Youth Services
Youth Exchange Chair: Tim Haas
Youth Services Chair: Rita Esterly
The Youth Services Committee is composed of subcommittees that carry out programs involving youth.
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RYLA is a 4 day servant leadership camp held at William Woods University. One sophomore student is selected to attend. Students are grouped in units of ten & have one Rotarian leader & one counselor. They learn leadership skills & design a service project.
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Interact is a Rotary youth organization open to 12-18 year old students. At the present time we are working with the leadership at Helias to form an Interact club.
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Rotaract is a Rotary youth organization open to 18-30 year olds. Presently, we sponsor Rotaract of Jefferson City. Their signature project is a fundraiser called Kicks in the Sticks; a 5K run.
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Rotary Youth Exchange is a program in which our club sponsors a student who goes to a foreign country for a year in exchange for us accepting a student from another country for a year. Our current inbound student is from Brazil & our outbound student is in Belgium.
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Our Scholarship Committee selects a recipient of a four year $1000 scholarship which the student can use to a college of the student's choice. They also select a recipient of a one time $500 scholarship to Lincoln University.
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Students of the Month Committee coordinates with Helias & Jefferson City high school to bring a student each week to the meetings to report on activities at the local high schools.