Division 34 South’s Newsletter
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Volume 7 • issue 8
MONTHLY ISSUE Look out for Division & Club Updates!
Hello Hello Purple Penguins! Happy holidays! Can you believe it's already nearly the end of 2020? While it's been a crazy year, I am so proud of each and everyone's service, and fundraising efforts, as well as your dedication to Key Club. Let's make 2021 a year with even more service! We have officially reached the early bird and on-time deadline for dues payment! While the deadline has passed, you can still submit any additional dues at any time this term! I highly encourage any new members to pay dues, as they bring incredible benefits such as awards, scholarships, and more! Although our holiday activities may be a little different this year, Division 34 South will be bustling with many festive activities! At the start of this month, don't miss our on our joint December DCM with Division 34 North: A Charlie Brown Holidaya-Thon! In this second annual event, participate in fun workshops, join the raffle for the Pediatric Trauma Program, and share your holiday spirit with penguins and aqua apes from all over the Bay Area! Later on this month, be on the look out for more service projects, fundraisers, and training conferences! As always, please do not hesitate to contact me if you ever have any questions or concerns. I hope you have a wonderful holiday season and remember to stay safe!
Waddling in Service,
CHERYL BAI
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Hello Key-ute Penguins! Happy Holidays!! Wooo! I can't believe it's already December! Let me not be the first to say that I'm super excited for the holidays :'D That finally means we get a break to chill out especially after all the hard work we had to deal with this past several months. Chill... haha... get it? Okay, anyway... Thank you to the people who continue to read through these letters. I don't know who or how many people read these but I always hope it brightens at least one person's day. You all mean a lot to me, especially for all the work you put it, to school, to Key Club, to full on responsibilities- it's crazy how productive a lot of you are! Even if you don't think so, even being here today, so far to where you are here to read this letter, means a lot. Key Club to me is a family of people who care. A family that wants to actually make a difference. That's what you are to me. I know you care, and you are willing to help out others. Yes YOU. YOU MATTER. You are such a wonderful human being to continue to support our community even during times where it may not seem necessary. It all means so much to me and makes me more passionate about creating these letters. Thank you for that. And as per usual, feel free to contact me any time :) I really hope you enjoy reading through the rest of this newsletter, and have a happy holidays! Yayyyyyy!
Waddling in Service,
ALAYNA LEE
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LTG & DNE LETTER
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From LTG Cheryl Bai and DNE Alayna Lee.
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GOALS & POINTS
Updates on district-wide events/annoucements
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OCTOBER DCM
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Recap of the October DCM and recognition!!
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OCTOBER PROJECTS Recap of the committees, October events, and spotlight of the month!
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CLUB SPOTLIGHT Articles and visuals of what has been happening within our clubs!
Division goals and penguin popsicle points!
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DISTRICT RECAP
THE BUZZING & LINKS Overview of the district newsletter The Buzzing and CNH links.
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STAY KEYNECTED! Division contact information and a thank you.
X / 300 dues paid members 2,460.95 / 3,000 service hours $574.81 / $4,500 raised for PTP Cupertino: 672 points Mountain View 391 points Homestead: 308 points Monta Vista: 115 points, Fremont: 85 points, Lynbrook: 76 points, Gunn: 68 points, Los Altos: 46 points, Menlo-Atherton: 30 points, Palo Alto: 24 points
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10.24.20
HALLOWEEN UNICEF Math Quiz
Our members/officers joined us for a fun service project where we took the UNICEF Math Quiz and answered a bunch of math questions! For each correctly answered math question, it donated $0.25 cents to UNICEF!
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PICTURE recognition MEMBER Kimberly Wing of Mountain View Key Club
OFFICER Hannah Su of Lynbrook Key Club
ADVISOR Meghan Engle of Mountain View Key Club
CLUB Lynbrook Key Club
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Division Division 34 34 South South Committees Committees SERVICE PROJECTS COMMITTEE: - ANIMAN PATIL - JOCELYN LI - LAUREN GAELA - REID IKEDA -SRIYA PILLUTLA - HANNAH SU
PUBLIC RELATIONS COMMITTEE: - AMANDA SO - ARUSHI TYAGI - CLAUDIA ESCORCIA - DAVID LIN - ELISE CHIU - KRISTEEN DANA MOBE - MANGALA HANGODIMATH
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Donation Drive OCTOBER 10 OCTOBER 31
UNICEF DAY October 17th
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164,769.18 / 900,000 service hours $8,257.94 / $260,000 raised for PTP
Key Club Week is a way for us Key Clubbers to show our Key Club spirit and our pride to care for others. During the week of November 2nd to November 6th, we had Show Your K, Kudos to the Key Players, Dare to Share, Random Acts of Kindness, and Connect the K's
Read more at cnhkeyclub.org
Providing Basic Needs
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CUPERTINO This month, we’ve had two member meetings and nearly 80
members attended. We've mostly just been teaching members how to do and get credit for service along with playing games like Among Us and Scribbl.io to make our meetings more fun. We also split into our families which were sorted based on common interests where we got to know each other and played games together to bond. We started holding weekly Zoom service sessions where members get together and do service together as a way to motivate our members to do service! We have held a service session three weeks in a row now and hope to continue doing so. In these service sessions, we have done Freerice, Bean Bean Bean, and Color-of-a-Smile.
FREMONT
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GUNN
This month we haven't been as active considering school holidays and we took a break so seniors could catch up on apps. We are, however, scheduled to start a new service project writing letters to isolated seniors at our next meeting, and so far we're proud of the work our club has done on FreeRice. We are also continuing to collect dues through the end of the month.
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LOS ALTOS
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LYNBROOK
In the month of October, Lynbrook Key Club heavily advertised for dues and have collected 60 dues so far! We also collaborated with a local nonprofit called Home of Hope where we donated 430 books for a book drive. In addition, we hosted a Mod Pizza fundraiser and another bottles drive where we collaborated with two other service clubs at our school.
MENLO-ATHERTON
Menlo Atherton Key Club held a Halloween fundraiser this month to raise money for PTP! On top of that, we've been holding successful meetings every week with service projects at each one. We wrote letters that encouraged people to vote in the election.
MONTA VISTA
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MOUNTAIN VIEW
Our club participated in the virtual Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF event all month long. We also partnered with a few other clubs at our school this month to pack boxes full of gifts and essentials for children in need around the world.
PALO ALTO
We started off the month of October with a towel and blanket drive for Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA. During our weekly meetings, we worked on writing letters to seniors at the Victorian Senior Care and thank you notes to frontline healthcare workers. We helped to publicize events and fundraisers from YCS and Rise Together and worked on planning our own club fundraiser.
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BOOK DRIVE
LYNBROOK
We hosted a book drive in partnership with a local non-profit at our school. The purpose of this drive was to collect old, children's books that our members longer needed, so that we could donate them to underfunded schools in India. Members dropped off their books during designated times, then we collected and sanitized them, all while staying safe and social distancing! :)
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DUCK POND PROJECT
CUPERTINO
The September Division-Wide Service event was as its name suggests, a service event for the entire division. We used a website called Amara Editor to create subtitles for online videos. I' d never done anything like it before, and it was super fun!
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OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD
MOUNTAIN VIEW
The event was one of the biggest MVHS club collabs. It was between M1820, Disney, and Key Club. It was a virtual packing event in which officers and members packed specific boxes with items for children in need. Additionally, they added a little note to send to the child it would be sent to.
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DISTRICT NEWSLETTER
and district links!
Read at tinyurl.com/cnhdnewsnovember
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CNH Website
Youtube
cnhkeyclub.org
youtube.com/CNHKCtv
International Website
Newsletter
keyclub.org
issuu.com/cnhkc
STAY KEY-NECTED! Instagram @d34south
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Newsletter The Pingu Post on Issuu CNH CyberKey
Linktree linktr.ee/d34south
Resources Contact Me! cnhkeyclub.org Cheryl Bai Lieutenant Governor d34s.cnhkc.ltg@gmail.com (408) 483-6417
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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 Coordinators 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
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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
Contact DLT to send announcements through Google Reflectors.
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DIVISION WEBSITE division34south.weebly.com
DISTRICT WEBSITE cnhkeyclub.org
INTERNATIONAL WEBSITE keyclub.org