“For your information” is probably what many students think of when they hear ‘FYI’ or maybe they think about Tony Shaloub’s line in ‘Galaxy Quest’ but that’s not what Free State FYI Club is about. FYI is a club that meets every Tuesday night and works to make the school a more positive environment.

This year, with Student Council backing off from traditional events FYI is helping out the school in more ways.

“FYI will be participating in a number of school wide activities [in August] including: Green Machine Week, Sophomore Parents Night and a Fake ID 101 campaign with posters that include info about what a fake id is and what the penalty is,” FYI sponsor Peggy Nelson said.

Returning this year are the Festivals of Trees, Great American Smokeout and the Hallway Movie Night. There are also many new events joining the line-up in the FYI including the Tobacco Fear Factor the Game Show in November, Finals week survival guides and National Alcohol Awareness Month in December, and even a “Show the Love” singing telegrams in February. Currently their main project is the Pepsi Refresh Project.

“It’s a contest we were in to get more funding, about $50,000 to keep some of our programs,” Junior, Kelly Kristiansen said. “We told everyone we knew and they could go online and vote once a day.”

Though it won’t effect the club itself if they don’t get the money it will effect the pure education benefits like when students go into classrooms to discuss the Bullies to Buddies program.

While there are new events planned for this upcoming year there are still some classics returning from previous years.

“We’re going to do Mud Volleyball again and if there’s a parade we’ll do that,” Junior Alexia Jadlow said.

“We’re sponsoring the Homecoming dance this year,” Nelson said. “We’re looking at doing a haunted house for children, though we don’t have approval for that yet, and we’re doing It’s Good to Be Green.”

The next FYI meeting is on September 7 in Room 226 and anyone is welcome to join.

“Just check out the FYI door [room 226] and you can sign up for activities and there will be notices posted for meetings to join. All you have to do is be there and smile,” Nelson said.

Also, if the benefits of helping out the community isn’t enough for, there are scholarships given away at the end of every year. Last year nearly $1,500 in scholarship money was given out to the graduating seniors involved in FYI and a majority of that money is purely student funded.