Vocational Service

Vocational Service encourages Rotarians to serve other through their vocations and practice high ethical standards. Youth programs are included in Vocational Service.

RYPEN

The Rotary Youth Program of Enrichment (RYPEN) is a three day seminar for participants aged between 14 and 17 years of age.

Awardees are sponsored and paid for by Rotary Clubs throughout District 9810. The RYPEN Seminar is conducted by a Rotary Club on behalf of the District Governor and is required to comply with the guidelines for a RYPEN Program.

The program is designed to demonstrate Rotary’s commitment in Vocational Service to our younger generation.

RYPEN programs cover the following range of topics:
• Communication
• Tolerance
• Drugs and alcohol
• Police, the Law and You
• Physical Fitness
• Job Seeking
• Morals and Ethics and Where Religion is part of that element of life
• Social Skills

The candidates selected are young people who satisfy the following criteria:

• will benefit from the learning experience
• not necessarily the highest achievers or outstanding youth leaders of the locality.
• have potential to progress to a leadership role with added confidence and training.

Further Information is available from:

Vocational Director, Michelle Hart - Email: dmhart1@optusnet.com.au

RYLA

Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) is an intensive training program for community youth leaders. Young people from 18 to 26 are chosen for their leadership potential to attend an all-expenses-paid seminar, camp, or workshop to discuss leadership skills and to learn those skills through practice. Every RYLA program covers the following core topics:

* Fundamentals of leadership

* Ethics of positive leadership

* Importance of communication skills in effective leadership

* Problem-solving and conflict management

* Rotary's purpose and service to the community

* Building self confidence and self-esteem

* Elements of community and global citizenship

MUNA

MUNA was introduced to Australia in 1980 when Rotary clubs in NSW were invited to sponsor a team of two students to represent a nominated country at
an assembly modelled on the format and function of the United Nations.

The purpose of MUNA is to encourage young people to learn about other nations and to understand and appreciate the workings of the United Nations while they develop debating skills and gain self confidence in public speaking.

Before the debate begins a delegate may deliver a brief address setting out the most important facts about the country he or she represents. The resolutions to be debated are selected from those actually debated by the UN as well as a number of motions proposed by the teams. The debates reproduce genuine UN debates, often with a fine flow of rhetoric, points of order, motions of dissent
and bloc walkouts!

MUNA is actually a United Nations initiative and there are a variety of MUNAs held throughout the world. This site has links to many MUNA sites and it would be of particular interest to any participating students.
Visit the UN MUNA website

VOCATIONAL AWARDS

Shine On Awards

Shine On Awards are an Australia wide Rotary award program that recognises outstanding service by persons with disabilities. The awardees are recognised
for not letting their disabilities get in the way in reaching their goals to serve others.

The Shine On Committee wants to encourage clubs to submit nominations for Shine On Awards from their local communities. Chairman Andrew Forgas can help with further information about this special Australian Rotary program.
District 9810 is a part of the southern group (Districts 9780, 9790, 9800, 9810 and 9820) coordinated by the Rotary Southern Districts Committee.

NATIONAL YOUTH SCIENCE FORUM

In January 1984, the first Australian National Science Summer School was attended by 200 senior secondary school students. Convened in Canberra it
was the joint initiative of a number of Rotary clubs, the Canberra Development Board and a large number of scientific institutions around Australia.

The purpose was to introduce the scientists of the future to Australia's most distinguished scientists of the present and provide opportunities for participation in open and group discussions and forum sessions.

In 1996 the name of the program was changed to the National Youth Science Forum. To maintain close links with New Zealand scientists of the future six students are selected each year from each country attend the summer school forum in the other country.

The target candidate is in a Year 11/12 science student who has shown outstanding potential in a field of science. There are over 200 positions each year, for all Australian students.

To learn more about NYSF in Australia, please follow this link:

Click here to visit the NYSF website

SIEMENS SCIENCE EXPERIENCE

Because of the limited nature of the National Youth Science Forum in 1992 it was proposed that a similar program be adopted for Year 10 students.
Sponsored by Siemens the program is conducted by the Australian Science Industry Association.

Visit the Siemens Science Experience website.

Click on the following link to send an email to Chairman of the Summer Schools Committee Paul Taranto