By Matthew Sanchez – Staff Reporter

Key Club is one of the biggest clubs at Jonathan Law High School. 

Key Club is a community service-based club where there are various activities to help the high school and local communities. Students in Key Club earn community service hours, graduate with distinction, and work with their peers. 

“A big goal of mine this year for Key Club is keeping members excited and coming back all year,” Senior Key Club President Addison Barber said. “We have plans for a bunch of fun meetings throughout the year to keep members engaged.”

Junior Vice President Kayla Markowitz said the club has many goals for the 2024-2025 school year. 

“Our goals for Key Club is to encourage students at Law to participate in community service around Law and help raise money for some of our leading causes like the Salvation Army, Camp Sunshine, and UNICEF,” Markowitz said. “We also hope to get more awards for our school at DECON in the spring.” 

Barber said the club has several events already planned for the next few months.

“We will have Cupcake Wars, cookie decorating contests, as well as our annual projects like Salvation Army and Poinsettias,” Barber said.

Junior Jared Saludes said that he enjoys earning volunteer hours and helping the less fortunate through Key Club. 

“I need the hours to graduate with distinction,” Saludes said. “I really enjoyed doing it my freshman year because there was this one thing during Thanksgiving where myself and others were collecting food for the less fortunate.”

Saludes enjoys how Key Club can help him get the community hours. Freshman Yusuf Genc also said that he’s excited to go to community-related events. 

“I really like how engaged we are with the community already, and how we’re already doing stuff like the Walk for Water Marathon,” Genc said. “We have an event where we’ll be going to Maine and I can’t wait to go there.” 

Freshman Adrian Vitale said that he’s happy that he gets to work with peers and help the city.

“I am glad to be able to work with my peers while also being about to get my community hours done and support the city,” Vitale said.