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   Rotary Youth Leadership Award

RYLA is designed for next year's juniors and seniors.  Selected students attend a one-week leadership camp in August at YMCA of the Rockies in Estes Park.  Rotary International hosts the camp and Arvada Rotary provides the $375 registration per student selected.

Young RYLA

This program is for middle school students.  Their one-week leadership camp is in Larkspur.  Arvada Rotary Club provides the $200 per student registration fee.

This picture and the following quotation appeared in the District 5450 newsletter in September, 2005. 

RYLA touches (and changes) young lives

"Touch a Life" was the theme at RYLA this year and boy! did this camp touch my life.  There are not many chances to walk into a roomful of people that do not judge you, who can come right up to you and hug you.  RYLA taught me more about myself and about others, and how to get along with people that are different from me.  At RYLA all of us learned the Four Way Test, and I am trying to apply it to every day life. 

We had an activity everyday and one of them was Eggspress, where you launched an egg into the air and hoped that it would not break.  We had to protect it with the items that we were given.  The one that was the most fun was the RYLA Olympics where teams competed against each other.  (By the way, team 20 won, which was my team.)  We went on hikes and bonded with everyone around us, and we got to see the beautiful scenery.  My class was the first class to go to Junior RYLA and then Senior RYLA. This camp was truly amazing and I am glad I got the chance to experience it.  I am considering being a junior counselor.  Thank you, Englewood Rotary, for sponsoring me.

 Victoria Sargent

RYLA 2005 participant
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