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Jun122018

Students of Service Club Recap: 2017-2018 

 

By:Nikita Rana

Students of Service, more commonly referred to as SOS, is the community service club at Biotech. Originally a chapter of the Key Club, SOS allows students to come together and volunteer at activities that help their communities. The 2017-2018 school year began with a meeting held to support Alex’s Lemonade Stand, a pediatric cancer charity. Students of all grade levels came together and enjoyed the lemonade and learned about the charity.

As October came along, so did Students Change Hunger. Every year Biotech students donate many, over a thousand pounds of food to local food banks to assist in feeding the hungry during the holidays.

During the holidays, SOS volunteers collected toys for children whose parents cannot afford presents through the Angel Tree Foundation. Through this foundation, children are able to write down their desired gift on an Angel, which is then hung on a Christmas tree until someone picks it up and purchases the gift. The gift is then delivered to the child on Christmas.

Random Acts of Kindness Week is one of SOS’s largest umbrella of activities. One event that occurred during this week was Operation Smile, which is a drive to collect dental products to promote dental hygiene and to help with cleft lip surgeries around the world. The Random Acts of Kindness weren’t limited to drives to help people across the globe; in fact, there were many activities that took place to spread kindness within Biotech. For example, SOS volunteers stuck motivational post-it notes on all the lockers with sayings such as “One kind word can change someone’s entire day” or “Be the reason someone smiles today.” Continuing with the theme of post-it notes, volunteers created the “Heart Wall” as a way for students to write short and kind messages to each other. During this week, the Biotech Secret Admirer Facebook page was open for classmates to submit anonymous compliments to. By the end of the week, there were almost a thousand messages!

In April, SOS partnered with Spanish Honors Society (SHS) to help raise money for the victims of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. Through the joint efforts of both clubs at the Multicultural Fair, we were able to raise almost $300 of donations!

And now, the winding down of the school year could only mean one thing: club elections! Through the process of a student vote, the officers for the 2018-2019 SOS Team were chosen. And the officers are…

Co-Presidents: Daniel Levit and Olivia Pasquale
Vice President: Sophia Yun
Secretary: Arya Sharma
Service Directors: Nikita Rana and Dylan Fitzgerald
Webmaster/PR Coordinator: AJ Fezza

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