The Panda Club
05.31.2015 Issue II
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Table of Contents I. Lieutenant Governor’s Greeting
II. Recent Events III. Reflection on the Leadership Training Conference
IV: Reflection on ELMINATE Week V: Division Board Introduction VI: Key Club After High School: Reasons to Join Circle K
VII: Bulletin Board (Important Announcements) VIII: Paperwork
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Lieutenant Governor’s Greeting Hello Division 11 Pandas! I hope the first few months of the service year has been going well for everyone. I would like to reiterate some of my goals for this service year and our progress toward them thus far. First, I want to establish a long-term service project for the division to participate in. The organization that I have chosen for our division to work with this service year is Rescuing Leftover Cuisines, an organization that strives to fight hunger in New York City by “rescuing” food from local cafes and restaurants and delivering them to a neighborhood soup kitchen. Our first project with them will be on June 20th! Moreover, I hope that this project will help build stronger ties throughout the division, which is another goal of mine. I also want to hear about changes you want to see within the division, and many of you have already mentioned that you want to become closer with members from other clubs. I hope everyone enjoyed the icebreakers at the May Divisional, such as bippity bippity bop and the one with the roll of toilet paper. Lastly, the final fundraising goal for this service year is 12K! I am optimistic that we can achieve this goal, as we were able to surpass out goal of 10K last year. Thus far, we have raised $3,867.52. Keep up the good work everyone! I hope to see many of you next month at the June divisional and various service projects. Happy Key Clubbing! Emily Li 2015 – 2016 Division 11 Lt. Gov.
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Japan Day
By: Sophia Zhang Hunter Key Club/Bulletin Editor
Did you get free food? Were you waiting under the scorching sun to watch popular Japanese music boy bands? If you answered yes, then you were at Japan Day! On May 10th, 2015, many Hunter Key Clubbers volunteered at Japan Day in the Bandshell, Central Park. The Key Clubbers were given the role of handing out pamphlets to the participants of Japan Day. Two volunteers were set up at each station and had to rotate every thirty minutes. A few others helped out at the Domo Booth by advertising this creature and allowing people to take pictures with Domo. The event consisted of various booths that represented Japanese Culture, such as the various food booths, activities, and shows. Other Key Club members from other schools helped out by volunteering at the tea tent, where they handed out bottles of tea. "This was a really fun and exciting experience for me because this is my first time going. I loved how this event encompassed all parts of the Japanese culture and how everyone was very eager to learn about it" said Anonymous. 4
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Walk to Cure Arthritis Walk To Cure Arthritis isn't one of the most popular walks, but it was a fun event nonetheless. Although it required you to wake up early and be in the city by 7, it was an event worth waking up for. From 7-10 am, volunteers from Bronx Science Key Club and Stuyvesant Red Cross were assigned different areas around the blocks of Foley Square to help assist participants of the walk who were coming out of the train station to the registration tent. Steven, our coordinator, gave us all plastic signs with a huge arrow on it, which we were supposed to point towards the direction of the tents. Being stationed there for 3 hours allowed us to get to know other members of our club we were grouped with whom we might've never talked to before. Unfortunately, after a while, it started to pour buckets. Since we were outdoors, we were forced to use the plastic signs as an umbrella, since none of us (the people at my station) had thought to check the weather before we left the house and bring and umbrella. Luckily, it was a big sign (although, of course, we did get wet) and we were standing near trees, so we retreated under the shelter of the trees. It wasn’t much, but it was better than nothing, right? At 10, Steven assigned us all new stations along the route of the walk in which the walkers were going to walk. With our signs, we directed them in the direction in which they were supposed to go, and we cheered them on. Many of the walkers cheered back enthusiastically (I can’t say the same as they were coming back), but it was just the beginning of the By: Minna Au walk, so they were still hyped and energized. Some of the participants Bronx Science Key Club Member even asked us for a picture with them! Around 11:30-12, all the walkers were starting to return along the same path. We were supposed to guide them back to the tents with our signs, but the arrows on the signs pointed to the opposite direction away from the tents, so we had to flip our signs upside down to lead them. Many walkers, as they walked back, laughed and pointed out to us that our signs were upside down, probably thinking we were illiterate. When the walk ended, we were provided free hot dogs, cotton candy, chips, and seltzer, which we indulged ourselves on. After taking a group photo, we all dispersed, half of us returning home, and the other half headed for Chinatown Ice Cream 6 Factory.
By: Minna Au Bronx Science Key Club Member
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Reflection of the Leadership Training Conference As a first timer, LTC was my first experience with Key Club on a district level, and the three things that surprised me the most were the amount of people, the professionalism, and the energy. Right from the start, getting off that bus, it was incredible how many people were there just in that narrow hallway. I learned from some people there that Key Club was a huge thing in their schools, and from others that Key Club was one of three clubs at theirs. The broad range of experiences and perspectives made me struggle to imagine how big something like ICON would be. It was also both very professional, and very energetic. There would be caucus sessions where everything adhered to a very strict timetable, and then there would be things like Play fair or people singing happy birthday in their pajamas in the hallway. I definitely miss LTC just because of how vast it was--divisionals don't even come anywhere close to it, though the energy levels could be matched. Overall, LTC had a huge impact on my own perspective of Key Club, and it was amazing
By:Jespar Chen Hunter Key Club/Web Master
Reflection Of Eliminate Week
May 4th through May 8th, was Eliminate Week. Eliminate is dedicated to the awareness of maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT), a form of tetanus that occurs in a mother and her child when they are exposed to an infected environment of tetanus spores. This week was dedicated to promoting awareness of MNT. Our club did so by informing our members of the project and its goal. We fund raised and advocated via social media by tinting profile pictures blue, and changing cover photos. With Kiwanis's 5th year in contributing to the Eliminate Project, our club hopes to help in reaching the goal to eliminate.
Alice Zheng 8 LaGuardia Key-Club/VicePresident
Divisional Board
Emily Li: Lieutenant Governor Hunter Key Club
Aashika Jikaria: D11 PR Chair LaGuardia Key Club
Kalvin Chi: Executive Assistant Stuyvesant Key Club
Kenji Yeoh: Divisional Secretary Bronx Science Key Club
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Angela Li: Historian Hunter Key Club
Sharon Lin: Divisional Webmaster 9 Stuyvesant Key Club
Key Club After High School: Reasons to Join Circle K Congratulations to all the seniors who are graduating from high school this year! You've put in four years of amazing work to make it where you are now-- no doubt that this work included service to your community as a member of Key Club International. Now you may be off to college, wondering what you are going to make of yourself as a college student. I was definitely in that position when I graduated. But then I found a home in Circle K. As you may know, Circle K International (or CKI) is the collegiate branch of the Kiwanis family and the largest collegiate service organization in the world. Much like Key Clubbers, members of CKI are dedicated to serving their communities - with a motto of, "Live to serve, love to serve." - alongside the other members of the K-Family.
By: Terrell Frederick Merritt Seneca Division Lieutenant Governor ’15-‘16
It may be a bit scary to join CKI, and you may ask yourself: How can I serve with all the time I'll be spending on college work? How can I feel like a part of a family on a new campus with people I don't know? Everybody tells me that CKI is nothing like Key Club, so how can I possibly enjoy it? These are all valid questions, but you will never know until you give Circle K a try! We would love to have the amazing members we have come to love in Key Club join CKI, but ultimately you have to try it for yourself and find the connections that I was lucky enough to find. But you don't have to do it alone -- talk to any friends you may already have in CKI, contact your future club officers, your Lieutenant Governor, or any District Board member you can reach if you want to hear more about serving in college (If you're staying in the state, you can find this information at nycirclek.org). And hey, you can always reach out to me! Happy Serving! ===== Feel free to email me if you need anything else. :) Yours in Service, Leadership, & Fellowship, Terrell Frederick Merritt Seneca Division Lieutenant Governor '15-'16 Rochester Institute of Technology Circle K New York District of Circle K International C: (718) 650-7859 | W: nyckiseneca.weebly.com
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Important Announcements
http://goo.gl/forms/e5LkOhTIHZ
Contact your Club Officers or one of our Divisional Board Members if you have any questions. • D11 LTG : emilyli.ltg@nydkc.org • Executive Assistant : kalvinchi.ea@nydkc11.org • Secretary : kenjiyeoh.sec@nydkc11.org • PR Chair : aashikajikaria.pr@nydkc11.org • Historian : angelali.hist@nydkc11.org • Webmaster : sharonlin.tech@nydkc11.org
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Paper Work Election Report Forms
April Monthly Report Form
The Bronx High School of Science – Submitted
The Bronx High School of Science – Submitted
DeWitt Clinton High School – Not submitted
DeWitt Clinton High School – Submitted
High School for American Studies – Not submitted
High School for American Studies – Submitted
Hunter College High School – Submitted
Hunter College High School – Submitted
Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School – Submitted
Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School – Submitted
NEST +m High School – Submitted
NEST +m High School – Submitted
Stuyvesant High School – Submitted
Stuyvesant High School – Submitted
Frank McCourt High School – Submitted
Frank McCourt High School – Submitted
HSMSE – Submitted
HSMSE – Submitted
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