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Interact Club

RYLA

Foreign Student Exchange

Options for the younger generation

Rotary Reads in the Public Schools

Always looking for help, read to a child at Pinon or Chaparral schools!

To join this committee or to learn when you might volunteer email the chair.

Foreign Exchange Students

The Santa Fe Rotary Club sponsors an incoming and an outgoing foreign exchange student each year.  For fiscal year 2007/08 Sille Lukk of Estonia who is a student at Santa Fe Preparatory School is our incoming student.  Sille will be us until early summer of 2008.  Juniors and seniors who are interested in becoming a foreign exchange student should contact the Chair of Youth Service or call (505) 989-4440.

School Instrument Program

Our club has been seeking donated instruments of good quality that are no longer being used by their owners and donates them to local schools.  In addition, club funds are used to purchase new instruments.  The program is evolving toward a system in which students who demonstrate an ongoing interest and participation in music may keep their instrument after graduation.

Interact Club

Rotary interacts with high schools by sponsoring clubs in the high school age group.  Guided with by-laws and mentoring from Rotary Club members, Interact clubs establish and work on their own community service projects.  Santa Fe Rotary’s current Interact club is an intra school program with students currently participating from Santa Fe Prep, St. Michaels High School, Desert Academy and New Mexico Academy.  For more information, please contact the Chair of the Interact Club.      

RYLA

What is RYLA?

RYLA is an exciting camp where your leadership skills are identified, developed, and improved. The Camp lasts six days and is held in the beautiful Manzano mountains in central New Mexico. RYLA is the camp that will sharpen your leader skills. RYLA is a camp designed for you and for your future.

RYLA is an acronym for Rotary Youth Leadership Award.  Through this program, Rotary clubs throughout out each district seek outstanding high school juniors and seniors to participate in a summer week long camp.  All expenses for this camp are paid in full by the sponsoring clubs and the district. 

GIRLS' CAMP: Sunday, July 20 through Saturday, July 26, 2008
BOYS' CAMP: Saturday, July 26 through Friday, August 1, 2008

The camp is a weeklong seminar run by volunteer Rotarians and spouses. RYLA provides each staff member and participant with the opportunity to reach for the highest standards and to experience leadership at its best. RYLA's main focus is to develop young leaders. RYLA aims to: demonstrate Rotary's respect and concern for youth, provide an effective training experience for selected youth leaders, encourage leadership of youth by youth, and recognize publicly young people who are rendering service to their communities.

We do this through speakers who address: ethics of positive leadership, community leadership and involvement, problem solving and conflict management, the importance of communication skills, building confidence and self-esteem, exploring values and moral responsibility, and what is Rotary. We develop leadership skills by team building activities with organized games such as volleyball, relay swimming and a low ropes course. The challenge of the high ropes course then builds self-confidence.

RYLA is a official activity of Rotary International. The program was first developed in New Zealand and Australia in 1959 to fulfill a need to recognize and develop outstanding young people. RYLA was later adopted by Rotary International and is now held throughout the world. RYLA programs are held in Asia, India, Africa, Europe, South America and North America.

Campers will tackle challenge courses and be introduced to community leaders from various cities in our area.  The vast majority of students who attend praise the camp stating they formed life long friendships and express a greatly increased sense of self confidence and self worth.  For more information contact the Chair of Youth Service or call (505) 989-4440

• Committee meetings vary please check with each chair

Club #1322 Chartered 1924

Mailing address:

PO Box 2465, Santa Fe, NM 87504-2465