Kiwanis Educating Youth (KEY) Club is an international service club through which McNeil focuses on reaching out to the community.

KEY club is  different from all other service clubs offered because this club puts a major emphasis on helping the youth to better their future. Members of the club help younger children prepare for what lies ahead.

“KEY club is unique because members can find volunteer opportunities anywhere in the community and still get points for it, unlike other clubs, where they tell us where to volunteer,” junior Anna Qi said.

McNeil’s KEY Club partners up with other schools in the district to make big service projects and collaborate ideas of other projects that can help. They mostly help with the children at the Texas Baptist Children’s Home.

“We have an annual pancake breakfast in which we hold auctions and all the money is donated towards homes for children,” president senior Lilia Dinh said . “We raised money by painting tables of different themes. It was a good way to work as a team and it was fun for the families with us, too.”

KEY Club also gives members hands-on skills to work with children and gain insight into a different environment.

“Helping out kids not only makes a difference to them, but also benefits us by instilling us with skills beneficial for the future,” Dinh said.