Presentation given by Rotarian Ekkehard Musick from District 1800, Germany.

1. Workshop B
How to Build successful ROTEX Programs
Ekkehard Musick
District 1800, Northern Germany

2. ROTEX
a club of former Rotary exchange students
defined membership
firmly established goals and proceedings
Not simply former exchangees

3. Rebound Debriefing
Interest in
contact and
service
Interest in
loose contact
ROTEX
Alumni Database
(Senior Rotex)
Info RYLA Seminars Yearly Meetings
No
further
interest
A Few Steps from Rebound to ROTEX

4. ROTEX
Information Input
Rotary Policies
First Aid
Service Projects
Harrassment & Abuse
Working with Youth
Inbounds
Outbounds
Host Parents
Information
Responsibilities,
Communication Lines
Medico

5. 5Pre-Convention 2014
Rebound ROTEX
Intensive
Leadership
Training
NGSE
RYLA
Continued
Leadership
Training
Outbound Training
Inbound Weekends
Hostparents Information Day
Euro-Tour

7. Could you agree with most of these thoughts?
• When I look at the application forms and see the kids I sent out last year
– and now I see what has happened in this short spell of time, I am
always impressed!
• They seem to have understood the values of the great Rotary Family.
• Their personality seems to have received a major boost.
• Many of them have got a much wider horizon and cultural understanding.
• They have found their way not only through Chicago, Frankfurt, Sao Paulo
Airport, but also through difficult phases in host family, school and with newly
gained friends.
• And now and then I come across absolutely outstanding young
rebounds…
• Can I accept that they disappear into Rotarian No-where, far
away from Rotary???

8. If all this is true, then I should
• not only offer a short „debriefing“ session
• offer these young people a chance to stay close to Rotary, the
Rotary Family
• offer those interested in further contact a field of action, of
service
• build a trustworthy basis for joint action
• help to found a Rotex organisation (if necessary, if not started
by the young themselves)

9. Integration into running exchange program
Outbound:
Outbound Selection Weekend
Outbound training
How to cope with homesickness
Student Protection Policy: Harrassment & Abuse
(Strategies)
Cultural Learning (Report of one´s own experience;
culture oriented)

10. Inbounds
Integration into Welcome Weekend Host District
Joint District:Rotex Host Parent Information Day
After internal training: possibility to organize Rotex
Weekends in the name of Host District
Example : Candle light talk
Eurotour (with Rotary Chaperone)

11. Integration into Interact (poss. Founding of Interact Clubs)
 Transport of Internationality into Interact Club ( at
Rebound´s own school?)
 Cultural Learning ( report on rebound´s own exchange
experience)
 Creation of Interest in Ideal of Service
 Creation of Interest in Exchange Experience (LTEP & STEP)