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Sun Lakes Rotary Club (Chartered April 22, 1986) is a leadership organization made up of men and women from local businesses, professional, education, civic and emerging leaders. We meet regularly, get to know each other, form friendships, and through that we’re able to get things done in our greater Sun Lakes community. Come join us and share our passion for community service and friendship.

Bill Crump

Our Sun Lakes Rotary Club's 90 plus members embrace Rotary International's Vision “Together, we see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change across the globe, in our own communities and in ourselves”. Our members are working and retired men and women of action from the Sun Lakes and Chandler communities who are committed to service in our own communities, communities around the world, and especially projects and programs that support our youth and education. We WELCOME you to one of our weekly meetings where you will have the opportunity to meet our members, join in on the fun, and get to know Rotary and what we are doing. We meet on time, we eat on time, we have a good time.

Sun Lakes Rotarian of the Month

Our January Rotarian of the Month is John McKoy, a retired K-12 Educator and 8-year member of our club, was recognized for his leadership as the clubs Co-Chair of the Navajo Water Project that was supported by many of our club members, the club and a $148,500 Rotary Foundation Global Grant in the

Women in Rotary

Women became a part of the Rotary International organization on May 4, 1987 and over these past 33 years women account for about 27% of the membership or about 338,000 women members around the world and still growing. The Sun Lakes Rotary Club will celebrate its 34th year (Chartered April 22, 1986) and women account for 26% of the membership.

AWIM Finals at Carlson Elementary School

The AWIM (A World in Motion) program was created by the SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) Foundation to get elementary students excited about math and science in support of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math). The program is for grades K-8. Several of our Rotary members along with High School Volunteers go into the classroom over a six-week period to assist the teachers and the students.

CO2 Dragster High School Program

The CO2 Dragster program is a joint program between the Chandler Unified School District and our Sun Lakes Rotary Club. High School students use Computer Aided Design (CAD) to design their Dragster and Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) to help construct their Dragster. At the end of the program, a District wide competition takes place where students give presentations and race their vehicles on a 20-meter track. The competition ends with ‘Knock Out’ drag races.

Sun Lakes Rotarian competes in Arizona Ironman Competition

At 7:04am on November 24^th Rotarian Stephen Phair stepped foot into the brisk 63°-degree water of Tempe Town Lake on a journey that would take him 15 hours 29 minutes and 46 seconds to travel 140.6 miles. Stephen’s training started last year requiring 11 to 15 hours per week. Between the swim, bike, and run he was able to train enough to be comfortable on race

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

The Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting pro-gram that mails free, high-quality books to children from birth until they begin school, no matter their family’s income. After launching in 1995 by Dolly, the “Book Lady”, the program grew quickly. First books were only

16th Year for Rotary 3rd Grade Dictionary Project

In 2003, the Sun Lakes Rotary Dictionary project was started with distributing dictionaries to all 3^rd graders in the Chandler Unified School District and other schools outside of the District, including Indian Reservations, private schools, and Title 9 programs in the immediate area. This effort has now seen over 50,000 student dictionaries distributed.

WELCOME TO OUR CLUB!


Rotary is People of Action

1st & 3rd Tuesdays a 6:30AM
2nd & 4th Tuesdays at 5:30PM If a 5th Tuesday at 6:30AM

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