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YOUTH LEADERSHIP SUCCESS

 

Once again Cookstown Rotary Club has completed its youth leadership programme that allows a local student to win a trip to the European Parliament in Strasbourg as a member of a delegation from District 1160.

Talented young student Eimear O' Boyle from St. Marys  Grammar School, Magherafelt, has been selected as Cookstown Rotary Club's winner in the Competition.  She joins 23 other students from all over Ireland as a regional winner; a significant achievement considering that over 3,000 interviews were conducted.   

This year six local schools put forward candidates including;  Holy Trinity College, Cookstown; Cookstown High School; St.Mary's College,Magherafelt; Rainey Endowed School,Magherafelt;St.Patrick's College,Maghera; Sperrin College, Magherafelt and St.Colm's High School,Draperstown.

The competition, aimed at pupils aged 15 to 18, provides a unique opportunity for the young people to develop their leadershipskills under the watchful eye of business professionals and Rotarians. 

Nine clubs will attend the regional final in Cookstown including Ballina, Dungannon, Enniskillen, Letterkenny, Londonderry, Omagh, Sligo and Strabane/Lifford. 

The competition culminates in the overall winners participating in a week long Leadership Development Programme which consists of three days in Belfast and Dublin before setting off for the European Parliament in Strasbourg. 

Cookstown Rotary Club thanks Rotarian Sean O'Kane again for his hard work in organising the competition. It takes all his pedagogic skills to get interviewers and students at the same place at the same time! Well done Sean.

 

 

At a recent Rotary Club meeting all the local winners from our 7 schools in the youth leadership programme were present to receive club certificates.  They are pictured receiving their certificates from Club President Eileen.