Division 34 South’s Newsletter
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MAY 2020
Volume 7 • issue 2
MONTHLY ISSUE Look out for Division & Club Updates!
letter from LTG
Hello Hello Purple Penguins! I hope you all have survived AP testing and are enjoying the last few days of school! Thank you so much for attending the May DCM, where we made dog toys from old t-shirts. I also hope you all got to participate in Region 17 Spirit Week and learned about useful information if you are an officer! Although we are still under shelter-in-place, the opportunities for service DO NOT stop! Service Projects Coordinators Madeline Cheng and Kavya Kaushal, as well as Fundraising Coordinator Joycelyn Li worked hard to create a service at home guide, which was released recently. Compiled by tech editor Leanna Chun, you can see various ways to serve and donate, all while safely at home. Check it out today! This month, look out for the June DCM, club visitations for officers, and more! Remember to stay safe and practice social distancing. Enjoy the rest of the very first newsletter made by DNE Alayna Lee!
Waddling in Service, CHERYL BAI
letter from DNE
Hello Key-ute Penguins! My name is Alayna Lee, and I am your 2020-2021 Division News Editor! :D I am super excited to share my creativity and my pride for Key Club this term through the all the upcoming newsletters! Firstly, I know this term began with a rocky start, but I hope this newsletter can remind you of how far we have come as a division. All of you have contributed to help our community by staying home and helping with service projects/donating. It means the world to me to know that there are amazing key-uties like you who are still continuing to help during times like this. I can't thank you all enough for that. Key Club holds a special place in my heart and you are all the reason because of it. Everyone I've met through Key Club has been so amazingly kind and supportive that it makes every service event so fun to go to. Aside from that, I hope you all are staying safe and healthy. Take care, and enjoy the newsletter! :)
Waddling in Service, ALAYNA LEE
CONTENTS 02
LTG & DNE LETTER
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From LTG Cheryl Bai and DNE Alayna Lee.
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APRIL DCM
Updates on district and international-wide events
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Recap of the April DCM and announcement of the new DLT!
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DIVISION UPDATES
DISTRICT & INTERNATIONAL RECAP
CLUB SPOTLIGHT Articles and visuals of what has been happening within our clubs!
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THE BUZZ Overview of the district newsletter The Buzz
Division goals and other upcoming events & announcements
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STAY KEYNECTED! Division contact info, division contact information, and a thank you.
REGION 17
@region17royals
Some of our penguins participated in the Region 17 Spirit Week by taking on the challenges each day and posting it on their Instagram story!
Thank you so much for attending the April DCM! We had around 25 attendees and appreciate your cooperation! I hope you all had a fun time playing the Kahoot :)
DIVISION DIVISION LEADERSHIP LEADERSHIP TEAM TEAM LTG: Cheryl Bai
SPC: Madeline Cheng,
EA: Jessica Li, Lydia Lu Kavya Kaushal NE: Alayna Lee
FC: Joycelyn Li
TE: Leanna Chun
SC: Kaitlyn Chan, Jedric Rosales, Jimmy Yao
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GOALS - 325 dues paid members - 5,000 service hours - $6,000 raised for ptp
We had a Zoom meeting for the May DCM where we made dog toys with old t-shirts! The toys will be collected once we have more freedom to go outside as we please, so our penguins will hang onto them until then. Whoever attended the DCM got 1 hour of service!
DIVISION UPDATES
Service at Home MINI NEWSLETTER!
Second Harvest Food Bank
Covid-19 Research
Gratitude Letters to Nurses
Cloth Face Masks Blanket Making Neighborhood Cleanup More info at tinyurl.com/d34ssah2020 & @d34south on
DISTRICT DISTRICT && INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL RECAP RECAP 2020 AWARDS 2020 CNH AWARDS CEREMONY Bronze (50+ hours) Madeline Cheng Leanna Chun Jonathan Joanny Alayna Lee Jessica Li Martin Wu
Gold (150+ hours) Chianie Chi Annabelle Law
Silver (100+ hours) Rebecca Pan Roderick Sou
Distinguished LTG Rebecca Pan
Diamond Distinguished Clubs Homestead Mountain ViewÂ
DISTRICT DISTRICT EXECUTIVE EXECUTIVE TEAM GOV:Â Daniel Min
SEC: Grace Yin
TRES: Yena Suh
The Key Club International Board concluded that holding a convention in San Francisco, California, this year would be a health threat to Key Club members, their families and all individuals traveling to and from the convention.
ICON 2020 IS CANCELLED :(
OUR CLUBS CUPERTINO
This month, our club finalized our new officer board and had our first officer (online) meeting with the new team!! We got to know each other, established communication, and defined the roles of each positioned. Due to current events, we are unable to have any service events, but we advertised a local program called “Write-to-Change” where you can write encouraging letters to healthcare workers and drop them off at certain locations to be delivered to hospitals.
FREMONT
This month we trained the new executive board and our club is now officially under new leadership. There are so many things we have in store for this term! We are changing the way we communicate as a club and hopefully make everything more efficient and easily accessible. We’ve been organizing senior recognition to show our appreciation towards all the great things our loved seniors accomplished their past 4 years. We’re very sad to be seeing our seniors go, but we look forward to the new members to come.
GUNN
Over the past month we've run officer elections! We have a board but we plan on doing a second round of elections once AP tests are done. Also, we're planning an at-home service event with the Essential Heroes Campaign to make lawn posters in an effort to cheer on our essential workers in the community.
HOMESTEAD
Homestead Key Club is currently working with the ASB Vice President in beginning to prepare for a new school year such as club training day and fall events like recruitment at roundup day and club fair. Homestead did not have any fundraiser this past month but is beginning to look into fundraisers and service projects for the next month.
LOS ALTOS
Due to COVID-19, our club has not been able to complete any fundraisers, service projects, or outreach during the month of April. We hope to start fundraising and completing service events at the start of next year!.
LYNBROOK
Lynbrook Key Club recently elected the new officer team to start off the new term! We have partnered with Write To Change, a studentrun organization, to allow our members to donate handmade artwork to local health workers. We are also collaborating with Bayreach and several Lynbrook clubs to bring a new volunteer opportunity to our members: making face masks for essential workers. These remote opportunities encourage our members to stay active in volunteering during this unprecedented time.
MENLO-ATHERTON
Menlo Atherton Key Club has been staying safe and healthy during shelter in place. Our new 2020-21 board was officially elected this month and they have already taken office. We’ve been hosting weekly meetings on Zoom, planning a lot of new service projects, and getting ready to say goodbye to our graduating seniors.
MONTA VISTA
Monta Vista Key Club has recently partnered up with other volunteer clubs on our campus to participate in a mask drive! We just recently started this event and will be donating all masks that we make to healthcare workers all over the Bay Area!
MOUNTAIN VIEW
We just held our first Zoom club meeting together, and have finished training our officers. A few quarantine service opportunities have been advertised to our members, and we hope to offer more soon. Along with writing letters of gratitude to NYC nurses, our members have also been picking up trash in their neighborhoods. We reached out to a fellow student at our school, and have partnered up with him to make homemade masks as well.
PALO ALTO
This month we offered one service activity to celebrate earth day. For this opportunity we encouraged our members to take a walk and pick up any litter or trash. In totally, we picked up over 159 pieces of trash! Our club also offered the district service opportunity for writing letters to nurses.
Presidents: please submit your monthly newsletter summaries!
VISUALS & ARTICLES ZOOM KEY CLUB MEETING
MOUNTAIN VIEW
Zoom online Key Club meeting, discussed online volunteering opportunities and ways to help the community online. Introduced the new board of Key Club and reconnected with each other online. People could contribute ideas and thoughts towards the volunteering options.
LYNBROOK X WRITE TO CHANGE
LYNBROOK
LHS Key Club partnered up with Write to Change, an organization run by high school students hoping to bring the community together in thanking our local health workers through handmade and artwork. So far, the students’ cards have been donated to nursing homes and El Camino Hospital - we are striving to continue to donate to several other locations.
SUPPORTING WRITE FOR CHANGE
CUPERTINO
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our division looked into different and creative ways to help the community, with the Stay-At-Home order implemented. As a team, we came up with the idea of having our division collaborate with Write to Change, an organization on our campus that helps the community by allowing students to write a letter of thanks to the communities essential workers. Cassidy Yin, created both of the promotional pictures down below, and after we posted to our social media platforms, we had our division create letters to the essential workers in our area. We believe that with this, we were able to help better our community by giving back to those who have given so much to us. We started May 6th, 2020, and as a division we continue to write to the essential workers.
DISTRICT NEWSLETTER No May newsletter but check out the April newsletter!
Read at tinyurl.com/cnhdnewsapr
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Contact Me! Resources Cheryl Bai cnhkeyclub.org Lieutenant Governor d34s.cnhkc.ltg@gmail.com (408) 483-6417
DIVISION CONTACT INFO DLT Lieutenant Governor Cheryl Bai (Monta Vista) d34s.cnhkc.ltg@gmail.com Executive Assistant Jessica Li (Homestead) d34s.cnhkc.ea1@gmail.com Executive Assistant Lydia Lu (Monta Vista) d34s.cnhkc.ea2@gmail.com Division News Editor Alayna Lee (Mountain View) d34s.cnhkc.dne@gmail.com
Tech Editor Leanna Chun (Mountain View) d34s.cnhkc.tctech@gmail.com Fundraising Coordinator Joycelyn Li (Lynbrook) d34s.cnhkc.tcfc@gmail.com Service Projects Coordinator Madeline Cheng (Mountain View), Kavya Kaushal (Cupertino) d34s.cnhkc.spc@gmail.com Spirit Coordinators Jedric Rosales (Fremont), Kaitlyn Chan (Monta Vista), Jimmy Yao (Lynbrook) d34s.cnhkc.tcspirit@gmail.com
Kiwanis Region Advisor Rachel Shanley rshanley.kiwanis@gmail.com
Region Advisor Valarie Brown valariebrown0206@gmail.com
Presidents Cupertino Shana Zheng szheng843@student.fuhsd.org Fremont Andrea Maminta andreamaminta03@gmail.com Gunn Madeline Siu & Noa Shoval siumadeline@gmail.com noashoval123@gmail.com Homestead Tam-Dan Nguyen & Samantha Sung tamdan21@gmail.com smnthasung@gmail.com Los Altos Jeremy Nieda lahs.keyclub.president@gmail.com
Lynbrook Shreedevi Rao & Nancy Qi shreedevirao.lhskey@gmail.com nancyqi.lhskey@gmail.com Menlo-Atherton Isabelle Thyfault izzythy21@gmail.com Monta Vista Anjali Sinha anjalisinha108@gmail.com Mountain View Madeline Cheng madeline.clara.cheng@gmail.com Palo Alto Kyla Fu & Melina Soberg fu.kyla@gmail.com ms24605@pausd.us
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