Guest Speaker Sean Nelson 4-21-2015
Posted by Al Anile
RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Award) Sean Nelson was the program speaker at the weekly meeting of April 21, 2015.
Sean has been coordinating RYLA twice a year, one weekend in March and the other in April for the past 13 years, and still going strong!
Pictured above are Jenna Eckerling and John Redman, RYLA participant at the April 2015 session,. Both were sponsored by The Rotary Club of Skokie Valley.
Above is Jenna Eckerling talking to club members at the 4/21/15 luncheon meeting about her experience at the RYLA weekend session.
RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Award) encourages leadership in youth by recognizing and rewarding deserving 11th grade students who are chosen to attend RYLA as an "award" for their past and present leadership and service activities. These select young people attend an all-expenses-paid camp where they are inspired by a diverse group of exceptional speakers, make life-long friends through fellowship activities, and discuss the ethical and social issues of today. These activities are conducted in an atmosphere of trust and respect. The result is that these students return to their schools and communities motivated to take on additional leadership roles and to find additional ways to serve.
RYLA's intent is to encourage students to be more effective servant leaders. RYLA is not a camp intended to teach leadership skills (it is assumed that the students in attendance already possess those skills), however the following topics naturally arise in the course of RYLA activities and discussions