The Talon of T-O | Mansfield Lake Ridge Key Club | January 2022 | Volume 5 Issue 10

the talon of T-O

January 2022 VOLUME 5 - ISSUE 10 DIVISION 39S - REGION 7

Lake Ridge High School Key Club

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LEDCON Theme Calendar of February Upcoming events Featured article Featured article Photo and Articles The UNICEF Poster Service Partners Service Partners cont.

Stay Connected (Club Info) The Kiwanis Family Officer Contact District Contact

LEDCON 2022 THEME

Service is Sweet Many contests offered Build leadership and connections Registration is open!

APRIL 21 - 24, 2022 Hilton Anatole in Downtown Dallas, TX

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SMITHSONIAN DIGITAL VOLUNTEER When: Anytime How: Click here to volunteer online.

Hour: Base on your time log.

ALLIES IN YOUTH

What: You will be transcribing and reviewing materials for the Smithsonian Museum

Time: Every Sunday (excluding the first of the month)

PROJECT GUTENBURG

from 3-4:30 PM

When: Anytime

Location: 1315 FM 1187, Suite 107,

How: Click here to volunteer online.

Mansfield, TX 76063

Hour: 1 hour per book or article

Info: You will pack boxes of

What: You will be transcribing and

clothes, toys, personal hygiene

proofreading books for the online library.

products, and make cards to send to orphans in Eastern

FREERICE

European countries.

When: Anytime

Sign Up: Bring your hour log and

How: Download the FreeRice app or click

sign up here

here Info: You will be playing multiple-choice vocabulary games to donate grains of rice to families around the world.

KEY CLUB BIWEEKLY MEETING When: Wednesday, February 9th - Officers election will be during the meeting Wednesday, February 26th Where: LRHS Library (3:15 - 4:00 PM)

What runs but never walks, breaks but never mends?

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Prepping For an Exciting LEDCON WRITTEN BY ETHAN CLARK With LEDCON fast-approaching, the excitement is bubbling up, and Key Clubs from everywhere are preparing! Each Key Club is beginning to promote and raise funds for this novel Convention. The Lake Ridge High School Key Club has also begun the preparations and promotion necessary to build the elated nature of LEDCON. We have been promoting LEDCON through the use of motivation to attend the event, picture galleries from the past years of attendance, and various fundraisers to support the event.

Lake Ridge High School Key encourages all members, while having to meet the requirement for hours, to go above-and-beyond these standards to further the ideals of Key Club and help the community in an even more impactful way. This dedication of going beyond what is required, is a defining aspect of Key Club, and due to its exemplification in our club, we reward our boy and girl members who have the highest hour count with the ability to attend LEDCON with the officers. This promotion benefits the community, and also gives a little extra motivation to our members, thereby promoting LEDCON within our club.

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At our Key Club meetings, we always enjoy showing pictures and videos from past years at LEDCON, when permissible, and encouraging members to look forward to it. We usually have a section in many of our presentations that we use during meetings, that reminds members about LEDCON, describes, and portrays the event through pictures and videos. I’ve personally had, at least half the club, if not more, come up to me wanting to know more about this new, fun opportunity called LEDCON. The concept of a multitude of Key Clubs coming together to serve, bond, and unite as a family appears as the opportunity of a lifetime -- this would be the right assumption! LEDCON offers something for everyone: adventure, service, party, competition, and family-building!

Our Key Club at Lake Ridge High School also uses a final application to simultaneously promote LEDCON and show our values. We accomplish this through the use of fundraisers, which finance the club and its adventures. We recently began to sell gummy bears to accomplish just this, and they’ve been a huge success. Each member has registered to sell them, and our school is now riddled with hyper kids due to the Gummy Bears. We’ve also participated and organized multiple bake sales, in order to raise club funds and promote LEDCON. Through these acts of fundraising, promotion, and service, Lake Ridge High School’s Key Club has promoted and advertised the greatness that is LEDCON. All of our members here at Lake Ridge High School in Mansfield are looking forward to it!

We’ll see you there!

Balancing School and Extracurricular Activities WRITTEN BY TAWAKALT OKUNOLA It is not uncommon to find students tired and stressed out from school, extracurricular activities and even work. Most have similar routines: Wake, School, Activities/ Work, Study Sleep, Repeat. This is a tough schedule that can be hard to follow while making sure to take care of yourself. Especially for Key Club members (because we volunteer), it can be very demanding. In order to juggle these responsibilities effectively, I suggest that you set a personal schedule that allots time to different activities based on their level of importance and also set some time to relax.

Humans thrive on consistency by organizing in particular, unique ways to themselves. For example, my daily schedule may vary from that of a freshman at my school because we take different classes and therefore our schedules will also differ as we value different subjects over others. Thus, the easiest way to balance school and life is to set a personal schedule and stick with it. Buy a planner, or use the notes/calendar app on your phone to keep organized. This helps to set priorities and develop beneficial time management skills.

Categorize your schedule by daily and weekly activities and keep short-term and long term goals. You can also use post it notes, markers, highlighters and more to stay organized. Doing this may also provide you with some stress relief. Remember, school work should always come first. Make sure to keep your GPA up as that will most likely predict your college choices and career path.

While you may have a full schedule, that does not mean that you should ignore family, friends or sacrifice good sleep and meals. You have to make sure to allot time to take care of yourself. Once in a while, it may be fine to sleep for four hours if you have an important project due soon but do not let staying up late become a habit. Take time for yourself to avoid getting burned out. Be sure to reward yourself for your hardwork and you could even take up wellbeing activities such as Yoga and exercise.

Another good tip I have for staying on schedule is to never waste time. If you ever have a free period or study hall, use it to catch up on assignments or do something productive like researching colleges. Stay Productive!

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easy volunteering hours?

Take volunteering photos and write articles for Key Club!

Due date: Anytime Info: You will be writing articles about anything that is related to Key Club or your experiences with Key Club.

ARTICLES REQUIREMENTS: IT SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST 400 WORDS, A TITLE, AND A PHOTO INCLUDED. 1 HOUR PER ARTICLE. PHOTO SUBMISSIONS- 15 MINUTES FOR EVERY APPROVED PHOTO Submission: Submit articles to lakeridgehskeyclub@gmail.com and submit photos through the Key Club Canvas you can find the link to on our Teams

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SERVICE PARTNERS

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Click on the LOGOS of these organizations to learn more about our service partners!

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STAY

Connected Lake Ridge High School Key Club https://lakeridgekeyclub. wixsite.com/lrkc

T-O website

https://tokeyclub.com/

Key Club International https://www.keyclub.org/

Social Media & Resources

@lrhs.keyclub

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@LRKeyClub

Text @lrhskc2020 to 81010 to join

The Family K-Kids

CKI

Builders Club

A student-led program for elementary school students to build leadership skills and strong characters for service.

A student-led service organization for college students

A service club for middle-school students that helps them to improve selfconfidence, teamwork, and goal setting skills.

Aktian Club

Key Club

Kiwanis

A service club for adults with disabilities that helps them to discover their talents to help others and to develop confidence.

A service organization for high school students that provides opportunities to serve, improve leadership, and personal growth.

An international service organization that sponsor leadership clubs.

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Officer Contact PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT

Neva Khan Destin Drummond lrhskcpresident@gmail.com lrhskcvicepresident@gmail.com

SECRETARY

TREASURER

Elizabeth Mingle Ethan Clark lrhskcsecretary@gmail.com lrhskctreasurer@gmail.com

HOURS COORDINATOR

EDITOR

Bisola Okunola lrhskchours@gmail.com

Nhi Nguyen lrhskceditor@gmail.com

SERVICE COORDINATOR

WEBMASTER

Olivia Wurtz rhskcservice@gmail.com

Madison Nguyen lrhskcwebmaster@gmail.com

Contact our officers if you have any concerns or questions!

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District Contact DISTRICT GOVERNOR

DISTRICT EDITOR

Lilian Thai governor@tokeyclub.com

Anushka Ranjan editor@tokeyclub.com

DISTRICT SECRETARY

DISTRICT TREASURER

Ginna Galindo secretary@tokeyclub.com

Makayla Hsieh treasurer@tokeyclub.com

CONVENTION LIASON

TECH PRODUCER

Val Hennessee cl@tokeyclub.com

Noah Obuya techproducer@tokeyclub.com

DIVISION 39S LTG Lauren St Clair ltg39s@tokeyclub.com

INTERNATIONAL TRUSTEE Aliya Ali aliya.ali@keyclub.org

REGION 7 ADVISOR Melissa Greene region7@tokeyclub.com REMIND CODES Text to 81010 T-O District @todistrict Secretaries @tosecs Treasurers @totreas Editors @toeditors Webmasters @towebs

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