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:

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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