• Follow us on:

Youth Service

David Thomsit

Youth Service

David Thomsit

Rotary offers young people the opportunity to take part in many different competitions. Those who do take part enjoy a stimulating challenge and the results of their efforts are amazing. Our organises, with others, Rotary Young Photographer, Young Chef and Technology Tournament and Youth Speaks. If you are aged between 11 and 17 and would like to take part in one of these events please get in touch. If you are interested in a competition that we don’t run ourselves we shall try to put you in touch with a Rotary Club, which does.

Rotary Young Photographer

Rotary Young Photographer. This runs entirely digitally by the three Rotary clubs in St Albans and Harpenden. This is another competition where the winners in each of three age groups (7-11, 12-14, and 15-17 have the opportunity to progress to a national final. Three photographs are submitted on different topics each year, together with a written narrative from each entrant. Interested? Get your information pack and entry form now from rotaryinstalbans@gmail.com

Rotary Young Chef

RotaryYoung Chef involves cooking a healthy two-course meal for two people with a limited budget. It’s amazing what wonderful dishes are produced and we usually envy the judges, who are the only ones to taste them.

Rotary Youth Speaks

Rotary Youth Speaks is a 15 minute debate by a team of three about a subject of their choice and they have to answer a question from the audience about their topic Each team comprises a chairperson to introduce the team and manage the team’s performance, a proposer speaking for their chosen topic and an opposer presenting a contrary view. There are separate intermediate and senior group competitions based on the age of the competitors.

The winners of both Young Chef and Youth Speaks competitions at local club level are able to enter the next district round, whose winners again progress to regional level and if successful on to the national finals.

Rotary Technology Tournament

Rotary Technology Tournament is an all-day design and build competition held locally between teams of four in three year-group categories (KS3, KS4 AND KS5). The older teams have the same basic project but have to reach a more challenging level of technical achievement. Teams are entered by their schools’ design and technology teachers. The teams are told which tools they will need to bring with them to the tournament. They know they have to prepare a design portfolio and construct something that works and they know the time allowed for each part of the event.

We provide all the construction materials and the participants don’t get told what the project is until they get the instructions at their table. It’s a very busy, fun day.

Thanks to the kind offer of the Head Teacher, Rotary in Harpenden CIO and the two St Albans clubs will hold the next event on Wednesday 8 March 2023 at the Sports Centre, Katherine Warington School.

MAKE AN ENQUIRY

WE TRANSFORM COMMUNITIES

We take action locally and globally. Each day, our members pour their passion, integrity, and intelligence into completing projects that have a lasting impact. We persevere until we deliver real, lasting solutions.