2010-2011 Outbound Exchange Student Chosen

The Rotary Youth Exchange committee is pleased to announce that Myles Derry has been chosen as our next outbound exchange student from a very strong field of applicants.

Myles is a Grade Eleven student at Camrose Composite High School this year and will be away on exchange for his Grade Twelve year.

His parents are Paul and Sally and he has an older sister and brother. His parents own and operate a family business in Dawson City, Yukon. Sally and the children moved to Camrose eight years ago in order to access more educational and athletic opportunities. Every summer they return to Dawson City to work in the family business and spend time with Paul.

Myles is very involved in athletics, and plays on the high school volleyball, basketball and track and field teams. He has been selected to play basketball for the Nike Centre of Performance which develops elite youth basketball players in Canada. In 2007 he participated in a European hockey tour, visiting Germany, Austria, Czech Republic and Switzerland. He has also travelled to England, Alaska, and California.

While attending Charlie Killam School, Myles was chosen to participate in the Rotary sponsored Youth Leadership Canoe Trip as a peer leader.  

Myles was very fortunate to be given his first country of choice, and will be spending the 2010-2011 school year in District 4760 in the Brazilian State of Minas Gerais. So he will be learning rudimentary Portuguese in the next few months and preparing for his year away.  

Myles will be attending our club meetings until he leaves on his exchange in July 2010.  Please take the time to get to know him.

The committee is confident that Myles will be an excellent ambassador for Rotary and for Canada in his exchange year.