Noah Gorman, Jade Hart & Emma Crowder - 2016 RYLA Scholarship Recipients
       
 The Club was delighted to get to meet and listen to the 2016 RYLA scholarship recipients.  Each year, the Pagosa Springs Rotary Club has sponsored two or three students from the high school or home school community to attend this life changing leadership training.  The event is held at the Colorado Mountain College in Glenwood Springs each summer.  Rotarians Codie Wilson and Roberta Tolan coordinate getting applications out to the students, reviewing and scoring each of the submittals, interviewing the selected candidates and finally making the difficult selection.  Their goal being to extend this opportunity to students who will be most likely to benefit from the experience and make good use of what they learn.  Leadership skills such as communication, cooperation and trust are developed through games and various group activities - some of which are performed quite high off the ground!  It sounded like our three lucky students had a great experience!