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Does your club need fresh ideas for youth projects? Feel free to "steal" these, which all won honors at the 2014 District Conference! Click on any of the club names to visit their website and learn more.
- Bloomington Daymakers’ most notable annual project is its Bloomington Teen Job Fair in March, a joint project with Bloomington United for Youth. Daymakers work with student leaders from Bloomington United for Youth to plan and coordinate the fair, which, in 2013, led to 30 on-the-spot hires. Historically, more than 50 percent of the students attending the job fair are hired.
- Minneapolis South Rotary Club has participated in North Star Rotary Youth Exchange since 2010-11. Consistent marketing and strong club support has led to serious growth. In 2013-14, the club sponsored two out-bound and one in-bound student from Germany. More than 60 local students showed up for an informational meeting about the program, and 10 students requested applications. For the 2014-15 schoolyear, the club will sponsor five out-bound students to Brazil, Thailand, Switzerland and Colombia.
- The Rotary Club of Apple Valley instituted a Middle School Student of the Month program. The club solicits candidates for this honor from the principals and teaching staff at each middle school. The honorees’ family and sometimes their teachers or principal are invited to a club meeting. The vocational director introduces them, reads a bio and presents the student with a plaque commemorating their accomplishment.
- In the Reading Buddies program, Hutchinson Rotary partners with an elementary school to help kids who need an extra boost. Rotarians commit to reading with students one hour per week. Each of the 72 students who participated this year received a goodie bag filled with a letter to their families explaining the program.
- Camp Enterprise, a joint project of the Rotary clubs of Edina and Edina-Morningside, attracted 100 high school seniors and juniors from 50 high schools around Minnesota and Wisconsin in 2013. At the three-day “Camp E,” each student participates in leadership training, team-building exercises and one-on-one coaching to develop their presentation skills. Mentors from local Rotary clubs share their business experience with students. Rotarians help students prepare a business plan, which they present to a venture capital panel at the conclusion of camp.
- In 2013, the Rotary Club of St. Cloud began a special effort to encourage their student Rotarians to undertake community service projects in their local schools. The club committed to give each school 500-dollars for the students’ projects. Student Rotarians from one school are creating a coffee shop at their school, while another school is renovating an area where students store coats and other personal belongings during the day. Through these initiatives, students learn about service and project management.