RYla online Leadership Academy: FAQs for Rotary Clubs

• RYLA provides a unique opportunity to connect with students outside your school.
• Small group breakouts provide opportunities to engage and grow.
• Earn service credit for projects/activities.
• Receive recognition for college applications/resume/etc.

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• The students that our clubs  selected in 2020 will be given the first opportunity to attend RYLA OLA 2021.

• Click here, for 2020 RYLA Club Reservations

• Click here, for 2020 Student Registrations 

• The students who registered in 2020, and their parents, will be sent an e-mail from the RYLA committee, inviting them and asking them to re-commit through their sponsoring Rotary club.
• If you wish to reach out to your students in addition to this messaging, please feel free.

• We estimate that RYLA will cost no more than $100 per student.

• Ensure that one of your club member's name is assigned in Clubrunner to your club's RYLA chair.
• Watch your e-mail, as we will notify club RYLA chairs of important information and critical due dates.

• You may reserve and pay for up to four (4) slots.

• You will have the same number of slots/reservations for which you paid in 2020.
• If your club selected and notified students (now Juniors) last year and they did not to register due to COVID-19, then we would encourage you to extend the offer first to those students. If they would not like to be sponsored to attend RYLA 2021, you should fill those slots with current Sophomores.

• If you have an alternate from last year, you could select them, or
• If you don't have an alternate from last year, you should use your club's RYLA process, to select a current Sophomore to fill that space.

• 2020 Alternates who had registered last year (there were 16) will be given an opportunity to be Alternates again this year. Alternates will be sent an -email by RYLA, and given the opportunity to re-commit and re-register as an Alternate.

• Please notify District RYLA Chair Christine Pinney either immediately or before March 14, 2021, at chair@ryla791.org.

• RYLA OLA is experiential and interactive, and we want this to be the best Online Leadership Academy experience it can be! Small, group breakouts will help us to ensure participation and personal growth. We have a limited number of youth Group Facilitators (GFs), to manage these groupings.

• Our student leaders, the youth who have attended RYLA before, have told us they would like to create a shared experience with items and experiences such as:
  • T-shirts
  • Swag bags
  • journals
  • Supplies for sessions/activities
  • Dynamic/Inspiring speakers
  • IT/tools
  • Etc.

• Our young people - Selected Students and Alternates - need you to reach out and keep in touch with them.
• If any of your 2020 Selected Students will not attend, you could use your club process, to fill open spaces with current Sophomores.
• Encourage Selected Students and Alternates to register for RYLA OLA.
• Mentor/support Program Facilitators (PFs), and Past Program Facilitators(PPFs). Contact District RYLA Chair Christine Pinney at chair@ryla791.org.
• Donate 300 re-usable water bottles.
• Donate 300 pens.
• Donate journals.
• Help with online breakout rooms.
• Help us with training and promotion.

• Click here, for RYLA 7910's Home page.
• Click here, RYLA 7910's Facebook page.
• Click here for RYLA 7910's Instagram page.