Rotary Youth Leadership Awards

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The District 5130 Rotary Youth Leadership Awards is a complete scholarship awarded to men and women of high school age, who are leaving their junior year and will be next year's senior high class. District 5130 RYLA began in 1990. As of December, 2001, over 835 students have attend a RYLA camp which is held at Westminster Woods Camp in Occidental, CA.

The International RYLA was actually started by Rotarians in Australia in the early 1950's. It is the object of RYLA to bring the business, social, professional and educational leaders of the community and the nation together with the young leaders of the future to share with them ideas, techniques, philosophy and inspirational messages.

RYLA Scholarships are among the thousands of scholarships given each year by Rotarians worldwide. Through our exchange studies and scholarship programs, students can also visit other countries and attend schools and colleges that might not ordinarily be available to them.

At Camp RYLA you will have the opportunity to learn more about yourself through the voices and eyes of people who have experienced life, people who can help you see things from a different viewpoint. You will learn not only from special speakers and attending Rotarians, but by interacting with other  scholarship winners just like yourself from over forty-five  high schools and all walks of life in Northern California.

Kyle Lorenz, the 2007-2008 Interact Club President for Rancho Cotate High School, attended Camp RYLA in the summer of 2007 (in red shirt below).