LaGrange Rotary Youth Challenge Program

The LaGrange Rotary Youth Challenge Program is designed to motivate young students to work to their full potential, graduate high school and to continue onto a post high school learning environment.

The children are nominated by their school principal, have to had shown academic promise, come from a low-income family and have parents/guardians who agree to having the child participate in the program. Our selection committee works very closely with Troup County School Administrators to identify these students. Last Spring three new students were accepted into the program, we know have a total of 26 students who have been inducted, with our oldest children now in the eighth grade.

We have put $1000 in a savings account for each student to help them in their post high school educational needs. This year we are also partnering with our local Boys and Girls Club and incorporating much needed mentoring component of this program. Also to help monitor the children's progress in this program they are being matched with a Rotarian. We are also partnering with LaGrange College to have the older children enroll in a summer program.

To increase the effectiveness of this program will now first accept students going into middle school.

We enjoy working with these students and hope that our involvement in their lives will make a difference in their school and career choices. We work with our students throughout the Rotary year, hours are hard to calculate.