Donate Children's Books! Due by 11/19/25
2025-10-21 00:00 - 2025-11-08 23:59 (America/Los_Angeles)
Donate Children’s Books w/ OAFC for the Pages For Sol event!
WOAH ASCENTERS… HALLOWEEN IS ALMOST HERE! 🎃 Every local OAF branch has come together in collaboration to partner up with Pages for the Sol this upcoming November. We will be working to improve literacy for children (with our school’s OAFC) who may be limited by their resources or financial circumstances. 👧 Books that are collected through this drive shall be donated to Pages for the Sol. 📚
REMINDER: Please make sure that the books you donate towards the drive are in good or used condition, and are directed towards a young demographic (ages 1-11).
WHAT: Donate kid-friendly books that are in mint or used physical condition.
WHERE: Contact us via email or messages, or give the books to a president or vice president on campus (during and after school is valid).
WHEN: October 25th – November 19th
HOURS: (1.5 hours for soft-covered books and 2 hours for hard-cover books)($5 = 1.5 Hours).
10 HOURS MAX WITH MONETARY DONATIONS. 15 HOURS IF DONATING BOOKS. *This is a new max.
If you have any additional questions, feel free to contact 26dle2@ggusd.net, 28egonzalez@ggusd.net, or our Instagram @shs_ascent!

11/7/25 CHAPTER Event
2025-11-07 00:00 - 23:59
Make a video for the Clinton Book-Writing Competition. After school in Rm 623. Sign up and get more details in the Google Classroom (you can join it with your @ggusd.net email, in the ‘My Profile’ section at the top of your screen.)
HEY HEY HEY ASCENTERS!
We are going to be making a short video for Clinton Elementary’s students about the upcoming book-writing 📚 competition! It will inspire young students to become their own authors 📝, explaining to students how to write their story, and showcasing what they can earn (medals, book-publishing, and more) 🥇!
This will be shown to our neighboring elementary schools 🏫, helping inspire and teach students for years to come 💡, so we will be making this a CHAPTER EVENT!!!!! Sign up quickly, space is limited (10 spots)! Whether you want to be in the video or help design, everyone is welcome 👐! There will be pizza and soda!
And remember, the hours you get right now will count toward your graduation cord (coming soon, details in hours sheet) and your college applications!
Where: Room 623, Mrs. DuFault’s
When: Friday, November 7, 3:30-5:30 pm
Hours: 3 Hours + 1 Chapter Event Attendance
(If you would like to come, but can only make it part of the time, contact us, and we may be able to work it out.)
Questions❓Email us📧(ascentclub.org/team/), or contact @shs_ascent
IF ANYTHING COMES UP AND YOU ARE UNABLE TO ATTEND THE EVENT, PLEASE LET US KNOW BY THURSDAY.
Sign up using the form below!
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Basketball 🏀 Sale Help - 11/18/25
2025-11-18 00:00 - 23:59
(No more spots left.)
You can still come by and support!
🌭 Hot Dog – $2
🔥 Bacon-Wrapped Hot Dog – $4
🥤 Gatorade & Soda – $2
🍦 Root Beer Float – $3
WHAT’S GOOD ASCENTERS! 👋
This Tuesday, we’re running the Santiago Boys Basketball 🏀 Concessions Sale from 5:00–6:30 pm, and we need 3 more people to join the crew! Come help us after school with poster making 🎨, grilling 🌭, and selling Drinks & floats 🥤! Every dollar we raise helps us do more for the kids we inspire and teach!
Hours: 3
Where: Outside Santiago Basketball Gym
When: Tuesday, 4–6:30 pm (sale runs 5–6:30)
Can’t help sell? Come by and support!
🌭 Hot Dog – $2
🔥 Bacon-Wrapped Hot Dog – $4
🥤 Gatorade & Soda – $2
🍦 Root Beer Float – $3

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❗STEM Experiment CHAPTER Event Prep #1❗
2025-11-19 00:00 - 2025-11-20 23:59
WHAT’S POPPIN ASCENT!
We will be having a CHAPTER EVENT Prep day this Wednesday 🗓️ in Room 623!!! Come and start your STEM FAMILY NIGHT EXPERIMENT🧪 in your group of up to 5 (Everyone going to the event should sign up, then we will ask for your group at the event. Don’t worry if everyone can’t make it.)! Bring a friend!
What the STEM Family Night Is (If you don’t know yet):
The Eisenhower Elementary STEM Family Night, hosted by SHS ASCENT Club, is going to be on February 11, from 6-7:30 pm! (Save the date!🗓️) You will get to make an awesome, fun experiment🥼 (i.e., egg drop) for tons of Eisenhower Elementary’s students 🎒 to explore in your own group’s classroom (You get to choose your groups of up to 5, so bring a friend!). The experiments will explain an area of science (i.e., force in the egg drop experiment) to students, and leave them with a take-home souvenir (i.e., their parachute 🪂 and egg container). This event will be the year’s CHAPTER EVENT, which you need to attend for your grad cord! In order to attend the Chapter Event, you must come to at least one Prep Event to sign up your group and project, request materials/prizes (we will fund them for you), and complete your project instructions (for your students to follow) in any way you would like (i.e., presentation, video 📹, etc.)!
Where: Room 623, Mrs. DuFault!
When: Wednesday, Nov 19, 3:30 – 5 pm!
Hours: 3 Hours + Chapter Event Sign-Up!
🍪There will be cookies and soda!🥤 Sign up with the form below!
(If you would like to come, but can only make it for part of the time, contact us, and we may be able to work it out.)
Questions❓Email us📧(ascentclub.org/team/), or contact @shs_ascent

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📹 Eisenhower Elementary Weekly News 📽
2025-12-14 00:00 - 23:59
WHAT’S UP ASCENT ALL-STARS! 🚀✨
Our neighboring Eisenhower Elementary’s students need last-minute help polishing a short video for the Eisenhower Weekly News! 🎬💻 Right now, the video has some pauses ⏸️ and could use text 📝 or visuals 🎨 to make it shine ✨. Your job is to help clean it up, add those finishing touches, and make it look professional 💪😎! By helping polish the video, you’ll be supporting Eisenhower students as they build confidence in video creation📽, design, and creative communication.
This is a volunteer opportunity 🙌, and your help will make a big difference behind the scenes! Whether you’re adding text, visuals, or just smoothing things out 🖌️, your work will inspire others and keep the project moving forward 🚀💡. Sign up quick (form attached), we only have 3 spots, and we must work together to finish polishing this video by Sunday!!!
🎥✨ The link to the video you will be editing is also attached below!
Where: Online (Canva) 🌐
When: Sunday 12/14 (Time TBD W/ Volunteers) ⏰
Hours: 4 Hours ⏳
💡 Just a reminder that your service hours now will count toward your graduation cord (soon) 🎓, and look great on college applications!!! 📝📚
Questions❓ Email us📧 (https://ascentclub.org/team/) or contact @shs_ascent
IF ANYTHING COMES UP AND YOU ARE UNABLE TO VOLUNTEER ❌, PLEASE LET US KNOW By Saturday 🗓️

Eisenhower Weekly News
2026-01-05 00:00 - 23:59
Due Jan 4, 11:59 PM

🎅🎄 Merry Christmas ASCENT!!! 🚀✨
Our neighboring Eisenhower Elementary students need some help to polish up a short video for their weekly news. Right now, the video has a few pauses ⏸️ and could use some text 📝 or visuals 🎨 to make it sparkle like Christmas lights ✨.
Your mission: add those finishing touches, smooth things out, and make it shine brighter than a star 🌟 on top of the tree🎄! By helping polish the video, you’ll be gifting 🎁 Eisenhower students confidence in video creation 📽, design, and creative communication, the kind of gift that lasts longer than candy canes 🍬.
This is a volunteer opportunity 🙌, and your help will be the secret ingredient that makes this project merry and bright 🎁. Whether you’re adding text, visuals, or just tidying things up 🖌️, your work will inspire others and keep the project moving forward like Santa’s sleigh 🚀🛷.
🎥✨ Sign up quick (form attached) — we only have 5 spots! Let’s work together to wrap up this news video 🎁🎄!
The link to the video you’ll be editing is also attached below!
Where: Online (Canva) 🌐
When: Monday 01/05 (Time TBD With Our Volunteers) ⏰
Hours: 2 ⏳ (Should only take 30 min to an hour.)
💡 Reminder: your service hours now count toward your graduation cord 🎓 and look fantastic on college applications 📝📚 !
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everyone!🎁🎄🎅
Questions❓ Email us 📧 (https://ascentclub.org/team/) or contact @shs_ascent

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Cross-Club 🤯 STEAM Nights 🚀 & Eisenhower Elementary!!! (Jan - Feb 2026)
2026-01-12 00:00 - 2026-02-20 23:59
Welcome to the BIG 2026 ASCENT!!! 🤯
➡ ASCENT Club & OAFC are hosting an opportunity for everyone to earn some fun and easy hours 🥳, in both clubs… any school day for over a month 😮!!! Pop by Eisenhower Elementary for just an hour after school and support students as they explore 🥼 STEAM fields (from rockets 🚀 to chemical reactions 🧪 and more 😁). Help them learn by setting up experiments 🔬, explaining (simple topics), helping them ask questions ❓, and motivating them to learn 🌠 as much as they can!!!
Sign up by emailing 28egonzalez@ggusd.net. Just email your name and the date you want to volunteer (available in the attached Google Sheet) at least 24 hours before the volunteer date. If you volunteer 3 or more times to earn 1 chapter event credit 😮 (in ASCENT Club) for your graduation cords 🎓 (coming soon, details in hours sheet).
Where: Eisenhower Elementary (13221 Lilly Street, Garden Grove)
When: Every school day from Jan 12 to Feb 20! 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Hours: 2 per day volunteered (ASCENT Club chapter event credit for volunteering 3+ times)
Capaity: 105!!!
Questions❓ Email us📧 (https://ascentclub.org/team/) or contact @shs_ascent or @oafc.shs
IF ANYTHING COMES UP AND YOU ARE UNABLE TO VOLUNTEER ❌, PLEASE LET US KNOW AT 28egonzalez@ggusd.net AT LEAST 24 HOURS BEFORE YOUR VOLUNTEER DAY!!!🗓️

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