2020 is definitely a challenging year for Interact clubs around the district, and the ones that are allowed to meet are rising to the challenge. We have featured three Interact clubs on our district council Instagram account: BASIS Scottsdale, Canyon View High School, and Barry Goldwater High School. BASIS Scottsdale has been full steam ahead collecting mobility devices for the Crutches 4 Africa project. We are doing as much as we can to collect and send mobility devices when we can. Applications for the Ambassador teams are open, and we are adding new Ambassadors to the current teams. 
Canyon View High School has facilitated several canned food drives and Meals for Joy, a meal packing event for seniors. Meal packing and canned food drives are great examples of service events that can be done socially distant and significantly impact the community. 

Barry Goldwater showed their gratitude and had a card making event for our healthcare workers. It can be a breath of fresh air to have your hard work acknowledged in a time of so much uncertainty and conflict. 

 

We were super excited to have our Interact District Conference in person this year, but, unfortunately, due to the recent COVID spike, that will be online as well. This means that we will need to do an overhaul of the format, and we cannot have our service project of packing crutches and loading them into the truck. Planning this conference will definitely be a challenge, but with how successful our Fall Leadership Conference was, I am confident that we can rise to the occasion. 

 

If you would like to connect with your Interact clubs, we can connect you with the club and the Assistant Governor assigned to the club. You can always contact me at ashtonkling34@gmail.com or Art at arthts@msn.com. You can also see some of the amazing things that our Interact clubs are doing by going to our official Instagram page, interactaz5495. Don’t forget that Interact is the start of the chain that leads all the way to Rotary.

 

         Thank you, and stay safe!