Kiwanis Scholarships vs. Kiwanis Key Winners.

At the beginning of the students' Senior year of high school, the faculty vote on students on 2 qualities- leadership and academics. 10 or so seniors will receive the Kiwanis Key Award.

This should not be confuse with the National Honor Society, which occurs later in the year. The NHS has 4 areas where a student is judge. This also is voted on my the faculty, but only if you know the student. The student also has to fill out an application and prepare a short speech for entry into the NHS.

The Kiwanis Scholarships are given out at Senior awards day at the end of the school year. The student has to fill out an blanket application for this and all local scholarships. The Kiwanis members looked over the applications and decided who should get the scholarships. The Kiwanis do a lot of service for the community, therefore give their scholarship to local teens who do the same.

My last 3 children all received the President Student Service Scholarship {is given to the student who has done the most hours of community Service in the graduating class]. They also all received the Kiwanis Scholarship, but none of them received the Kiwanis Key award.

.Again, the Kiwanis Key is voted on by faculty members in two area leadership and academic. As all three girls were also on the National Honor Society, academic was not the problem. So is it that faculty members do not view community service, both in and out of school as a sign of leadership. Or is it more important to them, that so and so kid should get the Key, then someone who really does deserve it.