Launching a new Interact Club is truly a celebration. Why? It can take years to find the right people in the right roles at the right time with the right vision and energy.  The Rotary Club of Roswell is thrilled how both Fellowship Christian High School and The Cottage School Middle School (two of our local private schools) have found that the 2025-26 academic year is the right year to add an Interact Club.

CONTEXT:  Fellowship, for example, took more than eight years of annual conversations with school leadership. Why this year? Truly it seems that the new Head of School was talking with a new teacher only to find a common commitment to having their students serve the community. With meetings in the Spring of 2025 to help better understand Interact, Roswell Rotary, Service Above Self, service projects and collaboration, the teacher liaison, Mrs. Shawn Ferrara, with support and communication her Rotary liaison, Mrs Angela Medley who had also been a Fellowship Parent, were ready to invite a few students to consider leadership roles and attend RYLA. Although none of them were able to attend, they began to realize just how robust, impactful yet flexible Interact is as a program for the entire campus.

LAUNCH:  Their first school-wide club meeting was held the week after Labor Day and hosted 95 students!  Ferrara and Medley had taken the time to better understand the program and how to plug into it.  They now have students engaged in the Roswell Youth Council (a collaboration between Roswell Rotary and the City of Roswell) as well as the upcoming Youth Day Parade!  Both are service projects supported by Roswell Rotary Club.  Although their participation with the RRC service projects is never required, we have found that it is a great way for the new Interact Clubs to feel immediately engaged while making decisions for the next semester.

This year, Roswell Rotary Club has 14 active clubs: five elementary, four middle, and five high schools.  We are proud to support the next generation of service leaders through our thriving Interact Program. These clubs support and advise students across our community with service projects that are local, regional and international. For more information, reach out to RRC member and long-term Interact Club Coordinator Becky Nelson 404-406-6121 or BNelson@CCHL.com