Kempsville students are active in serving the community through the Interact Club, sponsored by Ms. Allison Heighschober. This club is a high school version of Rotary Club, an international service organization for adults.

“What we do is we find opportunities to interact with the community, which is where the club’s name comes from,” Heighschober said.

The Interact Club takes part in many service projects conducted by the Rotary Club, such as the Polio Project, conducting donations to the Food Bank, and in the month of December, Sponsor a Child.

“We help get donations of outfits for kids in a Romanian orphanage,” said Heischober about Sponsor a Child. “We get together a little outfit [and] shoes and Rotary comes, picks everything up, and they send them off to the kids.”

The Interact Club gets sent cards full of kids names and information such as clothing sizes, their interests, and what they do for fun. Students received their child information cards on November 20, each with a specific individual, and were each responsible for purchasing and choosing the items that will be sent.

“I like to make a direct impact and be involved,” said Ryle Lancaster, vice president. “I think Interact Club is a really good platform for community service. I love the generosity and the warm, fuzzy feeling of putting others before ourselves.”

Interact Club means different things to many different people, but to Ms. Heischober, who has sponsored it for three years, it means hope for the future.

“I think it’s pretty powerful. To see how many students are interested in helping the community gives me faith in the future. It’s always nice to see kids that are willing to put someone else before themselves. I think it’s nice to see that we have an active community of that in this school.”