INTERACT CLUB TEAM BUILDING: Saturday September 1rst 2012 from 8:30am to 1pm

After selecting fourteen members for each of the four committees in the Interact club, during a board meeting, the accepted applicants were required to attend a team building event on Saturday the 1rst of September.

The board members came a bit earlier to choose the last member of the board. Amir T. Rashid was voted to be the head of the club committee. The interacters were expected around 9am. As people were walking into the multi purpose room, they were separated into their respective committees: The club committee, the service committee, the finance committee and the international committee. The meeting began with a twenty minutes long introduction on the club, its four committees, its requirements, its purpose, its service trips and its funding events. This was primarily addressed to all new coming members. 

This was followed by team building activities including assembling five squares using different shapes, the survival desert activity and a spoon race using potatoes. The survival desert activity consisted of listing from 1 to 15 and in order of importance, what we though were necessary items to our survival  if we were lost in the desert. 

The room was divided into many teams, which competed against each other. They were genuinely fun and brought everyone closer as working as a team and taking each person’s opinion into consideration, were the only ways to succeed and win. For the two first activities, each winning team won lovely pens. The two board teams didn’t win anything but they argued that they wanted to give the others a chance while everyone else pretended to believe them. 

Afterwards, there was a short snack break during which all members and supervisors were enjoying treats, brownies, cakes and chips brought by the board. We also had short committee meetings to discuss how every member can contribute to the club and the upcoming PTO book sale. Then we had the pinning ceremony, starting by the board members, which then gave an interact pin to each of the other members of the club. We ended the day by taking a group picture of everyone, before everyone headed home. It was a great event!