MANHATTAN — Kansas State University’s Silver Key, a sophomore leadership honor society, has selected new members for the 2020-2021 academic year.

To be eligible for Silver Key, students must have at least a 3.0 grade point average, be a 2019 high school graduate, and in their freshmen year at the university.

Silver Key members take part in a variety of community service projects throughout the semester. Past projects have included hosting children from the Boys and Girls Club at K-State Athletics events; partnering with the K-State Recycling Center; writing cards and making quilts for a local veterans center; collecting donations for the Manhattan Emergency Shelter; highway and neighborhood cleanup efforts; and afternoon visits to Stoneybrook and Meadowlark, senior living communities in Manhattan.

Local students, both who will be sophomores in the next school year, are members of Silver Key for 2020-2021, Nolan Barton, mechanical engineering, Great Bend and Maria Apel, psychology, Lindsborg.