Keystone Club

TEENSupreme Keystone Club Program

– Keystoning is the Boys & Girls Club Movements’s most dynamic teem program.  Keystone Clubs are chartered leadership and service clubs for boys and girls ages 14-18. Keystoners elect officers and implement their own activities in six-core areas: Character and Leadership, Service to Club and Community, Education & Career Exploration, Free Enterprise, Unity, and Social Recreation. Keystone Clubs are designed to help teen members become more productive citizens and leaders. Keystone Club members and their advisors can be nominated to steering committees that organize regional national Keystone Conferences attended by thousands of Keystoners each year. Each year, Keystoners develop a National Keystone Project. The combined action of hundreds of local Keystone Clubs results in a service project with a national scope.

All Keystone Club activities whether a drug prevention help line or a holiday food basket program, THEY ALL stress service and leadership. Keystoning is learning in the best sense of the word because it is integrated with action. It is a unique character development experience that gives young people the opportunity to contribute something of value to others and to have a voice in how that contribution is made. Service and leadership are the highest responsibilities of citizenship. They are hallmarks of the TEENSupreme Keystone experience. Young people get the chance to act on their humanitarian ideals through the Keystone experience by building self-respect and strong attachments to family and community. Any questions please contact Maria Cimina at 259-4805.

HOW TO JOIN: A maximum of 40 9th-12th graders will be selected based on a hand written essay of 150 words and a 15 minute interview. Essays should state the reason WHY you want to be a part of the Keystone Club as well as, include a new and innovative idea/service project that the Keystone Club can partake in this year. Applicants can sign up for an interview time when they drop off their essays. The deadline for essays is Wednesday, September 8th.  Returning members are also required to submit an essay and complete an interview.

All high school members who submit an essay for Keystone, will be selected by the advisor and will be required to come in for an interview. The purpose of the interview is for the advisor to gain a better sense of the candidate and to get to know him/her a little better, and to discuss Club commitment and previous volunteer work.

Please be sure that you will be able to fulfill the commitment of attending each meeting and completing the 4 hours per month of Club service. 2010/2011 Keystone Club members will be posted on the web page on September 17th under “Programs” + “Keystone Club”. All meetings for the 2009/2010 year will take place every other Sunday from 6:00pm – 7:00 pm unless there is a long weekend (holiday, vacation, etc.) in which meetings will then be held that following Wednesday at the same time.

Our first full meeting will be Sunday, September 19th.