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Youth Exchange
Posted on Nov 05, 2018
Each year we sponsor 2 students from other countries who spend a year going to school in Queensbury and Glens Falls High schools. They are typically hosted by two or three families each for the term they are here. Our club and many other community volunteers work with the schools
and host families to provide a rich and rewarding experience to these students while they are here in the USA.
Rotary 5K Corporate Challenge 2020
Posted by Janice Holding on Jun 29, 2020
Rotary 5K Corporate Challenge 2020
The Rotary 5K Corporate Challenge is a run/walk held each year, usually in mid-April at SUNY Adirondack, to benefit local charities designated by the Glens Falls Rotary Club Board of Directors. This year, we will be holding a virtual race, due to the pandemic, from July 17 - 26, 2020, because the needs of the charities we selected are greater than ever! Funds raised by this event will benefit: 
 
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Southern Adirondacks
 
World Awareness Children's Museum
 
                                                       and the Glens Falls Rotary Foundation
 
Course:  Runners/Walkers will select their own 5K/3.11 mile course.  Need help? 
Go to https://legacy.usatf.org/routes/index.asp for sample courses within your zip code.
 
Registration:  $20 per person ($10 for ages 12 and under), is available online now until 5 pm 7/26/20.
 
Printable registration forms for individuals and teams are also available on our website at www.glensfallsrotary.org.  Use the 5K drop down menu at the top of the page to access the forms.  Mailing instructions are included.
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Scholarships
Posted on Sep 13, 2018
 
The Rotary Club of Glens Falls Celebrates Community Service with High School Scholarship Program

Rotarians know that many of our local high school students selflessly provide community service to local organizations and worthy causes. To salute those students, the Rotary Club of Glens Falls created a scholarship opportunity for eligible seniors graduating from Glens Falls and Queensbury High Schools.

 
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Dictionary Project
Posted by Paulette Kershko on Sep 10, 2018
“The Dictionary Project”
 
     "The idea for The Dictionary Project began in 1992 when Annie Plummer of Savannah, Georgia, gave 50 dictionaries to children who attended a school close to her home. Each year she continued to give this gift, raising money to help give more and more books so that in her lifetime she raised enough money to buy 17,000 dictionaries for children in Savannah. Early on, her project attracted the attention of Bonnie Beeferman of Hilton Head, S.C., who began a project of raising money by selling crafts to buy dictionaries for the schoolchildren of Hilton Head and the surrounding communities.
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Dictionary Project 2018
Posted by Paulette Kershko on Sep 11, 2018
Dictionary Project 2018
Glens Falls Rotary Club Student Dictionary Project
 
On September 24-28th of 2018, The Glens Falls Rotary Club will offer third graders another opportunity this year for exploration and sharing of knowledge with the gift of dictionaries to students attending the Abraham Wing, Jackson Heights, Kensington, Big Cross and St . Mary’s/St. Alphonsus Regional Catholic Schools and in October of 2018, The Glens Falls Rotary Club will donate Scholastic books to the third graders in Queensbury Elementary Schools. This will be the 10th year for the club making such donations.  Rotary's International Literacy Project is based upon the belief that "...reading is the starting point for all economic and social opportunities this world has to offer.” See DictionaryProject.org
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Rotary Youth Leadership Awards
Posted on Sep 10, 2018
Rotary Youth Leadership Awards
(RYLA)
 
Do you have what it takes to become a dynamic leader and change not only yourself but the world? Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) is an intensive leadership experience organized by District 7190 and the Rotary Club of Glens Falls where you develop your skills as a leader while having fun and making connections.
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