The Klein ISD offers a mentoring program for students in elementary and intermediate schools who would benefit from time with a positive adult role-model. Mentors encourage the development of positive character traits, help students set and achieve goals, play board games, offer positive support, and share conversation time. If you are interested in becoming a mentor, you are required to attend one of the upcoming training sessions scheduled for Oct. 6, Oct. 25, Nov. 8 and Dec. 1. Trainings are held from 5-7 p.m. in the board room at Klein ISD Central Administration Building, 7200 Spring-Cypress Rd. Contact Angie Mentz at amentz1@kleinisd.net or 832-249-4362 to register, or click here.

In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month, the Klein Collins Lady Tigers volleyball game vs. Tomball on Oct. 14 will be a special Dig Pink® event. Freshman A plays at 4:30 p.m., Freshman B and JV at 5:30 p.m., and Varsity begins at 6:30 p.m. Dig Pink® is supported by college and middle/high school volleyball programs, with proceeds benefiting The Side-Out Foundation. The Foundation awards grants to medical research organizations and entities dedicated to providing support to breast cancer patients and their families. For more information or to contribute click here.

Students from the Klein Forest Pakistani Indian Student Association (PISA) partnered with the Hashoo Foundation USA in a service project this summer to help women beekeepers who lost their beehives, their only source of income, to the devastating floods in Pakistan. PISA raised $5,000 during a cultural charity show at the end of last year. With the funds, the students adopted 16 women beekeepers from the villages of Danyore, Mohammad Abad, and Sultanabad, and replaced 53 of their damaged beehives with new ones. The new beehives will increase the beekeeper’s capacity, help them kick-start their honey producing business, and allow them to fill orders placed by the hotels and grocery stores for the last quarter of 2011.