CCHS students (L-R) Cedric Holtz, Gavin Danfelt-Martin, and Martha Wilkes will be spending their senior year in South America as Rotary Youth Exchange students. They are holding maps of their countries: Brazil and Chile and are pointing to where they will be going. They attended Central States Rotary Youth Exchange Program Summer Conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan July 10 – 12.
Cook County High School seniors Cedric Holtz, Gavin Danfelt-Martin and Martha Wilkes will be heading south in August to spend their final year of high school abroad.
The students have been chosen to participate in Rotary’s Youth Exchange Program and are being sponsored by the Two Harbors Rotary Club, District 5580. They applied last fall and were asked to rank 40 countries in order of their preference for the exchange. They have been assigned to their first and second choices. Theywill live with one or several Rotarian families and attend a local high school. They will be gone for approximately 11 months, but will be graduating from CCHS.
Cedric will spend his year in Birigui, Brazil, which is about 300 miles west of Sao Paulo in southwestern Brazil.
Gavin will be heading to northeastern Brazil on the coast to Recife, a beach city.
Martha will spend her year in the town of La Union near the lakes district of Chile, about 560 miles south of Santiago.
More information about the comprehensive youth exchange program and other Rotary programs can be found at www.rotary.org and www.csrye. org.
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