Rotary Youth Leadership Awards

District 5130 RYLA CAMP 2020 Sunday, June 14 - Friday, June 19

Westminster Woods - Occidental, California

Hey there ROTARY/RYLA Folks! - ALL registration forms will be live on this website in late February! Just need your Rez forms and payment ($650/camper) at this point.

VIVA RYLA!!


RYLA 2020 WANTS YOU!

ATTENTION Rotary Presidents & RYLA Chairs. Please fill out this RYLA 2020 REZ FORM...ASAP

2020 Sponsorship/student - $650 if received by District 5130 by January 31, $700 thereafter (includes transportation, food, lodging, and leadership programming for a FIVE-DAY SUMMER CAMP EXPERIENCE

Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) is an intensive leadership experience organized by Rotary clubs and Districts where you develop your skills as a leader while having fun and making connections.

From D5130 Newsletter - October 6, 2019

The Good News: RYLA is on for Summer 2020! – on June 14 – 19 – at Westminster Woods

Hello! What an honor and privilege to be the District 5130 RYLA Chair! First, allow me to thank those who have come before me, those who have spent years dedicating themselves to creating a profoundly valuable experience for the youth of District 5130.

I have been listening to the presentations of former RYLA participants for the last twenty years and I hear the same sentiments year after year…

  • RYLA was the most amazing experience of my life!
  • RYLA should be required training for everyone at our high School.
  • RYLA changed my life!

As with any worthwhile endeavor, for improvement THERE IS ALWAYS ROOM. We intend on building upon the strongest elements of the program, tightening up the bits that need it, and possibly adding some exciting new programs as well.

If your Club has been providing meals (you know who you are, AND I KNOW WHO YOU ARE) we’d like to invite you back! Be ready to get organized; we’ll want to know what y’all are cookin’ up! And we’ll want to know early. I heard that some Clubs are famous for their meals and THAT is something to look forward to.

I am in the process of gathering information about what worked and what needs tweaking. If you’ve been involved and want to reach out, send me an email. I don’t want to reinvent any wheels!!

If you want to talk about recruitment, reach out. Let’s get it done THIS YEAR (as in this Winter) rather than waiting until our worthy candidates have filled their summer schedules. These kiddos are BIZZY!

If your Club has not been involved with the RYLA program and would like further information, we can help you with that too.

When I say “we” I am just one person and RYLA needs the best in each of us involved to remain a reality. You’ll be hearing from me.

And if you’re still waiting for the bad news, I’m afraid you’ll have to watch the evening news ‘cause I got nuthin’ for ya.

In Rotary Service, Eve Yeomans, Rotary Club of Fort Bragg, D5130 RYLA Chair


The Object of Rotary forms the foundation of RYLA

The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:

  • FIRST: The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;
  • SECOND: High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying of each Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity to serve society;
  • THIRD: The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian’s personal, business, and community life;
  • FOURTH: The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.