Transcript National Honor Society - Pinellas County Schools

NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY
January General Meeting
1/6/15
Happy New Year!
• Welcome Back! We hope you
enjoyed your break.
• Today’s agenda
• Review of important procedures
and NHS policies
• January project details
• Upcoming semester projects
DATE CORRECTION!!!
• MAY MEETING IS MAY 4TH
• MEETING MINUTES FOR ORIENTATION HAD A TYPO
ON IT
• THANK YOU KAYLA COBOS FOR BRINGING TO OUR
ATTENTION 
New member info form
• Google form link
• On orientation handout
• On our school webpage
• On fb page
• Must fill out by tonight! If you do not fill it
out, you will be contacted by the sponsor.
Meeting Procedures
• Event preview emails are sent a
few days before a general
meeting.
• Please review the information
prior to coming to the meeting.
Have an idea of which projects
you’d like to sign up for.
• At meetings, events will be
discussed and sign ups will
take place.
Meeting Procedures Cont.
• Members will be dismissed by table to
either sign up for projects or leave to
go home.
• Form a single file line. If you fail to
do so, you will be told to go to the
end of the line.
• There is not a giant rush. Our meetings
tend to go very quickly and you will
have plenty of time to sign up for
projects.
Reminders – NHS Member
Responsibilities
• Show up late to an event = 1 hour
docked
• Don’t show up to an event that you
reserved = Probation
• 2nd Offense = Removal
• Unexcused absence from meeting =
Probation
• 2nd Offense = Removal
• - lots of probation notices sent out
because many missed orientation
Reminders
• Appropriate dress is required for events: Closed
toe shoes, shorts or pants, appropriate shirt.
• Please follow school dress code.
• Sometimes an event will specify what colors to wear.
• Sign In & Sign Out:
At events, you
must sign in and out with a board member in order
to receive credit!
• If you do not sign in or out, your hours will not
be documented. There are no exceptions to this.
• Sometimes, an event may specify that you use a
signature sheet. This means you will be responsible
for documenting your own hours with one of our
forms. Example: Soup kitchen or food bank
Requirements
• Junior Inductees – Minimum of 5
hours by end of 2nd semester to
maintain membership.
• Senior Inductees – Minimum of 7
hours by end of April. Seniors
given priority.
• Of course, you can do more! End
of year, we celebrate members who
are “top volunteers.”
Important Note:
• There will not be a shortage of events. As
long as you attend meetings or follow up, you
will be fine.
• Space out your volunteering. Do not wait until
last minute, but at the same time, don’t feel
like you have to participate each month,
unless you want to of course!
• You will have plenty of opportunities to
fulfill your hour requirement as long as you
don’t procrastinate.
• Any volunteering that exceeds the minimum
requirement this year will count toward your
total as a senior. Feel free to go above and
beyond!
That being said…
• If you must drop out of a volunteering
project and need to secure a
replacement or want to pick up shifts
– try the Facebook group.
• Add yourself: Search Palm Harbor
University High School National Honor Society
• Replacements must both email
[email protected] to legitimize
and confirm the switch.
• All meeting minutes, volunteer lists,
and special announcements will also
be sent out on the FB page and NHS
website link from phuhs.org in
addition to your emails.
Post meeting
• Within the next 48 hours we will send out a
detailed volunteer list with all dates,
times, locations, and special instructions
for each project, along with who signed up
for them.
• In this document will also be links to any
required paperwork you must submit for
certain projects.
• If there are any vacancies, you can request
to fill the spot by sending an email to
[email protected].
January
Events!
Girl Scouts of America
Mother/Daughter Tea
January 10th
• Girl Scouts of
America
Mother/Daughter Tea
• St. Ignatius Church on
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Orange Street in
Tarpon Springs
Helping with setup,
serving, clean up
Wear black pants and
white top
3 different shift
options
(2 hours)
Palm Harbor Rec Center Events
• January 16 Dinner Dance
• Community dance and plated dinner (help with set
up and serving)
• Wear black pants and white top
• 4-8pm; 5 volunteers
• January 23rd 5:30 -8:30
• Dinner Show Event
• Black pants and white top
• 4 volunteers
RCS Food bank in Clearwater
Jan 22nd 3:-30 – 6:45pm
• 700 Druid Rd,
Clearwater, FL 33756
• Help sort donated
goods
• 10 positions
Homeless Emergency Project
• Clearwater Soup Kitchen
• REQUIRED PAPERWORK -
https://www.dropbox.com/s/m7ii1dnoqnpx467/Group%20Vo
lunteer%20Application_2014.pdf?dl=0
• Form taken with you to event on day of volunteering
• Only needs to be completed once, can volunteer for
future dates without filling out a second time
• 1120 North Betty Lane Clearwater 33755
• 1/18 dinner (4:30-6pm)
• 1/31 lunch (11:30am-1pm)
• Must take a signature page below and document your
own volunteering.
• https://www.dropbox.com/s/8s9ob9zzmkjcit0/CLEARWATER
%20SOUP%20KITCHEN.docx?dl=0
Valentines for Soldiers:
Care Package Donation
Collection
• Detailed
instructions
provided @ sign
up table
• Care packages
due Feb 6th
after school in
media center.
• 2 hours awarded
• 50 positions
available!
Sign Up Procedure
• Seniors will be given priority.
• Following seniors, each meeting,
tables will be dismissed
randomly or by row.
• You will have to wait in lines
for a short amount of time –
it’s going to be ok.  Don’t
panic
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UPCOMING
SEMESTER
PROJECTS!
Relay for Life!
Blood Drives!
WALK FOR THE DREAM
(March)
TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK!
Beach CLEAN UPS
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
FESTIVALS