Rotary Youth Exchange

Club Service Programs
Rotary Youth Exchange
 

Video of Inbound Group on YouTube 24 inbound RYE students hosted by District 5470, gathered in Durango, Colorado during the last weekend of January. While there, they recorded a video to share their sympathy with the families and Rotarians in Portland after learning about the recent violence involving exchange students

See Offer to speak at your Club or School Below.

 Mountain and Plains Rotary Youth Exchange

56 Rotary Clubs serving nearly 2/3's of Colorado

The most powerful force in the promotion of international understanding and peace is exposure to different cultures. The world becomes a smaller, friendlier place when we learn that all people - regardless of nationality - desire the same basic things: a safe, comfortable environment that allows for a rich and satisfying life for our children and ourselves. Youth Exchange provides thousands of young people with the opportunity to meet people from other lands and to experience their cultures. This plants the seeds for a lifetime of international understanding.

Click on links in the left panel for additional information, for example, on outbound and inbound students and letters.  Photos from the Outbound Orientation are in District web site Photo Gallery .   Also below is a link to a RYE student's photos.

From: evan hanson [mailto:goalie-6@hotmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 10:26 AM
To: Marilyn Branch; rotaryjan07@durango.net
Subject: Hello Colorado Rotarians!

Hello Marilyn and Jan,


This is Evan Hanson in France.  My year has been incredible in many ways based off of negative and positive aspects that have changed who I am, who I will be, and where I happen to take my life.  I would however like to ask a favor of the two of you and, in due time, my rotary club as well. 

I wish to speak in schools across Colorado on my exchange, the exchange program, Rotary, and even more specifically the impact that a teenager can have on the world.  This is a passion of mine: I enjoy speaking in front of large groups of people and wish to be as of much help as possible to the exchange program for all that it has given me.

I can not do this without your help and so I ask: use me however you please.
 
Thanks,
Evan Hanson

 

For information on

Mountain and Plains Rotary Youth Exchange please contact:

 

Chairman 

  Marilyn Branch  
PO Box 1295 / 465 1/2 W Dakota 
Telluride , CO 81435

970-708-2202

DISTRICT 5470 ROTARY YOUTH EXCHANGE

So you want to go?

2009 -2010 OUTBOUND (interested USA STUDENTS) applications

should be started with their local Rotary Club.

 

You must get started , see Clubs  to find a Rotary Club

in your area, and start a conversation with them.

 

 

CALENDER FOR 2008-09

 

INBOUND Fall orientation and District Conference Program

September 25 exchange students will be there THURSDAY NIGHT and meet ALL DAY on Friday, the official first day of the Conference .

District Conference   Sep 26, 2008 - Sep 28, 2008

 

 

October 31, 2008 Is DEFINITELY the Deadline for Outbound

Applications for the 2009-10 exchange year from Rotary Clubs

To  Chip Lile

975 Main Avenue

Durango, CO 81301 
PO Box  2704

Durango, CO 81302

970-708-2202 

 

 

OUTBOUND District Interviews

  December 5-7, 2008
Holiday Inn
Grand Junction, CO 

INBOUND RYE  Student Winter Orientation
January 30 - February 1
Durango, CO

2009-10 OUTBOUND RYE Orientation

March 13-15, 2009
Colorado Springs, CO

 

http://www.rotary.org/programs/youth_ex/

This link will provide copious RI information on Rotary Youth Exchange program.  Download and print those materials that are of interest to you.

Share these materials with those who need them.

Who?

An Outbound RYE Student is usually a Junior in High School, who will return to their own H.S. for their Senior year and graduation.

When to Apply?

As the Rotary Youth Exchange program is highly selective, you should apply early - up to a year in advance of when you wish to leave. Long-term exchange selections take place in the fall prior to the year you will make your exchange.