Rotary Youth Leadership Awards a.k.a. RYLA is one of four Rotary International youth programs. In District 5010, RYLA is open to high school sophomores and juniors. RYLA is an opportunity to gain valuable leadership and decision-making skills in a supportive seminar setting.

As your club’s RYLA rep, your main responsibility is to promote RYLA to your fellow Rotarians, recruit a pool of eligible teens, and select 1-or more local teens to represent your club and community. Specifically, RYLA Reps:

• Determine how many students your club will be able to sponsor; this year’s cost is $375 for students and $150 for Chaperones.
• Handle the logistics of travel.
• Handle payment from your club for all sponsored students and chaperones (this includes requesting the check from your club President/ Secretary /Treasurer. There are also online payment options;
• Lead a small committee of Rotarians from your club to recruit, screen, and select participants to attend RYLA
• Be the liaison between the students and RYLA program; and
• The “RYLA Toolkit” has all the forms- it can be accessed through the link below.