Rotary Club of Holland Committee Reports

Youth Services

• Leaders of the 21st Century - This Middle School leadership conference will be held June 11-13 at Hope College. Since the pandemic pause, there has been a growth in the connections to recruit students and the conference is back to 3 days. There are currently 36 students signed up out of 50 maximum. Volunteers are needed for the mock trial, first responder training, and a few other events. Attendance is encouraged for the Thursday lunch with the conference participants and the graduation.
• Rotary Youth Exchange continues to succeed in its primary mission to build relationships throughout the world. Kay Hubbard will be taking over running the club exchange because Catherine Ristola Bass is taking over as the district head. Our current student, Joel from Sweden, talked about the recent conference where all of the foreign students met with the US students who are going out this year. He had a good time and enjoyed the speakers, especially the former diplomat.
• The District Life Leadership Conference will be June 11-14. This is an activity-based conference for high school students.
• The Interact clubs at West Ottawa High School and Holland High School are doing well and there is a Rotary club at Corpus Christie Middle School.
• Our work with the West Ottawa challenged students continue. The club just had their annual luncheon.
• Every month during the school year we have high school students attend our meetings.

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