Billie had an eventful year in her Science, Engineering and related host city and even though her early months disciplines. in Brazil were difficult due to some host family issues, the later months were Over the duration of the Forum, enjoyable and widened her thirst for more students live-in at the University of travel and learning experiences. Canberra. The Club thanks go to Louise JUNIOR SCHOOL DEBATING Brennan as Billies Counsellor and Sue Van The Annual School Debating Every for her assistance in the early part of competition with Year 7 Students from Billies Exchange. Horsham College was well received by members at our Meeting in late August. RYPEN Rotary Youth Programs for Enrichment. – Whilst we contacted Secondary The topic good looks get you “That Colleges for their involvement in this further than a good mind” enthralled not program where 14-17 year olds can extent only the members and the Students parents their leadership, decision making, network and friends but showed to us all the benefits and community skills over a weekend of such a programme in enhancing the residential camp, unfortunately no Public Speaking skills of such young nominations were forthcoming. debaters. For the record the negative team were victorious. THE BILL DAVEY ROTARY CLUB OF HORSHAM EAST AWARDS The following programmes that The above cash awards are Horsham East Rotary Club support and presented annually to two students to assist encourage failed to obtain applicants this in their studies and are in recognition of year but the Club will continue to endeavour Past President Bill Davey. The Davey to encourage young people to apply for Family makes a contribution to the award these very worthy programmes - and this year the two recipients were Jake McIntyre Horsham College and Stephanie – Schmidt Murtoa College. – RYLA Rotary Leadership Awards • – Rotarians Brydie Scollary and Rotary Murray-Darling School of • Andrew conducted the interviews and Freshwater Research were very impressed with the standard of applicants and the two successful awardees. Thank you to the Committee members for their responsibility in these programmes that NYSF - National Youth Science Forum encourage and continue to support the The Club sponsored Coles to young people in our district and for the this 12 day Forum in Canberra in January Board in their ongoing funding of these where students in year 11 are given a important programmes. unique opportunity to drive” careers in “test
Billie had an eventful year in her host city and even though her early months in Brazil were difficult due to some host family issues, the later months were enjoyable and widened her thirst for more travel and learning experiences. The Club thanks go to Louise Brennan as Billies Counsellor and Sue Van Every for her assistance in the early part of Billies Exchange. RYPEN – Rotary Youth Programs for Enrichment. Whilst we contacted Secondary Colleges for their involvement in this program where 14-17 year olds can extent their leadership, decision making, network and community skills over a weekend residential camp, unfortunately no nominations were forthcoming. THE BILL DAVEY ROTARY CLUB OF HORSHAM EAST AWARDS The above cash awards are presented annually to two students to assist in their studies and are in recognition of Past President Bill Davey. The Davey Family makes a contribution to the award and this year the two recipients were Jake McIntyre – Horsham College and Stephanie Schmidt – Murtoa College. Rotarians Brydie Scollary and Andrew conducted the interviews and were very impressed with the standard of applicants and the two successful awardees. NYSF - National Youth Science Forum The Club sponsored Coles to this 12 day Forum in Canberra in January where students in year 11 are given a unique opportunity to “test drive” careers in Science, Engineering and related disciplines. Over the duration of the Forum, students live-in at the University of Canberra. JUNIOR SCHOOL DEBATING The Annual School Debating competition with Year 7 Students from Horsham College was well received by members at our Meeting in late August. The topic “That good looks get you further than a good mind” enthralled not only the members and the Students parents and friends but showed to us all the benefits of such a programme in enhancing the Public Speaking skills of such young debaters. For the record the negative team were victorious. The following programmes that Horsham East Rotary Club support and encourage failed to obtain applicants this year but the Club will continue to endeavour to encourage young people to apply for these very worthy programmes - • RYLA – Rotary Leadership Awards • Rotary Murray-Darling School of Freshwater Research Thank you to the Committee members for their responsibility in these programmes that encourage and continue to support the young people in our district and for the Board in their ongoing funding of these important programmes.
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