RYLA Wrap-up
Service and Celebration
RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards) was a huge success! The 28 young participants were so energized on their final day of the 4-day conference as they wanted to go out into the community and use the new leadership skills and friendships they created.
Over the four days, the teens learned about themselves through leadership skills, testing, games, special guest speakers, socializing, and community service work. Within the last hour of the conference, everyone had their moment to share anything they wanted to about the conference. All had positive comments to say, but a repeated message was how much they enjoyed the RYLA training over other leadership courses they have been on. Many were “encouraged” to sign up by their parents as they truly did not want to do it, but they all freely admitted they are so glad they did. They all made lasting friendships and they are eager to get involved with RYLA again next year. They are also interested in helping to start up an Interact club so they can apply their leadership within the local community and hopefully internationally.
In one word, RYLA Cayman was AMAZING! To see some of the posted photos from the conference visit the RYLA Cayman Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/
The Sunrise Leadership team attended the formal dinner on Saturday night at the RYLA conference. Guest speaker Rashad Jones gave an inspiring and motivating after dinner talk to the youngsters and the young at heart in attendance. Four of the attendees were presented with awards on the evening giving them an all expense paid to next year's RYLA in the US. Amongst the winners was Zoe Conolly Basdeo. |
After dinner the conference registrants danced the evening away with the counsellors. Sunrise was one of the conference sponsors which was free of charge to all attendees. |