Be a part of the most exciting, demanding and rewarding program for teenagers: Become a Rotary Youth Exchange Student in one of 30+ countries.

The Minneapolis South Rotary Club is now accepting applications for this program. Click on the "North Star Youth Exchange" tab on the left side of the screen for additional details.

Application And Timeline

Application: http://yehub.net/NOR-obapp
Southwest Student Meeting: Sept. 24, during both lunch breaks
Washburn Student Meeting: Sept. 29, during both lunch breaks
Student/Parent Info Meeting: Oct. 6, 6:30 p.m. at Hosmer Library
Application Due Date: October 24, 2014
First Interview Date: Week of October 27 in Minneapolis
Second Interview Date: December 6 in Roseville 

Departure: July or August 2015

"I was interested in becoming an exchange student, so I started doing research on different exchange programs. When I looked at Rotary I noticed that it was really the only program that would set me up to have the best year I possibly can. I noticed that Rotary was great at preparing you for your exchange before you left, and I also always having your back while you are gone. Because I saw all the support that Rotary has for its exchange students, I knew that it would be the best choice for me."

--Laurel Bielinski, Southwest High, currently in Lucerne, Switzerland

 

Be a part of the most exciting, demanding and rewarding program for teenagers: Become a Rotary Youth Exchange Student in one of 30+ countries.

 

 

 

 

 

Learn what it’s like to be a high school exchange student and learn the application process for North Star Rotary Youth Exchange

Minneapolis South Rotary Club, along with the Edina and City of Lakes Rotary Club, helped purchase these beds for a women's shelter in Woodstock, South Africa. 

Minneapolis South Rotary helps to provide transportation to disabled in India

Minneapolis South welcomed one of its two Rotary Youth Exchange students on Saturday, August 11.

 A North Star Rotary Youth Exchange Student Is Coming To South Minneapolis!

“If all 17-year-olds had a chance to be a Rotary Youth Exchange Student, there would be no more war.” -- Carl Wilhelm Stenhammar, president of Rotary International, 2005-06

The Minneapolis South Club will participate in its second year of Rotary Youth Exchange by hosting a high-school student from India.

Be An Exchange Student / Host An Exchange Student
Informational Meeting • May 16, 2012

-- Carl Wilhelm Stenhammar, president of Rotary International, 2005-06

Learn what it’s like to be a high school exchange student or learn about opportunities to become a multi-national family via hosting for a three- to four-month period. Talk to high school students who have gone on exchange, and to families who have hosted.

As of August 2011, we have made 6 loans. Two of them have been fully repaid.  

Currently we are one of many lenders who are supporting (1) a group of weavers in Guatemala, (2) a tailor in Kenya, (3)a group of female tailors in Cambodia, and (4) a group of women in Cambodia who use their loan for farm supplies. All of these borrowers are working steadily to make payments on their loans and are repaying them on time.

 

The Minneapolis South Rotary Club welcomed its first exchange student on August 16.

Lisa arrived safely from Germany and was met by her host family Minneapolis South Rotary Club.

We began our venture of making loans to Kiva in the fall when we collected $216 through Happy Hat. The dollars we collected have to date, February 5, 2011, been loaned to five different groups.

 

Rotary Peace Fellows are leaders promoting national and international cooperation, peace, and the successful resolution of conflict throughout their lives, in their careers, and through service activities. Fellows can earn either a master’s degree in international relations, public administration, sustainable development, peace studies, conflict resolution, or a related field, or a professional development certificate in peace and conflict resolution.

Minneapolis South as had the fortunate opportunity to sponsor two applicants who are now Rotary Peace Scholars.

 Learn more about Peace scholar Jeniece Olsen who is finishing her two years of  study in Australia:

 Learn more about our newest Peace Scholar is Mya Lwin who plans to study in Australia

 

Minneapolis South Rotary member J. Michael Cavitt was recognized by the Nonviolent Peaceforce for mentoring NP returned peacekeepers in the process of applying for Rotary World Peace Fellowships. This article appeared on the group's website, http://www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org. 

Past STRIVE scholar Wicahpi Cavanaugh earns another scholarship.

Minneapolis South Rotary just became twice as fun with the addition of our second North Star Rotary Youth Exchange Student.

 

Join us at a fun, informal and informative meeting. We meet every Tuesday morning for coffee, an interesting speaker and to help engage ourselves in our local and international communities. It cost nothing to attend a meeting, and you'll leave enriched. 

 

Our local initiatives include youth-oriented projects such as mentoring, providing school supplies and winter outerwear to kids in need, and high school youth exchange. We also make monthly donations to local charities, as selected by the club.

Internationally, we support entrepreneurs, sponsor scholars, and help with Rotary International initiatives such as polio eradication (Polio Plus) and its emergency shelter program (Shelterbox).

The doors open at 7:15 a.m., meetings start at 7:30 sharp and end promptly at 8:30, so you're on your way to work with fresh perspectives and new knowledge.

Women Who Cook
Jazz Benefit for the Minneapolis South Rotary STRIVE Program