- RYLA FORMAL PORTRAIT 2007 -
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For photos taken at the WALL Click HERE.
For photos of the Reality Store Click HERE.
October 12-14, 2007
Each year thousands of young people take part in the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) program worldwide. Young people are chosen for their leadership potential to attend workshops to discuss leadership skills and to learn those skills through practice. RYLA aims to:
- Demonstrate Rotary’s respect and concern for youth;
- Provide an effective training experience for selected youth and potential leaders;
- Encourage leadership of youth by youth; and
- Recognize publicly young people who are rendering service to their communities.
In Rotary District 6450 we plan a RYLA camp weekend at the Lake Geneva campus of Aurora University in Williams Bay, WI. The O.W.L.S. (Outdoor Wisconsin Leadership Synergies) group administers our leadership program. 80 students will be bused to the campus Friday afternoon and will be returned home Sunday evening; housing and meals will be provided on campus by Aurora University and the RYLA committee.
As your RYLA Committee, we would like all clubs to consider sending 2 students between the ages of 14-18 (high school Sophomores & Juniors are preferable) to this fabulous leadership activity weekend. Many of the Youth Exchange (YE) inbound students will attend the weekend. We hope contact with them will encourage our district youth to become YE outbound students.
We would also like to have at least one Rotarian from each club volunteer to help in one of the areas listed below:
- Chaperone for the entire weekend (including OWLS activities with the students)
- Saturday evening Reality Store (4pm – 10pm)
- Friday & Sunday bus stop greeters for pick up and drop off
Or consider a monetary donation to help defray the costs of the program. The cost to send a student to RYLA is $250.
We will be mailing additional information to club presidents and youth coordinators and the application for students can be found at www.rotary6450.org under New Generations/RYLA.
If you have any questions about RYLA, please don’t hesitate to contact one of us. Committee members are also available to make a presentation at your Rotary Club.
The RYLA Committee
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