”Leo’s Club teaches students how to organize and use the skills learned to benefit them later in life,” Leo’s Club sponsor and assistant principal John Taylor said.

 Leo’s Club has held activities such as raising money for Japan relief after the earthquake and selling pizza to raise money for charity.

 According to club president Cameron Tehranchi, in the past, the club had a Potomac Day booth where they sold baked goods to fundraise for the Children’s Inn.

 The club meets monthly in different rooms and interested students can still join.

“Our purpose is to provide the youth of the world with an opportunity for development and contribution, individually and collectively as responsible members of the local, national and international community,” Tehranchi said.

“Our goal is to have a field donated by CHS and hopefully do so by the end of next year,” club president Bruno said.

As an organization, Love.Futbol was founded to get kids off the streets in impoverished countries and enroll them in a safe and healthy community activity.

According to the Love.Futbol website, soccer is a catalyst for hope and inspiration, as well as youth development.

“When I play soccer, I know that if I work hard I can improve on myself, friendships, as well as my community,” Bruno said. “Soccer has had a positive influence on me and I know it will on others.”

Although the club is new, its founders hope to inspire a large and active membership. Along with hosting donut and pizza sales in the Bulldog lobby, the club is creating public service announcements and selling t-shirts anyone can purchase for $15 with proceeds benefitting the field.

“One field costs $5, 000,” vice president Shapiro said. “We hope that we can buy one field initially, and than as the club grows so will the number of fields.”

Though the field will be in Guatemala, students will still be able to track its progress.

“We will be sent pictures of the field during construction and after,” Bruno said. “Also, it is even more gratifying to receive letters from children who use the field. The letters are in broken English and Spanish and are really cute.”

According to club member junior Hannah Cooper, this is a great opportunity for students to see that not all kids have a safe place to play sports, and that needs to change.

“We hope that we can get a lot of support and meet our goal: a Churchill sponsored field in Guatemala,” Bruno said.

“Mostly, every Friday after school [B.A.S.I.C.] gathers, worships and sings songs,” teacher and sponsor Rebecca Krichinsky said.

B.A.S.I.C. formed in 1990, and just four years ago switched sponsors to Krichinsky.

“One of my cheerleaders came to me and said they didn’t have a sponsor,” Krichinsky said. “Any time students want to begin something I’d love to help them out.”

B.A.S.I.C. holds different events during the school year, apart from their weekly meetings.

According to Wu, B.A.S.I.C. takes part in a nationwide event called “See You at the Pole.” This takes place at the beginning of the school year when Christian students from all around the country meet by a flagpole one morning to pray for their problems.

“B.A.S.I.C. is a club where the students of CHS can come and unwind after a long hard week of school,” Wu said. “We pray, sing songs of worship and read and talk about the Bible and how we can apply its teachings to our own lives. We build each other up and encourage each other.”

“Our money goes to helping the underprivileged, less fortunate, and mainly the homeless population in the Washington D.C. area,” junior club president Joseph Ng said. “Some of the money helps our tutoring programs and some goes to the scholarships that we offer to qualifying candidates to help them afford a higher education.”

Meetings usually consist of members brainstorming additional ways to help the community.

“We have previously done bake sales, pizza sales and car washes,” Ng said. ” Our main activity this past winter was Sheets for Streets which was a clothing drive in which we collected over $80,000 worth of clothes to donate to the population in DC.”

To expand its involvement in the community, Operation Fly is preparing a talent show which will be held at Wootton HS March 21.

“We are working on a talent show where all of the admission and profits from snacks and tickets will go toward a scholarship,” Ng said.

The team is coached by AP Statistics teacher Doug Szafran and the team is led by seniors Ben Burke, Peggy Li, Jack Shu and Geoffrey Wang

The team has now placed into the Playoffs and will return to face another first round winner later in the season. Best of luck, Bulldogs!

The club is broken down into five subcommittees: Tutoring, Elderly Care, Cancer Research, Fundraising and the Green Team, which works on environmental issues. Each division concentrates on different community service projects and fundraisers.

“We fundraise, but equally important, we raise awareness through bake sales, local restaurant discount nights, holiday cookie sales [and holiday themed] candy grams,” president Tessa Port said.

The club aides several notable world organizations which raise money to improve education, hunger and living styles for children around the world. The money is then collected from District 7, all the key clubs in the area, and donated to the charities.

“The Churchill Key Club encourages the Churchill community to reach out and support Key Club and the organizations we strive to help, like the Ronald McDonald Foundations and many more by collecting tabs off soda cans,” Port said. “Once [District 7] receives the tabs, they are recycled for a money value. This money is then used by the Charities to benefit the families that rely on the Ronald McDonald Houses.”

According to KeyClub.org, it is the largest club in the world and is available for more than 5,000 high schools.