Vineyard residents between the ages of 15 and 19, in the upper one third of their academic class, who want to be a world traveler, should take note of the Rotary Club of Martha’s Vineyard offer of a short-term exchange in 2011. With the short-term exchange the Island student will go overseas for about three weeks during the summer vacation, staying with a Rotary family abroad that also has a teenaged student. At the end of the stay, the foreign teenager will return and spend about three weeks with the Vineyard student’s family.

Annually 7,000 students from more than 80 countries take part in Rotary Youth Exchanges. The Rotary Club, a worldwide organization of business and community leaders, dedicated to “Service above self” is uniquely positioned to offer this program.

The Martha’s Vineyard Rotary Club has hosted students from Peru, France, Turkey and Japan over the past five years. Having foreign students on Martha’s Vineyard makes a richer educational experience for all our students, and teaches them about the world as no other way can.

Please contact Paul Watts at 508-693-7813 or boats@vineyard.net for an application.