HTHS KEY CLUB

Made by Derek Brenner, Editor

December 2015

Table of Contents
Autism Facts
Toy and Pajama Drive
Recap of November Food Drive
Recap of Mr. HTHS
DCON and Service Hours
Spike Out Hunger
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Facts About Autism

Our Advocacy Focus
As you may know, our advocacy
focus for this year is autism. This
includes everything from helping
children with autism to raising funds
to help find a cure for it.

Facts about Autism

There is no medical detection or
cure for autism as of now.
Boys are nearly 5 times as likely as
girls to have autism.
About 40% of children with autism
do not speak.
The mortality risk of those with
autism is nearly twice that of the
rest of the general population.

Facts about Autism

Autism affects 1 in 68 children
Autism has been increasing
throughout the U.S. since 2000.
Autism itself costs a family $60,000
to care for a child
Autism affects 1 in 42 boys

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HTHS Key Club presents

December Pajama & Toy

Drive
12/1-12/21
New unopened toys
All donations sent to CARC
(Community Affairs and
Resource Center) in Asbury Park
Boxes located in MPR
Points for SGA House Cup for each
donated item!
(name and grade MUST be labeled)

New Pajamas of any size

All donations sent to Linkages
located in Tinton Falls

Boxes located in MPR

Points for SGA House Cup for each
donated item!
(name and grade MUST be labeled)

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November Food Drive Recap

What Food Drive?

This November, our school held a
food drive for the New Jersey
Federation of Food Banks, our District
Project for this year. Cans and nonperishables alike were collected all
throughout November.

Results
Thank you to everyone who donated
items to our food drive! Our school
alone brought in1844 items, that
weighed 1575 lbs! Congratulations to
the seniors for winning the House Cup
challenge with a total of 721 items!

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Recap of Mr. HTHS

Thanks!
A big thank you to everyone who was
able to join us at the hilarious Mr. HTHS
and a huge shout-out to all of our great
contestants!

Results
Coming in at 3rd place we had the
fantastic sophomore Luke Morgan!
In 2nd place with an amazing Romeo
and Juliet reenactment, was Nikhil
Lakhani!
Last but certainly not least, coming in
1st place with a stellar performance
was Mike Lyons! Congratulations to
all contestants!

More
Thanks for all the help and support
from everyone who came to the
event, and we were able to raise
$1,350 for the Wiser Foundation, to
fund girls education in Kenya!

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DCON and Service Hours

Service Hours

What is DCON?
DCON is a huge event hosted by
Key Club every spring. During this
event, clubs from all around the
state can join together to talk
about and discuss events that all
Key Clubs are participating in this
year. Our Key Club is opening up
this event to anyone in the club
who would like to attend. Keep in
mind, however, that you must be a
responsible member of Key Club to
attend this event.

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As you may know, this year, the High

Tech Key Club is hoping for even more
participation from its members, so it is
required that you must attend at least
one meeting per month to be
considered a member. In addition to
that, if you would like to attend DCON
in April, you must have at least 15 hrs of
service total with at least 10 hrs from
our club. Hours from the club include
attending Fall Rally, volunteering at Mr.
HTHS, and other volunteer
opportunities provided/advertised.
Each club meeting will also count as
1/2 hr of service. The minimum cap is to
encourage even more participation
out of all of our members this year!

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Spike Out Hunger

What is Spike Out
Hunger?
Spike Out Hunger is an event
that our Key Club attended
this year. With the goal of
ending hunger with the NJ
Federation of Food Banks, a
volleyball tournament was
held at SJV on November
22nd.

About
There were 8 teams from schools all around
the district that showed up to the event. A
big congratulations to the winning team
from High Tech, The Dolans, who will be
moving on to represent Districts 9 and 10 in
the regional tournament, with the winners of
all the other districts. Together, Districts 9 and
10 raised $275 dollars towards ending
hunger, as well as 25 lbs of food!
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