You may be wondering, is Rotary Youth Exchange happening? Telluride Rotary Club has a long tradition of hosting high school students from other countries, and sending local students to study abroad. Because of the Covid-19 global pandemic, however, no Rotary clubs have been able to host or send exchange students since spring of 2020. The program will resume for the 2022-23 school year, and applications for the program are being accepted now through December 2021. For complete info for high school students applying to the program, or for potential host families, visit mountainandplainsrye.com, the website for Mountain & Plains Rotary Youth Exchange, the study abroad program in Rotary International District 5470. The first part of the program's application for the 2022-23 school year is due November 20, 2021. Telluride Rotary Youth Committee co-chairs Patricia Kiernan and Nancy Kerr are overseeing the program at this time. If you have any questions about Rotary Youth Exchange or would like to support it, please contact one of them at kiernanpatricia6@gmail.com or nancylkerr@gmail.com.
Pictured here: Telluride High School student Maile Silva as a Rotary Youth Exchange student to the Czech Republic and Slovakia from August 2019 - March 2020.