Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) is Rotary's leadership training program for young people.The RYLA candidates are selected based on their leadership skills and each candidate provides a 100-word essay with their definition of "Leadership." The candidates are interviewed by members of our Rotary group. Most have already taken leadership roles in their schools or communities through peer mediation, tutoring, camp counseling, karate instruction, sports and many more activities. The candidates attend a four-day leadership camp where they hear motivational speakers, participate in workshops and perform leadership-building activities.
The program is run by students who have already been through the program, which is one of the reasons it is very successful. Student instructors feel an ownership interest in what they are doing. This year, RYLA is taking place Sunday June 29th thru Thursday July 3rd at Mount St. Mary's College in Newburgh NY.
The following students were chosen to represent our Rotary club in 2008:
Chatham - Kayla Clark
Ichabod - Karyn Seymour
New Lebanon - Sara Magin & Molly Risko
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