Rocky Mountain Rotary Youth Exchange
About Rocky Mountain Rotary Youth Exchange
Rocky Mountain Rotary Youth Exchange is made up of volunteers from Rotary District 5450. Our Rotary District is geographically centered by the Denver-metro area and extends along the I-25 corridor from Mead to Castle Rock and extends from Summit County and Grand County in the west to Fort Morgan and Brush in the east. The map to the right shows the counties in Colorado that make up each of the Rotary Districts.
The first step to applying to be a Rotary Exchange Student is to request an application and to contact your local Rotary Club for an interview. Then students recommended by their local club will be interviewed by the 5450 District Committee. Students selected to participate in the program will then be placed with one of our partner Rotary Youth Exchange Committees.
Upcoming Events
List of Services
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Welcome BBQList Item 1
August 24
Celebrating the arrival of our Inbound Exchange Students. Location to be determined and shared.
Inbound students, host families, club members, committee members, ROTEX students and any Outbound student who are still in Colorado are invited.
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Rotary Peak Hike
September 7
Participants will gather at 8:30 am on Sunday, Sept.7 for group photos at the trailhead on the west side of Highway 6 at the top of Loveland Pass. It is a relatively safe & easy route, 3 miles (5 km) roundtrip with a net gain in altitude of 489 feet (150m) to the peak at 12,479 feet (3,800m), with spectacular scenery both east and west as it follows the Continental Divide. We expect to be back down to the trailhead by about 11 am to enjoy provided refreshments.
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Outbound Applications
November 1
New Outbound Applications for students in Colorado are due November 1, 2025 for the 2026-27 School Year.
The Madison Middleton Scholarship Fund
The Madison Middleton Scholarship Fund is an annual award of up to $5,000 for outbound students in District 5450 in need of assistance. It is given by the family of the late Madison Middleton from donations collected in her name.
Madison Middleton entered France as a Rotary Youth Exchange student in her junior year of high school and was able to travel abroad for a year to represent our country. She met and became friends with many different kids and Rotarians from around the world, and this truly helped define who she was.
Madison lost her life in a car accident coming home from the University of Northern Colorado for Christmas break where she was studying International Business and French. She will be remembered by all that knew her and was a friend to everyone she met.
Donate
Donations to RMRYE are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by current regulations in the year in which the donation was made. Please check with your employer/human resources office, some companies match donations made and you can easily double your donation.
On me dit que le destin se moque bien de nous, qu’il ne nous donne rien et qu’il nous promet tout.
Life is never simple. We are either blissfully ignorant of the world in our highest moments, or painfully aware of it in our lowest.
Madison Middleton 2010
