IHS Key Club May 2016 Newsletter

Service in the Spotlight: How can you serve your community this summer?

News from the Independence High School Key Club – Frisco, Texas

Independence Insight

Want to get involved in the community this summer? Check out these opportunities!

Organization:

Website/Address:

Dallas Public Library Study Buddy Our Daily Bread Food Pantry- Individual Our Daily Bread Food Pantry- Families Dallas Public Library Volunteer Orientation Dallas Public Library Mayor’s Summer Reading Club Crossroads Community Services The Perot Museum of Nature and Science

https://www.volgistics.com/ex/por Not Available tal.dll/ap?ap=1020232491 Not Available (214) 535-7513 (214) 375-0495 www.cocinc.org (214) 371-2633 lbarree@aol.com www.dallaslibrary.org (214) 671-9206 volunteer@dallaslibrary2.org https://www.volgistics.com/ex/por Not Available tal.dll/ap?ap=1020232491 http://www.ccsdallas.org/

(214) 560-2511 x403 Not Available

Heifer International-Dallas

http://www.perotmuseum.org/ab out-theperot/Volunteer/discoverycorps.html http://www.citysquare.org/jointhe-fight/ http://www.buckner.org/voluntee r http://www.operationcareinternat ional.org/volunteer/ http://familygateway.org/voluntee r/ http://www.heifer.org/

Miracle League of Frisco

http://friscomiracleleague.org/

(214) 295-6411

THANKs

http://www.cpdtx.org/default.asp ?contentID=58 http://www.trinitystrand.org/getinvolved.html http://www.soupmobile.org/

(214) 624-7585

City Square Food Pantry Buckner Foundation Operation Care International Family Gateway

Trinity Strand Trail Soup Mobile, Inc. Junior Volunteer Shelter Volunteer Dallas LIFE

(214) 303-2111 (214) 758-8141 (972) 681-3567 (214) 823-4500 x106 Not Available

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http://www.tsrhc.org/junior(214) 559-7825 volunteer-program http://www.genesisshelter.org/pa (214) 389-7701 ge.aspx?pid=339 http://www.dallaslife.org/voluntee (214) 421-1380 r-at-dallas-life.html

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A Letter from the Vice President:

Table of Contents: Service in the Spotlight……………………1 Letters from the Officers…………………2 Upcoming Events…………………………….3 Officer Bios and Contact……………….4-5 Pictures………………………..……………...6-8

Hey there Key Clubbers! As your new Vice President, I would like to welcome you all to the 2016-2017 Key Club year. I am very excited to see what the year will bring and work to increase membership and make our club the best it can be.

Thank you for giving me this opportunity to serve you all; let's work together to make this a great year!

Letter to the Club……………………………..9

–Satya Boddu

Contact us at: A Letter from the Editor:

Remind 101: Text @ihske to 81010 Twitter: @ihskey_club Facebook: Independence HS Key Club Email: ihsknightskeyclub@friscoisd.org

Hi guys! I hope you have had a great school year and are ready to have a GREAT summer! I hope all of you have fun and travel safe if you are going on vacation! If you are traveling I would love to hear about it! (Write an article and send pictures! You get hours! ) Anyway, I look forward to seeing you this summer at some of our great upcoming events! Have fun, be safe, and Be The Good!

Yours in Service, Keaton Hippler

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Upcoming Events DATE:

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KEY CLUB SPONSERED:

E-mail/Sign-Up Links

**Watch Facebook, Twitter, and Remind 101 for any socials or other upcoming events for June! Have a great summer, Key Clubbers!

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Meet the Officers Name: Anjika Bhalla

Name: Satya Boddu

Grade: 10th

Grade: 10th

Position: President

Position: Vice President

Anjika is in the 10th grade and is our President this year. Anjika is involved in many things outside of Key Club including: Tennis, Debate, Youth and Government, and DECA. Anjika enjoys watching One Tree Hill in her spare time. Her favorite Key Club activity is selling Candy Grams.

Satya is in the 10th grade and is our Vice President for the 2016-2017 Key Club year. Satya is involved in DECA and loves playing basketball. Satya’s favorite movie is Tangled, and her favorite ice cream flavor is cookies and cream. Her favorite service project with Key Club is Kids Against Hunger! Satya is super excited for this upcoming Key Club year and is excited to serve you!

P.S. Her favorite candy is Sour Patch Kids.

Name: Macy Shult

Name: Melissa Wang

Grade: 10th

Grade: 10th

Position: Secretary

Position: Secretary

Macy is in 10th grade and will be one of our Secretaries this year. Macy is involved with her church, HOSA, FCA, and Cross Country outside of school. Macy’s favorite Key Club activity is Kids Against Hunger and her favorite candy is Dark Chocolate.

Melissa is in the 10th grade and will be one of our secretaries this year. Melissa is involved in several things outside of Key Club including: Orchestra, and other volunteering outside of Key Club. Melissa works during her spare time and likes to spend time enjoying her youth. Melissa enjoys getting to be directly involved with all of the members.

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Name: Grace Zhou

Name: Keaton Hippler

Grade: 9th

Grade: 10th

Position: Treasurer

Position: Editor

Keaton is in the 10th grade and is the Editor for our club this year. Keaton is involved in theatre, NHS, and his church choir. His favorite Key Club activity is Kids Against Hunger, and getting to be involved with you has the members.

Grace Zhou is in the 9th grade and is our Treasurer this year. Grace is involved in Orchestra outside of Key Club. Her favorite Key Club activity is Kids Against Hunger and she looks forward to serving you over the next year!

P.S. His favorite candy is Peanut M&Ms

Name: Ankit Shah

Name: Mrs. Miller

Grade: 11th

Name: Mrs. Hippler

Position: Public Relations

Position: Sponsors

Mrs. Miller was born and raised in California and has lived in Arizona, and Texas. She has been teaching for 25 years. Mrs. Miller’s favorite thing about Key club is that it is entirely student led and she loves getting to see students come together and change the world!

Ankit is a junior at IHS and will be our Public Relations Officer this year. Ankit is also involved in Band. Ankit’s favorite Key Club event is Kids Against Hunger. He looks forward to serving you as the Public Relations Officer this year!

A native Texan, Mrs. Hippler cannot imagine living anywhere other than the “Lone Star State”. She has been teaching for 25 years and has been directly involved in Key Club for 17 of those years. Mrs. Hippler most enjoys watching students become life-long community service volunteers.

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Pictures At the last meeting of the school year, students went into the school and asked their peers to donate to the Kids Against Hunger organization in an effort to raise money to host another event here at HIS. Students raised a total of $36.67!

At the Back-to-Summer social, we officially said goodbye to our old officers, and welcomed our new officers for the 2016-2017 school year!

The officers were installed by our Division 2 North Lieutenant Governor, Ish Patel from the Allen High School Key Club!

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Students get some snacks and ice cream at the Back-to-Summer social before officer installation, and some fun games!

Our amazing Kiwanis sponsors from the Allen Kiwanis Club!

Allen Kiwanis has done an AMAZING job of taking care of us, and making sure that we have the tools to be as successful as possible as a club!

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Students a game at the Back-to-Summer social that requires them to grab, and keep as many games as they can without letting them hit the ground, or letting them pop!

(RIGHT) Students have a gift exchange with summer items costing $5 or less! The rules of the exchange were that when the music stopped, the gift in your hand was the gift you received! (LEFT) We honor the former officers that are seniors of the class of 2016.

They each received a picture frame with the picture from our Key Club Chartering Ceremony!

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Dear IHS Key Club, Our newsletter can only be fun, and informative with your participation! Without you, why have a newsletter? As a club, we really need you! So, please fill out the Mystery Member google form, submit articles based on the prompts for each month (You get service hours for this!), and have fun. You are only in high school once, so why not make the best of it? It only takes a few minutes to do all of these things, so why not help the club out? Let’s go out and serve the community together!

Yours in Service, IHS Key Club Officers

Mystery Member Google Form: https://goo.gl/guKEEV

Article Prompts for this Month: -How do you plan to carry the Key Club mission (Caring… our way of life!) with you on your summer adventures?

-Do you have ideas for service projects? Let us know what they are, and explain how it could be executed.

Rules for Writing Articles: If you would like to earn hours, write a 400+ word article and include at least 1 picture on one of the following prompts: For every article submitted (Limit= 1 article per prompt per person) you will receive 30 minutes credit. If it selected to be featured in our local newsletter, you will receive an additional 30 minutes credit. If your article is featured in the district newsletter, you will receive an additional 30 minutes credit. (This is a monthly opportunity.

Remember to look here for next month’s article prompts.) **Articles must be submitted to me by the 28th of every month!

(Send to keaton.hippler.324@k12.friscoisd.org) If you have read to this point, let me know by emailing me at keaton.hippler.324@k12.friscoisd.org The first 10 people, will receive a prize at our first meeting of the year! **You must be at the meeting to get your prize.

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