Caney Creek High School can add one more club to its ever-growing list of student extracurricular opportunities: Key Club.

This international club is built on the foundation of helping others and getting community service. They have four core values: leadership, character building, caring, and inclusiveness.

Members’ objectives are to interact with school principals and teachers to help them aim towards gaining good communication skills, according to the organization’s website.

President George Juarez plans on making the club well-known by organizing many events and opportunities, as well as making their members feel welcome.

“I want to hit the ground running this year because it’s my last year in high school,” Juarez said. “I want this to be the best year of Key Club as well.”

Spanish teacher Elsa Victoria and Testing Coordinator Angie Archie both sponsor the Key Club. Juarez said he’s already starting to make connections beyond the school’s walls.

“Right now I’m emailing and talking to event coordinators around the City of Conroe,” Juarez said. “I’m also talking to the principals of our feeder schools to have that bond between high school and feeder schools.”

Vice President Nansi Rodriguez said they are trying to plan more events and recruit members by spreading the word during class and over social media.

“We want to make it more than a club; we want to be like a family,” Rodriguez said. “We don’t want them in there just for the hours, but we wanna get to know them and make them feel welcome and like they belong somewhere.”

This is not the first year of Key Club though. During the first few years that the school opened Key Club had many people including past sponsor and current world history teacher Karen Solberg.

Solberg’s favorite parts about Key Club were watching the students gain leadership skills and being able to interact with adults in many different occasions.

“I was a new teacher and eager to connect with students in an extracurricular capacity,” Solberg said. “The Kiwanis Club (the adult version of the club) sent a couple representatives to our school to discuss chartering a club at Caney Creek. I don’t remember how I ended up talking to them, but another teacher and I wound up being the sponsors.”

The next Key Club meeting will be Wednesday, Nov. 7 in the LGI. For more information, contact Juarez, Victoria or Archie.