RYLA Student Adam Caunt

The Club enjoyed an entertaining and informative presentation for Adam Caunt, the Head Boy of Brine Leas School who had recently spent a week on a Rotary Youth Leaders Course.

The course had been designed to test both mental and physical initiative as well as building and demonstrating the importance of team work.

The 40 young people on the course had been divided into 4 teams of 10 and given a series of tasks, some of which were intended to create and develop business skills involving buying raw materials, storing them and building a raft.

The physical activies, most of which seemed to end up with everyone getting soaked, involved rock climbing, canoeing, mountain biking hiking and walking through a disused mine, where when their head torches were turned off, it left  them completely in the dark and no idea which way to go. ( Excellent experience for when they enter the world of business!!, writers comment)

Each of the activities were team based in order to created awareness of the importance of indiividual trust in reliance on each other.

All of the activities were run a point scoring basis and Adam’s team finished a creditable second overall.

He went on to say how much he had enjoyed the course and how  he felt he had benefitted from the experience.

Finally he thanked Rotary for giving him the opprtunity to attend the course.

The vote of thanks was given by Rotarian Geoff Parsons,who commented that, in his youth, he had spent a month on one of these courses and assured Adam that he would benefit from the experience in his working career.