Week of Service starts tomorrow

As a reminder here is tomorrow's schedule:

		April 11
		MONDAY
		SILVER
7:00 AM
7:30 AM		NHS Morning Meet-Up Library Conference Room (7:30am)
Block 1 7:55am - 9:17am
Advisory 9:21am - 9:46am		Formal Dress Drive Collection in Advisory 9:15am-9:45am	New Horizons Supply Drive Room 304 9:15am-9:45am	Grades 9 & 10 LYBW Kick-Off Theater
Block 2 9:50am - 11:12am
Block 3 11:16am - 1:08pm		1000 Paper Cranes Bulldog Corner 11:16am-1:08pm	Relay for Life: Suns and Moons Sale Bulldog Corner 11:16am-1:08pm	Send a Compliment, Save a Life Bulldog Corner 11am-1:08pm
Block 4 1:13pm - 2:35pm		BHS Bake-off Library 1:30-6:00pm
2:30 PM
3:00 PM			Be Your Family's Energy Watchdog Sign-up to Pledge Individuals' Homes 3pm-8pm
4:00 PM
5:00 PM
6:00 PM
7:00 PM
8:00 PM

Part of our job as the leaders of this week is to generate interest and excitement. If we believe this week is a fun and important thing to do, it will become one. Feel free the snap, insta, and tweet what you're doing this week and #NHSWOS it up. 

I got a neat opportunity to share my thoughts with Unleashed this evening, and I was asked to share how I perceived the event so far. I thought it would be interesting for you to hear what I had to say. My honest answer follows:

How have you perceived student reactions so far? (In terms of preparation, volunteer involvement or anything else)

My perception right now is that the students who want to make something out of this event are the ones getting the most out of it. Since we've never done it before, I'm asking for a lot of trust from students as I promise that this will be worth our time. So, students that have taken on project ideas or helped with the website or schedule are the ones that are feeling the most fulfilled right now by what they are accomplishing (albeit stressed). But, there is a significant portion of our membership that is still waiting to see if it's worth their time and my hope is that by celebration time on Saturday, they will have found a way to get involved and feel that their membership has been validated. 

My other concern is that with so many projects demanding student volunteers, we may be stretched a bit thin. However, I remind myself that we have only 12 events planned while we have over 100 Juniors and over 90 Seniors to help. Even if every current member chose only 1 of the 12 events to be a part of, we'd still have nearly 10 students per project to get the job done! It's going to come down to a commitment to the cause on an individual basis. I hope Juniors are planning to make a great first impression, and I hope Seniors are planning to go out on a real high note. It's going to take all of us!

In short, we're the ones in control of our success or failure. I'm pretty excited about it.

Relay for Life Sign Up

Every day during block 3 over the Week of Service, Relay for Life will have a table set up in bulldog corner where Relay for Life Suns and Moons will be sold. These are a similar concept to the Make-A-Wish stars. As the week goes on, suns and moons will be sold and hung in Bulldog Corner to make a "Wall of Hope". The goal of this event is to gain more awareness for the Relay for Life Event. Relay for Life is a subdivision of the American Cancer Society, a non-profit organization that helps fund cancer research. By purchasing a sun or moon, you can help the fight against cancer. We need people to run this table throughout the week. You can sign up for as many or as few slots as you want, and hours will be given out for the amount of time that you work. If you know friends who are not in NHS, but would like to contribute their time, feel free to pass this sign up on to them! Let's have a great Week of Service! :)

Link to Sign Up:
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0544a5ab2da1ff2-week
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Kenzie Kearns and Ricky Salvatore
BHS Relay for Life Leadership

Historian Update

Hello everyone! As I mentioned during our mandatory meeting, I am still in need for pictures for our end of the year celebration. If you have any photos that were taking during an chapter or individual service opportunity, please send them to me. I want to create a slideshow that incorporates various members and events that have occurred throughout the year, and so far I haven't received very many. So please send them to me as soon as possible, thank you! :) Email: 9957470@bedfordnhk12.net
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Julienne Mumpini
Historian

Carlyle Place Sign up

Our Week of Service project is a visit to the Carlyle Place on Friday the 15th, starting at 3 and ending at around 4:30. We would greatly appreciate you coming to this event and helping out! However, there is a limited capacity. Due to this, we have created a spreadsheet and it will be a first come first serve sign up process.

The link is below:
 https://docs.google.com/a/bedfordnhk12.net/spreadsheets/d/1-R7_O9ewx-yOdF_ibL_Fd-Oi1_xR2AJf1YB4en8ysXc/edit?usp=docslist_api 

Thank you!
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Elizabeth Murray and Clare Zarka

BHS McDonough Book Drive

BHS is hosting a CAS book drive for McDonough School in Manchester during the week of April 11th to the 15th and donations from members would be wonderful!!! Any NHS member who donates 3 or more books can receive 30 minutes of NHS individual service. Also, we are looking for 3-4 students who are interested in coming to McDonough school during the 4th block of April 15th to help read to a 1st grade class. Students are required to have their own transportation to the school (ie they own a car and have it with them at school). Please contact William Ebert at 9955507@bedfordnhk12.net or William Ebert in person to let us know if you are interested or would like more information. Thanks!!!!
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William Ebert

1000 Paper Cranes Lunch Sign Up

Hello! We are running a service project for Week of Service called 1000 Paper Cranes. There is an Asian folk story that says that if you fold 1000 origami paper cranes, you will get a wish. Often, this wish is used for good health or good fortune, so for this project, we are going to set up a table in Bulldog Corner during lunches throughout the week, where people can come to help fold paper cranes. We will aim to fold as many paper cranes as possible, and then on Saturday 4/16, we will deliver them to the Elliot Hospital in Manchester to decorate the main lobby and wish the patients good health! While experience folding paper cranes is helpful, we will have directions available, and we can teach anyone who would like to learn in person. Attached is the sign-up form for lunches--just fill out your name in the lunch block(s) you would like to help out! Thanks!

https://docs.google.com/a/bedfordnhk12.net/spreadsheets/d/11RDZdwAn9umo94-WcBvnZWFu1zdoJyejJZOmWZ6LAcQ/edit?usp=sharing
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Nina Levine and Kyra Smith
Coordinating Members

Helping Our Nursing Home: Volunteers Needed

We are looking for volunteers to come to the local nursing homes! We will be meeting at the Hillsborough County nursing home (400 Mast road, Goffstown NH) on Wednesday the 13th from 3:30-4:30pm and the Bedford Hills Center (30 Colby Ct, Bedford NH) on Saturday from 9:00am-1:00pm. Sign ups will be done in one hour shifts so you can come for however long you would like! We will be doing lots of crafts and games with the residents come ready to have fun and help make someone's day! There is a link below to sign up, just add your name under the shift you would like to sign up for.

Space is limited, so sign up! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QxqlFeAtrfyHbfbDLRzzOmdPJc2KAAdpZwMfqW0zenM/edit#gid=0
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Bridget Healy, Claire Ling, Ellen Harnsberger, Bobby Brockway, and Lindsey Beaudoin

Go Through the Motions of Promotions

Our schedule is now up in five places around the school:

• Across from the main office
• Across from our bulletin board
• Across from the Commons
• 2nd floor stairwell
• Across from 3rd floor teacher offices

Lookin' Official

You can bring exposure to your event, and add to the visual appeal of our schedule, by posting any approved flyers you have right on the border of the big poster (like "NEXT WEEK" is above). This will add to the sense that something is happening... in 6 days.

Second week of dodgeball sign ups during lunches

I have made the schedule for this week for volunteers to sign up kids for the dodgeball tournament link: 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vIHhe7YCtGhl9cCohUbYUqAakc524G12TBLkG-eITz4
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It's Happening!!

I am very excited. I am very stressed. I am very excited.

The Week of Service begins in 8 Days!

Website

You know how I know the exact day count? Check out this laser hot website made by our own Natalie Kelley: It has a super awesome, super scary countdown right in the corner!

http://tinyurl.com/nhswos

This is the URL we'll start throwing around the building as non-NHS students start to wonder how they can get involved in our event.

If you're a project leader who would like to get more info on to our website, or if you would like to get involved with helping build the website, please email Natalie.

Schedule

Our master schedule continues to look ice cool. (Look, I don't know, I just try to make these fun and worth your time.) Please double check Molly's awesome work one more time:

https://docs.google.com/a/bedfordnhk12.net/spreadsheets/d/1Pqsqbg2WA2oCSX6hGqrE1samXn4hC6PB0IrTf3Z65AQ/edit?usp=sharing

I'd like to print this schedule fourth block tomorrow on poster sized paper, so there's only a little time left to get this right. If we've accidentally coded your group's activity with a different membership restriction, there's only so much time left to let Molly know!

8 Days. 

Peer Tutoring Project Update

For the peer tutoring project mentioned in the last post, we have added a new opportunity to come to Mrs. Magnusson's In Writing class during R1 on Tuesday the 12th. You can sign up for this using the link to the google doc in the previous post. Also, the date for peer tutoring in Mme. Noble's classes has changed. The Wednesday S3 and S4 opportunities will stay the same, but Mme. Noble has requested to move the R2 class to Thursday the 14th, not Tuesday.

Please sign up!
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Alyssa Monteith


Editorial from Mr. Ahnert: Alyssa and her team's project idea won't work without us actually going into these teacher's classrooms. Please consider giving your time to this very visible NHS event.

Peer Tutoring Opportunities for the Week of Service

Hi, guys!

For a week of service project I am organizing some peer tutoring opportunities that you can sign up for to help out in other class rooms during the day.

The events that I have planned so far include:

• helping Mrs. Hinz's Math Modeling class during the S2 block on Wednesday the 13th, 
• and helping Mme. Noble's French III class for blocks 3 and 4 on that same day. 
• You can also sign up for peer editing in Mrs. Sarsfield's spanish classes on R3 and R4 blocks on Tuesday the 12th, 
• as well as another opportunity to go to to Mme. Noble's class during R2 of that Tuesday. 

There are more requests coming in from teachers, so I will keep you up to date when we finalize those plans. If you have a free block during any of these times, please come in to help! We need as many volunteers as we can get because the program cannot work without you guys!

If you are planning to help out, please type your name in this Google doc for the classes that you will be participating in so I can give you credit for your hours. Thanks!

Sign Up: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fo6M4uEQftign-u7FT_2GUWBslpkHdP84z_wlCj387U/edit?usp=sharing
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Alyssa Monteith
event organizer

BulldogMUN Set Up

Hi Everyone, we are hosting a Model UN Conference here at Bedford High School on Saturday, and we are setting up for it this Friday night (tomorrow). We already have a good amount of volunteers, but if you are in need of chapter hours, feel free to join us.

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Chapter Service Hours Available for Students Who Volunteered at PWS on 3/29

If you are one of the NHS students who volunteered at Peter Woodbury School this past Tuesday and you would like to receive chapter service hours, fill out your name on the second page on this form!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xlgcI1Sg9IXl5w8jQe6pADPnx7fovpCebTe1nvf7uD8/edit
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Emily Lawrence

Pledge to Save Energy

BE YOUR FAMILY'S ENERGY WATCHDOG!! That means: when you're at home and you see lights left on in empty rooms, TV's on with no one watching, or any other electronic device that doesn't need to be on, you turn it off! It's a simple habit that we should all practice but often forget about. Every weeknight for the week of service, you can get 2 hours of community service by exercising this habit from the time you get home to the time you go to bed. Choose a day when you won't be out of the house and just sign up here:

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0949ADAA22A2F94-ipledge/38728561 

I'll send out an email to remind everyone signed up a couple days before. Thanks!
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Elisa Chen

Volunteers needed for the BHS Bake-off!

Here's a fun new chapter service project, earn up to 4.5 hours during Week of Service!

Monday, April 11, 1:30-6:00pm, BHS Library Come help run the BHS Bake-off to support the Joe Dambach Memorial Fund! People will be bringing baked goods to the contest. Others will pay $5 to be judges and taste all the food. We need as many helpers as possible to set up, cut up baked goods into sample sizes, serve the goods to the judges, and clean up afterwards. Set up is from 1:30 to 2:35. The actual event runs from 2:35 to 5:30. Clean-up is from 5:30 to 6:00. Come whenever and for as long as you can! (Please indicate when on the signup.)

You can read more about the event here: http://bit.ly/1pNGdW5.

VOLUNTEERS SIGN UP HERE:
https://docs.google.com/a/bedfordnhk12.net/document/d/1dzWpfqVx-aZlBtTfF7VSI0D2GLjYWNOu4C2fpw67Tqs/edit?usp=sharing

 For questions, contact Anli Zhang or Megan Pemberton.
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Joe Dambach Memorial Team

Tomorrow is last optional meeting before Week of Service

Members who come to tomorrow's meeting should expect to work with or support a Week of Service activity. Alternatively, members should help with the scheduling and advertising of the event.

Next week, April 7, is a mandatory meeting.

Activities! Please Report to WoS Scheduling.

Check out how awesome our Week of Service schedule already looks:

Click to Open

There's just a tiny problem... there are only 6 of our 12ish activities represented on the schedule. If your event is a GO, please send your event details Molly's way so she can add you (and the sooner we do that, the sooner we can get these schedules up around the building).

Keep the schedule posted with changes as they come up. One of our nursing home groups has already had to change locations, and communication will continue to be key.

Love Your Body - Week of Service Team-Up ASSSSSEMBLE!!

If you're up to date with your email, you know that the counseling department is pumped that our Week of Service and their Love Your Body week is overlapping. They know what a great resource we are, and they want to tap into your willingness to lead or get involved.

Mrs. Lipinski has set aside a time this Thursday morning at 7:30 am in her office for students who want to lead Love Your Body activities to meet with her and do some planning.

Now, check out those keywords. It's a meeting that's being held a half hour later than our planned optional meeting, but would definitely be furthering the goals and outreach of our chapter. It's a great example of how the independent meeting pilot program could be tested.

So, if you're not already invested in another Week of Service project, and you're interested in leading some Love Your Body work, do these two things:

1. Someone will need to fill out a meeting form. It's okay if more than one person tries, you can sort that out in the room Thursday morning. By the way, a finished meeting form is attached below.
2. Please email Mrs. Lipinksi (lipinskiv@sau25.net) and tell her you're coming. She shouldn't have to wake up early if no one shows; or, she'll need to be prepared if all 200 of you plan to stop by!



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Lunch Schedule for next weeks (March 28 - April 1) Dodgeball sign-ups during lunches

Here is the Google spreadsheet of who is running the sign-up table at which lunch which day next week.

Link to spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/a/bedfordnhk12.net/spreadsheets/d/1vIHhe7YCtGhl9cCohUbYUqAakc524G12TBLkG-eITz4/edit?usp=sharing
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Sophia Dobrowski

Dodge for a Cause 2nd call

The Dodge for a Cause team are looking for volunteers for the following shifts:

• Red first lunch
• Red third lunch 
• Red fourth lunch
• Silver first lunch
• Silver fourth lunch

They also have updated the form to include the dates (Sign-up dates are 3/28-4/8). That form is located here.

Literary Magazine Submissions

The BHS Literary Magazine, Al-LIT-eration, is currently looking for submissions of art, photography, and/or any pieces of writing.

We want to encourage our high school students and teachers to express their creativity and showcase the talent of our BHS community. NHS members can receive chapter service hours for submitting to the literary magazine! Each submission will earn a 1/2 chapter hour.

By submitting to the literary magazine it would show character and scholarship. The member would be helping a new club flourish while inspiring peers to submit their own work. It would also strengthen the academic goals of the member beyond the classroom. Submitting to literary magazines encourage people to step out of their comfort zones, which will ultimately make BHS a place people feel free to express themselves and share with others creating a more connected school.

Email your submissions to bhslitmag@bedfordnhk12.net. After submission, an Al-LIT-eration/NHS member will collect your signature on the chapter form.

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Brooke Sicco and Madisyn Simpson

Lots of meeting opportunities coming up

Tomorrow's optional meeting

Computers will be available and members will have the opportunity to continue working on Week of Service activities. Mr. Ahnert will be meeting with students to begin planning the End of Week Party.

Week of Service Scheduling & Promotion team

The WoS scheduling & promotion team needs to know when your activity is taking place, and how BHS students will be signing up to participate. Email Molly Quinn with your information or join her team.

Charity Ball

The New Hampshire National Honor Society is holding a charity ball, which can count as 2 meetings or chapter service. The flyer has been posted to our communication board or visit the state chapter Facebook page. 

Spring Conference

Ever wonder why Bedford isn't on the state executive committee? It's because we didn't go to the state conference last year. Spring Conference has been set for Friday, May 20th. I doubt Seniors will be interested (unless they're desperate for hours/meetings), but for Juniors interested in getting involved on the state level, it's an opportunity to become a state-wide leader or to pick up 2 meetings. Put it on the calendar, we'll sign up for this at the May 5th mandatory meeting. 

Reminder

You can now get meeting credit for any of these events, as long as you document your time there. See this news post. Forms and flowcharts for all NHS processes are available at our lovely communication bulletin board, and you can always invite members to join you in a meeting or service project by making an NHS announcement yourself via this Google Form.

Volunteers needed to sign up students for dodgeball tournament during lunches

The Week of Service Dodgeball Tournament needs volunteers to help sign up teams during lunches. Hours are available for sitting at these tables! Further details available on the Google Form.

Google form link: https://docs.google.com/a/bedfordnhk12.net/forms/d/1xfFw9Lu6pPVJ4uS2l3v6Lm_wr-7kaXQ2psridHbak7c/edit?usp=sharing
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Sophia Dobrowski

Independent Meeting Pilot Program

The "Optional Meeting" concept was designed in Fall 2014 as a way to break up our large membership into smaller, more productive chunks. This policy change occurred because members observed the theater meetings were unproductive and usually involved listening more than doing. While it is true that the smaller, optional meetings have potential, the concept still needs work.

Take the March 17 "Optional Meeting", for example. It was well attended, with nearly 80 students showing up to participate. Members who were working on Week of Service activities found plenty to do, and the room was abuzz with activity. However, an informal poll revealed that nearly 2/3 of the students there were in attendance simply because they had to be for attendance. That's terrible. That's not why we have meetings.

Meetings are recommended as a way to plan events, practice our leadership skills, and to stay in communication with one another. They are not supposed to separate the students who can get to school early in the morning from the students who can't. They are not supposed to be a chore.

Thus, NHS will be piloting an Independent Meeting Program for the remainder of the year to see if it can effectively replace our current system. In order to test it authentically, any meeting submitted via this program will count. There are lots of opportunities left to use this idea this year.

Here's how it works:

Students can plan and attend their own meetings, provided the purpose of the meeting is clearly stated, matches with NHS goals, and is of an appropriate length and quorum (number of members present). Meeting-goers must record meeting minutes, and submit to the adviser for approval. This flowchart explains the process in detail:

Incidentally, all of our processes now have flowcharts that can be reviewed here or found under the new "Stay Active" sidebar.

The Meeting Minutes Form has been added to the NHS member links. Let's see what happens!

Optional Meeting Agenda, News & Notes

Tomorrow's optional meeting will be available for Week of Service groups to further plan their activities, begin to finalize Week of Service scheduling, and to address any NHS-related questions. A discussion on the purpose of meetings will also be on the agenda.

If you're interested in any of these agenda items, more detail is covered below.

Attendance

Attendance records are now up to date except for Junior attendance for the 2/18/2016 optional meeting. Who has the attendance list? 

Attendance probations have been delivered through advisories.

Week of Service

Activity	Status
Prom Dress Drive	Good to Go!
Be Your Family’s Energy Watchdog	Good to Go!
Peer Tutoring Classroom Assistance	Good to Go!
Helping our Nursing Home (Hillsborough County)	Good to Go!
Visiting the Carlyle Place	Good to Go!
1000 Paper Cranes	Good to Go!
New Horizons	Good to Go!
Restoring to Restore	Status Update?
Relay for Life - Suns and Moons Sale	Status Update?
Spring Black Light Dance	Status Update?
Send a Compliment, Save a Life	Status Update?
Dodge for a Cause	Status Update?
Joe Dambach Memorial Fundraiser	Status Update?

I am proud that all Week of Service groups made plans to meet with Mr. Hagen regarding the questions he still had about their planned activity. But, I need to know if your activity is now approved. Could you please give me a status update about how your meeting went?

Optional Meeting Alternatives
We need to repurpose and renew our commitment to why we hold multiple meetings during the year, and what it means to be a commited and functioning NHS member. I will be leading a discussion and proposal tomorrow and will be looking for feedback from the membership on my idea.

Room Helpers for SP Celebration Days

The Senior Project committee is looking for one/two NHS Juniors to help facilitate NHS volunteers to help make sure Seniors are all set tech-wise prior to giving their presentation on the two SP Celebration Days (June 2-3, 2016). Sample of some issues in the past have been because a computer is not mirrored to projector, or more batteries are needed for a clicker etc. Students do not need to be an expert with technology -- just comfortable helping troubleshoot if a situation arises. NHS volunteers would be responsible for checking in with 6-8 rooms prior to presentations happening. If anyone is interested in help spear-heading this, please feel free to contact Mr. Sheil and he can fill in more details. Thanks in advance for your time and consideration. - SP Committee
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Mr. Sheil
SP Committee Member

PWS Fun Night Volunteers Needed

Tuesday, March 29th is our Family Fun Night from 4 to 7:30. Peter Woodbury School Family Fun Night needs volunteers!!! I am sure many of you remember family fun nights at your elementary school. We are reaching out for your support our current elementary students. We are looking for help with ticket sales, serving pizza and ice cream, and helping with activities. 12 Volunteers are needed for Session 1 from 4:00 to 5:30 12 Volunteers are needed for Session 2 from 6:00 to 7:30 Also looking for a few helpers for set up (3:30 to 4) and take down (7:30 to 8) Please email Sue Armstrong at armstrongs@sau25.net to sign up. Any questions please ask! Thank you for your support!!!
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Sue Armstrong
PWS Teacher

Optional meeting dedicated to WoS activity planning

This is your reminder that we do have a meeting on the schedule tomorrow. It's optional, so it's set in room 113/115 and dedicated to a smaller workshop setting.

Our goal tomorrow is to give time for students to work on their Week of Service plans. As a reminder here is how our WoS plans look:

 

Activity	Status
Prom Dress Drive	Good to Go!
Be Your Family’s Energy Watchdog	Good to Go!
Peer Tutoring Classroom Assistance	Good to Go!
Helping our Nursing Home (Hillsborough County)	Good to Go!
Visiting the Carlyle Place	Good to Go!
1000 Paper Cranes	Good to Go!
New Horizons	Good to Go!
Restoring to Restore	Meet with Admin
Relay for Life - Suns and Moons Sale	Meet with Admin
Spring Black Light Dance	Meet with Admin
Send a Compliment, Save a Life	Meet with Admin
Dodge for a Cause	Meet with Admin
Joe Dambach Memorial Fundraiser	Meet with Admin

Tomorrow would be a good time for ideas that need to meet with administration check with me and learn how to do that. If you are unattached to an idea of your own, the meeting might be an opportunity for you to jump on with helping plan one of the above activities.

There are only FIVE meetings until Week of Service begins. 

Week of Service activities have passed administrative review!

Good news! No ideas that I brought to administration were outright denied. With some tinkering, the list below should be the list we present to the school during the week of April 11th - 16th:

Activity	Status
Prom Dress Drive	Good to Go!
Be Your Family’s Energy Watchdog	Good to Go!
Peer Tutoring Classroom Assistance	Good to Go!
Helping our Nursing Home (Hillsborough County)	Good to Go!
Visiting the Carlyle Place	Good to Go!
1000 Paper Cranes	Good to Go!
New Horizons	Good to Go!
Restoring to Restore	Meet with Admin
Relay for Life - Suns and Moons Sale	Meet with Admin
Spring Black Light Dance	Meet with Admin
Send a Compliment, Save a Life	Meet with Admin
Dodge for a Cause	Meet with Admin
Joe Dambach Memorial Fundraiser	Meet with Admin

Activities that have a "Good to Go!" status, you are free to begin planning your Week of Service. Your idea will be happening! Those of you that have had your activity marked "Meet with Admin" will need to meet with Mr. Hagen. Generally, this is because you will need further training as to how to run your idea at the school, or in some cases, there are questions of liability. 

If your group needs to meet with the administration, contact Mr. Ahnert to get preparation ahead of time for what Mr. Hagen will be talking to you about. Mr. Ahnert will, of course, also be available at this Thursday's optional meeting.

Great job, groups!

Kids Vote Volunteers Needed!

Hello, everyone! There is an awesome service opportunity on March 8th. Because it is election day, we have been offered a service project in which we help with Kids Vote. This lets the kids of Bedford vote for fun and color in the Cafeteria. It starts at 9 am and ends at 7 pm and it is asked that we work in 2-hour shifts, meaning, every 2 hours we switch out the volunteers. What is needed is 6 volunteers for every 2-hour shift (which in total is 30 volunteers) and each volunteer earns 2 Chapter Service Hours! Here I have a Google Spreadsheet for you to sign up if you're willing! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zfJkmi1ZuQdEAwbv9ZP86I-zCC9U1fTaJVaVPmCdM_g/edit?usp=sharing
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Jill Tokac

And don't forget to take your Democracy in Action hours, too -- Mr. Ahnert

Mandatory Meeting Tomorrow

Topics will include Week of Service updates, GPA checks, Kids' Vote plans, and other service opportunities.

Here's the agenda.

See you at 7:00 A.M. in the theater.

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.
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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!