Mornington Rotary Club - Youth Story
With the very recent easing of COVID19 restrictions pertaining to the States Schooling attendance guidelines, our Youth Chair, John Renowden has been busy and his story/ report is as detailed below:
On Friday I received an application from Ben Hansen to attend the National Youth Science Forum ( NYSF) in Canberra in January 2021.
I spoke to President Ross and, as the applications were thought to close very soon, we decided to interview him and complete his paperwork…we later found that these dates were extended on Saturday so we now have plenty of time for Ben to complete his application.
Richard Vautier and I interviewed Ben on Saturday morning at my home in the presence of his dad David Hansen who is a Maths and science Secondary Teacher.
Ben, a year 11 student from Padua College interviewed very well and came across to us a fine young man who is quite passionate about science and maths.
He presented well and spoke confidently and clearly. He meets the required criteria of the program. He has been active in local junior sport and has a part time job at Coles.
Richard and I agreed that Ben was an ideal Candidate for NYSF and have no hesitation in endorsing his application.
Our club traditionally has paid half the costs of this youth program (about$1625) from our existing youth budget. District youth chair Steve Daly has been informed of Ben’s application and is pleased to learn we have a candidate.
Ben will now go to a district interview later in the year and hopefully will be selected as our club endorsed representative student.
Birthdays !!
On behalf of our Club President, The Board and all Club Members and their partners we wish to extend a very big Happy Birthday to Judy Seager and Peter Jay. We hope you have an enjoyable, safe and Happy Birthday, and with easing of social restrictions we hope you can celebrate your special day with family and friends, well done to Judy and Peter.
Upcoming online Meetings
If you are available please don't forget we have a number of meetings over the three to four weeks, before we can once again meet up face to face at a date to be determined. And on that note, with the upcoming VIC State Governments announcement scheduled for the 21st June, which is expected to promulgate (fingers crossed) some possible further easing of social gatherings, we might be able to " get back together " sooner.
Our next online ZOOM Meeting, which will be conducted tomorrow evening ( Wednesday 17th June 2020 commencing at 6;00pm) will cover amongst other items a very important presentation in regards to the introduction of the new Rotary Constitution and Club By-Laws as intsigated via our District 9820, and mandated as part of the Victorian State Government Statue Laws.
As most of us are aware with just about all Clubs, Organisations etc, the tabling of Rules and Regulations can be somewhat " dry ' but the introduction of these new By-Laws are very important to the function and management of our Rotary Club and the Presentation will cover the important aspects of the proposed changes. Having viewed the PPT presentation that we will see tomorrow evening it will be concise and certainly " not a long and drawn out process ', so please try to log-in and join in tomorrow evening.
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