August 2022 Newsletter by Oxford Academy Key Club

President's Corner Monthly Calendar Table of Contents2 August Articles Contact Us! Editor's Note Updates & Events SunSpotlight 3-4 5-6 7-17 18-19 Contents | 2

President's Corner Devanshi Kothari OAKC President 2022-2023 DevanshiKothari Corner | 3 Hey suns! I hope school is going great and you are slowly getting back into the rhythm with this new school year! Make sure to keep serving and keep a look out for when Key Club sign ups open during Club Rush. I hope we can continue our awesome progress throughout this whole term and reach our goals: 7,000 service hours and $1000 funds raised. We got this! As always, please reach out if you ever have any questions or concerns. Until next time, suns! With us reaching halfway through our 2nd quarter, I think it’s important to recognize how amazing our club is doing! Serving so many hours, raising money for charity, and continuously attending events demonstrates how successful and engaging our club is. Thank you all so much for the support and please continue to get involved!

Editor's Note Editor's What's poppin', OAKC!What's poppin', OAKC! Kaylin Chan OAKC Bulletin Editor 2022-2023 KaylinChan Notes | 4 Hope you ' re first few weeks of school have been great, so far! Remember not to stress yourself out and get adequate amounts of rest and water each day! There are so many great service events to go to on the weekends to unwind and get some service hours in, too, so don't stress too much about school! Take some breaks when you need to. ╰(*°▽°*)╯ But, while you do that, do also keep a keen eye out for our future events, such as Fall Rally South. As the school year progresses, so does our Key Club term! It's full of excitement, new experiences, and connections, and you don't want to miss out on that (or the delicious food and interesting games)! We're always here for you (contact info for board can be found on the last pages of this newsletter), so don't hesitate to reach out for anything at all! Stay shining and keep slaying, suns! ☀

SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 18 11 August DCM: Servathon 7 8 August5 1 2 3 4 5 14 15 22 28 29 30 23 16 9 10 17 24 25 12 13 19 26 20 Calendar | 5Service Event Fundraiser 6 Spirit ContestGearEndKACC Drive Thru Food Pantry Pieology Fundraiser#MovingForwardOperationTogetherFoodDistribution Brookhurst FoodDistributionHopeDistributionHopePantryFoodFood MilesCharity& Kiwanis Concert in the Park D30S BrookhurstFoodAugustBankFoodPantry 31 CharityEndsMiles

August6 Updates | 6 OAKC D30S September DCM (TBD) Upcoming: August D30S(AugustDCM/Servathon27th)AugustFoodBank(August6th)Charity Miles (Ended August 5 & 28) Letters for Rose (Ended August 5) Online: Brookhurst Food Pantry (August 13 & 27) Hope Food Distribution (August 6 & 20) Kiwanis Concert in the Park (August 5) Kiwanis Concert In the Park (July 22) In-Person: Operation #MovingForwardTogether Food Distribution August 21)

Sun-Spotlight Sun-Spotlight hey key uties <333 my name is helen tran, and im a junior at oxford! i love meeting new people so feel free to say hi >:) DONT BE AFRAID TO GO OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE!!! It’s so easy to say this, but seriously no one is going to judge you, so just do that thing you thought about doing i promise you that you wont regret it!! (well… even if you do, you now have a funny story to share LOL) it’s a win win situation, so JUST DO IT ;) THEPEOPLE>:) andthe service!!!!!! i literally can NOT eat original lays without ketchup, i like dipping pizza into ranch, and i like stale gummies Spotlight | 7 HelenTran Who are you? Advice for us? w Fun Fact =3= (P.S. She's also our other VP :D) Fav thing abt OAKC?

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As our long awaited summer fades into the past and the new school year starts to come into view, a whole new chapter of Oxford Academy’s Key Club begins to form. Coming into freshman year in 2021, I knew I wanted to take part in some form of service I just didn’t know how Luckily, Key Club opened my eyes to a fun, yet also extremely effective way to help my community in various different ways. And now, as a historian for Key Club, I’m excited to see how I can use my role to help grow our club even more. Over the summer and bits and pieces from the end of the school year, I think I’ve finally realized why Key Club is as successful as it has been. From the kind and motivated board, to the passionate members, it's easy to see how we have accomplished great tasks and passed milestones that may seem difficult to approach at first Now, as the school year begins to take place, it has truly hit me that another long 9 months of grueling work and sleepless nights are slowly drifting my way. But through it all, I know that I will always have fun Key Club events to look forward to during the year.

Janice Lee | 10 | Historian

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First, we checked in and then began participating in some activities. The ice breaker allowed to me to meet some new Key Clubbers and then we participated in a relay race. After the relay race, we transitioned our focus to service. We went between three stations of service projects. The first station was where we wrote encouraging and positive messages on popsicle sticks and decorated them to be made into stars later. The second station was an information session on the environment and our impact on it. The session ended with trivia that members responded to. Lastly, using old t shirts, members made dog toys for a shelter. After participating in these service projects, the members then ate lunch and began DCM in their respective divisions. At our DCM, we heard various updates and information on upcoming updates. Furthermore, our club was recognized as 2 nd Shining Club of the Month. Our secretary, Victoria was recognized as Secretary of the Month and one of our members, Nina was recognized as Member of the Month. After the DCM, we moved on to fundraising where members pie’d and tortilla slapped our Region 3 LTGs for a certain amount of money. This was an exciting and entertaining part of the event. We then began to clean up and pack up the event. Overall, this event was fun and memorable for my last Beach Boomba! Kaylin Chan | 11 | Bulletin Editor

It’s that time of the year again: the annual Region 3 Beach Boomba! This summer fun event was a great event to meet new people from all over the region out in the sun. I got to finally meet some of my Key Club friends that I’ve only really talked to online, as well as get to meet a variety of other otters, lions, rhinos, dragons, goldfish, froggies, and suns! Beach Boomba was a fun-filled event, and although I did get a bunch of sand in my socks and a really bad mask tan, it was definitely one of the largest events of the term.

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Devanshi Kothari | 12 | President Beach Boomba was held on Saturday, July 23 rd . This event was extremely fun and engaging and it was exciting to see some new members at this event!

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There was a relay race, in which we got into teams of random Key Clubbers, and performed different actions while running across the beach. I remember I was designated to do the bear crawl, and having never done it before in my entire life, I nearly faceplanted several times. It was quite embarrassing, but gave me quite a few laughs. Many of the people in my team were outgoing and friendly, and although my entire body ached really bad after that, I would most definitely do it again. From the Dalgona candy game, seen in the popular show, Squid Game, to trivia and funny presentations about ocean pollution, Beach Boomba was defintiely a beach event to remember.

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Many Key Club members were trembling with excitement for one of the biggest Region events of the term. Everyone was hyped for a day of fun in the sun. This exciting event took place on July 23rd at Huntington State Beach for five hours. To kick off the fun, we played an icebreaker game with clothespins, where we grabbed one with a random name and had to find its owner. It was a new way to be introduced to members in different divisions. After the icebreaker, we were put in teams for the relay races! People were wheelbarrowing, bear crawling, and so much more. They were definitely exhausted after this!

Victoria Tran | 11 | Secretary Beach Boomba has always been one of my favorite Key Club events. Last year, I remembered meeting officers from other divisions, burying people in the sand, and doing scavenger hunts. This year, although the activities were different, it was still a memorable event I made a new friend from another division. Her name was also Victoria, and we had a lot in common. It was fun meeting her and other officers. This year, I got to pie our LTG, Sania. I might have slapped her a little too hard with the whip cream, but it was still a funny sight to see and I’m glad I was able to donate to charity that way. Making dog toys, donating popsicle sticks, and learning about our beaches was also exciting. Through this, I was able to get closer to all my officers. This month was very hard for me to participate in Key Club events so going to beach boomba and participating in service events with them made me miss volunteering a lot.

During the DCM portion of Beach Boomba, I was surprised to hear my name when Secretary of the Month was called. I was very happy, however, to be recognized for the hard work I put into being secretary. This month was hard for me in regard to Key Club, but going to beach boomba, having fun, and being rewarded with Secretary of the Month made me grow back my passion and love for this club.

The three service projects that we got to choose from were dog toy making, writing messages on popsicle sticks, and learning more about our environment. Although we chose one service project to do first, we rotated and got a chance to experience all the projects These service projects were led by our amazing Region 3 Lieutenant Governors. After we were all worn out by projects, we basically devoured the pizza that was provided for lunch. This was my favorite part of the whole event, which was being able to pie our Region 3 Lieutenant Governors (and raise money for charities). There was a choice of buying either a whipped cream pie or a tortilla, only $3 each. I bought a whipped cream pie to shove in my wonderful Division 30 South Lieutenant Governor, Sania Usmani! It was worth the entire $3 Beach Boomba is quite the experience, and all the Key Club members had an awesome time participating in the activities planned by the Region 3 Lieutenant Governors!

Katelyn Ngo | 11 | Publicist

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-August 20th, Youth Leadership America’s Youth Expo came to Anaheim Convention Center. Students from all across the area came to learn more about their community, and how to improve themselves. Walking in, I was stunned by the size of the venue, and while I went up the escalator, all I could think about is why would they need an area this big. As I reached the second floor, I was amazed at all the people my age who were there walking around. I went over to the registration booth, where the shift before us were leaving, and I could not believe how many 4 north shirts I saw.

Ryan Dang | 11 | Project Chair Friday July 8th, a stressful day, but also a very rewarding one. Waking up early is never that fun, but this morning I wasn’t tired at all. A quick shower and a warm newly printed paper is all I needed before I left. I helped out with the setup, and after some messages, realized that most navigation apps showed the wrong area. After a couple of minutes, I stood on the corner to help show people to the parking lot. Eventually, everyone found the right place, and we finally started. The sand was nice and cold, and the sun was still covered by the clouds at 9 We all split off into our little groups, talking and catching up while we enjoyed the ocean breeze. I mainly stayed near the rocks, where hidden trash troves could be found between the cracks. It was really nice to see everyone having fun, and even filling up a whole bag per person. Although it was not my first time cleaning this area, this was a really memorable experience as so many people I knew came out and helped. Aside from them, it was really nice to see incoming freshmen from schools all over come out to help, even if they didn’t know anyone else there In the end, we couldn’t really get a good picture, but many memories were made, during the cleanup and after. Service events are more than just helping out the community, but they’re also about learning more and becoming a part of your community too. I hope everyone who came out to help today comes out to more club and division events, and hopefully make new friends along the way.

She spoke of the importance of betting on yourself and keeping your mental health as strong as your physical health. It was really enlightening to hear an anecdote from a world champion on how they almost quit, and the obstacles they had to face. She talked about the criticism she had gotten from announcers, about how she ran her first Olympics when she was 30, and how we are all underdogs sometime in our life, and we should just accept it and prove everyone wrong

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After we all registered, we went over and handed out raffle tickets to those who came into and listened to the many workshops, and then we had the opportunity to go in ourselves and meet the keynote speaker, Carmelita Jeter, the fourth fastest woman ever in the 100m, who also won a gold medal for the United States.

All in all, the Youth Expo was a really great learning experience, and I am really glad I forced myself to go!

Charity Miles is an app that you download, in which you complete runs, walks, or anything of the sort in order to help raise money for the charity you select! The company has sponsors who put their advertising budget towards these donations instead. You are also able to create a pledge page for your charity and ask your friends and family to sponsor your miles for charity!

One of my core memories is hearing about Timmy Bui, the ‘20-’21 OAKC President, just walking around his house with the app and completing quite a few miles. It is personally one of my favorites since it gives me motivation to get moving!

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Helen Tran | 11 | Vice President

With COVID 19 cases on the rise again, it’s a little scary to be going out to lots of events, especially seeing many people no longer social distancing. Personally, my family caught COVID for the first time ever since the pandemic struck just this month, and it really hit me when I saw my grandparents test positive as well. But do not fear, because online service events are still here! If you scroll down to the bottom of most emails that our secretary Victoria Tran sends out with an updated list of events coming up, you will find a few online service projects that you can complete at home! This month in particular, we have Letters for Rose and Charity Miles, with the deadlines being August 5th to submit proof of service hours.

On the other hand, Letters for Rose is a partnership with the student-led organization of that same name, which encourages people to write letters or create art for those living in nursing homes. To me, it is really heartwarming, and I hope that my letters can make the elderly person reading it feel at least a little bit less lonely! It always reminds me of talking to my own grandparents, to be honest.

Asides from COVID concerns, these are really helpful throughout the school year, when you might not have as much time to go out to service events. Regardless, as summer draws close, and the school year approaches, I can’t wait to see you all again, and even meet a lot of you new underclassmen! See ya!

Though these were the two available this month, there is always plenty of fun online service projects, from TappyTree (my second favorite) to FreeRice (there are literally so many cool categories)!

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Kenneth Nguyen| 12 | Vice President In the month of July, OAKC volunteered at two Kiwanis Book Distributions, one with the Kiwanis Club of Cypress at King Elementary School, and one with the Kiwanis Club of Los Alamitos at Oak Middle School. At these distributions, we, obviously, distributed books to families in collaboration with Summer Harvest, an organization that was distributing food to families with children. I went to both of the distributions, and I had an amazing time! At the first book distribution on July 9, cars pulled into the school parking lot and parked their cars, and each volunteer walked up to the cars with a clipboard, giving it to the parent so they could fill out the form with their name and the grade levels of their children. Then, we would go back to the book area and take the packed bags of books according to each grade level, and bring them back to the cars to deliver them to the families. Although it was definitely very hot and sunny, I had a great time meeting new incoming freshmen at the event, and also helping families in need! At the second distribution, the distribution was formatted as a drive thru instead, in which cars would get in line to receive books from Kiwanis and food from Summer Harvest, so we went up to the passenger side window and asked for their name and grades, and delivered their books to them. Unfortunately there weren’t as many families coming as the previous distribution, but we were able to help a good amount of families and that’s all that matters. These book distributions are just some of the numerous food and item distributions we have at Oxford Academy Key Club, so I hope to see you guys at our events this summer, and to join as dues paid general members for the school year!

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The Cypress Kiwanis Book Distribution is, obviously, a free book distribution held by the Kiwanis Club of Cypress. The Kiwanis Club has book distributions around the world and this time the Cypress Kiwanis club set it up at King Elementary School. Oxford Key Club volunteers helped distribute books to families that have children who attend King Elementary. There were boxes and cartons of books, all separated into paper bags that are wrapped and ready to go. The boxes were also labeled with grades from kindergarten to high school. I noticed an interesting thing: the kindergarten paper bags were much thicker than the first-grade ones, probably because kindergarteners’ books are picture books while first graders start to read. Some volunteers go out to cars and write down their needed books, but I just helped hand the books to the other volunteers. While helping out, one car owner had watermelons in their trunk, and a watermelon fell off… and the car left… so the Kiwanis Club volunteers get to keep it! Another time an OA volunteer forgot to take off a number card that needed to be put on each car, and the car left with the number car on its windshield! The high school and middle school books were soon gone, and fourth and fifth-grade ones followed, then even the kindergarten ones were gone. We were left with a ton of first-grade books in the end that we were never able to give out. Anyway, after all the fun we had volunteering, we helped tear down everything and we all got donuts! 10/10 experience and I will go again if they hold it again.

Even though I have been serving through Key Club for over a year, I went to my first book distribution just this past month!

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At first, when the book distribution started at 9 AM, there were a lot of cars that came by, ready to pick up some books and food for their families. Kiwanis members and other adult volunteers were already managing the busy line, and I was handed a clipboard to go around the line of cars and ask if they wanted free books for their children. I wasn’t really sure how everything worked initially because it was kind of hectic and my first time doing it, but I quickly just copied what the others were doing. Basically, we rapidly filled out forms and delivered the bags of books to the waiting cars. However, the line died out soon and fewer cars began to trickle in. Therefore, the distribution ended early.

Rachel Kim | 11 | Publicist

The Los Alamitos Book Distribution was hosted by the Los Alamitos Kiwanis Club (which is the “parent” organization of Key Club) at Oak Middle School, where there was also a food distribution going on. We were able to serve to help families in the Los Alamitos area by distributing free children’s books for levels preschool to high school.

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Yuehanna Yuan | 10 | Historian

Even though we weren’t able to give out all of the books, I think I was once again reminded about how rewarding volunteering and doing these small acts of service are. Although it may seem like not much to us, it’s meaningful to the families and children who are receiving these books. Also, it was nice to come out of the house after a while… I recommend trying to go outside and volunteer with your friends whenever you can!

Megan Tran | 11 | Treasurer

Overall, Brookhurst Pantry is one of my favorite events because of the tight knit community and how many people I meet every time I go. This event will continue to be my favorite part of Saturday and the only thing I am willing to wake up at 8 am for!

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This month of Key Club, I was able to spark back my desire to volunteer and help out the community. Last month, I couldn’t even achieve the required 5 hours of volunteer service for board members. However, I went to Brookhurst Pantry twice this month where I was able to help and serve the community. The first time I went this month, I saw a whole another organization help, we had so many volunteers that we were packing food faster than the cars were coming. However, the 2 nd time I went this month, there wasn’t as many volunteers, we had to strategize efficient ways of putting together our food to be able to the serve all the cars. We ended up serving all the cars and the community. This month of Key Club was very successful and I can’t wait to see what The month of August brings!

On July 30th , I went to Brookhurst Pantry after getting home from vacation Brookhurst Pantries have been a staple of my Saturday mornings for a while, but something is better about them during the summer. This time, I met a lot of new people during my time volunteering. First, I met Honey whom I worked with at the produce table and talked with the entire morning. Like her name, she was very sweet and gave me lots of life advice since in her words, she was “double my age. ” Then, during my break, I met these three little girls, Abigail, Emmanuel, and Eden who were all drawing mermaids, fairies, and minions with markers on one of the cardboard boxes. We shared nice conversations and ate ice cream sandwiches together at the end!

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Bryan Phan | 11 | Tech Chair

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Not only is Key Club a service club, it also serves as a fundraising club for preferred charities to help provide for their programs and healthcare. Preferred Charities are simply the charities that CNH Key Club raises money for every year, hence the constant food fundraisers and merch from every division.

In CNH, the major preferred charities are Children’s Miracle Network, Pediatric Trauma Program, UNICEF, and March of Dimes. The charity Division 30 South and Oxford Academy typically focuses on is the Pediatric Trauma Program which aims to lessen the amount of children killed or injured by unintentional injury. It is the number #1 source of children mortality for those under the age of 14, and 90% can be prevented.

Children’s Miracle Network is a non profit organization that funds for children’s hospitals and these donations go to support research, training, equipment, and for care to improve the lives of children. UNICEF is commonly seen in ELIMINATE week, where we focus on raising awareness for MNT which is a disease that affects the motor nerves in the spines, but is preventable with vaccines.

Lastly, March of Dimes is a charity that raises money to prevent premature birth. All these charities have one thing in common, they offer a chance for a better life for all kids across the nation. Key Club allows for the opportunity to volunteer, and raise funds in

PRESIDENT: Devanshi Kothari VICE PRESIDENT(S): Kenneth Nguyen & Helen Tran SECRETARY: Victoria Tran TREASURER: Megan Tran BULLETIN EDITOR: Kaylin Chan PROJECT CHAIR(S): Ryan Dang & Lynne Ta HISTORIAN(S): Brandon Duong, Janice Lee, Yuehanna Yuan TECH EDITOR: Bryan Phan PUBLISIST(S): Rachel Kim & Katelyn Ngo Board | 18 OAKC Board DLT Service Project Coordinator: Ryan Dang Spirit Coordinator: Jonathan Nguyen Historian: Brandon Duong Publicity Coordinator: Katelyn Ngo Member Recognition Chair: Megan Tran + OA D30S DLT

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