<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19221774</id><updated>2011-04-21T19:05:12.039-04:00</updated><category term='Photos'/><category term='Meeting Minutes'/><category term='Board Minutes'/><category term='Volunteer Opportunities'/><category term='Volunteer Activities'/><category term='FAQs'/><category term='Board Members'/><category term='RYLA'/><title type='text'>Pioneer Interact</title><subtitle type='html'>Interact is a Rotary-sponsored service club for young people ages 14-18. The program gives young people an opportunity to participate in fun, meaningful service projects while developing leadership skills and meeting new friends.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Jessica</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>31</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19221774.post-2953507015621224297</id><published>2007-04-16T17:52:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-16T18:55:03.965-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photos'/><title type='text'>Interact Picnic Pictures</title><content type='html'>Here are the Interact Picnic Pictures taken on Sunday, April 15th, 2007.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://f7.yahoofs.com/users/pj4IQEAUmBIG/__tn_/2ff1.jpg?ph8pAJGBgbT7Jekd" /&gt; &lt;img src="http://f7.yahoofs.com/users/pj4IQEAUmBIG/__tn_/f2a6.jpg?ph8pAJGBbgDalF9t" /&gt; &lt;img src="http://f7.yahoofs.com/users/pj4IQEAUmBIG/__tn_/b72a.jpg?ph8pAJGB.K3knnek" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://f7.yahoofs.com/users/pj4IQEAUmBIG/__tn_/42ff.jpg?ph8pAJGBdOoijH7q" /&gt; &lt;img src="http://f7.yahoofs.com/users/pj4IQEAUmBIG/__tn_/41bb.jpg?ph8pAJGBII4NG4Cx" /&gt; &lt;img src="http://f7.yahoofs.com/users/pj4IQEAUmBIG/__tn_/de06.jpg?ph8pAJGBg9XDJm5a" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://f7.yahoofs.com/users/pj4IQEAUmBIG/__tn_/88ab.jpg?ph8pAJGBwT2oo0Qo" /&gt; &lt;img src="http://f7.yahoofs.com/users/pj4IQEAUmBIG/__tn_/257f.jpg?ph8pAJGBCS27YV6l" /&gt; &lt;img src="http://f7.yahoofs.com/users/pj4IQEAUmBIG/__tn_/b205.jpg?ph8pAJGBGUzfF1Or" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://f7.yahoofs.com/users/pj4IQEAUmBIG/__tn_/774b.jpg?ph8pAJGB1wMu5g2_" /&gt; &lt;img src="http://f7.yahoofs.com/users/pj4IQEAUmBIG/__tn_/1903.jpg?ph8pAJGBRqWNDt_p" /&gt; &lt;img src="http://f7.yahoofs.com/users/pj4IQEAUmBIG/__tn_/b44e.jpg?ph8pAJGB2OnvmwXU" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://f7.yahoofs.com/users/pj4IQEAUmBIG/__tn_/fe8a.jpg?ph8pAJGBwqwx.OqY" /&gt; &lt;img src="http://f7.yahoofs.com/users/pj4IQEAUmBIG/__tn_/31e3.jpg?ph8pAJGB_4r1Nquv" /&gt; &lt;img src="http://f7.yahoofs.com/users/pj4IQEAUmBIG/__tn_/1c76.jpg?ph8pAJGBH5tale0V" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://f7.yahoofs.com/users/pj4IQEAUmBIG/__tn_/f798.jpg?ph8pAJGBR0eIK4S7" /&gt; &lt;img src="http://f7.yahoofs.com/users/pj4IQEAUmBIG/__tn_/c9f2.jpg?ph8pAJGBsizloayM" /&gt; &lt;img src="http://f7.yahoofs.com/users/pj4IQEAUmBIG/__tn_/4d39.jpg?ph8pAJGBHoHrjIBN" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://f7.yahoofs.com/users/pj4IQEAUmBIG/__tn_/13fd.jpg?ph8pAJGBr1zKxb_X" /&gt; &lt;img src="http://f7.yahoofs.com/users/pj4IQEAUmBIG/__tn_/eb22.jpg?ph8pAJGBd6J.rqYS" /&gt; &lt;img src="http://f7.yahoofs.com/users/pj4IQEAUmBIG/__tn_/7066.jpg?ph8pAJGBf3aqXKha" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://f7.yahoofs.com/users/pj4IQEAUmBIG/__tn_/9752.jpg?ph8pAJGBhmWrNJV8" /&gt; &lt;img src="http://f7.yahoofs.com/users/pj4IQEAUmBIG/__tn_/58e8.jpg?ph8pAJGBJjBn4.Di" /&gt; &lt;img src="http://f7.yahoofs.com/users/pj4IQEAUmBIG/__tn_/7e2c.jpg?ph8pAJGBzwWQPFTi" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://f7.yahoofs.com/users/pj4IQEAUmBIG/__tn_/8de2.jpg?ph8pAJGB4F7Mw7wa" /&gt; &lt;img src="http://f7.yahoofs.com/users/pj4IQEAUmBIG/__tn_/2053.jpg?ph8pAJGB52GaD2sQ" /&gt; &lt;img src="http://f7.yahoofs.com/users/pj4IQEAUmBIG/__tn_/5f36.jpg?ph8pAJGBHnz81jhL" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://f7.yahoofs.com/users/pj4IQEAUmBIG/__tn_/4add.jpg?ph8pAJGBhEiBJ0pc" /&gt; &lt;img src="http://f7.yahoofs.com/users/pj4IQEAUmBIG/__tn_/8fc4.jpg?ph8pAJGBE9yCpNKN" /&gt; &lt;img src="http://f7.yahoofs.com/users/pj4IQEAUmBIG/__tn_/2f02.jpg?ph8pAJGByrwG8Mgt" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://f7.yahoofs.com/users/pj4IQEAUmBIG/__tn_/eb52.jpg?ph8pAJGB2xpD8ja4" /&gt; &lt;img src="http://f7.yahoofs.com/users/pj4IQEAUmBIG/__tn_/d606.jpg?ph8pAJGBwTQhGLc." /&gt; &lt;img src="http://f7.yahoofs.com/users/pj4IQEAUmBIG/__tn_/923b.jpg?ph8pAJGB8zts0M7u" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://f7.yahoofs.com/users/pj4IQEAUmBIG/__tn_/191b.jpg?ph8pAJGBbj0j8rBa" /&gt; &lt;img src="http://f7.yahoofs.com/users/pj4IQEAUmBIG/__tn_/34f9.jpg?ph8pAJGB62lAytcJ" /&gt; &lt;img src="http://f7.yahoofs.com/users/pj4IQEAUmBIG/__tn_/45c2.jpg?ph8pAJGBGPEN_S9n" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://f7.yahoofs.com/users/pj4IQEAUmBIG/__tn_/45c2.jpg?ph8pAJGBGPEN_S9n" /&gt; &lt;img src="http://f7.yahoofs.com/users/pj4IQEAUmBIG/__tn_/306e.jpg?ph8pAJGBsVa4vd1U" /&gt; &lt;img src="http://f7.yahoofs.com/users/pj4IQEAUmBIG/__tn_/a76d.jpg?ph8pAJGBlzAFM_ZC" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://f7.yahoofs.com/users/pj4IQEAUmBIG/__tn_/1625.jpg?ph8pAJGBwMyVp2tl" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you'd like to see larger images, please click &lt;a href="http://new.photos.yahoo.com/jessica_chang.rm/album/576460762398227399"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for the album.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19221774-2953507015621224297?l=pioneerinteract.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/feeds/2953507015621224297/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19221774&amp;postID=2953507015621224297' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/2953507015621224297'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/2953507015621224297'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2007/04/interact-picnic-pictures.html' title='Interact Picnic Pictures'/><author><name>Jessica</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19221774.post-6613014050028950723</id><published>2007-01-09T21:33:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-10T22:14:57.777-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Board Minutes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Volunteer Opportunities'/><title type='text'>Board Meeting Minutes--1/9/07</title><content type='html'>Board Meeting Minutes for Tuesday, January 9th, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Good job everybody!  We made a $111 profit from December Delights, and plan to donate all of it to Therapeutic Riding.&lt;br /&gt;Including the fundraiser money, we have $210 at our disposal, in addition to the $200-$300 that we can get from Rotary each year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks to Shirley C. And Shirley W. for finding some more volunteer opportunities which include:&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;various activities at the Neutral Zone (tutoring, cooking, special projects, etc), which would require interested members to fill out a volunteer application&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Another group dinner making project at the Ronald McDonald House, on 4/17, 4/20, 4/23, or 4/29.  We will decide on a date at a later time.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Members!&lt;/span&gt;  If you have pictures of Interact activities, we need them for the website!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We will continue ESL tutoring every Wednesday during 7th hour for 2nd semester.  We need to see Mrs. Macke about getting money for pizza during the tutoring sessions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Marketing Interact:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since many of the members are seniors, we need to reach out to the Pioneer community and let interested students know about the club, so it will continue to exist in all its wonder for years to come.  Some ideas:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Video announcements promoting our latest fundraising project, December Delights.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Junior Board members, where 2-3 current members are voted to/selected to sit in on board meetings to learn the ropes, to hopefully create a smooth transition into next year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Minutes taken by Lubin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19221774-6613014050028950723?l=pioneerinteract.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/feeds/6613014050028950723/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19221774&amp;postID=6613014050028950723' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/6613014050028950723'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/6613014050028950723'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2007/01/board-meeting-minutes-for-1907.html' title='Board Meeting Minutes--1/9/07'/><author><name>Jessica</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19221774.post-116449894899238049</id><published>2006-11-25T18:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-10T22:04:26.827-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Board Minutes'/><title type='text'>Board Meeting Minutes--11/14/06</title><content type='html'>Board Meeting Minutes for November 14th, 2006&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Fundraising ideas:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;We could get (potentially paid) volunteer opportunities from the Community News section of the AA News&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sell products at Farmer's Market (we need to look into when it closes, and how much money it would take to rent a booth)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sell a service (?)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Holiday Grams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;i&gt;Brainstormed places to spend our fundraising money&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Contact UM Hospital for information about international orphanages&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Let members use the money to go on a Toys for Tots shopping spree ($7 max)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Helpsource&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Humane Society&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Minutes taken by Lubin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19221774-116449894899238049?l=pioneerinteract.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/feeds/116449894899238049/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19221774&amp;postID=116449894899238049' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/116449894899238049'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/116449894899238049'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2006/11/board-meeting-minutes-102406.html' title='Board Meeting Minutes--11/14/06'/><author><name>Jessica</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19221774.post-116199545374621987</id><published>2006-10-27T20:23:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-01-10T18:36:30.118-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Meeting Minutes'/><title type='text'>Meeting Minutes--10/26/06</title><content type='html'>Meeting Minutes for Thursday, October 26th, 2006&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a club, we decided to donate half of our raised funds from the hot cider/hot chocolate sale on Nov. 4th.  Three organizations were resignated as possible recipients:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mott's Children's Hospital/Ronald McDonald House &lt;i&gt;(Jeany)*&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Orphanages (mostly international, in third world countries) &lt;i&gt;(Helen)*&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Theraputic Riding &lt;i&gt;(Lubin)*&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;*this person will find out more information and contact&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Coming Up:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;What:&lt;/b&gt; Tree Planting with Rotary.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;When:&lt;/b&gt; This Saturday, from 9 am-12pm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fundraising event at U of M game: We still need to hear back from Mr. Madison to see if we can sell hot chocolate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Minutes taken by Lubin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19221774-116199545374621987?l=pioneerinteract.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/feeds/116199545374621987/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19221774&amp;postID=116199545374621987' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/116199545374621987'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/116199545374621987'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2006/10/meeting-minutes-102606.html' title='Meeting Minutes--10/26/06'/><author><name>Jessica</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19221774.post-116173615370949365</id><published>2006-10-24T20:27:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-01-10T18:38:09.800-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Board Minutes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Volunteer Opportunities'/><title type='text'>Board Meeting Minutes--10/24/06</title><content type='html'>Board Meeting Minutes for Tuesday, October 24, 2006&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Volunteer Opportunities:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Tree planting with Rotary, Saturday Oct. 28th, 9am-12&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Decided not to participate in Lawton Book Sale&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Fundraising:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mr. Madison approved use of Pioneer corner for fundraising during the next football game&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Still pending approval for hot chocolate sales, PTSO may be selling the same thing&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hot cider instead?  coffee?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Decided on four or five 2-hour shifts on the day of the game; we will need to be set up in the morning, no matter when it starts&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; Another possibility: volunteering at Election Day, $40/person&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;To do:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Buy materials to sell hot drinks: insulated cups, lids, actual powder/drink, thermos&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ask around and talk to parents and staff; both are needed to supervise sales&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Minutes taken by Lubin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19221774-116173615370949365?l=pioneerinteract.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/feeds/116173615370949365/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19221774&amp;postID=116173615370949365' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/116173615370949365'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/116173615370949365'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2006/10/board-meeting-minutes-102406.html' title='Board Meeting Minutes--10/24/06'/><author><name>Jessica</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19221774.post-116130896801837565</id><published>2006-10-19T21:46:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-01-10T22:05:25.100-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Meeting Minutes'/><title type='text'>Meeting Minutes--10/19/06</title><content type='html'>Meeting Minutes for Thursday, October 19th, 2006&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Brainstormed how to sell hot chocolate at UM football game&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;When:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nov. 4th, time TBA&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;How:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jeany will look into A1 Rentals to see if we can borrow supplies needed to make hot chocolate, or Club members can pool together their home thermoses for use&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Who:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hope that everybody can volunteer around two hours&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;For next week:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;We'll have a sign up sheet and further details for tree planting with Rotary.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;An email will be sent out reminding people who signed up for ESL to show up Wednesday during 7th hour, since some people were not able to make the ESL event this Wednesday, next week will be another semi-introduction meeting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Minutes taken by Lubin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19221774-116130896801837565?l=pioneerinteract.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/feeds/116130896801837565/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19221774&amp;postID=116130896801837565' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/116130896801837565'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/116130896801837565'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2006/10/meeting-minutes-101906.html' title='Meeting Minutes--10/19/06'/><author><name>Jessica</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19221774.post-115809402041384751</id><published>2006-09-12T16:43:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-01-10T22:05:46.658-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Board Minutes'/><title type='text'>Board Meeting Minutes--09/12/06</title><content type='html'>Tuesday Board Meeting Minutes 09/12/06&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We went over the lengthy list of ideas presented at the previous meeting, and picked out the ones that seem the most practicle and interesting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;For focus projects:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;volunteering and playing music at assisted living homes (at Glacier Hills, Lubin and Helen will contact for more info)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;ESL tutor at Pioneer (Jeany will contact ESL teacher)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Fundraising:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Collecting pledges for ash tree planting with Rotary&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Selling water and picking up cans at the UM football games&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cotton Candy&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Minutes taken by Lubin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19221774-115809402041384751?l=pioneerinteract.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/feeds/115809402041384751/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19221774&amp;postID=115809402041384751' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/115809402041384751'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/115809402041384751'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2006/09/board-meeting-minutes-091206.html' title='Board Meeting Minutes--09/12/06'/><author><name>Jessica</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19221774.post-115809377191107064</id><published>2006-09-07T16:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-12T17:24:20.000-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Meeting Minutes'/><title type='text'>Meeting Minutes--09/07/06</title><content type='html'>Meeting Minutes for Thursday, September 7, 2006&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Brainstormed focus project ideas:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;promoting literacy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Humane Society of Huron Valley (deadline 09/19)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Food Gatherers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;ESL tutoring&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mott Outreach&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Children (ex. Gretchen's House)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Music at assisted living centers...many of our members are excellent musicians&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*decided not to go with school improvement because there are many other clubs at Pioneer that do the same thing&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Introduction of executive board and new members...we're getting new members!  This is good.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;We decided to go with big, one-time fundraising over membership dues.&lt;br /&gt;Here are some ideas:&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cotton Candy (Huron did this, supposed made alot of $$.  Would require renting a machine and spending a lunch or two selling)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Bake Sale-at lunches&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Can collecting after U of M football games&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Selling water or other drinks at U of M football games&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Bottle Drive at PHS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Minutes taken by Lubin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19221774-115809377191107064?l=pioneerinteract.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/feeds/115809377191107064/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19221774&amp;postID=115809377191107064' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/115809377191107064'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/115809377191107064'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2006/09/meeting-minutes-090706.html' title='Meeting Minutes--09/07/06'/><author><name>Jessica</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19221774.post-115055809458696310</id><published>2006-06-17T11:14:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-17T11:31:47.506-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photos'/><title type='text'>Pictures in Review</title><content type='html'>Here are all the 2005-06 pictures. Enjoy!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/1600/Presentation0673.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:center; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/320/Presentation0673.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/1600/Group0674.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:center; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/320/Group0674.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/1600/Group0675.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/320/Group0675.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/1600/IMG_3536.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/200/IMG_3536.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/1600/IMG_3547.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/200/IMG_3547.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/1600/IMG_3545.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/200/IMG_3545.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/1600/IMG_4358.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/400/IMG_4358.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/1600/IMG_4365.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/400/IMG_4365.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/1600/IMG_4388.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/400/IMG_4388.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/1600/IMG_4372.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/400/IMG_4372.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/1600/IMG_4378.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/400/IMG_4378.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/1600/IMG_4386.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/400/IMG_4386.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/1600/IMG_4396.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/400/IMG_4396.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/1600/IMG_4365_edited.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/320/IMG_4365_edited.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/1600/IMG_4372-copy_edited.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/320/IMG_4372-copy_edited.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/1600/IMG_4367_edited.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/320/IMG_4367_edited.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/1600/IMG_4366_edited.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/320/IMG_4366_edited.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19221774-115055809458696310?l=pioneerinteract.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/feeds/115055809458696310/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19221774&amp;postID=115055809458696310' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/115055809458696310'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/115055809458696310'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2006/06/pictures-in-review.html' title='Pictures in Review'/><author><name>Jessica</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19221774.post-115055647792091981</id><published>2006-06-06T16:58:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-17T11:01:28.940-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Board Minutes'/><title type='text'>Devil's Day Board Meeting Minutes</title><content type='html'>Board Meeting Minutes for 06/06/06&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;We have two new liaisons for next year: Dan and Dave&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Announcements and introductions of last year's and this year's board members.  Last year's board members explained details about position to new members.&lt;br /&gt;---------------------&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;We have $***.  Need to decide whether to deposit money in Pioneer account, or an outside account (such as TCF).&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Pros of Pioneer account:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gives us more credibility if we should ever need to request money from an outside organization, or even Rotary.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Cons of Pioneer account:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A hassle to withdraw money&lt;br /&gt;May not be able to use money for things we want.&lt;br /&gt;General bureaucracy problems&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Pros of outside account:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More flexibility&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Cons of outside account:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Would have to go under one person's name&lt;br /&gt;Potential lack of trust from people who give us money&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;-------------------------&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Last board meeting of the year.  Sad.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;But getting ready for next year....&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Helen will begin scheduling activities over the summer for next year (as well as all those going away!), and board plans to meet towards the end of summer. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Marketing committee needs to recruit incoming 9th graders at Welcome Freshmen festivities, and freshmen registration.  Always looking for new members!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;---------------&lt;br /&gt;It's summer!  We made it through another whole year!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Minutes taken by Lubin Zhuang &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19221774-115055647792091981?l=pioneerinteract.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/feeds/115055647792091981/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19221774&amp;postID=115055647792091981' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/115055647792091981'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/115055647792091981'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2006/06/devils-day-board-meeting-minutes.html' title='Devil&apos;s Day Board Meeting Minutes'/><author><name>Jessica</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19221774.post-114902737672589450</id><published>2006-05-30T18:15:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-17T11:37:34.350-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Board Members'/><title type='text'>Board Members 2006-07</title><content type='html'>Here are the 2006-2007 Pioneer Interact Board of Directors.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;President: Jeany Zhang&lt;br /&gt;Vice President: Helen Li&lt;br /&gt;Treasurer: Remi Lam&lt;br /&gt;Secretary: Lubin Zhaung&lt;br /&gt;Comm. Council: Shirley Wang and Shirley Chen&lt;br /&gt;Web Designer: Jessica Chang&lt;br /&gt;Marketing: Ignatius Chen&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dan and Dave are our new Rotary Club of Ann Arbor Liaisons.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19221774-114902737672589450?l=pioneerinteract.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/feeds/114902737672589450/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19221774&amp;postID=114902737672589450' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/114902737672589450'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/114902737672589450'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2006/05/board-members-2006-07.html' title='Board Members 2006-07'/><author><name>Jessica</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19221774.post-114876838154311796</id><published>2006-05-27T18:03:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-27T18:33:51.783-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='RYLA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photos'/><title type='text'>Mary's Experience at RYLA</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/1600/IMG_4366_edited.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/320/IMG_4366_edited.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Going to RYLA was sort of a last minute decision for me. I only began to consider going when many of the people who were supposed to go ended up backing out and Jeany, our Interact president, became visibly distressed. I had also planned a few other things that weekend that I didn't want to miss; my old middle school's annual play and two horse shows on Saturday and Sunday. But after a good deal of thought and discussion with my respective adults (and a few huffs from Deedee about it being "just a play") I decided not to pass up this once in a lifetime opportunity. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Departing from school, with trusty Helen to see us off, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. Upon hearing that we would be rooming with complete strangers, I was a little uneasy. But underneath that distress, a feeling of excited anticipation was stirring at the prospect of meeting new people. As it turns out, I met dozens of wonderful people from Michigan, Canada and all over the world. I met Pear, from Thailand, and girls from Germany, France, and Columbia. I got to hear an authentic Italian accent from &lt;a href="http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y189/cutejess/RYLA%2006/IMG_4385.jpg"&gt;an authentic Italian ladies man&lt;/a&gt; and I even met a girl who said she was from "all over". I was quite impressed and at the same time a little confused until I realized, upon hearing her say it again, that she was in fact from "Moldova".&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;RYLA leadership was a given quality as opposed to other camps and conferences I've been to where it was merely encouraged. They did not tell you to lead, but rather pointed you in the direction in which to lead. I realized that my voice counted and what I had to say was important to other people in my group. I found that once I stepped outside my comfort zone, every task involved became much easier. The speaker there talked about how you can either play victim in your situation or take it as a opportunity to make a change. That message resonated very strongly with me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The values and skills that RYLA reinforced in me will hopefully prepare me for next year, being a senior at band camp, being an equestrian team captain, and being an overall "ultimate upperclassmen".  What I took away from RYLA was more than anything I could have gotten from a horse show or "any old play". I am so very glad I went.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Mary Armbruster&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19221774-114876838154311796?l=pioneerinteract.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/feeds/114876838154311796/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19221774&amp;postID=114876838154311796' title='21 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/114876838154311796'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/114876838154311796'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2006/05/marys-experience-at-ryla.html' title='Mary&apos;s Experience at RYLA'/><author><name>Jessica</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>21</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19221774.post-114843508387394534</id><published>2006-05-23T21:37:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-27T18:31:23.160-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='RYLA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photos'/><title type='text'>Deedee's Experience at RYLA</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/1600/IMG_4367_edited.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/320/IMG_4367_edited.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I didn't know how I got there, I didn't know why I got there.  Mostly, I was pushed/forced by my friends to go to this leadership conference thing. Yes, "thing". I didn't even know what it was about.  Still, I went to this place in Canada (I only know that I was in Ontario) where brick building stood as dormatories and green grass were growing just like Ann Arbor. Now having returned from this trip, I can say, I know why I was there and I know where I was. I was there to boost my confidence and enlarge my view toward the world. And I was in a whole different universe where people simply cared about others.  Junior year, especially made me self centered and this leadership conference "changed my life".&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;Right after coming back to Ann Arbor, I was stunned that it was only Monday. It felt like I was in Canada for at least two weeks because I learned and took in so much information and life skills during those 3 days.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Right after coming back to Ann Arbor, I had hard time fitting back in with Pioneer environment. I felt like an exchange student and didn't feel like I was in my classes at all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Right after coming back to Ann Arbor, I scared myself. I did not, I repeat, I did not really care about the chemistry final that I was about to fail.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That most memorable thing I learned in RYLA was that "you don't have to have a glorious title like "president" or have a respectful reputation to be a good leader. In order to be a leader, first thing you have to be able to do is to care.  If you begin to care, you will begin to get more involved in your community and widen your view. Leaders are every where and you can be a leader too." (paraphrased Andy Thibodeau's speech)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I didn't know a person could change so fast in 3 days... If I were to have a choice whether if I go to the conference or not, I would choose my own life and voluntarily go to Canada.  Not be forced by my friends like this year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;p.s. Thanks to my friends you convinced me and made me go to this conference. I am really glad I went.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19221774-114843508387394534?l=pioneerinteract.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/feeds/114843508387394534/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19221774&amp;postID=114843508387394534' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/114843508387394534'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/114843508387394534'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2006/05/deedees-experience-at-ryla.html' title='Deedee&apos;s Experience at RYLA'/><author><name>Jessica</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19221774.post-114833252423231239</id><published>2006-05-22T16:42:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-24T19:50:57.313-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='RYLA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photos'/><title type='text'>Shirley's Experience at RYLA</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/1600/IMG_4372-copy_edited.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/320/IMG_4372-copy_edited.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RYLA was a lot of fun. I met people from cities/towns in Michigan that I've never heard of. For example, in my group (number 10) there was a Japanese exchange student named Kao. Our group name was "Hieu's Jyu" because Hieu was one of our group leaders (the other was Jenny An) and Jyu means 10 in Japanese. Every group did their own cheers and my group cheer seemed to confuse everybody. All the groups had to do a 5 minute skit on a world problem and what students could do about it. We did ours on pollution. Though we didn't win, it was still pretty good. lol We had 5 Asians out of 11 people in our group, Hieu, who was also an Asian called it the "Asian Invasion." We had 3 speakers; my favorite was &lt;a href="http://www.sunjaynath.com"&gt;SunJay&lt;/a&gt;. He was so funny; I've never laughed so hard during a motivational speech. We should invite him to make a speech at Pioneer. The food was also great. Unfortunately, I was always thirsty because the water in Canada is nothing like our water in Ann Arbor. I strongly encourage people to go next year. You will learn a lot and have fun at the same time and meet people from all over the world.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19221774-114833252423231239?l=pioneerinteract.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/feeds/114833252423231239/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19221774&amp;postID=114833252423231239' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/114833252423231239'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/114833252423231239'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2006/05/shirleys-experience-at-ryla.html' title='Shirley&apos;s Experience at RYLA'/><author><name>Jessica</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19221774.post-114790826509216500</id><published>2006-05-17T19:24:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-27T18:30:13.526-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='RYLA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photos'/><title type='text'>Jeany's Experience at RYLA</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/1600/IMG_4365_edited.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/320/IMG_4365_edited.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The entire RYLA was much more exciting and educational than I had ever expected. Although all the leaders proclaimed that this weekend would be one of the most fun weekends in our life, I did not expect their proclamations to be entirely true. By the end of our stay, I finally came to that realization. Our busy days were 18 hours long and we ate what seemed like 5 meals a day. We were each assigned to 1 of 10 groups, who became our closest friends. In these groups we learned and practiced leadership and collaborative skills while teaching everyone about a specific world problem. Even though RYLA was educational, the best part of the RYLA experience was the different people we met; they made the weekend fun and forever memorable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jeany Zhang&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19221774-114790826509216500?l=pioneerinteract.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/feeds/114790826509216500/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19221774&amp;postID=114790826509216500' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/114790826509216500'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/114790826509216500'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2006/05/jeanys-experience-at-ryla_17.html' title='Jeany&apos;s Experience at RYLA'/><author><name>Jessica</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19221774.post-114783621065760261</id><published>2006-05-16T23:22:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-05T16:54:50.206-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Meeting Minutes'/><title type='text'>Meeting Minutes--5/11/06</title><content type='html'>Meeting Minutes for Thursday, May 11, 2006&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;*WE'RE HAVING BOARD ELECTIONS NEXT WEEK!! Nominations begin Monday, May 15th, and last until Wednesday, May 17th. On Thursday right after that, people who want to run will be able to get up and tell everyone about the position they are running for, just so everyone will know exactly what everyone's running for. No big speech necessary, but splurge that way if you would like to. *Actual elections start from Friday, May 19th, and last until May 26th (the following Friday).*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*No other real information, except that Jeany had a chat with RYLA folks who were leaving the next day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*We're winding down for the school year, and we'll pick up the PBBUDS thing next year, although we'll have a much better idea of what exactly we will be doing next year with Tappan kids...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*By the way, Jeany and Remi won't be at next Thursday's meeting, but they would like to run for president and treasurer, respectively.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;As always, thanks a bunch!&lt;br /&gt;Helen&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19221774-114783621065760261?l=pioneerinteract.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/feeds/114783621065760261/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19221774&amp;postID=114783621065760261' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/114783621065760261'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/114783621065760261'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2006/05/meeting-minutes-51106.html' title='Meeting Minutes--5/11/06'/><author><name>Jessica</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19221774.post-114765704293271666</id><published>2006-05-14T21:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-27T18:37:53.823-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='RYLA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photos'/><title type='text'>RYLA '06</title><content type='html'>The Rotary Youth Leadership Awards Conference 2006 in Ridgetown, Ontario, Canada was an weekend that could never be forgotten. Leaving approximately at 11am from Pioneer on Friday, May 12, 2006 on a AATA bus, 7 Pioneer Interact members left for Canada. Here are a few pictures to highlight.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/1600/IMG_4358.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/400/IMG_4358.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here above is a picture taken by Helen Li (she waved us goodbye *smiles*). The 7 of us were waiting to depart as some Dexter High students got on the bus too. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/1600/IMG_4365.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/400/IMG_4365.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We all hundled in Mary's room to play cards right before the dance. We didn't 'just' play around though; we got to listen to fantasic speakers (I laughed so much that the muscles around my mouth hurt), used their ideas of what a leader is through different activites, and ate A LOT of food!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/1600/IMG_4388.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/400/IMG_4388.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is one of the student exchange students standing next to Priya. The Student Exchange students introduced this program, which allows students from all over the world to travel to a new country and stay there for an entire year. Those students spoke with great enthusiasm about their experiences here in Michigan or Canada and strongly encouraged all those interested to go to a new country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/1600/IMG_4372.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/400/IMG_4372.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, we did attend a semi-formal banquet on Saturday night! The food was exquisite (the dessert was unbelievable!!) and everyone looked so elegant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/1600/IMG_4378.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/400/IMG_4378.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All of waking up Sunday morning at the breakfast table. The empty spot with the food tray was where I sat. :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/1600/IMG_4386.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/400/IMG_4386.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After the last speaker spoke, and some reflections were made, everyone headed over to the Cafeteria for the last lunch at RYLA on Sunday at noon. Here we have more Student Exchange Students, and others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/1600/IMG_4396.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/400/IMG_4396.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here we last stood before heading back to the dorms, turning in our keys, and heading over to the buses back home. We arrived back at Huron High School around 6:07pm. Though the Conference is over, what I got from it will never be taken away from me. What I learned on how to be a leader will remain prominent in my memories that will not fade.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check out other Rylaians' experience below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2006/05/jeanys-experience-at-ryla_17.html"&gt;Jeany Zhang&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2006/05/shirleys-experience-at-ryla.html"&gt;Shirley Wang&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2006/05/deedees-experience-at-ryla.html"&gt;Deedee Min&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2006/05/marys-experience-at-ryla.html"&gt;Mary Armbruster&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19221774-114765704293271666?l=pioneerinteract.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/feeds/114765704293271666/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19221774&amp;postID=114765704293271666' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/114765704293271666'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/114765704293271666'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2006/05/ryla-06.html' title='RYLA &apos;06'/><author><name>Jessica</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19221774.post-114238708200987188</id><published>2006-03-14T20:43:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-14T21:03:59.140-05:00</updated><title type='text'>PBBUDS - Peers Building Bridges to Unite Diverse Students</title><content type='html'>Interact has proposed a new long term service project. In this program, Interact members would each be paired with a troubled middle school student and meet with the individual weekly. At the end of each month, all participants would get together and have a fun and safe gathering. With this peer to peer program, the younger student would have a older friend who he/she can trust and receive guidance.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;The current members are very excited to start this new program. However, the planning and executing are still in process. If anyone has ideas, suggestions, or information about other similar programs, feel free to email us at pioneerinteract@gmail.com or leave a comment.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19221774-114238708200987188?l=pioneerinteract.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/feeds/114238708200987188/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19221774&amp;postID=114238708200987188' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/114238708200987188'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/114238708200987188'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2006/03/pbbuds-peers-building-bridges-to-unite.html' title='PBBUDS - Peers Building Bridges to Unite Diverse Students'/><author><name>Jessica</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19221774.post-114238686755737938</id><published>2006-03-14T20:32:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-14T20:55:29.386-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Volunteer Activities'/><title type='text'>Community Service</title><content type='html'>Interact volunteers in many different aspects of Ann Arbor community. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interact members have volunteered:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;at Lawton Elementary School for Marketing Days,&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;at Lawton Elementary School for International Night,&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;by planting trees with the Rotary,&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;by cooking at Ronald Mcdonald House,&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;by helping young children at Hands-On Museum,&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;and other events.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;As the year passes, Interact members continuously volunteer with more new and exciting projects.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19221774-114238686755737938?l=pioneerinteract.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/feeds/114238686755737938/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19221774&amp;postID=114238686755737938' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/114238686755737938'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/114238686755737938'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2006/03/community-service.html' title='Community Service'/><author><name>Jessica</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19221774.post-114238634806709888</id><published>2006-03-14T20:31:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-14T20:46:20.943-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='FAQs'/><title type='text'>How to Join</title><content type='html'>Go to the meetings that are held in D-117 every Thursday at lunch. All are welcome!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19221774-114238634806709888?l=pioneerinteract.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/feeds/114238634806709888/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19221774&amp;postID=114238634806709888' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/114238634806709888'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/114238634806709888'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2006/03/how-to-join.html' title='How to Join'/><author><name>Jessica</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19221774.post-113953454534041722</id><published>2006-02-09T20:18:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-09T20:22:25.353-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Board Minutes'/><title type='text'>Board Meeting Minutes--2/7/06</title><content type='html'>Board Meeting Minutes, February 7th, 2006&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;People who presented:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;* Shirley: - Ushering for Wild Swan Theater @ Morris Lawrence Building (of Washtenaw Community College)--this weekend and next weekend (more likely to happen)&lt;br /&gt;             - St. Vincent DePaul thrift store volunteering&lt;br /&gt;             - Heartland Hospice volunteering&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;(Call ushering, thrift store for information/times, get interest in hospice work before contacting them)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;* Brandt: - Rotary lunch on March 15: group of up to 10 members have lunch with weekly Rotary lunch meeting, give an update on what's what this year. Brief presentation ideas: walk thru the Interact website? Turn it into a PowerPoint?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;(Make sure there's a wireless connection to go online for website presentation)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;* Jeany: - Need long-term goals!! Brainstorm!! (So far, suggested an ecological project around Pioneer--adopt a plot, make it beautiful, etc.)&lt;br /&gt;            - Marketing Day @ Lawton: every first Tuesday of each month, 2 people)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;* Next board meeting: FEBRUARY 21 (two weeks)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;* REMINDER: those of you who showed interest in the 9th grade orientation table on THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, arrive at 6:45pm in the large gym. There'll be a table there, and Helen's going for sure (confirm Tricia/Ali) Helen's going to try to take pics for the yearbook.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Minutes taken by Helen.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19221774-113953454534041722?l=pioneerinteract.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/feeds/113953454534041722/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19221774&amp;postID=113953454534041722' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/113953454534041722'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/113953454534041722'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2006/02/board-meeting-minutes-2706.html' title='Board Meeting Minutes--2/7/06'/><author><name>Jessica</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19221774.post-113719502940928543</id><published>2006-01-13T18:24:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-13T18:30:29.410-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photos'/><title type='text'>Charter Presentation</title><content type='html'>Here are the photos from the charter presentation back in November. Look at all of us smiling! :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/1600/Presentation0673.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/320/Presentation0673.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/1600/Group0674.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/320/Group0674.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/1600/Group0675.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/320/Group0675.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19221774-113719502940928543?l=pioneerinteract.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/feeds/113719502940928543/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19221774&amp;postID=113719502940928543' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/113719502940928543'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/113719502940928543'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2006/01/charter-presentation.html' title='Charter Presentation'/><author><name>Jessica</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19221774.post-113719467173255361</id><published>2006-01-13T18:14:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-13T18:24:31.760-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Volunteer Activities'/><title type='text'>Ronald McDonald</title><content type='html'>On Sunday, January 8, 2005, Pioneer Interact went to Ronald McDonald to prepare food for the families staying there! Jeany, Helen, Remi, Shirley C, Shirley W, Tina, and Jessica made chili and pudding, and cut up fruits and bread. We arrived at 4pm and served dinner at 6pm. We cleaned up after 7pm and left by 7:30pm. It was a fun event right before school began the next day. :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19221774-113719467173255361?l=pioneerinteract.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/feeds/113719467173255361/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19221774&amp;postID=113719467173255361' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/113719467173255361'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/113719467173255361'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2006/01/ronald-mcdonald.html' title='Ronald McDonald'/><author><name>Jessica</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19221774.post-113634012575577567</id><published>2006-01-03T20:58:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-03T21:02:05.766-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Board Minutes'/><title type='text'>Board Meeting Minutes--12/27/05 *Online*</title><content type='html'>Board Meeting Minutes--Online Chat, December 27th, 2005&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;*Members of board present at online chat: Jeany, Helen, Jessica, Tricia, Shirley&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;*Goal for today: decide on dinner menu for January 8th volunteer meal @ Ronald McDonald House...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;*Final determined menu:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Entree--Chili (buy in large cans @ Sam's Club)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Fruit--cut up assortion of fruit in some sort of large container (apples, grapes, cantaloupe, oranges)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Dessert--Jell-O (buy in large mix packets)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Bread--long baguettes (at least 6)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Silverware will be supplied by the kitchen, as well as drinks (water/lemonade)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;*An IMPORTANT request for members who signed up for the event: it would be a lovely and gratifying thing if you guys who are planning to go could bring FRUIT to Jeany's house on Saturday morning, January 7th (she sent an email out with her address on it). Any sort of fruit able to be cut up or split into pieces is appreciated, as we are depending on our rather limited budget at this time. The other food stuffs will be shopped for...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;*DON'T FORGET: SUNDAY, JANUARY 8TH, MEET AT RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE at approximately 4pm...we will need that 2-hour chunk of time to prepare and cook away, though it should be relatively uncomplicated. FUN TIMES AHEAD, YOU ALL PREPARE FOR IT!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Minutes taken by Helen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19221774-113634012575577567?l=pioneerinteract.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/feeds/113634012575577567/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19221774&amp;postID=113634012575577567' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/113634012575577567'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/113634012575577567'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2006/01/board-meeting-minutes-122705-online.html' title='Board Meeting Minutes--12/27/05 *Online*'/><author><name>Jessica</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19221774.post-113538372561157367</id><published>2005-12-23T19:05:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-23T19:22:05.663-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Meeting Minutes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photos'/><title type='text'>Secret Santa Day</title><content type='html'>Thursday, December 22nd, 2005&lt;br /&gt;At lunch&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/1600/IMG_3536.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/200/IMG_3536.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;People started to stroll into D117 after 3rd hour, all anticipating the fun event ahead. People first put their gifts in a bag and placed it on a table. As it neared the opening time, Jeany and Helen take out all the gifts from their bags and placed them on four desks that are faced each other. People looked at the gifts and wondered who brought who's gift.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/1600/IMG_3545.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/200/IMG_3545.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; As the clock strunk 11am, everyone went to go search for their names on the gifts. Then excitement filled the room... everyone's faces lit up as they opened their gift. Everyone there got into a circle to tell the rest of the group what they got. Each person displayed and described their present in fun adjectives. :) A person would ask from whom they got it and again, a burst of happiness and 'thank yous' took place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/1600/IMG_3547.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4930/218/200/IMG_3547.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; All in all, everyone seemed very delighted with their present. Smiles, giggles, and laughter filled the room. It was a happy day, two days before winter break! :) Now that it is officially break, happy holidays and I hope to see you on Sunday the 8th of January!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jessica&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19221774-113538372561157367?l=pioneerinteract.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/feeds/113538372561157367/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19221774&amp;postID=113538372561157367' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/113538372561157367'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/113538372561157367'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2005/12/secret-santa-day.html' title='Secret Santa Day'/><author><name>Jessica</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19221774.post-113409011305757717</id><published>2005-12-08T20:01:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-08T20:01:53.070-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Meeting Minutes'/><title type='text'>Meeting Minutes--12/8/05</title><content type='html'>Meeting Minutes--December 8, 2005&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;*SECRET SANTA gift exchange now in ACTION! Everyone remember your little elfling that you have to buy a present for, because aren't we acting as SANTAS?!! Please remember the limit of $10--it'd be BEST not to go over these ten pesos, but enjoy anything under the limit. We will be doing the Big Gift Swap in two weeks during the meeting--December 22. Oh the joy and fun, it'll be excellent.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;*If you haven't paid already, cookie dough money was DUE TODAY! Actually, that may just be me...um...yeah.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;*We don't have too much going on, but remember there are a few volunteering events coming up in January. We also may have a choice to do Food Gatherers over the break, more information on that later (the last outing was not quite successful...).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Minutes taken by Helen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19221774-113409011305757717?l=pioneerinteract.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/feeds/113409011305757717/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19221774&amp;postID=113409011305757717' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/113409011305757717'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/113409011305757717'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2005/12/meeting-minutes-12805.html' title='Meeting Minutes--12/8/05'/><author><name>Jessica</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19221774.post-113349163945625562</id><published>2005-12-01T21:46:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-01T21:47:19.456-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Meeting Minutes'/><title type='text'>Meeting Minutes--12/01/05</title><content type='html'>Meeting Minutes--December 1, 2005&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;*Group decided on 3-4 people to go to Food Gatherers on Saturday, December 3rd, from 9am-11am (Address: 1 Carrot Way) NOTE: If you would like to participate, please email us at pioneerinteract@gmail.com!!! DO SO BEFORE FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2ND!!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;*Determined that cookie dough arrives TODAY, need to pick it up after 7th hour. &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Members:&lt;/span&gt; go deliver and collect $$money$$ with prompt speed, if you will. Checks made payable to "Maredy Fundraising."  (Here's an idea--have one check written from your family to Maredy, and then the people that you collect from make checks to YOU.)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;*Tasks to be completed:&lt;br /&gt;- (Helen) Give group volunteer form/volunteer information sheets to Jeany by TOMORROW.&lt;br /&gt;- Finalize who will go to volunteer on Saturday @ Food Gatherers!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19221774-113349163945625562?l=pioneerinteract.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/feeds/113349163945625562/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19221774&amp;postID=113349163945625562' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/113349163945625562'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/113349163945625562'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2005/12/meeting-minutes-120105.html' title='Meeting Minutes--12/01/05'/><author><name>Jessica</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19221774.post-113349155925937879</id><published>2005-12-01T21:44:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-01T22:11:33.176-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Board Minutes'/><title type='text'>Board Meeting Minutes--11/22/05</title><content type='html'>Board Meeting Minutes--November 22, 2005&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;*Present members: Elise Low, Jessica Chang, Remi Lam, Mary Armbruster, Tricia Garay, Shirley  Chen&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;*Positions named &amp; designated:&lt;br /&gt;- Community Council: Shirley &amp; Tricia&lt;br /&gt;- Marketing Director: Elise &amp; Mary&lt;br /&gt;- Web Page Designer: Jessica&lt;br /&gt;- Treasurer: Remi&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;*Next meeting date set: December 20, 2005&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;*Discussed Lawton volunteering options: &lt;br /&gt;1) Market Day (more info needed) &lt;br /&gt;2) International Day&lt;br /&gt; --&gt; The group would be interested in doing both events&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;*Email updates:&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah S: froggie18_s@hotmail.com&lt;br /&gt;- Mary A: maryu5@sbcglobal.net&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;*Tasks to complete by next meeting:&lt;br /&gt;- Email everyone Food Gatherers information&lt;br /&gt;- Email Missy to confirm December 3rd volunteering&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;*SECRET SANTA IDEA INTRODUCED!! Yet to be confirmed.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19221774-113349155925937879?l=pioneerinteract.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/feeds/113349155925937879/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19221774&amp;postID=113349155925937879' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/113349155925937879'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/113349155925937879'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2005/12/board-meeting-minutes-112205.html' title='Board Meeting Minutes--11/22/05'/><author><name>Jessica</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19221774.post-113349147221712559</id><published>2005-12-01T21:43:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-06-17T11:04:05.060-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Meeting Minutes'/><title type='text'>Meeting Minutes</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Here you can find the previous Club Meeting Minutes and Board Meeting Minutes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Club Meeting Minutes&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2005/12/meeting-minutes-120105.html"&gt;December 1, 2005&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2005/12/meeting-minutes-12805.html"&gt;December 8, 2005&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2005/12/secret-santa-day.html"&gt;Secret Santa Day&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2006/05/meeting-minutes-51106.html"&gt;May 11, 2006&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Board Meeting Minutes&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2005/12/board-meeting-minutes-112205.html"&gt;November 22, 2005&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2006/01/board-meeting-minutes-122705-online.html"&gt;December 27, 2005 *Online*&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2006/02/board-meeting-minutes-2706.html"&gt;February 7, 2006&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2006/06/devils-day-board-meeting-minutes.html"&gt;Devil's Day&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19221774-113349147221712559?l=pioneerinteract.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/feeds/113349147221712559/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19221774&amp;postID=113349147221712559' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/113349147221712559'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/113349147221712559'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2005/12/meeting-minutes.html' title='Meeting Minutes'/><author><name>Jessica</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19221774.post-113270182185526509</id><published>2005-11-22T18:13:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-10T18:46:21.492-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='FAQs'/><title type='text'>FAQs</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;What is &lt;a href="http://www.rotary.org/programs/interact/index.html"&gt;Interact&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Rotary Club sponsors Interact just like how Kwanis sponsors Key Club. Interact is different from Key Club because it's the members who decide what and where to volunteer. Also, Interact is a smaller group so the chances to bond with people are much higher.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;What is &lt;a href="http://www.rotary.org/"&gt;Rotary&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rotary is a worldwide organization of business and professional leaders that provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and helps build goodwill and peace in the world. Approximately 1.2 million Rotarians belong to more than 31,000 Rotary clubs located in 167 countries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Where do we meet?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Mr. S's room in D117.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;When are the meetings?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every Thursday during lunch. &lt;a href="http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2005/12/meeting-minutes.html"&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; are some meeting minutes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;What do we do?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We go out to volunteer and have fun! Click &lt;a href="http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2006/03/community-service.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to read more specifics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Sweet! How do I &lt;a href="http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2006/03/how-to-join.html"&gt;join&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just come to the meetings that are held in D-117 every Thursday at lunch. All are welcome!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Is there a chance to get out of the US?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes! The Rotary Youth Leadership Awards Conference (RYLA) is in Canada on a weekend in May. Join Interact to learn more about it. To look at pictures and read about previous Interact members' experience, click &lt;a href="http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2006/05/ryla-06.html"&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Who's who?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is the &lt;a href="http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2006/05/board-members-2006-07.html"&gt;Board of Directors&lt;/a&gt; for 2006-07. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Dan and Dave&lt;/span&gt; are our Rotary Club of Ann Arbor liaisons. They will drop by to see how we're doing. :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Who can I contact?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can e-mail: &lt;a href="mailto:pioneerinteract@gmail.com"&gt;pioneerinteract@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19221774-113270182185526509?l=pioneerinteract.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/feeds/113270182185526509/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19221774&amp;postID=113270182185526509' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/113270182185526509'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/113270182185526509'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2005/11/faqs.html' title='FAQs'/><author><name>Jessica</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19221774.post-113269584644834238</id><published>2005-11-22T16:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-02T22:10:47.103-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Board Members'/><title type='text'>Board Members</title><content type='html'>Here are the Pioneer Interact Board of Directors for the school year 2005-06.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;President: Jeany Zhang&lt;br /&gt;Vice President: Ami Li&lt;br /&gt;Secretary: Helen Li&lt;br /&gt;Treasurer: Remi Lam&lt;br /&gt;Community Council: Shirley Chen and Tricia Garay&lt;br /&gt;Marketing Directors: Mary Armbruster and Elise Low&lt;br /&gt;Web Page Designer: Jessica Chang&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Brandt Coultas is our Rotary Club of Ann Arbor Liaison.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19221774-113269584644834238?l=pioneerinteract.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/feeds/113269584644834238/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19221774&amp;postID=113269584644834238' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/113269584644834238'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19221774/posts/default/113269584644834238'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pioneerinteract.blogspot.com/2005/11/board-members.html' title='Board Members'/><author><name>Jessica</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
