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Our "Report Card" from year to year!
Project History

The Royal Oak High School InterAct Club

 The Tally

Year

Cash Raised

Hours Donated

2008-2009
$3550
Thousands of Hours!
2009-2010
$3900
Thousands of Hours!
2010-2011
$3735
Thousands of Hours!
2011-2012

Project Scorecard 2010-2011 

August
Arts, Beats, & Eats
Many long hours of parking fee collection later. . . . total of $350 for Kiva.org!!
Sept.
Foreign Exchange Guides
Welcome to our eight new students from Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, Japan, Jordan, Ukraine, and Viet Nam!
Sept.
Foreign Exchange Reception
A great time with our new students!  Food, strange music, bad jokes, snappy pics, and some special guests!  Thanks to all for coming!
Sept.
Membership Drive at Raven Rally
A big list of new members! Stay connected with our email fan-outs and Facebook group!
Sept.
Detroit AIDS Walk
$400 raised for Affirmations of Detroit!  Special thanks to Mayor Ellison for his kind donation to our team!
Sept.
Rotary Knock It Out of Park Event
Several Interact attended! Emma and Kate presented Kiva as part of opening plenary!  Great ideas from many projects!  And we added $85 to Kiva, bringing our total to $1200 in loans!
Oct.
Courtyard Clean-up
 Every Friday!
Oct.
Halloween Scavenger Hunt
 A fun afternoon of clues, costumes, and chaos!  No cheating!
Oct.-Nov.
UNICEF Fundraiser
 Thanks to everyone who helped!  Over $900 raised, penny by penny!
Jan.
Interact Day
Five of RO Interact gather ideas with dozens of others at Huron High School.  And we will host the event next year!
Feb.
Alternative Feb. Break
38 students, 11 chaperons, and 6500 cypress trees planted in the NOLA wetlands.  Congratulations to all!
Mar.
Keller FunFest!
Children managed and more funds raised for Kiva.org!  Great food, Keller!
Mar.
Hunger Banquet
Nearly $100 raised for OxFam!  Intimate gathering, but great discussion!
Apr.
Rotary Auction

Thousands of dollars made for the Rotary Scholarship; a long day of auction prizes, big fish, and elbow-rubbing!

Apr-May

Blessings in a Backpack; EMagine Preview!

We raised $300 in ticket sales to support ROHS students!
Apr.
Courtyard Work
Holding the wild weeds at bay!
May
Refugee Awareness Project
Storming the classrooms and digging through packs, begging for coins, our cast of refugees talked to hundreds of students about the global problem and raised over $100 for Freedom House Detroit!
May
Box City Homeless Project
30 students sleep in cardboard outside ROMS and raise over $1500 for South Oakland Shelter and Japanese tsunami victims (Red Cross)                                                      
May
RYLA
Angelica returns from RYLA and sings its praises:  international networking, fun projects, and new friends!
June
Joplin Disaster Relief Trip
28 students work five days on five homes in Joplin, Missouri. A powerful experience for all involved. Thank you, National Relief Network!
June
Mural Painting
Next fall, then!

Project Scorecard 2009-2010 

1. August
Dream Cruise Water Drive
InterAct sold over $300 of cold water to raise money for water filters in Honduras!  Hot day!
2. Sept.
Foreign Exchange Guides
Welcome to ROHS for our seven exchange students from China, Germany, Japan, and Korea and our two new residents from Mexico and the Philippines!
3. Sept.
Foreign Exchange Reception
The welcome continues! Thanks to administrators, staff, and students who attended!
4. Sept.
Membership Drive at Raven Rally
Almost 100 new members signed up!  Welcome aboard!
5. Sept.
Int'l Day of Peace
A dozen of us painted great t-shirts and spread the word: "Personally and politically, peace is better!"
6. Oct.
Courtyard Clean-up
Winterizing our courtyard in preparation for spring planting continues while the weather holds--Thursdays after school!
7. Oct.
Winona LaDuke Presentation
Great talk about building a democracy which is truly multi-cultural from a Green Party VP candidate and environmentalist.
8. Oct.
Fall Fix-Up in Oak Park
InterAct scores an "Oops," with only a couple of members coming out to help the elderly.  Thanks to those who participated!
9. Oct.-Nov.
UNICEF Fundraiser
InterAct sent over $1200 to Haiti through UNICEF!
10. Dec.
Kiva.org Microloans
We raised another $150 for Kiva.org from our Leon & Lulu's fundraiser.!
11. Jan.
Haiti Relief
Projects Discussed and Long-Term Plan Begun...
12.  Jan.
Interact Day
Seven RO Interactors networked and developed projects with other schools!
13. Feb.
Alternative Feb. Break
Cancelled by school district this year.
14. Feb.
Hunger Banquet
Nearly $500 raised for the hungry in Haiti through Oxfam America!
15. Apr.
Rotary Auction
Our volunteers helped make this year's auction a success!
16. May
Box City Homeless Project
Over $1750 raised for South Oakland Shelter and OxFam America's Haiti Homeless Project!
17. May
RYLA
Keara and Keila spent a weekend in Guelph, Ontario to learn leadership skills and network with other Interact leaders from around the country!

 Bill Is Serious About Raising Funds

 Trouble at the Bell-Ringing

Project Scorecard 2008-2009 

1 Exchange Student Reception Sept Howdy!
2
Membership Drive
Sept
Outrageously Successful, 120 & growing!
3
Voter Registration
Sept
12 new voters in Michigan!
4
Political Campaign Volunteerism
Sept
Republicans never responded:  :(
Democrats recruited a dozen!
5
Military Recruitment Opt-Out
Sept
6 students at ROHS will not have their personal information released to the military.
6
Kiva.org Microloans
Sept
Bowlathon raised $675 for programs!  Special thanks to Lily's Seafood for a $100 donation!
7
UNICEF
Oct
Over $1700 raised!
8
Courtyard Rejuvenation
Oct
1/2-way emptied; we'll add design plans over the winter!
9
"Trouble the Water"
Nov
What a great film!  Thanks to all who came!
10
Secret Santa Breakfast
Dec
Thanks for the festive scene for our staff!
11
Hunger Banquet
Jan
Over $320 raised for Oxfam!
12
Interact Day
Jan
Seven of us got charged up networking with Interact clubs from around the area!
13
Alternative February Break
Feb
72 travelers; 5 days of work; fifteen sites; 50 hours of labor and sweat; an amazing trip for all!
14
Livonia Peace Conference
Mar
Great speakers on the environment and social justice, how to make peace in the world.  Inspiring!
15
Water Filters for the World
Mar $230 raised = 23 families will now have clean water!
16 Cranbrook Ecology Days Spring Break Volunteerism Apr We taught kids about pond animals and helped them with leaf projects!
17
Day of Silence
Apr
Awareness raised, but quietly.
18 Mulch-Out! @ ROHS Apr Courtyard work!  Shed assembled, lawnmower assembled; one duck nest discovered
19 CROP Walk May 3 May $570 raised to fight poverty locally and around the country!
20
Courtyard Rejuvenation Part II
May
Work continues, but there's much to get done:  make this a multi-year project! 
21 RYLA Leadership Conference May Keara, Sierra, Anna, and Eva represented ROHS to the world!  Thank you!
22 Michigan Policy Summit May Oops!  Maybe next year!
23 Rotary Auction May Thanks to all who helped Rotary raise thousands of dollars for scholarship funds!
24 Locker Clean-out --> Honduras! June 20 boxes stuffed with school supplies are heading for Develop Africa