President’s Letter Meet Your New Officer
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Volunteer Opportunities
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What is Key Club?
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Key Club Projects
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Keeping up with Key Club
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Teamwork is Key
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Alex’s Lemonade Stand Fundraiser
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My First PCM
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Eliminate & Ethiopia
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Thirst Project
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Monthly Memories
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Officer Contact Information
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Mansfield Summit Key Club members, The summer is approaching to an end in a couple of weeks and although it’s quite saddening that the break was short, your Key Club officers are highly enthusiastic and excited for this school year and we hope you are too! All of our hosted socials, service events, and projects this summer was definitely a success and it’s all thanks to our members and the other Key Clubs for participating and supporting us through it all. This school year will be packed with fun, fun, and more fun so we hope you’re ready! By instilling positive spirits and promoting service and academic achievements, the officers of Mansfield Summit Key Club guarantee that you will see many great accomplishments that we will achieve together this year as a whole club – together, hand in hand and heart to heart. With that being said, this school year will be a thrilling year for students and Key Club members at Mansfield Summit. Let’s continue to change our communities for the better one service at a time and witness the grand doors that will be open along the way. Yours in Service,
Alice Nguyen SHS Key Club President
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Meet Your Newest Officer
Hey fellow Key Clubbers! I’m Michael and I’ll be serving as your Historian for the 2017-2018 school year. I’m happy to say this is my final and last year of high school! This year I plan on playing tennis and becoming more involved at Summit. I love watching anime! Some of my favorite things to watch are “DBZ” and “My Hero Academia” I believe myself to be quiet and shy at first but once you get to know me I’m pretty cool. Well enough about me, I can’t wait for the amazing school year and to meet every SHS Key Clubber !
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Everyday: Mission Arlington 7am – 7pm @ 210 W South St. Arlington, TX
Wednesdays: Summer Backpack Food Program 10 am— 11 am or 6 pm—7pm @ 150 South 6th Ave. Mansfield, TX
Tuesdays & Thursdays: Rush Creek Food Pantry 1 pm to 3 pm @ 2350 SW Green Oaks Blvd. Arlington, TX
Saturdays: St. Jude’s Catholic Church Food Pantry 9 am to 11 am @ 500 E Dallas St. Mansfield, TX
•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• August 10th : Nursing Home Bingo Night 7 pm to 9 pm @ 1402 E Broad St. Mansfield, TX
Listed above are single volunteer opportunities as well as reoccurring events, that are available throughout the school year. These opportunities will allow you to have fun while also helping out your community!
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WHAT IS KEY CLUB? Key Club is an international student-led organization which provides its members with opportunities to provide service, build character and develop leadership which provides its members with opportunities to provide service, build character and develop leadership.
WHO ARE WE? We are caring and competent servant leaders transforming communities worldwide. The core values are leadership, character building, caring, and inclusiveness
Sophia Nguyen
WHY KEY CLUB? No other organizations provide the opportunities that we do. With us, you better lives, make friends, and grow as a person. You're not joining a club. You're joining a family.
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“We don’t make keys, but we do open doors!” Find out more at keyclub.org
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KEY CLUB Children’s Medical Network Hospitals CMN Hospitals contributions directly benefit hospitals, helping to purchase up-to-date equipment, train staff, conduct life-saving research, implement outreach programs and provide health care for children whose parents can’t afford to pay.
March of Dimes The mission of the March of Dimes is to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth, and infant mortality.
UNICEF Unicef is dedicated exclusively to children, works with other United Nations bodies, governments and nongovernmental organizations to assist in children’s needs through community-based services in primary health care, basic education, and safe water and sanitation in more than 150 developing countries.
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By: Arantza Zamudio, Webmaster There’s something unique about being part of a club. Any well-organized club will encourage its members to participate in events, and to bring their friends. Key Club, for one, supports teamwork at service events as the members of each club help each other with getting work done, while still having a good time. It has been proven that volunteering is more enjoyable with companions. Whether it be casual acquaintances you meet at an event (and will perhaps never see again), or the best friend you consider as your “other half”, one way to enjoy a service event is to bring, and even make teams. Working with others exercises the human instinct of kindness, as it kindles the fire of leadership and nurtures friendships into strong bonds, and when both features are combined to do good, both the you and the cause benefit from the experience. Stamina is needed in the majority of service events. Friends are there to motivate you, and each word of encouragement works in a pay-it-forward way. Motivation ripples the air until each person present breathes in the message to keep going. This is true of marathons, armed forces, cycling races, and even Mansfield Kiwanis’ Feed The Kids. In a marathon, runners often travel in teams or watch the backs of their allies, or even stop to help a fallen comrade. In the army, helping a fallen comrade is not only a gesture of love within camaraderie, it is an act that is highly praised and rewarded, both in material with a medal and in spirit with the gratitude of those rescued. Camaraderie in a cycling race is shown when the pack (the
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group of cyclists often leading the rest) is in their triangle form, much like the V-formation of migrating ducks. The participant at the head of the group is responsible for breaking the wind, with the flanking cyclists shielding the people within the pack from the swift air current. As they go, they’ll rotate positions to distribute the work evenly. Mansfield Kiwanis’ Feed The Kids takes all of these situations into perspective; friends and clubs from each school are the teams watching out for each other, and will step in to help another volunteer if they need help, with a warm hearted “thank you” in return. The workload can become overwhelming in the blazing summer sun, so volunteers distribute the work into teams: those who hand out supplies, those who fill the bags, and those who tie the bags, just to name a few. Water breaks are also offered for the hardworking people, if they begin to feel faint. While they break, another will cover for their position, and the flow will continue as normal. The fondest of memories are likely to have friends within them. Attending a service event with friends makes for even bigger memories. Volunteering is a constructive way to get to know each other better, and to strengthen a pre-existing bond, or to form a new one. By helping at a cause you feel compelled to promote, you will meet others who feel as strongly about it as you do. Help each other, push each other, love each other. I challenge you to invite that friend you seldom see any more to volunteer with you, or to speak to that person who regularly visits the same events that you do. Together, you’ll prove that teamwork is the key to success.
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From behalf of all the Mansfield Summit Key Club Officers:
We never would have been able to raise over a thousand dollars without the generous donations from: •
Kiwanian, Steve Hallford
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Summit HS Assistant Principal, Mr. Peters Summit Key Club Advisor, Mr. Waneck LHS Key Club Officers: Kaitlin, Margaret, Tiffany & Joseph MHS Key Club Officers: Emma & Cathryn The Singleton Family The Bradford Family Quat Nguyen
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By: Sarah Banafe,
Treasurer
At the end of this month, our Key Club participated in the Alex’s Lemonade Stand fundraiser in order to raise awareness and fund research for pediatric cancer. It was a volunteering experience like no other. Outside in the Texas heat, our Key Club and other Key Clubs in our community showed great pride for this fundraiser. After four consecutive days of fundraising, our Key Club raised just over one-thousand dollars for this fundraiser! None of this could have been possible without the efforts put in by the board members of our Key Club.
At first, us board members were not very hopeful about creating a significant contribution to Alex’s Lemonade Stand. The year before, through great efforts, our Key Club made two-hundred dollars. Of course, every penny counts, but our expectations were low. However, we did not let that stop us. I am proud to say that I am part of a team of board members that are more ambitious and strong-minded than anybody else I know and with their help, we were able to
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make our Key Club’s contribution to Alex’s Lemonade Stand a success. The board members of our Key Club did an excellent job of getting the word out to everyone in our community about Alex’s Lemonade Stand and their efforts brought great outcomes. Through this volunteering experience, I even got to learn about the story behind Alex’s Lemonade Stand and all the amazing outreach it provided for children’s with pediatric cancers. Alex’s Lemonade stand had influential sponsors and donors that made this fundraiser so interesting and a great learning experience about the efforts made by Alex’s Lemonade Stand and its sponsors to raise awareness and fund research for pediatric cancer. The truth is, I do not believe that I have ever felt so passionately about a charity like Alex’s Lemonade Stand. I have never stood outside in direct heat for 3 hours to raise donations for a charity like this before. The fact that this experience was like no other volunteering experience I have ever had, made it such a significant moment for myself. I will continue to support Alex’s Lemonade Stand for as long as I can because it is an awareness program that I am proud of, despite not having much hope for it before. Overall, this was a significant part of my Key Club experience and I hope that through our efforts this month, we continue to make it significant for others as well.
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Sophia Nguyen
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President Council Meeting By: Brianna Dao, Vice President
Becoming a Key Club Officer this year, I’ve never had the chance to attend a President Council Meeting until the Lieutenant Governor from Division 39S, Ethan Arredondo, sent all the officers within our division an invitation to attend a PCM on July 1st, 2017. My fellow officers and I were absolutely ecstatic when we found out our LTG was planning a water balloon fight coinciding with the PCM. The day before the PCM, the Mansfield Summit Key Club Officers and I, met up at our Vice President’s house to make brownies as our potluck item. We also offered to help our LTG make the plethora amount of water balloons. Making over a thousand water balloons, time flew by as I was able to create wonderful memories with my family. Finally, the day of my very first President Council Meeting had arrived; it has been one of my favorite Key Club memories that I’ve experienced during this term so far. In a typical Key Club fashion, we started the meeting off with some heart-warming icebreakers to lighten up the mood amongst all the Key Clubbers in attendance. With our Regional Advisor, Mr. Corey Neiman, our LTG, Ethan Arredondo, and the officers from
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James Bowie, Mansfield Legacy, and my own Mansfield Summit High School I was able to familiarize myself with some new key clubbers who had the same passion as I, myself. Although only three schools within our division were in attendance, the PCM was still a blast! After the icebreakers, we all got down to business. Our LTG began to talk about his plans and envisions for the divisional project. What I really enjoyed about this part of the discussion was how interactive everyone was. Every officer was able to express his or her ideas, concerns, and ways of improvement. While all the opinions were heard, we decided on two divisional projects. The first project is focused on helping the United States Veterans, while the second one is more of a side project, focusing mainly on bettering the environment one step at a time. My personal favorite was the eco-friendly project. After having discussed everything on our Lieutenant Governor’s agenda, we had a mini session with the officers who held our position in the other clubs. Unfortunately, on the day of the PCM it was raining, and the water balloon fight that my club was so excited about was nearly cancelled. Until, it was later dawned upon us that a little rain shouldn’t prevent our water balloon fight from taking place since we would later be soaked anyways. Although our day didn’t go specifically as planned, it ended up being a great day filled with new faces and amazing memories that that will last a lifetime.
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MATERNAL NEONATAL TETANUS IS NOW ELIMANATED IN ...
ETHIOPIA!! However, 17 countries are still affected, lets keep up the good work and eliminate it world-wide!
With The Eliminate Project, Kiwanis International and UNICEF have joined forces to eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus. Neonatal tetanus kills one baby every 11 minutes—nearly 49,000 newborn children every year. A significant number of women also die due to maternal tetanus. The effects of the disease are excruciating— tiny newborns suffer repeated, painful convulsions and extreme sensitivity to light and touch.
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Photo by: Sophia Nguyen
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President: Alice Nguyen president.shskc@gmail.com
Secretary: Anna Tran rsecretary.shskc@gmail.com
Webmaster: Arantza Zamudio webmaster.shskc@gmail.com Service Coordinator: Bushra Khaliq servicecoordi.shskc@gmail.com
Freshman Class Rep: To Be Determined freshmanclassrep.shskc@gmail.com
Junior Class Rep: Sophia Nguyen juniorclassrep.shskc@gmail.com
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Vice President: Brianna Dao vp.shskc@gmail.com
Treasurer: Sarah Banafe treasurer.shskc@gmail.com
Editor: Patricia Rojas editor.shskc@gmail.com Historian: Michael Tang historian.shskc@gmail.com
Sophomore Class Rep: Farria Shoaib sophomoreclassrep.shskc@gmail.com
Senior Class Rep: Phillipe Tran seniorclassrep.shskc@gmail.com
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T-O DISTRICT CONTACT INFORMATION: District Governor Sabrina Palma governor@tokeyclub.com District Secretary Shelby Morton secretary@tokeyclub.com District Treasurer Foster Hills treasurer@tokeyclub.com District Editor Stephanie Tran editor@tokeyclub.com Convention Liaison Dajah Brooks cl@tokeyclub.com Technology Producer
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William Chao williamkwchao@yahoo.com
Regional Advisor Corey Nieman coreynieman@misdmail.org Kiwanis Advisor Phil Stover jphilstover@gmail.com Division 39 South LTG Ethan Arredondo
ltg39s@gmail.com International Website keyclub.org District Website tokeyclub.com
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Mansfield Summit Key Club • July 2017