<p>First of all, I really enjoy Key Club because while our meetings are bland and the service opportunities relatively lacking in variety, I absolutely love (most) community service. </p>
<p>But next year I'm running for officer position and I'm intent on bringing some club spirit/sense of community, as well as things that might make a meeting more interesting. For example, we have a powerpoint detailing the volunteer opportunities, present that, maybe there's food, we sign up and that's it. </p>
<p>So I'm just wondering, besides the bare minimum of what our club does, what kind of interesting things happen during your meetings for Interact or Key club? I've thought about group-bonding-ish activities and more feedback from members about what they want, but I want to hear what your meetings are like.
Thanks!</p>
<p>We do games and such, and our Board Editor publishes a newsletter every week about the upcoming events (we literally have 3-6 events a weekend, so if you wanted, you could get 25 hours easily on any weekend). He also publishes the top 5 hour rankings, and we’re all very fierce about who is in the lead. Also, because our club is 200+ people, we have a 20 min meeting followed by a separate “small group” meeting where a senior / officer tells us more about…stuff, I guess. Our hours are turned into points for our small groups, as well as attendance to events and meetings, and the small group that is in the lead is also a fierce competition (there are about 6 small groups). So yeah we’re pretty organized, I would say. Division 37 South!!!
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<p>We do some raffles to get us all excited about volunteering. Sometimes we join in on divisional events, like ice-skating, etc, and we promote these events during the school meetings. We also do fun icebreakers. It really depends on your school. Our school isn’t as spirited, so we don’t do much besides sign up for volunteering opportunities…</p>
<p>^^^Wow, that sounds really nice!! Kudos to your club for making that happen, I bet most of the people in our club don’t even know what division we are, or the key club colors for that matter… is there any motivation behind such competition? </p>
<p>^^I understand your point and I don’t think it’s particularly impressive to be in key club, but like I said I really like it and am not doing for the sake of college apps.</p>
<p>^what do you raffle off? Yeah, our school isn’t so spirited either but at least you guys do stuff! Our meetings are really cut and dry boring</p>
<p>Second, since I have been in Key Club, our meetings have gradually gone downhill, and as an officer, people seem more apathetic about our club, and I really hate seeing how enthusiatic CNH’ers are about it because I am jealous…But next year I will hopefully be President of our Club as well as on our Div. board, and I really want to get people EXCITED FOR SERVICE! </p>
<p>^^^^ The above poster does not understand Key Club. The point of Key Club is not to pad applications. Key Club acts as a small community within a school, a support group. Our KC tutors. We have built a community garden. We run the food drive for our town (we get 15000++ cans a year). We run two dances. We go to Ronald McDonald house. Also, if another community organization needs our help (and they often do, at least once a month), our members volunteer to help. Key Club is, at my school, like a family. If someone is seriously sick, all the members are so kind, they bake cookies, tutor, help out when the student comes back to school… I highly doubt that any of the members are thinking, “This will get me into HYP”… most think “I love this club. I can serve my community and have fun.”</p>
<ol>
<li>Raise money for service learning projects by:
a. having paid Guitar Hero games
b. selling ice-cream</li>
<li>Sell flowers for teachers’ day</li>
<li>Fulfill their 200 hours/year of service.</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Tutor.</li>
<li>Clean up in the community.</li>
<li>Organize a blood drive.</li>
<li>Be active to younger kids in the community.</li>
<li> Host the school’s beast talent show.</li>
<li>We have like 6 charity donations a year.</li>
</ol>
<p>They’re the biggest club and do the most stuff in the school. IB Kids… getting it done.</p>
<p>It seems as though that club and many others try to attract me every year.</p>
<p>Key Club is the one club at my school that truly irks me. Donating a certain amount of money for their yearly project will earn students “hours” of signed-off community service… which has some obvious moral issues. Interact is more legit, I know they helped raise money for a kid in my school who lost a leg in an accident pay for a prosthetic one, and do some environmental clean-up sort of stuff.</p>
<p>Habitat for Humanity does more than the other two combined.</p>
<p>soyeah, that sounds exactly like my school’s key club. our interact club is a lot more chill and the people who are in it have better intentions, i feel like.</p>
<p>yea, our key club doesn’t do ****. it’s filled with resume padders and it annoys me to death.
habitat for humanity is MUCH better. not so sure about interact club.</p>