Club Meetings Thursdays, Noon to 1:15 PM

The City Club of Cleveland,

850 Euclid West of East 9th in Downtown Cleveland.

Some Meetings are held at alternate locations.  Check SCHEDULE for location changes.

[There have been a number of changes to the Schedule. Please visit the Schedule page to update your calendar]

Thursday, May 31, 2012 - 12:00 Noon, Margaret Bernstein, Cleveland Plain Dealer, discusses youth and community issues. [The City Club]

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Time to re-MEMBER the club.

Learn more about joining the fun people that make up the Kiwanis Club of Cleveland.

Meet our newest members.

Learn the one minute elevator speech to promote joining Kiwanis.

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MAY  BIRTHDAYS

Greg Siek, May 18

Dwight Jordan, May 19

Ron Fleming, May 31

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Cleveland Kiwanis Club receives invitation to celebrate with the Vienna Club as it celebrates its 50th Anniversary in 2013.

The Cleveland Club was the sponsoring Club when the Vienna Club began in 1963. Members of our Club traveled to Vienna for the founding.

http://wien-europa-1.kiwanis.at/

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Help Kiwanis continue its good works into the Future: Contribute to the Cleveland Kiwanis Foundation. A great way to honor a member of the Club or other special people in your life.

Visit the new Key Club page.  Learn about the three Key Clubs supported by the Kiwanis Club of Cleveland.

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Miss a Meeting Miss a Lot

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Education continues to be the theme of our weekly meetings. Last week we recognized a Science Fair Winner from the Cleveland Public Schools. At the same meeting, Julia Loeb announced an exciting opportunity for East High students who are members of our Key Club. [See articles on right]

Today we were privileged to hear from Annie McNally, Director of Education at the Young Audiences Organization.  Part of a national group, the local Young Audiences Agency brings the power of the arts to Cleveland students.

Annie spent the early years of her career as a teacher in the Cleveland School system. She uses her past career to work closely with Cleveland schools to introduce students to the Arts. The task is even more challenging as the System has reduced dramatically the number of art, music and physical education teachers in an attempt to bring their budget under control.

Young Audiences works best when it brings its artists and musicians into schools with vibrant arts programming. The challenge in coming years will be to train classroom teachers to utilize the arts into the normal routine of reading, writing and arithmetic.

While the schools take the summer off, Young Audiences will be running a program to employ Cleveland School Students in interpreting the Arts in Downtown Cleveland. The Halle Building will house the project from June 12 to July 24. Then the project will move to the Cuyahoga County College Downtown Campus on July 31 for the rest of the summer.

For more information about Young Audiences, you can visit the web at www.yaneo.org or call at 216.561.5005.

Miss a Meeting Miss a Lot

Thursday, May 17, 2012

The Cleveland High Schools did not have many entrants in this year's Science Fair at Cleveland State University. But Greg Siek and Homer Cook were able to find an entry from Andrew Smith, and eight grader at Almira School, one of our reading is fundamental schools.

Adam created a catapult with help from his grandfather. [Hooray for grandpas]. He learned that the larger the item hurled, the further is carried.

Adam may also be planning some time travel so he can see how this weapon was used in the middle ages and before.

Greg Siek presented a check to Adam with his proud parents looking on.

More good news about Downtown Kiwanis sponsored youth.

 The East Tech FIRST Robotics Team, a Downtown Kiwanis Club sponsored Key Club, is proud to announce our affiliation with Paragon-TEC.  Paragon-TEC, in conjunction with NASA Glenn Research Center has offered all the members of East Tech's FIRST Robotics Team 120, the Scarabian Knights summer jobs at NASA!  Fifteen of our Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) students will have 2 training days where they will be taught to instruct teachers in creating Legos Mindstorm Robots.  Then the students will become teaching assistants (TAs) in classes where CMSD teachers will learn to build Legos Mindstorm Robots.

This is part of Paragon-Tec's program with NASA to bring Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) to middle school aged children. This will be done through NASA Robotics Professional Development for Middle School Educators.  Everyone involved will be learning not only STEM concepts but team work and leadership.

The Robotics team members will be paid at least $500 for their training and work with teachers.  NASA has always been a sponsor of the East Tech FIRST Robotics Team with both financial backing as well as engineering support.  Our members are excited to rise to this opportunity and grateful for the continued support in the form of individual sitpends that NASA will give our team.