CNH | KEY CLUB Piedmont Hills Key Club | Division 12 East | Region 17 | CNH District
ARC ARC REACTOR REACTOR AUGUST AUGUST 2020 2020
1377 Piedmont Rd, San Jose, CA 95132
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PHHS Key Club
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Letter from Secretary Erin Takeshima!
Member of the Month Who is it? Who is it? Who?
Calendar Quick overview
Event Recaps Officer Experiences
Announcements What’s coming up?
Club Goals Updates! Updates!
Letter from Directors Our words to you
Contacts
This month, we were able to hold more events than we’ve ever had since the beginning of the term, serving about 4 times as many hours as before! I am extremely proud of the progress we have made, and I know that we will only do better from here! We have also recently released a podcast on YouTube and SoundCloud that goes over the differences between Key Club and Interact and a Bingo Fundraiser where you can dare and embarrass your favorite Key Club officers while supporting one of our preferred charities, PTP. I highly recommend you to check both of those out! Additionally, if you didn’t catch us on Mini Club Day, we now have a member sign-up form that you can find on Facebook! Coming into Key Club, I had no idea what it had in store for me. From meeting friendly people from all over the district to participating in intense spirit battles, Key Club has completely changed my high school experience and I know that it will definitely change yours as well! As we begin another hectic month, I hope that all of you will be able to find comfort in the events we offer and will be able to take a breath away from all of your schoolwork. I know that it can be easy to become overwhelmed, so make sure to look after yourselves and have fun every now and then!
Stay safe, Erin Takeshima PHHS Key Club Secretary
Letter from Secretary
Another month has passed and with it, our first month of school. Hopefully, all of you have been adjusting well to your classes and to the weird schedule! This year has definitely been a new and unique experience for all of us, so it is always good to take a break every once in a while. What better way to do that than to relax while serving your community!
Erin Takeshima
Hey superheroes!!!
EVENT: BE AN OCEAN HERO
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“M U L T I T A S K I N G Q U E E N� Ever since school started, searching things up became my favorite thing to do, and OceanHero recovers one plastic bottle for every five searches. Using this search engine, it allowed me to research and help save the environment both at once. This was so handy! I had to briefly skim 30+ topics for a class so I could pick the most interesting topic to make a project that was worth 15% of my grade. With too many tabs opened, I really hope I was able to help the environment in some kind of way. There was also no specific meeting or session, so I could be searching up stuff whenever I was curious about something, like why we have eyebrows. Anyways, I definitely will keep this app in mind when I need to search something up!
Chau Doan
“F I N D M E A T T H E B E A C H” Even with the pandemic, I’ve been trying to find ways to exercise and stay physically active. With the help of Charity Miles, I’ve been able to do just that. From counting up my hours from tennis conditioning miles to getting in those steps just by walking around the grocery store, it was quite exciting to actually have a reason to exercise. It was especially fun when I went to the beach over the summer to have a vacation and family bonding time. I couldn’t believe how easy it was to turn on the app, play volleyball, and just have fun running around the sand. It felt like a win-win situation since I could exercise and also raise funds for one of our preferred charities, UNICEF. I can’t wait to continue exercising with this app long after the event period is over!
Kirsten Takeshima
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EVENT: CHARITY MILES
EVENT RECAP
Initially, I was tentative as to whether this event was a good idea. I contacted the event coordinator directly beforehand to ask how "safe" the event would be, and he replied with a lengthy list of precautions that would be taken. However, the only real precaution we took was putting on hand sanitizers and masks; social distancing is relatively difficult when multiple people are loading food onto the same car. Additionally, I knew getting people to sign up would be a huge obstacle. I tried every possible method of publicizing the event: making a Facebook post, asking the group chat, and, eventually, privately messaging members and officers alike asking them to sign up. Thankfully, Eric reached out and I was able to get a grand total of two key club members to attend. The event itself went smoothly. The system was organized like a fast food drive-through, with cars lining up in front of each group of volunteers and receiving their load of food boxes.
Two hours into the event I was already extremely tired and sweaty. However, seeing the grateful expressions of some of the people who came really motivated me to keep working. A lot of the people who came were elderly who were probably too scared of doing their own grocery shopping, so they needed the food to provide for their family, or even multiple families. In the end, I distributed well over a 100 boxes, and I felt proud that I was able to provide for so many families.
Aaron Teng Event: SJCC Food Distribution
“Weight Training with Food�
The boxes that I chose to distribute just happened to be the heaviest ones (each one had about 30 lbs worth of assorted fruits and vegetables).
I was mainly weeding the plants, which at some point, got pretty hard to do with the tree pots that were completely filled with weeds and ones with stubborn roots. Note that I did all of this without the gloves I had in my pocket the whole time. My hands were pretty sore and dirty at the end, but at least, I now know how to empty a wheelbarrow properly (turns out I've been doing it wrong all this time)!
By: Victoria Trang
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Being my first event that I led that was in-person, I honestly didn't know what to expect of it at all. It felt nice to get out of the house and everything, but being outside and pretty much always surrounded by plants was a nice change for me. It was a relaxing event, despite planes constantly flying over my head and me sweating from being outside on a fairly warm day.
OurCityForest Nursery Workday
“Caution: Lots of Weeding Ahead!�
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Project Sunshine Coloring Activities
By: Jasmine Nguyen
“1, 2, 3 - Sending Sunshine!� This past month, I was thrilled to have the opportunity to perform some service through Project Sunshine's Coloring Activities. From the comfort of our own homes, everyone was able to draw and create an artwork or even create something as simple as a Mad Libs. I found this event to be very relaxing to do, while also giving us great creative freedom to create what we wanted, as long as it was appropriate for children. Knowing that a child might receive my artwork later and be able to color it in and feel happier made me feel really motivated to draw and perform service at the event. Personally, I created two coloring sheets that were "Color by Numbers," where I numbered each section so children could easily match the number with the color and put it together to form the entirety of the piece in full color. I am very excited to know that they have been sent to children to make their lives a little brighter, and I would highly recommend this event to anyone if we ever do it again in the future!
UPCOMING EVENTS
RTC 2020
Sep. 19 - Sep. 20
RTC 2019
The Key Club Regional Training Conference is coming up this September!! Unfortunately, it will be hosted online this time around, so some of the original aspects that one experiences will not be there this year. However, it will still be a great experience that you don’t want to miss!
PTP BINGO FUNDRAISER Donate money to see your very own officers do some (disgusting and painful) dares! Dares range in price depending on the extremity. It’ll all go for a good cause… I hope…
FIRST GENERAL MEETING Sep. 16 A fresh start to the school year with our first general meeting! Most of what you need to be concerned with for the club will be covered within this meeting. It’s short too!
UPCOMING EVENTS
EVENT: BACK - TO - SCHOOl PACKS Sep. 12 Donate backpacks filled with Back- To- School supplies to prepare them for distance, hybrid, and in-person learning.
EVENT: SAVANNAH’S CARDS Sep. 12 Make motivational cards for kids/families in need as well as a card for Savannah that created this project and is now able to gain her eyesight and mail them out!!
Safety Recommendations Regularly wash your hands
Maintain distance
clean your hands with an alcohol-based hand rub or wash them with soap and water
stay at least 6 feet away from other people
Dealing with possible symptoms
Areas to avoid touching eyes, nose and mouth -once contaminated, hands can transfer the virus to your eyes, nose or mouth crowded places -more likely to come into close contact with someone that has COVID-19
stay home and self-isolate even with minor symptoms such as cough, headache, mild fever, until you recover
Wear a Mask inspect the mask for tears or holes identify the inside and outside of the mask
Taking off a Mask remove the straps from behind the head or ears -without touching the front of the mask lean forward and pull the mask away from your face discard single-use mask be aware of the condition of the mask
place the mask on your face covering your nose, mouth and chin -there should be no gaps between your face and the mask
Please try to stay safe and take whatever necessary precautions that you must !
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