South Broward High School has many after-school clubs you can join. There’s Coral Club, Drama Club, and Debate Club-to name a few. All of these clubs are for people interested in those topics. Then there’s Key Club, who’s focus you can’t tell from the name. But student members will tell you why they joined: Service Hours. To graduate from SBHS, students need a total of 40 service hours. Service hours can be gained by helping a teacher after school, or by going to different events where you go and help, such as beach clean-ups.

However, in South Broward, many people still do not know what Key Club is exactly and what are its benefits.

“Not really, never heard of it,” said Matthew Garcia, a Freshman.

Key Club has many extra-curricular activities you can do to help others and gain service hours. For example, they go to Horses for Handicapped, where they help mentally and physically handicapped people ride horses as a recreational and therapeutic method.

“It was amazing attending to this program,” said Steven Mercado, an active member of Key Club, “If it wasn’t for Key Club, I would have had no idea about it.”

Not only that, but they have also done fundraisers for Leukemia, and during Thanksgivings week, they helped pack things up for SBHS Annual Harvest Drive, which helped feed about 130 poor families.

“Overall, this club has really made me realize that I like helping others out,” said Mercado.

Although Key Club is 50 members strong, there is still room for growth. There is no cap on the number of students who can join. Students are always welcomed at Key Club.

“I wish Key Club could ‘advertise’ their club a lot more, I am definitely sure they will get more and more active members,” said Mercado. ” I have recommended it to one person and they joined.”

Some students are sure that if Key Club lets students know what they do exactly, then they will have even more active members.

“They should have a larger section in the announcements,” said Caio Folger, a Sophomore, “If it wasn’t for one friend that told me about Key Club, I wouldn’t even know about the events they go to and the things they do.”

Mercado wishes to see a growth in the number of active members, he wants Key Club to have about 60 active members by the end of the school year or by the beginning of the next school year.

“I would like to see more people attending and helping,” he said, “Maybe some people are scared to join because they don’t know what it is exactly.”

There is still a lot of future for Key Club, the club doesn’t only benefit the student, it benefits everyone involved in it, and while they help, they gain service hours.

“Now that I heard all the things they do and what this club is all about, I will most likely join next year,” said Garcia, “I thought Key Club was only service hours, that was all I heard about it”.