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Centreville Rotary Club Youth Committee
This committee focuses on service
to the local youth before they reach the stage of applying for
scholarships beyond high school. It includes the following efforts:
Dictionary Project, World Affairs Council, Rotary Youth Leadership
Awards, Mentoring, Character Counts and Local Campership programs.
Dictionary Project
 The Rotary Clubs of Centreville
and Kent Island have joined together to support a nationwide
literacy project that involves giving dictionaries to every 3rd
grader in QAC since 2001. Over 700,000 dictionaries have been given
away nationwide since 1995 and more than half of the organizations
making the donations in 2003 were Rotary Clubs.
World Affairs Seminar
 Centreville
Rotary has sent high school students to the World Affairs Seminar
and similar programs as often as interested and qualified students
are found. In 2003 we sent Monica Wilson (on left), a junior at
QACHS to Whitewater Wisconsin for a week long program. 1000 young
people from North America and world exchange students met at a forum
for future leaders to address some of the world’s most perplexing
problems.
Rotary Youth Leadership
Awards
This project conducted locally
near Annapolis each year is a weekend retreat for present and future
community leaders among our high school students. We sent four
juniors from QACHS this year some of whom were children of
Rotarians. The conference provides leadership training in a relaxed
campground atomosphere that is both instructive and fun for the
participants.
Local Campership Programs
This program provides scholarships
for children from 5 to 12 to attend summer day camp based on
financial need. This program was started in 2003 to help parents who
are not otherwise qualified for state welfare grants to send their
children to camp for a couple weeks.
Character Counts
 Character
Counts is a program where an adult teaches character building one
half hour a week at local schools. Rotary, along with many other
organizations, encourages participation. Six of our Rotarians have
or are now participating in this program.
Mentoring
Rotarians are encouraged to become
mentors to at risk youth in our schools. This involves a commitment
of one hour a week to meet with a student at school. The object is
to give the student a positive role model as well as some help in
overcoming any difficulties at school.
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