Orange High School’s FCCLA (Family, Career and Community Leaders of America) club is raising money for Emily’s Kids Foundation. Emily’s Kids Foundation provides gift cards to seven local hospitals to be given to families who have children in the cancer treatment unit. The gift cards are for gas, Walmart cards, parking vouchers, McDonald’s gift cards, and food vouchers for the hospital cafeteria.Emily was a high school FCCLA member and club officer at Southeast Guilford High school. She died from a genetically inherited cancer called Ewing’s Sarcoma. It is a very aggressive form of cancer and Emily’s journey lasted only eleven months.
Orange High FCCLA club will have a cupcake sale to raise money for Emily’s Kids Foundation.
The FCCLA cupcake sale will include pre-sale of the cupcakes at lunch Monday - Wednesday (March 11 - March 13). Cupcakes will be delivered to students at 3:30 on Thursday, March 14th.
Cupcakes are $1.00 and can be purchased at the pink table in the Panther's Den during all 3 lunches. Cupcakes are chocolate or yellow cake with butter cream icing.
FCCLA, the Family Career and Community Leaders of America club, helps kids in America and overseas. The club puts on an event called Family First twice a year where families come out, play games, and eat.
To join FCCLA, aspiring members must pay a $20 fee and attend meetings once a month. Officers meet once a week. People in FCCLA say it is a very fun club, like a big group of friends or family.
Some people join FCCLA because they want to reach out more and help people. When they go to college, this club looks really good on student’s resumes.
In this club, members get to meet new people. Going out to do something helpful for someone else makes one happy and proud of themselves. FCCLA has been to many places like North Carolina retirement homes and a Ronald McDonald House. Not only does FCCLA do these charitable activities outside of school, but they also help around school and set up can drives. For Valentine’s Day they made cards and are taking them to the Ronald McDonald House and they will spend time with the kids there and to elderly people in retirement homes who aren’t able to have the luxuries other people have.
One of the things that FCCLA members do is an annual fundraiser for the family of an FCCLA member, Emily, who died of cancer.Written by Cheyanne Wilson
October is full of fun field trips, exploring various college campuses across North Carolina.
Journalism teacher Brooke Smith is taking her Newspaper and Yearbook classes to explore the UNC Chapel Hill campus October 18, spending the day inside the classes the students have selected. Such classes include Photojournalism, Editorial Writing, Review Writing, and Online News Writing. The students will go four classes with a lunch break in the UNC Cafeteria. Ms. Smith made the group t-shirts so the group will be easily recognized. The Carolina blue shirts say “Keep Calm and Report On."
Foods teacher Shannon Braxon and the FCCLA members have a district leadership meeting at A & T University. During this meeting, the members will be learning leadership skills and will be trained on how to encourage others. They also will meet other FCCLA members from counties including Person, Chapel Hill, Durham, Alamance, Guilford, Caswell, and Rockingham. The workshops will be taught not only by teachers, but also by students as well. This gives the students a chance to put their leadership skills to test and instill others in similar habits.
October 18, 7 students will take a risk and audition for the choral group at Mars Hill College in the hopes of being apart of a big performance held for the college students and parents. The auditions will be held at Mount Taper High School in Winston Salem. The judges will give the auditioning choral students a list of songs to choose from to preform for the judges, and will critique them accordingly.
Written by Ashley Hinkle Wednesday, October 10, FCCLA members, officers, and administrators all gathered in the Family and Consumer Sciences rooms for a traditional officer installation ceremony and club meeting. OHS members Megan Belamy, Christian Flynn, Ashley Hinkle and April Jones were the four officers in attendance. They were dressed formally and acted as role models for the other members.
To start off the meeting, club members were able to ice and decorate their own cupcakes to eat. The meeting began with the officer induction where each officer read the eight FCCLA purposes and lit symbolic candles representative of those purposes. After the ceremony all of the officer's received single red rose bouquet as a congratulations for officially becoming 2012-2013 chapter officers. The red rose is FCCLA's club flower and to receive this rose as a token of gratitude is an honor.
After the club meeting ended, advisers and students went to the Ronald McDonald House to volunteer and play games with the children. Some members interacted with families or partook in face painting. When interviewed, FCCLA President Megan Bellamy said that this year she hopes to have more members compete in FCCLA competitions and for more students to be involved in the community. Her favorite part of being a part of FCCLA is attending the National Leadership Conference, which she says is always a fun experience. Bellamy also says that being a president of FCCLA is not just about making things happen, it is also being a leader among leaders.