Thank you to Shawnee State University for hosting our weekly luncheons each Wednesday at noon at the Kricker Innovation Hub! Click on the logo above for more information about SSU.
What is Kiwanis?
Here is a quick video that explains what Kiwanis is.
Kiwanis empowers communities to improve the world by making lasting differences in the daily lives of children.
Kiwanis members dedicate more than 18 million volunteer hours and invest more than $107 million annually in projects that strengthen communities and serve children. We help shelter the homeless, feed the hungry, mentor the disadvantaged and care for the sick. We develop youth as leaders, build playgrounds, raise funds for pediatric research and much more. We believe that helping a child helps the world.
Working together, Kiwanis members achieve what one person cannot accomplish alone. When you give a child a chance to learn, experience, dream and succeed, great things happen!
Each year, clubs…
Organize nearly 150,000 service projects
Dedicate more than 18 million volunteer hours
Raise more than $107 million
Who we are…
More than 8,500 clubs in 80 nations
Nearly 600,000 adult and youth members
Interested in learning more? Please contact us or find out how to apply to join our Kiwanis club here.
Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers dedicated
to changing the world one child and one community
at a time. We meet every Wednesday from noon to 1:00 p.m.
at Shawnee State University's Morris University Center.
Thanks to a Notre Dame class reunion, we were able to host a great speaker on June 3! Bill Barrett, Senior Vice President of Asia Pacific Aerospace Consultants (APAC), native of Scioto County, and brother of our long-time member Barb Schmidt, certainly held our attention.
Bill has lived in the Land Down Under, where he met his wife, since 1987, and he showed us numerous photos of the landscape and wildlife of the world’s smallest continent, which hosts 8 of 10 of the most poisonous snakes in the world. Swimming is at your own risk due to the salt water alligators and sharks, so most beaches include enclosed concrete salt water pools. Local crocodile farms sell skins to fashion houses in Paris. The city of Sydney is surrounded by national parks, and some of the other points of interest he highlighted were the Great Barrier Reef, the “Three Sisters” in the Blue Mountains, the Honeymoon Bridge, the Grand Staircase, the Australian Grand Canyon, the Sydney Opera House, and Lady Macquarie’s Chair.
In his aerospace role, Bill has been actively involved in monitoring and advising on Space Domain Awareness (SDA) and Space Traffic Management (STM) activities since 2015. He leads the APAC team that is identifying space objects and satellite activities for the US and allied governments, including identifying close approaches to assist in collision avoidance and space debris management.
“People don’t realize how dependent we are on space,” he said, noting that our modern technological society does not operate without space. We need it to use the maps on our phones, watch commercial broadcasts of sporting events, and much more. See the photo for information about the growing number of objects in space, and check out Spacetrack.org, the NORAD catalog listing of every traceable object in Earth’s orbit.
Our club is pleased to be a long-time sponsor of the South Central Ohio Educational Service Center and its Gifted Services Program. On May 27, Sharee Price, Gifted Services Coordinator, presented an update on the high quality programs she oversees in both academics and fine arts in order to help Scioto County students become successful both in the classroom and in life. Sharee is pictured below with Kiwanis President Kara Tieman.
These programs include:
- High School Academic Competitions
- Middle School & Jr. High Quiz Bowl
- ESC Artist-in-Residence Program: This program brings an accomplished, practicing artist into high school visual arts classrooms to enrich students’ creative experiences.
- Youth MAX: This annual one-day conference brings together high school students and local business and community leaders to learn valuable leadership skills based on principles taught by John Maxwell.
- Visual Arts * Youth Art Month every March at the Scioto County Public Library * The Memory Project: Local advanced art students create portraits for children living in orphanages around the world. * Visually Literate High School Art show hosted annually in the Appleton Gallery at Shawnee State University
- Mock Trial: High school students participate in simulated court experiences at the Scioto County Courthouse to gain a better understanding of the law, court procedures, and the judicial system. (Note: Our member Dan DeLotell assists with this competition each year.)
- Scioto County Honors Music Festival: This year, 210 students participated, with a record 854 in attendance at the closeout community concert at the Vern Riffe Center for the Arts. This event has celebrated student musicians for over 80 years.
- Scioto County Spelling Bee: There were 27 students participating from 14 school districts this year.
- Books Build Bridges Literacy Program: This program provided free books to more than 800 sixth graders who also got to meet the author.
Summer Enrichment Scholarships: These are providing 16 gifted students this year with financial assistance to attend academic or fine arts programs of their choice. A dozen others are participating through the Miami Scholars program.
Kiwanis Club of Portsmouth
Welcome to the
Kiwanis Club of Portsmouth!
Kiwanis Awards 2026 Scholarships
Find out more HERE.
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Thank you to Shawnee State University for hosting our weekly luncheons each Wednesday at noon at the Kricker Innovation Hub! Click on the logo above for more information about SSU.
What is Kiwanis?
Here is a quick video that explains what Kiwanis is.
Kiwanis empowers communities to improve the world by making lasting differences in the daily lives of children.
Kiwanis members dedicate more than 18 million volunteer hours and invest more than $107 million annually in projects that strengthen communities and serve children. We help shelter the homeless, feed the hungry, mentor the disadvantaged and care for the sick. We develop youth as leaders, build playgrounds, raise funds for pediatric research and much more. We believe that helping a child helps the world.
Working together, Kiwanis members achieve what one person cannot accomplish alone. When you give a child a chance to learn, experience, dream and succeed, great things happen!
Each year, clubs…
Who we are…
Interested in learning more? Please contact us or find out how to apply to join our Kiwanis club here.
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Kiwanis Club of Portsmouth
Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers dedicated
to changing the world one child and one community
at a time. We meet every Wednesday from noon to 1:00 p.m.
at Shawnee State University's Morris University Center.
Thanks to a Notre Dame class reunion, we were able to host a great speaker on June 3! Bill Barrett, Senior Vice President of Asia Pacific Aerospace Consultants (APAC), native of Scioto County, and brother of our long-time member Barb Schmidt, certainly held our attention.
Bill has lived in the Land Down Under, where he met his wife, since 1987, and he showed us numerous photos of the landscape and wildlife of the world’s smallest continent, which hosts 8 of 10 of the most poisonous snakes in the world. Swimming is at your own risk due to the salt water alligators and sharks, so most beaches include enclosed concrete salt water pools. Local crocodile farms sell skins to fashion houses in Paris. The city of Sydney is surrounded by national parks, and some of the other points of interest he highlighted were the Great Barrier Reef, the “Three Sisters” in the Blue Mountains, the Honeymoon Bridge, the Grand Staircase, the Australian Grand Canyon, the Sydney Opera House, and Lady Macquarie’s Chair.
In his aerospace role, Bill has been actively involved in monitoring and advising on Space Domain Awareness (SDA) and Space Traffic Management (STM) activities since 2015. He leads the APAC team that is identifying space objects and satellite activities for the US and allied governments, including identifying close approaches to assist in collision avoidance and space debris management.
“People don’t realize how dependent we are on space,” he said, noting that our modern technological society does not operate without space. We need it to use the maps on our phones, watch commercial broadcasts of sporting events, and much more. See the photo for information about the growing number of objects in space, and check out Spacetrack.org, the NORAD catalog listing of every traceable object in Earth’s orbit.
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Our club is pleased to be a long-time sponsor of the South Central Ohio Educational Service Center and its Gifted Services Program. On May 27, Sharee Price, Gifted Services Coordinator, presented an update on the high quality programs she oversees in both academics and fine arts in order to help Scioto County students become successful both in the classroom and in life. Sharee is pictured below with Kiwanis President Kara Tieman.
These programs include:
- High School Academic Competitions
- Middle School & Jr. High Quiz Bowl
- ESC Artist-in-Residence Program: This program brings an accomplished, practicing artist into high school visual arts classrooms to enrich students’ creative experiences.
- Youth MAX: This annual one-day conference brings together high school students and local business and community leaders to learn valuable leadership skills based on principles taught by John Maxwell.
- Visual Arts
* Youth Art Month every March at the Scioto County Public Library
* The Memory Project: Local advanced art students create portraits for children living in orphanages around the world.
* Visually Literate High School Art show hosted annually in the Appleton Gallery at Shawnee State University
- Mock Trial: High school students participate in simulated court experiences at the Scioto County Courthouse to gain a better understanding of the law, court procedures, and the judicial system. (Note: Our member Dan DeLotell assists with this competition each year.)
- Scioto County Honors Music Festival: This year, 210 students participated, with a record 854 in attendance at the closeout community concert at the Vern Riffe Center for the Arts. This event has celebrated student musicians for over 80 years.
- Scioto County Spelling Bee: There were 27 students participating from 14 school districts this year.
- Books Build Bridges Literacy Program: This program provided free books to more than 800 sixth graders who also got to meet the author.
Summer Enrichment Scholarships: These are providing 16 gifted students this year with financial assistance to attend academic or fine arts programs of their choice. A dozen others are participating through the Miami Scholars program.
For more information, visit online at www.scoesc.org/gifted. ... See MoreSee Less
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