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 Shari Clifford, Stillwater Sunrise Rotary Youth Exchange Officer
at 651-332-0007.
Rotary Youth Exchange provides more than 8,000 teenagers each year an adventure of a lifetime: a chance to live, learn and become a true part of a new family, culture and way of life as a high school foreign exchange student.
North Star Rotary Youth Exchange, which encompasses south-central Minnesota and northwest Wisconsin (Rotary Districts 5950 and 5960), provides this opportunity to eager, ambitious high school students — both to come to our area to experience American life, or to go abroad to one of about 33 countries around the world.
On Halloween, it was Laura’s Birthday. We celebrated by singing Happy Birthday and shared in a gift for her.
Club President Arba-Della and Youth Exchange Student Laura Moeller from Germany
Stillwater Sunrise Rotary is also pleased to welcome Laura Moeller, from Kirchlengern Germany for the 2010-2011 school year. Laura arrived, Thursday, August 19, 2010. Throughout her year in Stillwater she will be attending Stillwater Area high school as a Senior and will be hosted by 4 host families: Mark & Val Fischer, Mark & Irene Lambert, Robert & Tunki Jantschek, and Jeffrey and Deborah Berg. Laura plays clarinet and enjoys art, music and sports. She's excited to join the SAHS tennis team this fall. Welcome Laura!
Abbie Huntley, Paula Williams (YE Chair) and Arba-Della Beck (Club President)
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.
We have had the honor to host several outstanding students over the years
Link to Mabe's Facebook page
Exchange Student (06-07)
Exchange Student (04-05)
If you are interested in welcoming a student into your home and helping support them for several months during the school year, contact our club's Exchange Student Chair, Shari Clifford.