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GRSP Leadership Weekend Celebrates Silver Anniversary

The GRSP Class of 2024-25 gathered in Dunwoody this Presidents' Day Weekend for the "silver anniversary" of the GRSP Leadership Weekend. While we haven't hosted quite 25 weekends (a snowstorm and COVID each interfered), this weekend carried on the tradition of developing future leaders and Service Above Self that started on MLK weekend in 2000.  The Rotary Club of Dunwoody took the lead with support from the Rotary Clubs of Buckhead and Atlanta Metro, the Rotaract Club of Atlanta, and the Georgia Rotary Student Program - thank you for being a big part of the weekend.

Students arrived on Valentine's Day for a pizza party and game night. On Saturday morning, they packed 10,000 meals for Rise Against Hunger, and the Rotary Club of Dunwoody was recognized for reaching a 100,000-meal milestone with Rise Against Hunger ... most of those meals packed over the last 10 years by GRSP students. Students learned that this year's meals were going to Honduras as part of a food/education program for elementary students. 

Dunwoody Rotarian Peter Sherman led Saturday afternoon's leadership "boot camp" - focused on servant leadership, teamwork, and project planning. These skills were put to work in Sunday morning's "Shark Tank" - facilitated by the Rotaract Club of Atlanta. Student teams developed projects aligned with Rotary's seven areas of focus, in hopes of winning $1,000 funding for their project. This year, five of the projects focused on Georgia, and two on international projects. The "Disease Prevention & Treatment" team came in first with their elementary school fitness program targeting a SW Atlanta school. All the ideas were awesome and students were encouraged to take their projects back to their sponsoring countries here and in their home countries.


Posted by Jackie Cuthbert
February 19, 2025

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