Ten years ago, the Rotary Club of Eagan initiated an Interact club at Eagan High School to encourage volunteerism. At this milestone year, the club now has 200 members and an amazing list of project accomplishments in just the past year: 

• constructed a Community Giving Garden to benefit The Open Door
• organizing both a coat and jeans drive
• hosting a blood drive
• ​​​​​​​Christmas caroling
• ​​​​​​​making dog toys for a local pet shelter
• ​​​​​​​sewing face masks and baby blankets
• ​​​​​​​highway cleanup and lawn raking
• ​​​​​​​writing 2,000 letters to US soldiers, enclosing letters in 52 care packages.

Recently, the Eagan club donated $500 to the Interact club. Receiving the check (from left) is school advisor Bill Wirsbinski and students Hannah Maccarone (past president), Donald Thai and Anna Schuller. Wirsbinski has been with the club since its inception and credits it for keeping him positively involved with the students during the Covid shutdown. “Interact does not exist without Rotary,” he said. 

If your club wants more information about starting an Interact club, contact District Interact Club committee chair Chris Kruse (Monticello) at christopher.kruse@hotmail.com.