INTERACT CLUB

WHAT IS INTERACT
Interact is a service club for young people ages 14-18. Sponsored by local Rotary clubs, Interact clubs give young people an opportunity to participate in fun, meaningful service projects while developing leadership skills and meeting new friends.

  • Develop leadership skills and personal integrity.
  • Demonstrate helpfulness and respect for others.
  • Understand the value of individual responsibility and hard work.
  • Advance international understanding and goodwill.

A Part of the Rotary Family
Interactors and Rotarians are partners in service. Rotarians mentor promising youth in their communities. Interactors bring new energy to a Rotary club, inspire fresh ideas for service, increase support of projects, and help develop future Rotarians.

  • Interact History
  • Interact stands for international action.
  • The first club was chartered in 1962 at Melbourne High School, FL, USA.
  • Today there are more than 9,000 clubs in over 110 countries with an estimated membership of 200,000 youth worldwide.
  • About Interact
  • Sponsoring Rotary clubs provide support and guidance, but Interact clubs are self-governing and self-supporting.
  • Club membership varies and can be single-gender or mixed-gender, large or small.
  • Members are drawn from one school’s student body or from several schools in the community.
  • Program Guidelines
  • Interact clubs are encouraged to:
  • Be school-based or community-based.
  • Have a Rotarian adviser and a faculty adviser for school-based clubs.
  • Meet at least twice a month. Interactors must attend 60% of regularly scheduled meetings.
  • Require no financial support from the sponsoring Rotary club
  • Service Projects
  • Interactors carry out activities to:
  • Benefit schools and communities
  • Expand international understanding
  • Fundraisers
  • Blood drives
  • Benefit concerts
  • Clean-up campaigns
  • Pen-pal exchanges
  • Visits to nursing homes, orphanages, and homeless shelters
 

District Structure

  • District Interact chairs are appointed to assist Rotary clubs as they administer, promote, publicize and oversee the activities of Interact clubs. Interact activities at the district level provide opportunities for:
    • Joint projects
    • Training new club officers
    • Sharing ideas for strengthening club service
    • Promoting Interact extension into new areas

Interact Clubs Allow Rotary’s new generations to be involved in community life and develop skills to become responsible and productive members of society Are one of the most significant and fastest growing programs of Rotary service