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DIVISION SERVICE WEEK
Division service
Record yourself doing something you love or teaching a new skill (ex. Playing piano, making origami, cooking) and share it on social media!
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Mental Health Monday
Create artwork/ letters, music recordings/ videos, or children’s book read-aloud videos, and email your work to eholcombe@exception alcare.org
Therapy Tuesday
Download the atlasGo Charity app by Atlas Unlimited Inc. (available in the App Store and Google Play). Sign up for a cause and support it by participating in healthy exercises such as running, indoor workout, or yoga.
Workout Wednesday
Giang Nguyen | 12 | Tech Editor
Service has not been easy this month, as Key Club faces challenges in the midst of the COVID-19 epidemic among everything else. With the order to stay at home and the prohibition of public gatherings, we as Key Clubbers turn to alternative approaches and continue to remain resourceful. We find ways to serve the community and raise funds from within the confinements of our own homes. And through that, the service goes on. As a shining example of our division’s efforts, the Division Service Week was an illustrious success. With the opportunity to participate in daily activities and receive hours, we saw a rise in service and community outreach. The activities included creating videos aimed towards promoting mental health, writing thank you cards for teachers and school faculty members, and even recording healthy exercises to support a cause through charity apps. Because of the restrictions as a result of being separated during lockdown, we saw a new system in place for logging hours during the service week: participating members would self-report their hours by emailing proof to their respective project chairs. Such a system places honesty and trust on fellow Key Clubbers to do the right thing, rather than abusing it to their advantages. It is a great way to highlight the Key Club core value of character building, both through the honor system and the service activities. I personally enjoyed participating in the Division Service Week, as I was able to see the creativity of my friends and other Key Clubbers shine. On Food Bank Friday, we helped raise money for food banks by playing trivia games that awarded one bean for every right answer. I challenged myself to get to 500 beans, but sadly I fell short at 492 beans. My favorite activity was Mental Health Monday, which allowed for everyone to be creative and post stress-relieving activities on their social media stories. I also learned how to play Minecraft guitar music for that day, which was both fun and surprisingly stress-relieving. Truly, Minecraft solves everything.
service week
Workout Wednesday
Make thank you cards/ posters to your respective school faculty members! Address them to the staff in general OR to the different departments
Thriving Thursday
Go to https:// www.beanbeanbean.c om and help raise money to food banks, who are in need of much support during the pandemic! Be sure to screenshot your total beans earned when finished.
Food Bank Friday
Lance Sahagun | 12 | Treasurer
This article is amazing because I completely rewrote it out of straight fatigue. The Division Service Week was interesting in terms of how our Division has been able to rebound for service hours. I have extreme faith in our club, acknowledging the efforts of our members in continuing to serve despite circumstances. I commend those who have taken the time to support our service events, but moreso for taking advantage of the Division’s opportunities. This service week is notable to me in that we are still able to gather hours despite not being able to meet in physical locations, doing the hard and dirty work. Those these hours may seem less impactful or meaningful, it is important to recognize that service, at the end of the day, is still service. The honors system is another issue I would like to address. As much as I hope for the best in terms of integrity of hours, I know that the best way to ensure this is to place emphasis on the types of events we host. With reopening occurring as we speak through steps of phases, I understand we may be approaching a more manageable state soon. However, it is to my belief that this new normal in which we live in currently will be the reality in which we live in for the time being. It is imperative that our service adaptations have been successful, though not to the scale at which we once perceived. All I can ask and hope for is continuous service, continuous effort, and continuous action. I’m honestly impressed by how far we’ve been able to adapt and overcome, but of course, the many new issues raised with how we serve are interesting to ponder about.
Christina Nguyen | 10 | Bulletin Editor
Going from attending a DCM to planning one, was definitely quite different. In certain aspects, I immediately missed the feeling of attending a DCM with no worries because now, not only do I have to contribute to planning it, but make sure that it’s executed correctly as well. The presentation didn’t go as well as I thought, but it might be that it's because it didn’t go as I planned. Along with that, I know that members don’t enjoy “learning” at our DCMs, but the advisors recommend it, so please bear with us :// As much as I appreciate the criticism, it does hurt to hear when members don’t enjoy what we plan. Although a DCM is only 1-2 hours of one’s life every month, it takes a whole lot of time and thinking to piece together. On top of that, I had to complete my first newsletter, but I struggled... by a lot. I’ll be honest, I’m not a tech person. Actually, I’m the complete opposite and born with 0% knowledge in that area. But, I don't completely understand how I managed to lose all my work, when I was almost done :,) Despite having to start over, I managed to not throw my laptop to the other side of the Pacific Ocean, so that’s good.
MAY DCM
Tiffany Ong | 11 | Project Chair
On May 30th, the Division 30 South May DCM was held on YouTube live. It was the second online division event this term, and it has still been a little hard to adjust to having all events go virtual. However, all the events so far have been planned pretty well and there were barely any issues! During the May DCM, we first went over the DCM stuff, like updates and announcements, on YouTube live. I got Officer of the Month and OAKC got 4th Shining Club of the Month! Yay! Then, after the DCM was over, we moved on to a Google Meets Call, so the different schools split up. Oxford was with Anaheim and Kennedy. We learned about Key Club’s preferred charities, and I actually learned a lot more about each of the charities, like when the organizations were established and how widespread their contributions are. After learning about the preferred charities through a slideshow, we played a fun Kahoot! It wasn’t only about the preferred charities, but also a bunch of other trivia about our division and Key Club in general. Some of the questions were about when Key Club was founded, and some asked about who held certain positions in the club. It was pretty interesting and I unexpectedly learned a lot about Key Club just from the Kahoot! Overall, although the May DCM was only about an hour long, it was really memorable because it’s one of the first virtual DCMs I’ve attended and the activities were very fun and engaging!
Ryan Dang | 11 | Historian
Similarly with every month, Key Club held their DCM called Charity Trivia on May 30th, 2020. Just like in past DCMs the Division 30 South Key Club community was able to come together and have time to bond with each other. I think DCMs are especially important because it helps everyone meet up with old friends. This is especially important as there’s all sorts of chaos running rampant in the world and even one’s mind. The May DCM was able to help me relax and hang out with people I enjoy being with while also informing me of important updates such as goals for PTP funds as well as the division’s goals for the amount of hours served. The DCM started out reviewing the events of the past month like the April DCM which allowed people to interact with each other on Skribbl.io. There was also the discussion of the winner of the shirt design as well as updates on the new division leadership team. We also discussed the fundraisers we had going on during the month of April such as eliminate week which is a project held by Kiwanis International as well as UNICEF to try and eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus. Additionally, there was a service week held last week to try and help everyone gain more hours while also having fun doing it. During the week, students had the opportunity to earn hours by doing activities such as recording themselves doing their favorite hobby, creating artwork or music videos, helping with charity, creating posters to show thanks to faculty members, and helping raise money for food banks. The service week was really fun and it was interesting to see what people posted on their Instagram stories. After touching bases on the service week, Jennifer moved on to discussing new business like the officer training conference as well as next month’s DCM in July. She also gave us an update on the new division goals and how far along we were in achieving them. The MNT fundraiser was looking as a huge success as at the moment, Key Clubbers had raised $541 of the $600 goal. It was also pretty amusing to see that Jennifer would be changing her Instagram user to “toejenie.” Jennifer also went over the new goals that were set by CNH for the new term. They were hoping for $260,000 to be raised for PTP, 900,000 service hours , as well as 38,000 dues paid members. By achieving the number of deus paid members, it would mean that there was an increase of 10 percent total members in Key Club from last year to this year. Maxime, who is the terms member recognition chair, also announced and recognized those in the club who have been doing an outstanding MAY DCM job. An example would be the officer of the month, which was won by our one and only Tiffany Ong! Continuing on with recognitions Jennifer also announced the shining clubs of the month and after that, we transitioned into Kahoot to have some fun with each other. The trivia was really interactive as well as very educational on the topics of the Division 30 South. I had a really great time during the Kahoot and congratulations to Sofia Gange for winning first in it! Overall, the DCM was a really stress relieving time as I was able to talk and have fun with my friends.
