Our Projects

Adopt a Classroom

The Rotaract Club of Sycamore is excited to support students and teachers in the Sycamore and DeKalb School Districts with FREE BOOKS for students! We are especially grateful to our generous Community Donors last year (2024-2025)!

Selected classrooms can expect to receive one brand-new book for every student in the class each month from October through May. The idea behind "Adopt a Classroom" is that new books get into the hands of students and are theirs to keep and take home. Rotaractors believe in building lifelong reading habits from a young age!

Special Thanks to our 2024/2025 Donors:

Book Heroes

DOUBLE BOOK HERO: The Fizz Ehrler Memorial Turning Back Time Car Show

MyInsuranceGuy

Baird - The Hook Jones Group

Motor Works

Sycamore VFW Post 5768

Northwestern Medicine

Community Partners

Patel Family Dental

The Oncken Family

Sam’s Pizza

Sons of the American

Legion Squadron #99

Sycamore VFW - Auxiliary Post 5768

Sycamore Dentistree

Brad Manning Ford

35:35 Makers Collective &

Vuur Lont Candle Co.

Northern Illinois Federal Credit Union

Weichert Realty

Community Supporters

Tom & Jerry's Restaurant

Knodle's Appliance Service Co.

Bockman's Auto, Truck & Tire

Bob and Ginny Farley

Maplehurst Farms Inc.

Bob & Diane Brown and Family

Willrett Flower Company

Habitat for Humanity of DeKalb Co./Mary Kay- Celine Bennets/FNBO Community Mtg. Lender- Devyn Grzywa

Interact Club of SHS

Congratulations to our 2025-2026 Adopted Classrooms!

Sycamore School District

Maddi Bodine, EC

Madyson Jastrab, EC

Denise Ackmann, K

Karla Gulke, 1

Morgan Heinisch, 2

Diane Wesley, 3

Katie Friel, 5

DeKalb School District

Mandy Schmidt, K

Heather Brescia, 1

Kristina Parra, 2

Paulina Johnson, 3

Brenda Woker, 4

Kristen Gineman, 4

Kirsten McPeek, 5

Student Hygiene Drive

Did you know there were more than 200 homeless students in DeKalb and Sycamore in the year 2020? We are proud to have partnered with the DeKalb County Regional Office of Education for a community-wide hygiene supply drive benefiting our county's students in need.

We collected new, unopened hygiene items such as soap, body wash, shampoo, conditioner, toothbrushes, toothpaste, dental floss, deodorant, feminine hygiene products, and more for students throughout DeKalb County.

Thank you to our donation hosts!

You can learn more about our county's homeless student population here.

Born Learning Trail

Rotaract is proud to have installed Sycamore's first Born Learning Trail at North Elementary School! A special thanks to Sycamore Meijer for partnering with us on this project. Learn more about Born Learning Trails and how they fit into our Basic Education and Literacy Area of Focus here.

Scholarship Fund for Interact Club of Sycamore High School

This Scholarship Fund is for Sycamore High School graduates who have been active in the Interact Club of Sycamore High School and have plans to engage in service after high school. We were excited to award $1000 to a graduating senior in May of each year!

Little Free Library

Our Club is proud to promote literacy within the community with the addition of the newest Little Free Library in Sycamore at Charley Lang Memorial Park!

Adopt-a-Highway

We are proud to help keep our community clean by adopting a portion of the highway along Malta Road! Keep an eye out for our sign the next time you're driving by!

Warming Hearts

We were so excited to collaborate with the Juvenile and Family Law Association at NIU on our Warming Hearth Project! Together our clubs collected winter weather donations for Safe Passage. Our apparel donations were coupled with a monetary donation so that Safe Passage could purchase what they needed for their residents. Our donation warmed the hearts of residents at Safe Passage just in time for Valentine's Day!

Rotary Coats for Kids

Each coat ornament represents a winter coat donated to a Sycamore student in need by a Rotarian. We are so grateful to have worked with the Rotary Club of Sycamore and the Interact Club of Sycamore High School to meet a need within our community!

Check out the Daily Chronicle's article about our project here!

EarlyAct Senior Care Package Drive

We love partnering with other Rotary sponsored clubs in our community, so we were thrilled to help facilitate and support the EarlyAct Club at North Grove Elementary's Senior Care Package Drive! Students at North Grove collected items for the residents at the Grand Victorian in Sycamore to help brighten their day during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Way to be Service Above Self, EarlyAct!

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