Rotary College Mentoring Program

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Rotary College Mentoring Program

• Everything You Need to Know and Why Your Club
  Should Get Involved!
• By Betsy Acker

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Life Leadership

• District 6360 has been sending high school
  students to the Life Leadership Camp since the
  1970s.

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Life Leadership

• About the camp
• A weekend seminar
• 60 students attend each year
• Focuses on developing leadership skills
• Team building exercises
• Ropes Course
• Problem Solving
• Personality Style Assessment
• Challenges

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RYLA

• 2004 Life Leadership changes name
• Rotary Youth Leadership Award
• RYLA
• RYLA Camps have been held all over southwestern
  Michigan
• YMCA Camp Algonquin
• MSU
• Battle Creek Outdoor Education Center (Most
  Recent)
• Etc.

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RYLA
RYLA 2008
RYLA 2007
Battle Creek Outdoor Education Center Dowling,
MI
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RYLA
RYLA Basic Camp September 12-14, 2008 Battle
Creek Outdoor Education Center One RAINY
weekend!!!
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Rotary Advanced Leadership

• 2003-2004 Program Begins to Change
• Governor Ed Foster felt the program should be
  more than just the basic RYLA Camp.
• Students were selected from the RYLA basic camp
  to attend a new program.
• ROTARY ADVANCED LEADERSHIP TRAINING

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Rotary Advanced Leadership
First Advanced Leadership Seminar, Battle Creek,
MI 2004
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Rotary Advanced Leadership
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Rotary Advanced Leadership

• PROGRAM FOCUS
• Speaking and Listening skills
• Conflict resolution
• Problem solving
• Ethics in the business world
• Four way test

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College Mentoring Program

• Students were evaluated at the Advanced Seminar
  for a new program
• THE COLLEGE MENTORING PROGRAM
• Objective and subjective evaluations used.
• The highest ranking were selected for the college
  mentoring program

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College Mentoring Program

• Six to eight students are selected each year for
  the College mentoring program
• The total number of the students in the college
  mentoring program currently is 22.
• The College Mentoring program is a four year
  program. ( Five if the student was selected when
  they were a junior in high school.)

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College Mentoring Program

• The students are required to sign a contact
• stating that they will
• Attend a yearly seminar
• Assist in the RYLA basic camp
• Join or help start a Rotaract chapter
• Report to their sponsoring Club every year

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College Mentoring Program
December 2005 Seminar Radisson Hotel
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College Mentoring Program

• Assist in running the Basic RYLA CAMP
• 2007

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College Mentoring Program

• Presenters from the world of work and many
  Rotarians present on different subjects

25 presenters over the past 5 years 92
volunteered their time!!
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College Mentoring Program

• A Rotarian on the CM staff is assigned to each
  selection class
• That Rotarian finds a mentor for the student
• Generally the mentor is a Rotarian who has the
  same vocational classification the student is
  seeking

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College Mentoring Program
Jack Bates, Lansing Club
Don Sovey, Charlotte Club
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College Mentoring Program

• Rotary provides direction, mentoring and support
  while in college.
• Helps arranges summer internships.
• Will assist in placement when the student
  graduates.
• Continues to build leadership skills.
• Dining Etiquette
• Interviewing
• Resume Building
• Public Speaking
• Problem Solving

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College Mentoring Program

• Every four years there is a combination seminar
  and field trip.

Chicago, IL 2007
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College Mentoring Program
College Mentoring December Conference Special
Guest Speaker Major General Mark Solo
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What Its Done for Me

• Created job opportunities
• Honed Leadership Skills
• Two Internships
• J-Ad Graphics
• Point O Pines Camp For Girls
• Future Rotarian