Learn how to get involved with Able Athletics and our club and decorate wooden picture frames, using paint pens and stickers, with inspirational words. We will give these picture frames to Able athletes and their families.
The SHS Able Athletics Club supports—through fundraising, volunteering, and raising awareness—the mission of Able Athletics, an organization that empowers children with disabilities through athletic programming and educates and trains volunteers in the value and power of inclusivity.
ART2HEARTS provides bright and vibrant artwork to the Pediatric Units of hospitals around the world. Those involved will participate in creating pieces of art that will go directly to where children are treated in hospitals to ensure that their environment is transformed from the typical hospital setting to one that is adorned with bright colors and inviting works of art. By transforming hospital spaces, they will become more welcoming and less "scary" for the pediatric patients who are especially impacted by their surroundings. Studies have shown that exposure to bright colors and art, particularly for children, has a direct correlation to more positive mental health and medical outcomes.
Join the National Art Honor Society to bring inspiration to young readers by designing and decorating bookmarks for local elementary schools and libraries. Reading has the power to spark imagination, open doors to new worlds, and motivate lifelong learning. By crafting colorful, uplifting bookmarks with fun decorations and inspirational words, you’ll share the gift of reading with young students in and around our community. No artistic experience is needed, just a desire to brighten a child’s reading journey, one bookmark at a time.
Come join the Jewish Culture Club in making bracelets for kids with cancer who attend Sunrise Day Camp in Israel. Sunrise is a day camp, located in both the United States and Israel, dedicated to kids who are battling cancer, as well as their siblings. We will be writing inspirational messages with special beads for the kids to wear with pride this summer! Additionally, we will be writing notes to go along with the bracelets, so the kids feel even more appreciated!
Join us in making beaded bracelets for patients in the New York Proton Center! We will provide colorful beads, charms, alphabet beads, etc. for you to work with. Our donation will truly help brighten someone's day.
The Spanish Club is partnering with Centro Hispano to make bracelets for young Hispanic students. There will be a short info session about the Centro Hispano organization, followed by fun bracelet making!
During our activity we will be making bracelets with colorful and lettered beads to give to the children at White Plains Hospital. Our activity will express an uplifting message to the children going through a difficult time in their life.
Come join members of the A-school in creating art bags for hospitalized children and their siblings. First, you will hear from a speaker from Friends of Karen to see where the work that we do will be going. Then, we will pack the art supplies for the children to give them something fun to do to keep busy in the hospital. We will also be making cards with inspirational and uplifting messages and drawings to go along with the supplies!
Come join a hands-on service session led by the Scarsdale Lacrosse Leadership Club to raise funds for Bronx Youth Lacrosse! After watching a short documentary produced by SHS graduate Aidan Brennan, participants will assemble and decorate healthy snack bags and design bracelets to be sold at an event held later this year. All funds will go directly to camp scholarships and transportation costs for Bronx Lacrosse players.
In this session, students will be able to decorate cupcakes not just for fun, but for a truly important cause. These cupcakes will be sold later that day in order to raise money to be donated to Sanctuary for Families, a safe house/resource for victims of domestic abuse.
During this session, participants will decorate donuts from Dunkin’ to donate to first responders. First responders—like police officers, firefighters, and nurses—do so much for our well-being, and this project is a way to give back. While decorating, participants will also learn about the history of donuts.
Students will take a bus to the Bronx River Path entrance in Scarsdale Village in order to spend time outside, picking up trash that has accumulated near/in the brook. This is important for the health of the Bronx River brook, and can be a fun (and sometimes competitive) way to take care of the environment in our town. Participants will be provided with trash pickup tools, gloves, and bags.
NOTE: SIGNING UP FOR THIS ACTIVITY MEANS YOU ARE COMMITTING TO PART OF COMMUNITY TIME AND PERIOD 2.
Ready to dive into democracy? Join our session to explore free speech and civic discussions! We will do Free Speech case studies and understand who is in the right and why. Discover how your voice shapes our world and learn essential skills for civil discourse. Engage in fun activities and lively discussions – your perspective matters!
Join us to learn, create, and give back! You’ll hear from guest speakers from the Alzheimer’s Association, the leading nonprofit organization for Alzheimer’s care, support, and advocacy. Afterwards, you’ll take action by making your own aromatherapy pouch for patients at local care facilities. Help bring calm and care to those who need it most!
The Midnight Run club invites YOU to learn about, and participate in, helping the homeless. Through our session, guided by both students and guest speakers, you will become more knowledgeable about homelessness and what it means to be an active member of a community!
Experience history firsthand from a Scarsdale Firefighter who served on 9/11 and the days that followed as they recount their story of bravery, sacrifice, and resilience on the day that changed everything. Following an open Q&A, students will have the opportunity to write letters to local first responders to show our appreciation for all they do for the community.
Join Us for a Life-Saving Choking Rescue Session! Learn essential choking rescue techniques with Marc Guthartz, a trained EMT and SVAC volunteer! This interactive session will equip you with real-life, life-saving skills that could make the difference in an emergency.
In Letters of Love, we collect and deliver uplifting handwritten letters, made by students with materials we provide, to children in hospitals. By sending messages of hope and kindness, students will help bring joy and emotional support to kids facing hardship.
Join us to learn how to administer Narcan to people who have overdosed. We provide some background on Narcan, teach students how to administer Narcan, allow them to practice administering it, and then give them kits to take home.
NOTE: THIS SESSION IS ONLY OPEN TO 10TH AND 11TH GRADERS.
We will be leading a tutorial to make paper flower bouquets, but anyone is welcome to explore any origami designs they want. The origami products will be gifted to residents of nursing homes through Origami For Good, a nonprofit that sends origami to soldiers, youth, seniors, patients, and more in order to inspire creativity and appreciation for Japanese art & culture while combatting loneliness around the world! 🏮
Love books and making a difference? In this session, you’ll create engaging reading lesson plans to be used with elementary school students. You’ll brainstorm key themes, discussion points, and activities to bring different books to life. Afterward, we’ll print and donate your lesson plans to the Las Hermanas Mirabal School’s after-school reading program to support elementary students’ literacy.
Learn about the refugee crisis from the Human Rights Club through a short informational slide show and quilt-making activity. Student-made quilts will be donated to the Wrap the World in Quilts organization.
In this session, you will learn about what Epilepsy is and how to treat someone who is having a seizure. You will be trained in Seizure First Aid and Response training by a Neurologist and learn why it's important to be able to do so.
In this session, students will make soap bars with the designs, colors, and scents of their choosing! These bars will then be donated to 914 Cares, a nonprofit organization with the mission of ending poverty in Westchester.
Put your conflict resolution skills to the test in our ultimate escape room challenge! Sarah Farber and Coco Wen from the Association of Conflict Resolution will kick off the session by teaching key strategies for handling disagreements, improving communication, and working through challenges as a team. Teams will then race to build a tower to “escape the room,” earning supplies by solving conflict scenarios and answering questions. But beware—unexpected obstacles will test your teamwork, patience, and problem-solving skills along the way. Will your group rise to the challenge and escape first?
Pet therapy dogs, make dog toys (that will be donated to SPCA Westchester) out of old t-shirts, and learn about the benefits of therapy dogs and how students can get involved in training them!
Come have fun while walking the track in support of the Women's Sports Foundation. There will be baked goods sold–the proceeds collected will support the Women’s Sports Foundation.
Along with with the City Meals on Wheels program, The Linguistics Club is running a workshop where we'll write cards, in their native languages, to isolated elderly people, many of whom don't have anyone to see regularly.
If you know Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Korean, French, German, or Italian--your skills would be greatly appreciated and will be a great comfort to seniors who may rarely communicate in their native languages.
English speakers are also more than welcome to come help; we also need letters in English!
Come with us to the Middle School to bake sugar cookies with Mrs. Tenzer and some of her middle schoolers!! These cookies will be donated to the people who live at Pleasantville Cottages. Come to our activity to bake, have fun, and do a good deed!
NOTE: SIGNING UP FOR THIS ACTIVITY MEANS YOU ARE COMMITTING TO BOTH PERIODS 2+3.
