Major Events

MAJOR EVENTS Welcome to Interact

THiS YEAR WE HELD OUR FOURTH ANNUAL WELCOME TO iNTERACT EVENT! WE WERE ABLE TO iNTRODUCE GENERAL MEMBERS AND NEW MEMBERS TO WHAT iNTERACT iS ALL ABOUT iNCLUDiNG OUR OFFiCER TEAM AS WELL AS BOND WiTH OUR GENERAL MEMBERS. WE PLAYED KAHOOT AND HAD MOCK iNTERViEWS TO SHOW THE iNTERViEW PROCESS FOR BOARD APPLiCATiONS. Fall Leadership Conference

THiS YEAR’S FALL LEADERSHiP CONFERENCE WAS VERY DiFFERENT, BUT OUR DiSTRiCT WAS STiLL ABLE TO PULL iT OFF GiVEN THE UNFORESEEN CiRCUMSTANCES THAT THiS PANDEMiC BROUGHT. THE DiSTRiCT HELD A YOUTUBE LiVESTREAM, WORKSHOPS ON ZOOM, AND AN AREA COMPETiTiON. OUR DiSTRiCT PROJECTS WERE ALSO ANNOUNCED DURiNG FLC. FEEDiNG THE FUTURE, OUR iNTERNATiONAL PROJECT, FOCUSES ON THE FAMiNE CRiSiS iN YEMEN. INTERACT DiSTRCiT 5170 HAS PARTNERED WiTH THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA. COMBATiNG WiTH CARE, OUR COMMUNiTY PROJECT, FOCUSES ON PROViDiNG RELiEF TO LOCAL COMMUNiTiES AND iNDiViDUALS THAT HAVE BEEN iMPACTED BY THE COViD-19 PANDEMiC. FOR THiS PROJECT, OUR DiSTRiCT PARTNERED WiTH UNiTED WAY BAY AREA.

Light the Night

LED BY: RiTHYNA YUN AND LYNN NGUYEN THiS YEAR’S LiGHT THE NiGHT WAS VERY DiFFERENT FROM PREViOUS YEARS iN THAT WE DECiDED TO MAKE THiS EVENT iNTO A SERViCE EVENT THAT iNVOLVED PHYSiCAL ACTiViTY! iNTERACTORS WALKED OR RAN AND RECORDED THEiR STEPS iN THE “CHARiTY MiLES” APP FOR THE LEUKEMiA AND LYMPHOMA SOCiETY, WHiCH FOCUSES ON RESEARCH FOR FiNDiNG A CURE TO CANCER. WE ALSO WERE ABLE TO RAiSE $90 FROM JUST DONATiONS. iHS iNTERACT WALKED FOR A TOTAL OF OVER 150 MiLES FOR CHARiTY MiLES! Interkey Movie Night

iNTERKEY MOViE NiGHT iS AN ANNUAL EVENT THAT iS A COLLABORATiON BETWEEN iNDEPENDENCE HiGH SCHOOL’S TWO MAJOR SERViCE CLUBS, iNTERACT AND KEY. THiS YEAR, iNSTEAD OF WATCHiNG A HORROR MOViE, WE OPTED FOR A MORE NOSTALGiC ONE, RATATOUiLLE. AT THE SAME TiME, WE HAD A SERViCE EVENT, CRANES OF GRATiTUDE, iN WHiCH WE FOLDED CRANES FOR PEDiATRiC PATiENTS. ATTENDEES ALSO PLAYED SKRiBBL.iO AND KAHOOT TO TEST THEiR KNOWLEDGE ABOUT iNTERACT, KEY CLUB, AND BOTH LEADERSHiP TEAMS! CRANES WERE MAiLED TO WiTH A THOUSAND CRANES. ATTENDEES WERE ABLE TO BOND AND MAKE FUN MEMORiES BEFORE THANKSGiViNG BREAK!