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NWCTA | Region 5 | D28W
K E Y C L U B
Sincerely,
Krysta Phoumiphat Bulletin editor
Dearest Key club, SUMMER is almost over! Can you believe it! I cant believe I am saying this but I am so ready to go back to school. Why? Because I miss all my friends and especially Key Club meet-ings. One of the only reason why I miss school is because I miss the Key Club meetings and events. Our first meeting will be on August 29th at 1:30pm in the theater! I can not wait! I hope all of you attend, and tell your freshman friends as well. If you have friends who hesitat-ed to join Key Club last year and they didn't, bring them. What about a friend who doesn't know what Key Club is all about? BRING THEM! Lets expand our Key Club even more. One of our main goals this year is not only to get more members
but it is to retain our members. You know its hard for me to say this but it made me really sad to see how bad fall rally drop out was. You guys are key Clubbers! I’m going to keep you all motivated the whole year! This is not just part of my job as Bulletin Editor, but my job as a fellow member! I want to see all your pretty faces at the first gen-eral meeting! (: How did your summer go? Overall are you happy with the amounts of events and community service you have done over the summer? If you aren't that’s okay , we still have the whole school year. I am so excited to see all of you at all the service events this school year. Don’t forget about your dues! Dues are early this year don’t forget it! We will be talking about all of this at the first meeting! I recently attended this event called Future Leaders day and I wrote a long article about how it has helped me grow and such. I hope you guys are all able to attend this event.
Just so you know …..8
Contact us………...9
Officer Spotlight
6&7
Future Leaders
4&5
August DCM
3
DSE & WMC
2
Dear Key Club
1
In this issue…..
“A leader is not just
a position”
Hi Hawks!
The 2012-
2013 school
year is almost
here!
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Volume 2 Issue 6 August
“BEE you and only
you, no one else!”
On August 5th Double Shot of Espresso held their first informational meeting to dis-cuss the beginning of their new organization. What DSE would do is work with clubs such as Key Club, NHS, Student Council, etc. to provide them with opportunities to volunteer at places that could possibly help them develop work skills or even find em-ployment. They are also a new form of social media that focuses only on the positive form of online posting. They have a website that they are developing that has many of the same aspects of the most popular social media networks, but without the worries of being put down by anybody through post or comments. The name Double Shot of Es-presso comes from the invigorating, enlightening feeling people get when they drink a double shot and they believe that with their focus on positivity and uplifting peoples spirits that it will provide the same feeling. This is definitely a revolutionary way to ap-proach social media that I hope spreads through out Nevada and then the U.S. I am looking forward to how this will turn out and I really hope that the people who need it can find this organization and take what they need from it to grow.
DSE : Double Shot Espresso
Marcus Castile
Vice President
Business companies showcased what seemed to be millions of furniture in the three colossal towers of the World Market Center. With compa-nies having selected items for donation, the Habitat for Humanity was there to pick them up. Fifty percent of the donations are to be sold with proceeds to the organization and the other half to be donated to unfortu-nate families in need of furniture. With other adult volunteers wearing bright green shirts, we took large clothes bins on wheels and dollies around all the buildings to look for furniture with "Habitat for Humani-ty" signs outside of businesses' office space. We then carefully transported back to Habitat for Humanity's office space. With a day full of walks around the towers, waits for huge freight elevators, and transporting fur-niture, I am joyous to know such furniture are going to an amazing cause and we volunteers made it happen.
World Market Center
Jordan Afaga
President
DSE and World market center
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The last DCM of the summer for D28 West was held on August 13th at Desert Breeze Park. One of the things I enjoyed most about this DCM, and all other summer DCMs, was hearing about how most of the clubs were still staying active over the summer. Even though it wasn’t a large number of people like we would see during the school year, but it’s still good to see that key clubbers are doing their job. Other things we discussed had to deal with the new school year that is coming up fast. One of the biggest aspect of the upcoming year was the dues. Since dues are due earlier this year our club has to work at getting mem-bers acquainted with the basics fast enough so that we can make sure we get dues in on time. With talk of all of the events like Fall Rally and DCON I am getting very excited for this upcoming year. With it being my senior year I plan do push more than I ever have and make sure that I get the most out of my last Key Club year. Now that we had this last DCM, our club, along with all the rest, are really doing our best to make this a great year knowing that since we know all the due dates now we can make sure not to turn anything in late.
Marcus Castile
Vice President
August DCM
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“Leadership is not just
waiting for a problem
to come up.” -Alfonzo
“Do what you do
well!” -Deneen
“Over exceed
Expectations”
-Susan
“Freed People, free
people”
-Juanita
Future Leaders Day
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I’m basically going to breakdown this whole event for you guys. I learned so much and it was a great learning experience and I wanted to share every bit and piece of information I learned there, not only did I learn new things that will help me better my-self as an officer but as a whole. It was also a fun experience and I met many new people and we exchanged contact info that includes the adults that were speaking and running the workshop too. So here we go! First let me explain how this all happened. Juanita Espino had a dream to make a workshop that would help future leaders, she wanted us to have the tools to learn how to take charge and become great leaders. She put this together by talking to Deneen L. Garret, who told her that she can go ahead with her plan to make this day and Daneen would be there to support her along the way. Juanita took that and made it happen she contacted Alfonso Ayala, who works at United Way of Southern Nevada and they teamed up to make this workshop. Along with that she started setting up this event. The people who spoke at the work-shop were Lindsay Panara, Shannon Crofutt, and Eric Ramirez along with Hector Lizoala, and her husband George Espino who also spoke and was there to help with resumes and such. The first part of this workshop was introductions of the people that were running the workshop and the people who attended, there were people from the following schools: Las Vegas High School, Centennial High School, Faith Lutheran, Foothill High School, Las Vegas Academy, West CTA and of course our school Northwest CTA. We then brainstormed what came to mind when we thought about the word leader “Being a leader, inspiring others, bringing others to new heights” those are some of the things we said so then Alfonzo asked what about the word Volunteer? “Caring for others, lending a help-
ing hand, passion, wanting to better your community” Think about it, why would Alfonzo want us to brainstorm these two words. Alfonso explained why, its because these two words go hand in hand with each other. To be a leader you need passion, when you volunteer you inspire others and you can help bring others to new heights. That was something I never thought about before. Alfonzo then told his personal definition of what leader meant to him.
“Leadership is a relational ethical process that brings people together for success.”
-Alfonso Then Alfonzo explained to us what United Way of Southern Nevada was and what they did. He mentioned things such as work-ing with things that had to do with early childhood and doing vaccines. At united way they say this “ We work to create change in the community.” Then we heard his personal story of how he became a leader through Americore. Along with that he went into a description about NGAGE a program that helps highschool students that track volunteer hours and they then get a spe-cial graduation cord. Now I am going to start quoting things that Alfonso said that inspired me and what others should know. “Do something with your position.” “Being a leader is not just having a title in an organization.” “Being a leader is making a positive change in the community. Then we went on to making our resumes and Lindsey the store manager at AT&T at Summerlin talked about resumes and she said “Your resume tells a story.” Then she helped us build our resumes during the day. When walking into a job interview we learned that your appearance , how you present your self, and how prepared you are is going to determine if you et that job or not. Why are you the one for the job? Then we went into who had or had a job, a couple people mentioned their jobs and then Jordan Afaga raised his hand and said “I work at vans, im just sells representative.” this is where Susan stepped in and told him as a leader or even a person “Never say just!” She told him to say I am a sells representative! After all of that we had Eric Ramirez from Americorps speak to us. He told us all about Americorps and what it was, such as free tax cooperation, tutoring kids and community service. Also you get money doing it but “You shouldn’t be doing it for the money or this program is not for you.” Along with his presentation he had flier and a powerpoint slid on this program. He said in “Anything you do give it more than your 100% always.” He also said “Get out of your comfort zone.” His cousin Hector Lizaola, was there, some of you might know him he used to go to Northwest but graduated this year. I did know him and I was surprised to find out he was apart of 100 Blackmen and he started in his senior year also. He talked to us about Americorps and 100 Blackmen. The last part was finishing eating and doing our resumes and also having Daneen speak to us. She was a very motivational speaker. She talked to us about getting a mentor. Because its is good to connect with someone already in that field of work. She talked to us about relationship building and finding out what we are passionate for. She told us about what the AT&T Pioneers were all about, that is wasn't just AT&T but Verizon and others. The organization has been around for 100 years. They do things that we do in Key Club too, such as Light the Night Walk. At the end we had a round table and all of us future leaders got to say what was on their mind. All of our workshop leaders talked to us during the day about helping us with community service events or whatever we wanted to make happen thy would be involved with those projects. They want to see us grow as leaders and I think that is great and makes me feel good that there are adults out there for us like that. I am so glad I went to Future Leaders Day and I would like all of you to attend any event they do in the future. This workshop helped me grow a whole lot.
Krysta Phoumiphat
Bulletin Editor
Future Leaders Day Future Leaders Day
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1.) If you could give the world one piece of advice, what would it be?
If I could give the world one piece of advice, It would be to help one another in everything. Giving is more im-
portant and more rewarding for yourself that receiving. Helping someone in need can change their life forever,
and the world needs this because we as individuals can make this a better world by giving a lending hand.
2.) If you could have a room full of any one thing, what would it be?
If I could have a room full of any one thing it would be all of my family. Family bonding is one of the most im-
portant things in life and life is too short to miss out on it.
3.) What do you value most in other people?
I value personality most in other people. Someone gains my respect if they have respect for others. I value those
who are willing to help others in need not because they were forced because they love doing it. One thing I al-
ways think of is to gain respect you must respect others first, and I think its important that people follow this so eve-
ryone could get along.
4.) If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
I wouldn't change anything about myself. I am who I am for a reason and changing even one thing wouldn't
make me myself anymore. My family and friends are right by my side because of who I am and making a differ-
ence in myself would leave me all alone with no one by my side.
5.) If you could choose one of your personality traits to pass on to your children, what would it be?'
I could pass on one of my personality traits to pass on to my children, it would be my trait of being optimistic. I be-
lieve its important to look at the glass half full rather than half empty because there will always be something in life
that can fill up your cup. In the community service view, there is no such thing as doing too much because there
will always be someone that you can do to help make the world a better place.
6.) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail
If I could attempt something if I knew I could not fail, I would choose to make the world a cleaner place to live in. I
believe that making a community clean will shine a light in someone's eyes. By having a clean place to live, peo-
ple can be more comfortable in what they're doing and they can work more efficiently and safely.
7.) How would you like to die?
I would like to die as peaceful as possible and knowing that I made a change in my community and the world
through my service, personality, and love for dancing.
8.) How has key club influenced your life?
Key club has made a big difference in my life. Starting on the first meeting of freshman year I knew that I was go-
ing to be a leader of part of the club. When I became the freshman representative, it motivated me to help oth-
ers and made me a better person. As the representative in freshman year, seeing my the eyes of my members
when they did service gave me a feeling of accomplishment and motivation for myself to continue to make a
change in the community.
9.) How would you describe Key Club?
Key Club is my second family. Not only did it make me a better person, but it was a family that I felt comfortable
working with.
10.) why did you run for secretary?
I ran for secretary because I knew I needed to step it up from sophomore year when I was a representative for
two years. Although I wanted to continue being a representative, only a great former representative can teach
another so I became secretary not only for the challenge but to also make the current representative better than
I ever was.
11.) Why did you join Key Club in the first place?
My key club story began when I was still in middle school. My oldest brother was my inspiration be-
Officer Spotlight Austin Madriaga
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cause he was known very well and he was also a representative for the new school Northwest. My brother and his
friends kept on telling me to continue my brothers legacy when he left high school and that was my goal when I en-
tered Northwest. Therefore, my first key club meeting as a freshman I knew I needed to be a representative to not only
make my brother proud but also to make the club better than it ever was.
12.) Describe yourself to our members in a paragraph or more (:
Hello members of Northwest CTA, I am Austin Madriaga and I am the current secretary for this most improved club.
Dancing is a big part of my life and I wouldn't be able to function on a daily basis if I didn't dance. Even though my
singing isn't the best, I love to goof around with my friends with a night of karaoke and singing sessions because music is
the medication to all things. Key club is also my medication because it's my second family because every meeting or a
service event I get that feeling that I was meant to be here and do this. I have been a board member for three years
now and I plan on continuing it to my senior year as the leader of Northwest CTA Key Club.
Austin Madriaga
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August 2012
Freshman Orientation
School starts First Meeting
Events this month are:
There are none that we know of yet.
Please keep your eyes open for any events we will contact you if there are any.
For more information on these events please contact me by email or phone:
702-606-9437
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CONTACT US
Senior Representative
Maribeth Maucesa
Treasurer
Kimberly Nguyen
Sergeant at Arms
John Sunga
Camille Corpus
Bulletin Editor
Krysta Phoumiphat
Faculty Advisor
Mr. Guerin
Faculty Advisor
Ms. Spiris
President
Jordan Afaga
Vice President
Paula Castro
Vice President
Marcus Castile
Secretary
Austin Madriaga
Britney Trieu
Sophomore Representative
Adrian Kim
Junior Representative
Ethan Haines
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