In 1985/86 Club Records tells us current Member Joe Cimino presented Certificates to 32 Schools in the Local Area. The records don't suggest when the awards were started however they are still well and alive today. New members George Germanos and John Pillay consider same to be a very worthwhile project as do many of the schools including Cartwright Public who also present a Perpetual Trophy and a plaque for this very award.

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New Generations Service Director Sam Capra is now looking for Rotarians that may volunteer to attend the Presentation Ceremonies for the awarding of Certificate and Book to the award recipient and a Globe to the participating 21 Primary Schools in Honour of the recipient.

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The Rotary Club of Liverpool West Inc. is pleased to announce the Rotary School Service Award for 2011 for applicable primary Schools designated to be in our area.
This project recognizes a student of senior year, who in the opinion of the schoolteachers demonstrates a caring and compassionate manner to the Community including fellow student and teachers

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For, boys and girls, aged between 14 and 17 years, school years 8 to 11, who show some qualities of decency, courage, persistence, sincerity and application in everyday life.
Applications to the Rotary club of Liverpool West close on Friday 9 September 2011

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The program provides students who have an interest in science with an opportunity to engage in a wide range of fascinating science activities under the guidance of scientists. Participants perform experiments in the laboratories, meet and hear senior lecturers in the lecture theatres, attend site visits and walk around and experience what it is like to be on the campus of a university

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Rotary Youth Leadership Award program is a no-cost to participant leadership seminar for young adults aged between 18 and 25 years. It is conducted on a district basis annually with participants sponsored by clubs.
Applications close 14 Oct 2011 for 1 week event 14 - 21 Jan 2011

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Two Award Categories;
1. Junior - Years 9 and 10
2. Senior - Under 20 years of age
The awards will be presented to the persons who demonstrate a conscientious participation within the community, their school or TAFE College and their general involvement in sports, hobbies, youth or interest groups.

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NYSF is held over two sessions, each of twelve days, each January. Students come to Canberra from all over Australia and experience life as a university student, whilst being exposed to the breadth and depth of career options in science and engineering beyond bench research through a series of site visits to laboratories and other facilities in Canberra and the surrounding region.

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At our last meeting on 19 April Brett Smyth, Personal Development Co-ordinator, for the Greater Liverpool Area with The Salvation Army gave members and guests an update on the current work being done under the umbrella of the Liverpool West Youth Service.

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RYDA was established in the northern suburbs of Sydney in 2001 and today over 80% of Year 11 students in that district participate in the program.
The RYDA Program has now spread to many other Rotary districts across Australia and by mid 2010 over 150,000 students had attended this life saving road safety education program.

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Following our Books for Babies Project, The Liverpool Champion did publish an article on 2 March, entitled the ‘Gift of literacy for Liverpool Babies’

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Kirilee Cook of Raby, who turns 16 this year, has been selected to represent Australia in the 2011 Trans Tasman New Zealand Oztag. She will be competing in the Women’s U17s Australian Team

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Run in partnership with the Parliamentary Education Office, the delegates spend a lot of time inside Parliament House in areas not usually open to the public.
Each year around 45 Year 11 students (the delegates) are sent by their local Rotary clubs to Canberra.

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RYPEN is a programme for girls and boys of average capabilities aged between 14 and 17 years, possessing qualities of decency, persistence, sincerity and application in every day life, and who would benefit from further development.

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MUNA is part of an international Rotary Project to educate senior high school students (years 10 to 12) on the United Nations Organisation and its vital commitment to world peace along with health, education and living standards around the world

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Our Club and the Rotary Club of Liverpool were issued 10 books each which we delivered on 24 Feb to 16 Babies born on 23 Feb in Liverpool Hospital to celebrate the 106th birthday of Rotary and promote child literacy

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It is really not long to go now and Adrian will be expected home. Adrian has put together a wonderful blog site to keep members informed of his happenings in Finland and abroad. It is worth checking out just for the Photos. If you choose to check it out, make sure you select the ‘Wander Back button’ at the bottom of page 1. The update from 13 October and link to the blog site then follows here.

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(This guy really knows how to vet nominees, after all he's a vet)
We have agreed to send four students to the Science Challenge
Approximately 30 Primary Schools have taken up our Youth Citizens School Certificate Program

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All welcome: Presented by the Family of Rotary District 9690. Hanna Montana performed by Bridgette Falcioni and Rachel Scuteri. Entertainment includes...

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So now school is over and all the exchange students from Finland gathered together to go on Eurotour!
Our Eurotour consisted of all of us students on buses (and occasionally boats) driving around Europe for 18 days. We went from Finland to Sweden by boat. This was one of the big cruise ships like nothing I'd experienced before and they had lots of fun things to do while we were floating over to Sweden. After we got off we then drove through Sweden to get to another boat that would take us to

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So this month Rotary took us to Russia, we visited the grand city of St. Petersburg. It is an enormous city although not that old it still has many beautiful palaces and a fortress which are great to look at. We visited sites like the Hermitage, several churches, Peter the Greats chamber of Curiosities. We also saw a Russian ballet and some incredibly talented Cossack Dancers. There was lots of fun with the other exchange students on the busses and in the hotel as well as looking at all of the amazing sights. I took over a thousand photos and now that Eurotour is upon us I fear my camera might run out of memory

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The Recognition of Youth Award is unique to District 9690 which includes clubs from Western Sydney and surrounding areas, stretching from Burwood to Lithgow.

It was set up to mark the 75th anniversary year of Rotary International and has been conducted successfully since.

It seeks to identify involved, concerned young people of all-round ability, already embarked upon community interests and conscious of opportunities to participate in a wide range of interest groups.

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This month was very good and a lot of fun. There was Easter for starters where we got to eat a lot of lamb, apparently more than half of all the lamb eaten in Finland is during Easter. I got to experience the Lutheran Church where there was a wonderful organist playing all sorts of music. It was a bit different from the Roman Catholic Church I have grown up in but I am quite sure that the content was fairly similar. We visited some family friends in Porvoo which is a lovely old town by a river. It is one of the really old towns in Finland although it has burned down a few times but it is still really beautiful.

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Model United Nations Assembly (MUNA) is part of an international Rotary Project to educate senior high school students (years 10 to 12) on the United Nations Organisation and its vital commitment to world peace along with health, education and living standards around the world. MUNA helps students to develop public speaking and debating skills along with the study of the customs, culture and problems of the world’s nations. Delegates attend MUNA wearing the national dress of the country they represent.

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This month had lots of things happening; it seems to be a trend.

The biggest/most exciting thing was going to Sweden. I took a plane with my host family to Gothenburg for the synchronised skating world finals. Our team, “Team Fintastic” won by a fair amount, which was wonderful. The girls all celebrated and screamed their lungs out. We were there for two days and in the daytime I got to look around the city and see some sights including some very old churches and a military aircraft museum in a retired secret underground hangar. That was pretty cool. There was also an exhibition on Bollywood

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On Friday the 22nd of January I flew out of Sydney at around 5pm with a large group of exchange students. We went from Sydney to Singapore and then to Heathrow where we split up. This long journey was in Qantas’s brand new Airbus A380. The seats were comfortable, although there was not much legroom and there was plenty of in-flight entertainment. From Heathrow we boarded a Finnair flight to Finland

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