Stillwater Sunrise Rotary Club - Stillwater, Minnesota

Stillwater Sunrise Rotary is proud to participate in the Rotary Youth Exchange Program.  During the 2010-2011 school year, we are happy to send our first outbound student, Abbie Huntley.  Abbie would be a junior this year at Stillwater Area high school and is the daughter Kris Huntley and Todd Huntly, both of Stillwater, MN.  Abbie is spending her year abroad in Lutterhausen located in Northern Germany.  Her first host family is the Merten-Nosarzewski family: Astrid, Janusz, & two host brothers Jan and Arthur.  Her hosting Rotary club is Gaettingen Rotary in District 1800.  You can follow Abbie's year abroad by reading her blog at http://ahuntley.tumblr.com.

The Rotary Youth Exchange program is a year-long opportunity for students to travel abroad to experience new peoples, cultures, adventures and personal growth.  Rotary is an organization of business and professional women and men united worldwide, who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world.  There are more than 31,300 Rotary clubs in 166 countries, with approximately 1.2 million members.  Students may not be older than 18 when they leave for their year abroad and must be at least 15 years old to participate. They must also be a freshman, sophomore, junior or senior in high school at the time of application.  Exchange students have demonstrated scholastic competence, and be involved in extra curricular activities.  If you have an interest in being an exchange student or in hosting an exchange student, please call Paula Williams, Stillwater Sunrise Rotary Youth Exchange Officer at 651-439-0044.