In addition to meeting new people, strengthening friendships, and gaining real world experience outside the home or school environment, this year’s Interact Club has significantly impacted not only this community, but the world. CHS Interact has joined countless organizations in projects designed to cure cancer, to end world hunger, to promote education, to enforce peace in the community, and even to ease the lives of those affected by domestic violence. Some of the highlights of this year were Interact’s involvement with the Susan B. Komen Race for the Cure, the American Cancer Society Climb to Conquer Cancer, the Epilepsy Foundation of Arizona’s Epilepsy Walk, Camp Fire USA’s Peace Camp, and the national effort to end world hunger, Feed My Starving Children. The club showed great enthusiasm in these meaningful experiences. We had nearly 20 members volunteer at the Climb to Conquer Cancer event, and still others actually participated in the 5.5 mile hike. Camp Fire USA’s Peace Camp was a new project introduced this year. Several of our members regularly devoted their afternoons for many weeks to help organize the camp designed to foster peace in the community. And the main project, spanning the course of the year, was CHS Interact’s involvement in the national effort to end world hunger, Feed My Starving Children. In addition to fundraising, Interact joined in on the action and helped hand pack meals for starving children in over 50 countries. The year isn’t over yet either. Interact is signed up to volunteer in the upcoming Walk to End Domestic Violence as well as participate in the symbolic all night event, Relay for Life. It’s been a successful and rewarding year, and the gears are already in motion to make the upcoming year even better.