The Fieldcrest Interact Club had a busy 2025-2026 school year. Some of our short term projects we worked on this year include in September, we worked with the FHS Dance and Volleyball Teams to honor our students who have experienced childhood cancer. Along with both the other organizations, we planned several Go Gold for Childhood Cancer! Activities. This included making Go Gold! packages for all the students in our district with gold ribbons, gold beads and chain links for the students to decorate in honor of students with cancer.
We held memorial celebrations at a Volleyball game and helped create Go Gold! Shirts. We worked with our Fieldcrest Student Council to welcome the veterans at our Veteran’s Day assembly by preparing gift bags and helping to greet people.
In December and April, the Interact club sponsored two Red Cross Blood Drives. We collected over 60 pints of blood between the two drives. Because we met our goals, we earned a $1000 scholarship to be given to a graduating senior member of the Interact Club. Other ongoing projects we worked on this year include moving food for the Back Pack SnackPack organization. This group supplies snack packs for needy families in our communities. The club helps by moving one food order per month up to the top floor of their storage area. Part of the club worked on a project called Intermediate Outreach. A few times during the school year, we go to the Intermediate school and work with their houses. This year, we helped them write and decorate cards for children at the St. Jude hospital. We also worked with them on the skill of cooperating together as a group to meet a goal.
In the winter the club sponsors a couple of larger projects, organizing basket raffles for St. Jude and the Christmas Club. We work with local businesses in the community and organization in the school to collect baskets, set up a display and sell raffle tickets at a boys and girls basketball game. This year, we earned in excess of $2000 by selling raffle tickets. This money will be used to help our local St. Jude running team meet their fundraising goal. For the Christmas Club, we raise funds so we can provide Christmas gifts for needy high school students. Club members shop for individual students, wrap presents and then give them anonymously to the students who express a need. This project fills a gap in our communities by giving gifts to students who are ineligible through other organizations, ensuring students throughout the district have a happier holiday.