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Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA)

This award is for young people who have shown leadership in their student, work or community lives.  It is a 1 week personal and professional skills development live-in program for 18 – 28 year olds. Our program develops leadership qualities, self-confidence and good citizenship.  Awardees can these share these skills with those they lead and influence.  Each awardee also gains a huge new network of colleagues and friends.  The program is held at Vision Valley near Dural in Sydney’s north.  It is usually attended by 100 awardees.  Each awardee is sponsored by a Rotary club.  A host committee of three Rotary clubs promotes and organises all features of RYLA. Those chosen to attend repeatedly report on the immeasurable value of their RYLA experience.

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Mini United Nations Assembly (MUNA)

A simulated United Nations Assembly in which High School students in years 10. 11, and 12 participate as teams representing the nations of the world addressing and debating problems and causes of international concern.

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National Youth Science Forum.

Held in January for a select group of High School students who spend two weeks in Canberra where they meet leading scientists and visit scientific and national centres together with students from all over Australia.  The program is aimed at creating an awareness of Australia's standing in the science world and the importance of science based industries in our future. This gives them a better understanding of science in determining their future vocation.  Year 12 students only are eligible.

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National Engineering Summer School

The aim of the school, sponsored by the Institute of Engineers is to provide students with a week of lectures, laboratory work, industrial site visits and project work; to experience campus life and to experience engineering.

Students are exposed to the various disciplines of engineering on offer at the universities, namely: Chemical, Civil, Electrical, Environmental, Mechanical, Computer, and Biomedical where available.  

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International Youth Exchange

This program is a world wide exchange between Rotary Districts in which over 10,000 students of High School age annually experience the cultures, problems, and accomplishment of people in distant lands.

This experience in their formative years will broaden and deepen their lives as they move to take up leadership positions in their countries. Appropriate for a student completing school. Exchange students attend school in the country they go to.

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Children's Camps

Camp for Independence (Cerebral Palsy Project)

Operation Hope - Camps for Underprivileged Children.

Rotary sponsors several camps aimed at helping children who are underprivileged, who have cancer, who have cerebral palsy. This part of Rotary's Youth program balances the programs above which are aimed at students who are achieving .

Children's camps helps young people achieve what other wise may be impossible.

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