Here are the WoS projects I have...

Of the 21 - 22 activity ideas that made it to the optional meeting deadline, these are the 10 final drafts I received.

Activity Name	Student Planners
New Horizons	Alexis, Erica
1000 Paper Cranes	Kyra, Peninah
Restoring for Restore	Peninah
Visiting the Carlyle Place	Elizabeth, Clare
Helping our Nursing Home (Hillsborough County)	Claire, Bridget, Ellen
Peer Tutoring Classroom Assistance	Alyssa, Brionne, Emerson, Molly, Erika
Relay for Life — Suns and Moons Sale	Kenzie, Ricky
Spring Black Light Dance	Kayla, Cassie
Send a Compliment, Save a Life	Carolyn, Mckenzie, Emma, Emily, Meghan
Be Your Family’s “Energy Watchdog”	Elisa, Nadine

If you expected to see your idea on here and you don't, let me know ASAP. My meeting with the principal has been officially scheduled for 12:30 P.M. tomorrow, so you have until then.

I know it was a tough turnaround with winter vacation tossed in the middle of a due date, so I know I might hear from some of you. I mean, 10 is still really good. 

One last thing: To my fellow dudes, where are you? Only one NHS bro wants to good things for other people? C'mon, the principles of NHS are not tied to gender. Our numbers should reflect that.  

Officer meeting today

Attention officers:

This Thursday is the mandatory meeting for March, which means we need to meet and plan the agenda during advisory today.

Junior and senior officers, stop by Mr. Dempsey's office during advisory today to at least check in to your officer role.

Pick up your WoS ideas, finalize, and return by 2/29

That was a boisterous and productive meeting. When the activity died down, we ended with 22 ideas and there are a couple more still floating around out there. We met our goal!

If you were not in attendance, what you missed is that each idea planning sheet was reviewed by a team of 4-6 NHS members. These members applied constructive feedback via sticky notes, like so:

IDEAS!!

What you need to do now, is finalize your idea. If you didn't pick up your idea this morning, I've put it in the manila folder on the NHS bulletin board. Be careful to not knock off your sticky notes. Please type up a copy of your final activity plan using the sheet by February 29th (That's the day we get back from February vacation). 

Here, once again, is the Blank WoS template. Feel free to change font sizes and the like to fit your project in the two pages provided. 

I hope to have approval from the administration by our March 3rd mandatory meeting. It's coming up quick!

Week of Service ideas reviewed and finalized at tomorrow's optional meeting

One or two more ideas have found their way into the bulletin board, but I know there's a lot of other ideas percolating out there that may not actually be on paper. Tomorrow is the day we stop collecting ideas.

At the meeting, we will break into small groups and review the ideas presented plus make suggestions and improvements. You don't necessarily have to be on hand to represent your idea, but if you're particularly invested, you may want to be available to answer questions.

Make-A-Wish Foundation Star Sale

All profits from selling Make-A-Wish Foundation stars will go to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Stars are $1 in cash, and selling 5 grants a half hour of chapter service hours. Please fill out your name, advisory, and number of stars you take. If you need any extra stars, them and the sign out sheet for them will be in the cooking classroom. When done selling, please place the money in a ziplock bag with your name on it, and the number of stars you took (the amount of dollars in the bag should match this number) to Mrs. Brooks or Isabelle Kapoian. To return unsold stars, please place them in a ziplock bag with your name and the number of stars in it to Mrs. Brooks or Isabelle Kapoian.
________
Isabelle Kapoian
President of the BHS Wish Club

WoS Reality Check

Snow Day + Election Day + Sports + Model UN + No time to work together = A week is too short to develop 20 Week of Service events.

Instead of having all ideas due to tomorrow's optional meeting, we will use tomorrow's meeting as an hour of time to work with our friends on activities we thought we might want to put together, but changed our mind because it felt like there would be no time.

Some people have had good ideas, but I've had suggestions for how the ideas could be better implemented and there's just no time to take care of that in a week.

Our new goal will be one week later: The optional meeting on February 18th.

Week of Service Idea Update

We're up to 4! 16 to go.

To give you an idea, I've asked one group if I could share their project idea with the rest of NHS. (This doesn't mean that their idea will be approved, but it does mean that their form is nicely filled out).

Check out the Week of Service example planner here:

Junior Officer Results

Here are the results of your officer elections. 92 ballots were cast. Only winners are posted. Results can be shared privately with candidates who ask, but I do not post the rest of the results out of respect to our disappointed members.

President
Clare Zarka

Vice President
Nick Courtney

Secretary
Anna Bogursky

Treasurer
Ethan John

Historian
Jake DeAngelis

Congratulations and stay tuned for a special meet-and-greet meeting with the Senior officers (likely to be the Monday, February 15th activity block).

Last call for juniors to vote

Officer Ballot
This is a reminder that the ballot closes tomorrow morning (about 8:00 am) for the officer elections. There are currently 90 votes recorded, so about 19 juniors are still out there eligible to vote. You don't have to, but this is your last call. The ballot was sent to your email.

New Communication Tool
Speaking of email, this is also a test post of our new email addresses. The email NHS2016@bedfordnhk12.net and NHS2017@bedfordk12.net should automatically now send blogger posts to every current member of NHS.

Week of Service
No update on how many activity ideas we have so far because of the snow day. However, I want to encourage this as an idea: We could use some ideas with a peer tutoring focus. One idea could be as simple as working with the library to have NHS students doing tutoring each block at a designated table. And let's go beyond tutoring, too. Do you know how to make a killer Prezi? Run a teaching session. What about a "What is it like to go on a college tour?" info session? How to find your first part-time job? Or, are you really good at finding research material in the library? Anything where you are sharing your skills, knowledge, and experience as upperclassmen with our peers, is a worthwhile activity.

Week of Service Project Idea Planner

• List of Project Ideas

• Google Doc version of Activity Planner

Preview of tomorrow's ballot

Here is tomorrow's ballot. Candidates should be prepared to speak for about a minute about why they are interested in their position.

It will be another busy mandatory meeting. See you in the theater!

Deliberative Childcare, Last call for Officers, Meeting Reminder

Chapter Project Tonight

If you signed up to help hang out in the library with children from the community tonight, I assume your project coordinators already checked in with you. I will say hello this evening but leave it to Cassie and Kayla to run the show. If you're no longer planning to join their group tonight, make sure to let them know!

Do you want to be an officer next year?

Fill out the interest form before tomorrow afternoon. 

Mandatory Meeting This Week

Thursday's meeting is mandatory in the theater. A large number of new junior members forgot to sign in or forgot the meeting entirely. Do not risk your membership over silly forgetfulness!