Building Service Leadership @Beaver Lake Middle School (BLMS)

Service leadership, what’s that? Here’s how the Builder’s Club at Beaver Lake Middle School defines it: “The heart to serve … the call to lead … the courage to engage.” That’s also the club motto.

The more than 1,600 Builder’s Clubs across the United States sponsored by local Kiwanis Clubs are aimed at creating future generations of service-oriented leaders by involving 6^th, 7^th and 8^th graders in projects serving mainly children, but also elder adults.

The club at Beaver Lake Middle School (BLMS)-which began in the fall of 2021— is the brainchild of three people: Kevin Adamo, then the faculty advisor; Kathryn Coffin, the principal; and Mudra Machewad, the 6^thgrade instigator of it all. Coffin wanted a community-centered student organization. Adamo was aware of the Builder’s Clubs and had already started one at another school. And Machewad was the dynamo who recruited and organized the student members.

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As a Kiwanis Builder’s Club Advisor for the past four years, I cannot emphasize enough how valuable the sponsorship of our Sammamish  Kiwanis Club has been. This Club could not exist without them and the hard work of their membership.

The Builder’s Club has provided opportunities for our middle school students to work together in service to our school, local community and even a village in India.  This club has developed so many leadership potentials and fostered the development of strong and moral character of all involved.  During these past few years, it has been even more important for our students to have an opportunity to work with their peers and help spread goodwill.  It is amazing the ideas these students have and how much they care about other people.

Some of our projects over the past few years have been making surgery dolls, making cards of encouragement, and reading to children at Seattle Children’s Hospital to creating a video thanking First Responders for all their help during the pandemic and even raising money to send to a village in India to give children an education.  We are looking forward to many more activities this year!

Thank you, Sammamish Kiwanis, for your sponsorship this year!  We are so excited that you are giving us this opportunity at Beaver Lake Middle School.

Warm Regards,

Kevin Adamo, Beaver Lake Middle School, Kiwanis Builder’s Club Advisor