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Youth Service

All clubs are encouraged to undertake projects that support the fundamental needs of young people up to the age of 30: health, human values, education and self development. The Rotary Club of St Ives is actively involved in a wide range of youth programs.

Youth Exchange enables students, aged 16 to 18 years to travel overseas for one year, as the guest of a Rotary club. Students are selected by a rigorous process, to assess their ability to benefit from the exchange and to act as an ambassador for Rotary and Australia. During the exchange, the student is hosted by members of the particular Rotary club, usually for about three months each, so the student gets to stay with four different families. The student is expected to attend a local high school, go to Rotary meetings, give talks on their home country, keep in touch with their sponsoring club and, on return, tell that club all about the exchange. 

To find out more about Youth Exchange, click on the links below.

http://rotarynews.info/3/District/9680/407/

http://rotarnet.com.au/users/y/youth_exchange/

http://www.princetonim.com/StIvesAU_Rotaty/YouthExchange.cfm

Read about some of the exchange students we have hosted and those students who went abroad for a year.

A short video of one student's youth exchange year.

Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) is for young people who have finished school, are between 18 and 26 and are working in industry or commerce or other areas as a career. They may also hold leadership positions in the community. They are given the opportunity to develop their leadership skills by attending a one week course at Vision Valley, Arcadia. This course, held each year in January, has qualified instructors and consists of lectures on relevant topics and lots of fun for the attendees. There are usually two students selected by the Club to attend this course.

Applications RYLA

If you are interested, or know someone who may be interested in attending this leadership course. Please contact us. Applications are due in by the end of September each year.

Interact is a high school based organisation, established to introduce Rotary concepts to 14 to 18-year-olds. The St Ives Interact Club was chartered on 8 December 1979 with twenty-five members. The club, whose membership fluctuates in the fifteen to twenty range, carries out a wide range of community projects.

Rotaract is an organisation, for 18 to 30-year-olds, again with similar objects to Rotary. The Rotaract Club of St Ives was chartered on 16 December 1969 with thirty-one members, including several sons and daughters of Rotarians. The St. Ives Rotaract club now has around 20 members.

There is a seperate section on Rotaract in the menu. 

Rotary Youth Driver Awareness (RYDA) is a road safety education program that targets Year 11 high school students (generally 16 to 17 year olds), who are at the stage of their lives where they start to drive or ride in a vehicle driven by their peers. RYDA focuses on attitude and awareness with the aim of helping young adults become better people on the road. The program has been developed in consultation with relevant Government Departments and is designed to complement and supplement the school curriculum and government road safety messages.

RYDA is a one day event held at a non-school site which co-ordinates the efforts of local road safety experts including driving instructors, the Police, recovering survivors of road crashes, drug and alcohol educators and motoring services personnel. Our club actively supports attendance by the St Ives High School, Brigidine College, and other local high schools. Venues are located at the HART facility in St Ives and Olympic Park, Homebush.

For more inforamtion please click on the following link http://www.ryda.org.au/

Model United Nations Assembly (MUNA) gives high school students an opportunity to develop an awareness of the United Nations and the countries they represent at this simulated UN Assembly. They address and debate problems and issues of international concern. Clubs sponsor teams from high schools who each represent a UN country.

National Youth Science Forum (NYSF) is a two week experience for year 11 students who have a strong interest in a career in a scientific field. It is held at the ANU in Canberra.

Speakers cover various scientific fields and the attendees go on field trips in the Canberra area. Applications come from all over Australia – only a very few applicants are selected to attend. Applications are to be received by District at the end of June each year.

 http://www.nysf.edu.au/rotary/welcome

Our District is 9680, on opening the link you will need to go to the drop down box and click on 9680.

In 2009 our club was successful in nominating two students Cameron Brown and Joshua Lee, both students at Knox Grammar in Wahroonga.

Cameron attended the NYSF program in Perth in January 2010 and Joshua went to Canberra in January 2010.

The National Youth Science Program has grown from previous years and more places have opened up this year, hence the program running in Perth.

Joshua Lee on the left with Cameron Brown taken at the Orientation evening.

We wish both students all the best with their scientific careers.

Hands on experience for Joshua whilst in Canberra  2010

Honeywell Engineering Summer School (HESS)

Is an initiative supported by Honeywell Engineers Australia- Sydney Division, NSW 'Engineering' Universities and participating Rotary Districts. The Honeywell Engineering Summer School is in its eleventh session and the aim is to give high school students a better understanding of what engineering is and how it works in every day life.

Students will meet and interact with professional engineers employed by government, private companies, researchers and academics in a wide range of engineering disciplines.

Participants will learn about the role of Professional Engineers in society and different disciplines within engineering including: Aeronautical, Biomedical, Chemical, Civil, Environmental, Electrical, Computer, Mechanical, Mining and Mechatronic.

http://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/divisions/sydney-division/schools-programs/schools-programs_home.cfm 

Science and Engineering Challenge

A set of fun and competitive activities involving principles of science, engineering and technology to immediately engage students with a mimnimum of introduction and theory. Schools provide a team of 24-32 year 10 students to participate in  a day long activity at one of the local universities.

For more information go to http://www.newcastle.edu.au/group/challenge/

 Youth Programs, Interact, Rotaract, Rotary Youth Leadership, Youth Exchange, the video gives an overview of some of these programs seen from the students perspective.