Rotaract Club of Virginia Tech

This invites applications from VT students to be selected for the fully-funded/full scholarship NewGen Peacebuilders leadership development, conflict resolution, and peace project management program for university students this Fall 2018. (It starts Saturday/Sunday, Sept. 8-9 in Roanoke. Housing arrangements are available.) The deadline to apply for the NewGen Peacebuilders-VA/TN College and University cohort is August 17, 2018. We’re excited to have some VT students registered (along with students from six other colleges and universities), and we welcome more!

NewGen Peacebuilders- VA/TN Universities, Fall 2018 Application for Participation NewGen Peacebuilders trains and equips high school and university students to:-Truly understand drivers of conflict and peace-Imagine innovative solutions that create change-Take action to address an issue impacting quality of life in a community or communities

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We really enjoyed connecting with the Christiansburg-Blacksburg Rotary Club at the annual Spaghetti Dinner! We appreciate all of the club's support. Also, thanks to all of the members of the Rotaract Club who came out and helped cook the delicious meal. 😀

We completed the Linus Project tonight at our meeting! All the blankets we made will go to children in the local community. We're really excited to reach out to our community and help make a difference!

Started off the school year by enjoying nature and each other's fellowship! We're passionate about serving our local community and contributing and connecting with the larger global community; we also enjoy getting to know each other and building life long friendships. We're excited to meet new members and see some old friends this week!

The Rotaract Club will be participating in the NewGen Peacebuilders Program! The NewGen Peacebuilders Program is a global youth peace education program that emphasizes the role, value, and impact of young people in achieving a peaceful world. The program equips young people to understand the drivers of peace and conflict, imagine innovative solutions to create change, and to take positive action to address an issue affecting a community or communities.

The entire Virginia Tech community is invited to apply (especially Rotaractors, though!!).

Visit http://www.motheringacrosscontinents.org/NewGenPeace/ to apply by June 15, 2017.

Let's keep making positive changes in our communities!

NewGen Peacebuilders | Mothering Across Continents Global Project Network

Rotaract is wrapping up the end of this semester with a fun-filled weekend. We held a fundraising event in support of Worldwide Orphans selling Walking Tacos to the community in downtown Blacksburg on Thursday evening. We participated in the largest collegiate Relay for Life event at Virginia Tech on Friday and we helped out at the biannual blood screening sponsored by our friends at the Christiansburg-Blacksburg Rotary Club on Saturday!! Click through some pictures and check out to see the fun we had!
As the year is coming to a close, I want to wish everyone a great rest of the school year. Best wishes to our graduating seniors and their endeavors and a huge thank you to our committed Rotaractors and community members for helping us be as successful as we are! See you all next year :)

Our Rotaractors are rockstars! We participated in VT Chi Delta Alpha's 1st annual Dodgeball Tournament to support their philanthropy for Micah's Backpack and also in support for our international project- Worldwide Orphans. Our team won first place!! Here are some pictures of the super star squad in action

Can't forget to share pictures of our members participating in a community-wide service day, to the say 'Thank You' to the Blacksburg area. The Big Event was a success! What a wonderful way of showing our appreciation by cleaning up a local community garden

Happy Friday everyone! Always a great time at Micah's Backpack on Thursdays. Here are a few photos to express the fun we had. Quality of time beats the quantity of pictures :)