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Share your Rotaract
love/Liebe/amor on Twitter |
What’s your favorite Rotaract memory? Why did you join your club? And
what would make your club even better? During World Rotaract
Week, 12-18 March, we are inviting Rotaractors and Rotarians to celebrate what’s best about Rotaract through Twitter chats in English,
German, Portuguese, and Spanish. To join any of these conversations, search for
#RACtalk on Twitter at one of the times below: All times listed are Central Time (Chicago time). Convert to your time zone. Transcripts of all the chats will be
posted at www.storify.com/rotaract afterward.
Tell the world how
your club is celebrating World Rotaract Week with service projects, partnerships, or other activities. Record a video of your club saying “We are Rotaract”
in your language and submit it to be added to a World Rotaract Week video. And take advantage of special pricing on the new Rotaract promotional
cards. Through 19 March, you can buy 50 cards for just
US$5. ![Take advantage of an exceptional offer!]()
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Webinars: How to
engage young professionals |
Join a panel of Rotarian experts to learn how your Rotary club can engage
today's young professionals through communications, innovative strategies, and invitations to membership. This webinar will help you maximize your
club’s communications to energize existing members and reach out to prospective ones. You’ll also get tips on using Rotary’s
classification concept to create a club that represents your community. Register now:
All times listed are Central Time (Chicago time). Convert to your time zone.
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RI general secretary
visits Rotaract clubs |
![John Hewko visiting Rotaract Club of Chicago]() RI General
Secretary John Hewko recently visited Rotaract clubs in Chicago and in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He tweeted this message on Twitter after the Chicago
visit:
“Spoke this evening to the @Rotaract Club of Chicago. Terrific group of
young professionals doing amazing things. The future of Rotary!” See more photos of Hewko’s visit and follow @JohnHewko on Twitter.
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Get ready for Global
Youth Service Day |
![Global Youth Service Day]()
Join millions of children, teens, and young adults to change the world through service on Global Youth Service Day,
20-22 April. Issues like health, education, hunger, poverty, disaster preparedness, human rights, and the environment can seem
overwhelming. But on Global Youth Service Day, young people in over 100 countries on six continents will take action by educating others, volunteering
in their communities, advocating for change, and giving back. We encourage all New
Generations participants to get involved. Find ideas and resources, see what's happening around the world, and register your project at www.GYSD.org.
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Interactors record
elders’ stories |
![Interactor with interviewee]() Students from the
West Orange High School Interact Club in Florida, USA, have been learning about the past from people who lived it. These Interactors spent three
months interviewing residents at a local senior care facility to learn about their lives. After hearing these personal histories, the students
developed a bound volume of 22 life stories, which they shared with the interviewees.
Learn more about the project and read one resident’s story.
Does your Interact club have a great project we should profile? Send it to us at inte...@rotary.org. |
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Mind over antimatter |
![Makoto Fujiwara]() Long before Makoto Fujiwara began
trapping antimatter, he was a shy Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar whose primary concern was passing his classes. In 1992, Fujiwara received
a scholarship from the Rotary Club of Kofu South, Japan, to study physics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Now he studies
antimatter at a research laboratory, and he credits Rotary with opening the doors that led to his success. “I wouldn’t have studied
physics if I hadn’t come to Canada as a scholar,” says Fujiwara, who is also a former Rotaractor. “It was the
start of everything for me.”
Read more about Fujiwara’s journey.
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Upcoming
events |
Do you know of an event we should add to this list? Email us at prog...@rotary.org.
Ninth Asia Pacific Regional Rotaract Conference
(APRRC)
Bangkok, Thailand
30 April-3 May
Rotaractors from across South Asia are invited to attend this
event, which immediately precedes the Rotaract Preconvention Meeting. ![2012 Rotaract Preconvention Meeting]()
2012 Rotaract
Preconvention Meeting
Bangkok, Thailand
4-5 May
Rotaractors and Rotarians will have the opportunity to
exchange ideas, hear informative speakers, and connect with the global network of friendship, engagement, and action that is
Rotaract. European Rotaract Convention (EUCO) 2012
Moscow
23-27 May
This year’s meeting is hosted by Rotaractors in District 2220.
RYLA Conference in North America sponsored by
District 7620
Washington, D.C.
11-15 July
This leadership conference will bring together
18- to 30-year-olds, including Rotaractors and former Rotary Youth Exchange students, Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholars, and
Rotary Peace Fellows. |
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