About

Key Club is the oldest and largest service program for high school students. What makes Key Club so successful is the fact that it is a student-led organization that teaches leadership through serving others. Members of the Kiwanis International family, Key Club members build themselves as they build their schools and communities.
Today, Key Club exists on more than 5,000 high school campuses, primarily in the United States and Canada. Growth efforts, however, have taken the Key Club experience internationally to Canada, the Caribbean nations, Central and South America, and most recently to Asia and Australia.
Key Club International is an organization of individual Key Clubs and is funded by nominal dues paid by every member. Its officers are high school leaders elected by the members at district and International conventions. The organization offers a wide range of opportunities to its members:

Leadership development
Vocational guidance
College scholarships
Subscription to the KEYNOTER magazine
Service-learning
Personal enrichment
Value-added member benefit programs
Liability insurance coverage

Originally, Key Club adopted as its motto, "We Build," the same motto as its parent organization, Kiwanis International. In 1976, the organization opted to change its motto to "Caring - Our Way of Life" because these words more clearly conveyed members' reasons for helping others.

What is Key Club Week?

Key Club Week is usually the first week of November, which is also Kiwanis Family Month. During Key Club Week, clubs are encouraged to spread the word about Key Club by participating in themed days. This includes inviting friends to meetings, planning special service projects and promoting each club's activities locally.

Objects

To develop initiative and leadership.
To provide experience in living and working together.
To serve the school and community.
To cooperate with the school principal.
To prepare for useful citizenship.
To accept and promote the following ideals:
To give primacy to the human and spiritual, rather than to the material values of life.
To encourage the daily living of the Golden Rule in all human relationships.
To promote the adoption and application of higher standards in scholarship, sportsmanship, and social contacts.
To develop, by precept and example, a more intelligent, aggressive, and serviceable citizenship.
To provide a practical means to form enduring friendships, to render unselfish service, and to build better communities.
To cooperate in creating and maintaining that sound public opinion and high idealism which makes possible the increase of righteousness, justice, patriotism, and good will.

"We may not make keys, but we do make a difference!"
(and we still help open doors)

Why call it "Key Club?"

In 1925, California State Commissioner of Schools Albert C. Olney and vocational education teacher Frank C. Vincent worked to establish the first Key Club at Sacramento High School in California. This club was comprised of the key boys in the school, willing to serve the school in any way possible and to create better school spirit. Thus, the club was dubbed Key Club.

Core Values

Mission Statement

Key Club is an international student-led organization which provides its members with opportunities to provide service, build character and develop leadership.

Motto

Caring - Our Way of Life

Vision

To develop competent, capable, and caring leaders through the vehicle of service

Pledge

I pledge, on my honor,
to uphold the Objects of Key Club International;
to build my home, school and community;
to serve my nation and God;
and combat all forces which tend to undermine these institutions.

Organization

Advanced Technologies Academy Key Club
Division 28 North Phoenixes
Region 5 Zombie Penguins
California-Nevada-Hawaii District
Key Club International

About this Website

The above information has been paraphrased from the Official Key Club International website.
The original A-Tech Key Club website made by Brian Vu in 2011; it has since been recreated and expanded by Daniel Lang in 2013.
Maintenance of this website is currently by Tech Editor Carmen Chan and Bulletin Editor Robert Macaibay.
Some design elements of the 'Board Officers' page were inspired by Ia Faye Sison from Rancho Key Club 2013-2014 website.
Main photos are credited to KC Cannon, Jessica Dimalanta, Daniel Lang, Robert Macaibay, Titian Poon, and Johnny Yang.
All content on A-Tech's Key Club website is Copyright © 2011-2014 by A-Tech's Key Club unless otherwise stated.

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