Workshop B

How to Build successful ROTEX Programs

Ekkehard Musick District 1800, Northern Germany

ROTEX

a club of former Rotary exchange students

defined membership

firmly established goals and proceedings

Not simply former exchangees

Rebound DebriefingInterest in

contact and service

Interest in loose contact

ROTEX

Alumni Database(Senior Rotex)

Info RYLA Seminars Yearly Meetings

No further interest

A Few Steps from Rebound to ROTEX

ROTEXInformation Input

Rotary Policies

First Aid

Service Projects

Harrassment & Abuse

Working with Youth

Inbounds

Outbounds

Host Parents Information

Responsibilities, Communication Lines

Medico

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Rebound ROTEX

IntensiveLeadership

Training

NGSE

RYLA

ContinuedLeadership

Training

Outbound Training

Inbound Weekends

Hostparents Information Day

Euro-Tour

RotarySupport & Training

Could you agree with most of these thoughts?

• When I look at the application forms and see the kids I sent out last year – and now I see what has happened in this short spell of time, I am always impressed!• They seem to have understood the values of the great Rotary Family.• Their personality seems to have received a major boost.• Many of them have got a much wider horizon and cultural understanding.• They have found their way not only through Chicago, Frankfurt, Sao Paulo Airport, but also through difficult phases in host family, school and with newly

gained friends.• And now and then I come across absolutely outstanding young rebounds…• Can I accept that they disappear into Rotarian No-where, far away from Rotary???

If all this is true, then I should

• not only offer a short „debriefing“ session• offer these young people a chance to stay close to Rotary, the Rotary Family• offer those interested in further contact a field of action, of service• build a trustworthy basis for joint action• help to found a Rotex organisation (if necessary, if not started by the young themselves)

Integration into running exchange program

Outbound:

Outbound Selection WeekendOutbound training

How to cope with homesicknessStudent Protection Policy: Harrassment & Abuse

(Strategies)Cultural Learning (Report of one´s own experience;

culture oriented)

Inbounds

Integration into Welcome Weekend Host District

Joint District:Rotex Host Parent Information Day

After internal training: possibility to organize Rotex Weekends in the name of Host District

Example : Candle light talk

Eurotour (with Rotary Chaperone)

Integration into Interact (poss. Founding of Interact Clubs)

Transport of Internationality into Interact Club ( at Rebound´s own school?)

Cultural Learning ( report on rebound´s own exchange experience)

Creation of Interest in Ideal of Service

Creation of Interest in Exchange Experience (LTEP & STEP)