An excellent Turnout for our first Zoom "Evening" Meeting, with 42 members and guests participating.
Following a welcome by President Robyn and also DG Gary who was also present, the meeting was handed over to HM and PP Ainie to introduce the 2020 District 9920 RYPEN Team Leaders. This team went above and beyond to ensure that not all was lost due to Level 4 being introduced just days before Camp RYPEN was scheduled to be held.The 4 Team Leaders; Grace, Claire, Gabe and Henry, all amazing young adults and past District 9920 RYLA Awardees, put together a "Virtual RYPEN", consisting of a range of excellent speakers and other Leadership Programmes. The talk took the meeting along the road of how they designed and wrote the programme.
There has been excellent feedback from participating students and the Rotary Community at large. District will continue to work with Ainie and this group looking for opportunities to take Virtual RYPEN to the next level and integrate parts of the programme into the face to face camps held each year. Peter Ross, Mr RYLA, also a guest on the night, is now also looking to see if parts of the concept, can be built in to future RYLA camps as well.Well done Ainie and thanks for keeping St Johns Rotary in the limelight, even though you have moved Districts!!