Community Service

RM Bakeaway is a club for students who love to bake and want to give back to the community. We donate baked goods to teachers, frontline health workers, people in need, and more. We also have tons of potlucks, baking competitions, and bake sales to raise proceeds for charities like Feeding America. 

1. Bake goods to donate to workers in our community

2. Learn more about desserts and baking

3. Hold bake sales together to raise money for different charities 

Sponsor: Andrea_M_Lyons@mcpsmd.org 

Our club creates personalized care kits for the homeless. 

1. Personalized art and positive messages to include in kits

2. Give back to the community and help those in need

3. Special holiday packages with toys and games 

Sponsor: john_g_pearce@mcpsmd.org

BranchOut! X RM is the RM Chapter of BranchOut!, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization located in Vienna. It is driven, led, and managed by student leaders with the goal to share STEAM knowledge across communities while promoting civic engagement and cross-cultural understanding.

It is the official certifying organization to give out Presidential Volunteer Service Award, which has over 150 members across 4 states. Our programs include tutoring, app development to help students with learning abilities, and student magazines published every year. If you are interested in coding, tutoring, and writing articles, join us!

1.  Our first program --- Innovators, a winner of U.S. Congressional App challenge in 2020, is an app development program dedicated to helping students learn more efficiently.    

2.  Our Second program is the Explorers, a year-round teen magazine program that publishes monthly. 

3. Our Third Program is MC STEAM Camp, which is dedicated to promoting younger students' interest in STEM by carrying out engineering challenges. (NOTE: this program non-affiliated with RMHS club activities and is only under the obligation of BranchOut!'s main organization since an RM Staff member will not be present at these activities.)

Check out some background information here: https://www.velbranchout.org/mdsteamcamp2023 

Sponsor: tony_wong@mcpsmd.org 

At CAPSA, we want to build a community of dedicated high schoolers that are willing to create materials for tutors who work with middle and elementary school students. If anyone is interested in creating these materials and joining a wonderful community, please look to join this club. We also focus on making lesson slides, and you can gain SSL from all the opportunities we have. The main goal of our club will be to create lesson slideshows, worksheets, and kahoots on certain academic subjects to support that learning environment 

1. Obtain SSL hours.

2. Outreach and leadership experience.

3. Lesson-planning for a wide range of subjects. 

Check out some more information here:  https://www.capsa-mc.org 

Sponsor: margaret_poo@mcpsmd.org

The club will advocate for environmental and community sustainability while maintaining wellness by performing calisthenics and learning about nutrition.  

1. Students will be learning and performing bodyweight exercises such as dips, pushups, pull ups and running

2. Students will help clean up litter at local parks

3. Students will learn how to plant trees and other plants

Sponsor: Zachary_D_Etheridge@mcpsmd.org

A club to create opportunities for students to contribute to charity via sporting events, such as runs and other sporting games. Within this club, you’ll find opportunities within the community nearby in which you’ll be able to participate in these events - whether through playing/running or through volunteering. Additionally, we intend to host our own run in the future, and there will be opportunities within that to volunteer and help plan. 

1. Find opportunities to volunteer or participate in charity sporting events

2. Spread word about events in our community

3. Plan and host our own charity run in the future 

Sponsor: amanda_m_trivers@mcpsmd.org

Compostology is a nonprofit founded by two RM students that launches food recovery and composting programs in various states, and introduces/advocates for related policies. RM Compostology will manage the RM composting program by overseeing the composting bins, organizing creative awareness campaigns, and fundraising for its continuation. Compostology has raised about $56,000 and introduced and led ~90 school campaigns for a new state grant program for schools to launch their own food waste actions. Join us to help with RM Compostology, start your own compost program at another school, take on advocacy, or use your creativity to start new food waste reduction and composting projects! 

Sponsor: Stacey_M_Boccher@mcpsmd.org 

The club gathers once every month and a half to gather supplies for people in need and bag the supplies. We then drive the supplies to a nearby nonprofit where they give out the supply bags. 

1. Helping the community and gaining SSL hours

2. Gaining real-world volunteering experience

3. Creating a more meaningful impact in Montgomery County

Sponsor: Peter_D_Beach@mcpsmd.org

Generation Z Tutoring offers free tutoring to local elementary and middle school students. Members volunteer for one hour each week. Last year we tutored more than 70 kids! SSL hours available. 

1. RMHS students tutor middle/elementary school students in individual tutoring sessions.

2. Frequency, location, and structure of sessions are flexible and up to the discretion of the tutor and tutee.

3. Topics/subjects covered depend on the needs of the tutee and the abilities of the tutor. 

Sponsor: todd_e_stillman@mcpsmd.org / generationztutoring.rm@gmail.com 

A Rockville Rotary affiliated club, Interact. More information can be found in the brochures and here: www.friendships4peace.org  

Sponsor: Stacey_M_Boccher@mcpsmd.org

A club that collects your old clothes and distributes it to those that are in need of better clothing options. Some club related perks include: earning SSL hours quickly and easily, quick monthly meetings, not a club that requires large slots of your time, and an opportunity to get an executive board position! 

Sponsor: allison_g_adams@mcpsmd.org

Help bring smiles and solidarity to cancer patients by making friendship bracelets, origami, thoughtful cards, and more for cancer care kits! SSL hours given, leadership positions available. 

1. The founder of this organization is a cancer survivor, so the care kits we create and deliver are carefully planned and made for cancer patients.

2. Use your creativity to create beautiful cards/letters and/or art books (collections of your own art!) to cancer patients

3. If you know (or are willing to learn) how to sew, we also send masks; you don't need to know how to sew, though; we have instructions for how to make no-sew blankets as well! 

Sponsor: Mina_J_Anderson@mcpsmd.org 

Key Club offers students an opportunity to engage in student service and community projects throughout the school and the Richard Montgomery community. Key Club is affiliated with Kiwanis International, an international organization dedicated to service.

Fun fact: Key Club is the oldest and largest student-led service program with over 229,000 members internationally. There are opportunities for members to lead their own service activities. We have enriching and fun events like Division Council Meetings (DCMs), District Conferences (DCON), and International Conference (ICON) in which members can network with Key Clubbers from other schools and regions.

Sponsor: David_M_Dumas@mcpsmd.org 

Paramount Learning offers students free tutoring services based on their needs. The club will meet once in a while with prior notice through email to check in with the tutors. We host events and workshops free for anyone to attend. The club's research team writes articles/blogs about academic topics of their choice, and those are frequently uploaded to the Paramount website. Join the club: https://forms.gle/tSoHRYzwgxMdQ6w29 

1. Tutors will receive SSL hours for their service

2. Tutors have the flexibility to decide what they want to teach---lessons don't have to be school-related (sports, conditioning, art, languages, etc.)

3. Tutors have the flexibility to decide the time, location, and frequency of the lessons. 

Sponsor: Margaret_poo@mcpsmd.org 

Mission statement - We aim to support hospitalized teens and their families by raising money and awareness. We also will show our support by sending helpful teen interns to hospitals and messages of support to the teen patients. This includes physical, mental, and athletic illness/injury. 

-creating cards and gifts for hospitalized teens

-partner with businesses to raise money for hospitals specializing with teens (need to wait for government approval and to secure an EIN) - in the process of securing 501(c)(3) status as a non-profit

-connect students with hospitals and medical internship opportunities

Sponsor: jason_e_colchao@mcpsmd.org

In partnership with DC’s Humane Rescue Society volunteer and support pets in need. Interact with local community and support animals. 

1. Fundraising for Humane Society

2. Donate and help make materials for animals

Sponsor: kimberly_j_gould@mcpsmd.org

Red Cross Club does humanitarian aid projects and volunteer work through the Red Cross. Red Cross clubs in the region do various work like making kits for Montgomery County families that are affected by house fires, collecting funds for natural disasters worldwide, and collecting school materials for elementary students in need of them. We also assist SGA in the blood drive. SSL hours are definitely available! 

1. Leadership opportunities

2. Helping others both locally and globally

3. SSL hours for anything done related to the club's work at the President's discretion

Sponsor: Karl_F_Kovacs@mcpsmd.org  

One of the most pressing issues in today’s society is the prevalence of homeless people in our local areas. Rocket Helpers was created to help those who are in need. These people in the local area might need assistance with any basic needs that we as a community can give to them. This club plans to hold events that will allow club members to donate, participate, and perform tasks that will help end homelessness in our community. 

1. Students who care about homelessness in the local community can join and have opportunities to participate in our events

2. SSL Hours will be provided to those who participate or even donate to our events

3. Participation in events is available for anyone who is interested and joining is as easy as 1, 2, 3. 

Sponsor: eleanor_r_simpson@mcpsmd.org 

This club is a chapter of the organization Swift, an organization that helps fund female entrepreneurs who live below the poverty line. Our club helps fundraise money for this organization to loan to these entrepreneurs. 

1. Learn to fundraise efficiently.

2. Relatively low commitment so you can come when you have time.

3. Leadership opportunities are available. 

Sponsor: Tony_Wong@mcpsmd.org