FreeRice Free Rice is an event where you just answer easy questions to donate rice to those who can’t afford food. Each question answered raises approximately enough money for 10 grains of rice. This event is super easy and pretty fun to do. I remember one day I was bored and didn’t really feel like doing anything, so I just opened up free rice and answered some questions to pass the time. I had some music in the background and was just chilling and doing free rice. Free Rice is an amazing event that is fun to do and makes you feel good since you know you are helping out those who are not as fortunate. -- Henry Yu '23
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LOOKING F 9/3: Revitalization At Crotona Park Members will help maintain the gardens at Crotona Park!
9/4: Ocean Breeze Green Team Members will help with park maintenance at Ocean Breeze Park!
9/4: Bronx River Foodway Members will help steward the edible food forest at the Bronx River Foodway!
9/5: Kehilat Food Pantry Distribution Members will staff with serve meals to hundreds of people in the community!
Pitch-in at St. Nicholas Park Members will help clean St. Nicholas Park to make it more welcoming for families and the community!
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FORWARDS 9/10: Project WASTE at Muskrat Cove Members will help maintain the Muskrat Cove with the Bronx River Alliance!
9/11: Mad Fun Farm Garden Bolunteer Members will help Concrete Safaris maintain their gardens!
9/11: Packing Meals on the Intrepid Members will volunteer to and help assemble over 1 million meals!
9/12: Package School Supplies Members will volunteer at the Harlem JCC to package supplies for the East Harlem Tutorial Program!
9/16: Queens Food Pantry Distribution Members will volunteer with Hour Children Community Outreach at their food pantry!
9/18: Emergency Food Program Members will volunteer at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue to prepare food packages!
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LOOKING F 9/18: Van Cortlandt Park Forest Care Members will help to restore parts of the Northeast Forest of Van Cortlandt Park!
9/19: Forest Park Litter Ambassadors Members will clean up with the Little Ambassadors program!
9/25: NYSoM Superhero Festival Members will volunteer at NYSoM's 4th annual Superhero Festival!
9/25: Wellfare DTC Food Pantry Delivery Members will volunteer by delivering food boxes to residents at 20 NYCHA developments in Brooklyn!
9/25: New Balance Bronx 10 Mile Members will volunteer the Bronx 10-mile race at registration and distribution!
9/26: Charity Miles Members will run, bike, and walk to raise money for the World Wildlife Fund!
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FORWARDS
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Announcements and Links Sign our petition sets!
Made by our lovely PR CoHeads Melody Jiang '24 and Rebecca Xie '23
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DIVISION UPDATES Sign up for D11 emails!
Submit to D11's Panda Press here
Check out the 4th issue of the Panda Press here
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LINKS!!
1. Events Doc 2. Board Suggestions 3. Article/ Photo Submission Form 4. Points and Hours 5. Point and Hours Corrections
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