Gator K-Munication: September 2022 (Vol. 14, Issue 3)

Hello and Happy Fall!

Yes, I know it's only the end of September but that still means spooky season is upon us! With that, welcome to the September Newsletter! If you don't know me, I'm Emily, your Editor, and newsletter making is my thing As you read further, you'll find our member spotlights, a September recap, shout outs, and other fun things! Happy reading, y'all <3

the Month

the Month

Note from the Editor

New Member Spotlight

Devanshu Singh

What year are you?

Graduate First Year

Major(s): Computer Science

Favorite Tenet? Service

How did you hear about CKI? Heard about it from the tabling at Turlington

Favorite CKI memory?

The Butterbeer at the Harry Potter Social That was awesome What do you expect to get out of your time in CKI?

Idk being able to do service events while having fun sounds like a pretty sweet deal What are you most excited for this year?

Lock in sounds like a super fun event

Do you have any reflections about your time in the club so far?

From the first service event I attended Guardian Angels to the various socials, have had an amazing time here Really happy with the balance of different type of events and the frequency. Really glad I joined it

Some Facts

Favorite TV Show: Brooklyn 99

Favorite Movie: About Time

Favorite Food: Pizza

Hobbies: Reading and Chess

Returning Member Spotlight

Brandon Silva

What year are you?

Graduate Student

Major(s): Computer Science

Why did you choose the major you did?

First, Robotics in High School sparked my passion for engineering and AI I taught myself to code in high school because of robotics That continued through my undergraduate degree and now I'm on a PhD track researching AI for medicinal applications Favorite Tenet?

Fellowship

What keeps you coming back to CKI?

I really love meeting and working with people in CKI It is a really social club and I enjoy helping the community and talking to awesome people all the time, no matter the event Favorite CKI memory?

My first Jungle Friends event was quite a difficult service event, but that feeling of the shower after is still vivid in my memory and felt great after doing a lot of great work there

What are you most excited for this year?

I'm excited to get more involved in CKI. I signed up as a Big for Big/little and plan to attend the lock ins and as much service events as possible to become an active member

Do you have any reflections about your time in the club?

I'm a long time veteran for service, having doing Key Club all of high school and CKI for most of my college career

Looking back, my fondest memories was the laughs I shared with my friends and the fun I had helping the community with them Fellowship is definitely something I love about CKI and what keeps me coming back

Some Facts

Favorite TV Show: Person of Interest

Favorite Movie: The Princess Bride

Favorite Song/Artist: Earth Wind and Fire: Boogie Womderland

Favorite Food: Chimichangas

September Recap

Here's a recap of all the fun events, socials, service opportunities and more that we had during September :)

September 2 -

Food4Kids

We helped pack bags of food for kids in Alachua County

September 3 -

Guardian Angels

Guardian Angels Medical Service Dogs has been rescuing, raising, training and then donating individually trained medical service dogs to veterans and others struggling with a myriad of disabilities. We volunteered as puppy huggers!

September 4 -

Adopt-a-Street

As always, we had our monthly Adopt A Street cleanup where we picked up trash along the street!

September 4 -

Picnic Social After Adopt a Street, we enjoyed a relaxing picnic with our fellow CKers by Lake Alice.

September 7 -

Our First GBM of the Semester!

We had so many new and returning members join us for our first General Body Meeting of the Fall Semester. It was great to see so many new faces!

September 7 -

Ice Cream Social

To celebrate the start of the new CKI year, we got some Italian ice after the General Body Meeting!

September 7 -

Bread of the Mighty

Bread of the Mighty Food Bank focuses on providing hope and encouragement to people in the community facing hunger by increasing access to sufficient and nutritious food. As volunteers, we packed and sorted the donated food.

September 8Game Show Night

We had a Family Feud themed game show night!

September 9 -

Krishna Lunch Social

We enjoyed Krishna Lunch together on a beautiful day in the Plaza of the Americas!

September 12 -

Boba Social

We had our first boba social of the year and enjoyed some tasty drinks together!

September 11Food4Kids

We helped pack bags of food for kids in Alachua County

September 12 -

Gainesville Community Ministries

We organized and help distribute food at Gainesville Community Ministries, a local food pantry

September 13 -

Days for Girls

Days for Girls is an organization that prepares and distributes sustainable menstrual health solutions to girls who would otherwise miss school during their periods. We helped assemble these sustainable menstrual health solutions

September 13Kiwanis Lunch

We joined the Kiwanians for their bi monthly lunch!

September 15 -

Operation Catnip

Operation Catnip advocates for and provides services for community cats and their caregivers in order to achieve a vision of a humane community that embraces compassionate care for all cats We helped deep clean the catio and got to see some kittens!

September 14Chalking

We decorated the sidewalks outside of the Reitz Union with positive messages and information about our next GBM!

September 17Football Game Social

We showed off our gator spirit at the UF v USF home football game!

September 18 -

Bob Ross Fundraiser

We had our first Bob Ross fundraiser of the year and made some artistic marvels (as always)

September 18 -

Jungle Friends

Jungle Friends Primate

Sanctuary provides permanent sanctuary care for monkeys being retired from laboratory research, ex pets, or monkeys who have been confiscated by the authorities We volunteered to clean habitats, construct rope ladders, plant trees, collect food bowls, make toys for the monkeys and landscape.

September 20Study Social

We studied for exams in the Marston Library with our fellow CKIers!

September 21 -

Salvation Army

We helped to sort and organize donations at the Salvation Army Thrift Store.

September 22 -

GRACE Marketplace

GRACE marketplace is a one stop homeless resource center serving Gainesville and Alachua County. We volunteered to serve a warm meal at Cafe 131!

September 23 -

Harry Potter Social

We had a magical night watching Harry Potter and drinking delicious butter beer!

September 24 -

Depot Park Parkrun

We volunteered to help set up, check in runners, and clean up the Depot Park Parkrun!

September 26 -

Wilmot Gardens

Wilmot Botanical Gardens is dedicated to advancing patient care, research and service through its vibrant and growing therapeutic horticulture program As volunteers, we helped with various tasks assigned by the garden staff

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We volunteered to help pack food for families in need!

September 27 -

Kiwanis Dinner

A few of our members got to join some Kiwanians for dinner!

We hope everyone stayed safe and is recovering well from Hurricane Ian <3 All our love from your CKI family

Shout Outs

Shout outs are a way to show your appreciation for literally anything inside or outside of CKI! Send in your shout outs to ufckiorg!

Shout out to everyone who came to Family Feud and Bob Ross Fundraising

Shout out to Edward for bringing orange juice and cups to Bob Ross, no fundraiser is complete without them Aidan

Shoutout to Johnny for giving me the book this week! Ryan Millman

shout to BeReal(TM) for coming to the first meeting!

Shout out to Nicole for the new website !! Adrian

shoutout to shoutouts azhar

Shout out to everyone who came out to chalking today! Ryan Millman

Shout out to Johnny driving us home when it was pouring out Ryan+Kyle Millman

Shoutout to Bubbles and their time as a barista We love a relatable celebrity

Thank you Julia for fixing the CKI sign Ryan Millman

Shout out to Julia and Johnny, they've been killing it with the socials this month

Shout out to recruitment, they put their all into the start of the year

Shout out to Isa for doing great work in school outreach

Shout out to all our amazing new members! :) Destyni

Shout out to the Service committee for doing such an awesome job with their events this month! Destyni

Shout out to Sammie and Jaidyn for being my Archery/CKI buddies Destyni

Shout out to Kristen and Ryan for killing it with recruitment this month! Destyni

Shout out to Brandon for helping us clean up after the harry potter social!! Also, thank you for the publix cookies :D Julia

Shout out to all the amazing people who come to our socials

Shout out to the three other people who call it chopsticks Julia

Shout out to Johnny for being an amazing co chair :D Here's to more emo night committee meetings Julia

Shout out to Olivia for getting me addicted to dirty iced chai lattes with pumpkin cold foam Julia Shout out to Rachel for being brave enough to open up about her wrong opinions on sauces

Shout out to Emily for not letting hurricane Ian stop them from releasing this amazing newsletter!!!

Shout out to the people in Ryan Knudson's basement..

Shout out to all the new members! Y'all slay

Shout out to Edward for getting to hold Bubbles

shoutout to recruitment for recruitin’ recruits

Shout out to Cedric Diggory Tri Wizard champ in my heart

Shout out to Olivia They really are me when I'm funny

Shout out to Binyamin for putting his little heart and soul into his part of Yerushalayim

Shout out to Sam and his thumb's up

Shoutout to Azhar for being Azhar

Shout out to everyone who chalked, y'all did great Shout out to Jungle Friends for letting me look at marmosets

anti shout out for Hurricane Ian cancelling our CKI GBM Kyle

Shout out to our recruitment chairs who have done an amazing job recruiting new members!! Kyle

Shout out to everyone that has paid dues.

Shout out to Emily because their newsletters SLAY every time Destyni

Shoutout Olivia for giving me my cki sweatshirt finally you know who this is from, Olivia

shout out to ADORE, y'all have done an amazing job this year!! Kyle

Shoutout to all the new members! We’re so happy to have you here! Amelia Shoutout to Julia for reenacting the Harry Potter scenes with me at the social Theater queen Amelia

Shout out to Kalista! An actual service queen

Shoutout to Johnny and Julia for planning an awesome Harry Potter social!

Shoutout to Emily for writing awesome newsletters September will slay, I already know it

Shout out to Sam and my amazing big Kendall Destyni

Shoutout to Hurricane Ian for missing gainesville!

Shout out to Johnny and Julia for the Harry Potter social! (It was very fun!) Destyni

Shout out to Kiera for correctly subtracting 55 from 60, because evidence shows that I simply cannot I loose brain cells with every passing day Destyni

Shout out to Nicole for making the most aesthetic site on the internet!!

Shout out to Devanshu for getting so involved!

Thx everyone and especially Madison for always supporting the Suwannee Division!! Jenny

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A Final Note From the Editor

September was such a fun month! We all started to get settled into the new school year, and we got opportunities to participate in such cool events organized by our committee chairs. I just wanted to also say how happy I am to have met so many new members this semester, and to have seen y'all become so involved and active. It has been such a pleasure to get to know you, and huge props to ALL of you for being as amazing as you are.

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