The Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) program seeks to provide young adults, ages 14-30, with an opportunity to develop their skills and character while exposing them to Rotary’s values of service, high ethical standards, and peace.
RYLAs can be conducted at the club, district, or multidistrict level and usually run from 3 to 10 days. While they can take many different shapes, most RYLAs follow a seminar or leadership camp format.
Our Vision
RYLA Academy will be guided by its Vision to Enable Leadership traits and skills in Youth that will eventually result in productive, progressive and sustainable Professional Engagement in both the Industry and the Society
A Deeper Outlook
The RYLA Academy in line with the overall objectives of RYLA sort by the Rotary will have the following objectives:
- Be the Central Repository of all Learning initiatives that promotes holistic Youth Leadership traits resulting in their deeper states of professional engagement;
- Continuously identify and source high quality learning programs and also promote design and development of newer learning initiatives;
- Develop collaboration with other professional and industry associations to ensure learning initiatives of RYLA is also aligned to the current and futuristic industry trends;
- Identify and collaborate with Industries and Government in furthering their CSR / Government initiatives on education building that includes both skills and leadership;
- Provide thought and design leadership on conducting RYLA awareness campaigns and hackathons across target audience including in schools and colleges;
- Be the Think Tank to provide strategic initiatives and implementation support, as may be required, to further all objectives of RYLA across all Rotary Clubs and Districts;
- Monitor continuously to ensure that the Rotary 4-Way-Test is being complied with in all RYLA Academy initiatives;
- Enable and ensure sustainable and continuous learning opportunities to further RYLA
What is RYLA?
The Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) program seeks to provide young adults, ages 14-30, with an opportunity to develop their skills and character while exposing them to Rotary’s values of service, high ethical standards, and peace.
RYLAs can be conducted at the club, district, or multidistrict level and usually run from 3 to 10 days. While they can take many different shapes, most RYLAs follow a seminar or leadership camp format.
Through RYLA, you can help develop the qualities of leadership, citizenship, and personal development among young people in your community.
For these young adults, this recognition offers the opportunity to build self- confidence, gain exposure to a variety of issues and people, meet active community leaders and learn valuable information and career skills.
How does RYLA help?
- RYLA gives Rotarians the opportunity to mentor promising young leaders serving their own communities and beyond.
- Rotarians serve as resources for participants on the path to becoming professional and community leaders.
- In turn, RYLA can bring new energy to a Rotary district, inspire ideas for service, increase support of community service projects, and develop future Rotarians.
- The duration of RYLAs varies, with most running between one day and one week. It considers what objectives the club / District / Multidistrict wants the RYLA to accomplish and the amount of time available to the organizers, counselors, and participants when determining the length of the event.
- The RYLA Academy is looking to deepen the impact by curating content and trainers and providing a longer term engagement with our young leaders through digital means even after the program is done and most importantly beginning to collect data to measure impact.
From Learning to Sustainable Leadership
