The Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay has been a proud sponsor of the West Australian Music Teachers’ Association‘s annual Recital & Concerto Competition (RCC) since 2018. In 2023, the prize money we donate was used for the “Most Artistic Interpretation” award, which went to an extremely talented 14 year old…
Chaoyang School, Singapore was gifted 30 handheld microscopes by the Rotary Club Freshwater Bay in August 2023. The school immediately integrated the use of the microscopes into the upper primary science teaching curriculum. A small group of students had the chance to trial the use of the new learning tool…
On August 22nd, the Magnifying Microscopes we sent to Brazil were donated to two public schools. Students of Ladislau Schicorski and Cecília Meireles schools were delighted with the new learning instrument. The Municipal Secretary of Education Anirleia de Paula thanked the Rotary Club of Goioerê for choosing public schools for the…
The Rotary Club of Mount Lawley donated a set of 30 Magnifying Microscopes to St Columba’s School in Bayswater in the first term of 2023. The school has forwarded photos of the microscopes being used by students. The science teachers reported that the students have been busy exploring the microscopic…
Applications for the WA Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) program for 2024 are open now! RYLA is for young people aged 18 to 28 who want to: We promise, we’ll deliver all of that and more in our January 2024 program. Applications close 30 November 2023. Please contact us if…
In April 2023, we received an email from Gilson dos Santos Croscato, a Rotarian in the Rotary Club of Goioerê, District 4630, Brazil, who learned about our Microscopes in Schools project via an article in the March 2023 edition of Rotary Brasil. In April 2023, we received an email from…
The National Youth Science Forum (NYSF) Year 12 Program is designed to give students a broader understanding of the diverse study and career options available in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and to encourage continued studies in these fields. The NYSF Year 12 Program runs two summer sessions :…
Our Singaporean members LAU Eng Seng and Sheila Cheng have generously purchased a set of 30 microscopes for the APSN Chaoyang School in Singapore. This is the same school where the Buddy Bench was installed. Sheila’s friend Carol Lim from Singapore and her nephew collected the 30 units for LAU and…
An article about our Magnifying Microscopes project appeared in the March 2023 edition (issue 1209) of the Rotary Brasil magazine. We learned about this when a Rotarian from the Rotary Club of Goioerê, District 4630, Brazil, contacted CP Di Collins to ask if we could donate a set of microscopes…
At our meeting on 26th April 2023, we had presentations from two students we sponsored to attend the Santos Science Experience at Murdoch University from 13-15th December 2022. Sean Bolton and James Wrona, from Shenton College, came to our meeting along with their Science Master, Fiona Hassell, plus their mothers. Sean had attended the…