Would you like your club to award a life-changing scholarship to a high school student in your community as an initiative during your presidency?
Currently valued at $35,000, the Rotary Youth Exchange District Scholarship may be the only chance for your local middle-class teenagers to afford this opportunity. Your club, at minimal cost, will be in the position to send one of your local high school students to study overseas in 2024-2025.
Your District 6630 RYE Committee is making it easy for your club to participate:
- The $35,000 RYE Scholarship value is covered by our overseas partners which includes room, board, tuition, and a monthly stipend for one academic year.
- The student’s family is responsible for airfare, insurance, passport, spending money, and some training. (All together, this cost is spread out over two years and is almost always less expensive than maintaining them here in NE Ohio (i.e., no car insurance, no Prom weekend expenses, etc.)
- Having one of your local students selected for the $35,000 RYE Scholarship is a big deal for your local school officials, and it’s a good way for your club to enhance its reputation in your community.
- Because RYE is nationally recognized as one of the very few true exchange programs, if you end up sponsoring one of your local teenagers, you will be expected to host an inbound exchange student for the 2025-2026 Rotary year (so the next president after you will need to budget about $1,200 for hosting expenses).
- To make it easier for your club, the RYE Scholars are required to recruit all the hosting families for your inbound student.
Here is an elevator speech for an announcement to your club:
“Our Rotary Club has the opportunity to obtain a scholarship for students in our community to study abroad for a year of high school. The scholarship covers room, board, tuition, and even a small monthly stipend. The family is responsible for airfare, insurance, passport, spending money, training camps...etc. Usually, it costs less than staying here in Ohio for that year!”
I would be glad to come and share the exciting details about the RYE Scholarship with your members. The presentation is 20 minutes. I’ll bring marketing materials to help your club spread the word to your local high schools. The District Interviews this year is on December 10, 2023.
DOWNLOAD the club form to Commit to Host an Inbound student for the 2024-2025 school year
I look forward to working with you in presenting this exceptional Rotary program to your club.
Yours in Rotary,
Shelia Hedrick
District 6630 Inbound RYE Chair
email: RYESHELIAHEDRICK@GMAIL.COM