February-March

Meet a Key Clubber
Haley Gordon
Meet Haley Gordon, a senior and longtime
Key Clubber at Deerfield Beach High
School. She is also a member of SECME
(Banner Committee), Transformations (Art
Club), National Honor Society, and Multicultural
Club, but she said that her involvement
with the Kiwanis Family comes first for her
and has since her days as a Builders Club officer.
She has served as her Key Club’s President
for two years and as Treasurer before
that, and she intends to join Circle K as soon
as she goes to college at Florida Gulf Coast
Academy.
Haley has always been extremely passionate
about spreading awareness and acceptance
for people on the autism spectrum, so she and
her mother started making “PuzzlePins” two
years ago in order to support the cause, originally
intending for it to be a one-time project.
“We came up with the idea of PuzzlePins
while looking through craft stuff in our garage.
We made a bunch to sell at school and
ended up raising $4,000, which we donated to
the very first Dan Marino Walkabout Autism.
We thought we were done with the project,”
Haley said, “but a couple months later people
were insisting that we make and sell more of
them. At that point, helping schools raise
some much needed money while raising autism
awareness and acceptance became our
focus.”
They now make the PuzzlePins in their
garage in their free time, and Haley designs
and distributes flyers for them, as well as promotes
the pins on social media. They sell
them at fundraisers, car washes, Kiwanis meetings,
and more. They even sold their pins at
last year’s Florida Key Club DCON in order
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