Welcome to Iowa RYLA applications for students who reside outside of Iowa or Rotary districts 5970 and 6000.  We are excited to extend a limited number of invitations to both our domestic and international Rotary partners and we are happy you are interested in attending our weeklong Iowa RYLA conference.

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Please read through these important aspects of attending the Iowa RYLA conference:

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1) All students are required to contact their local sponsoring Rotary club.  Your sponsoring Rotary club must provide our Iowa RYLA team with a letter of recommendation that can be sent to greg.probst@iowaryla.org prior to completing the required applications and steps below.

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2) The sponsoring Rotary club must provide via our HEF page a sponsoring scholarship for the student they are sponsoring to our Iowa RYLA conference.  The fee for attending the 2026 Iowa RYLA conference is $600 USD.  This fee covers the conference fees and associated Rotary Youth Exchange (RYE) administrative costs only.  This does not cover the cost of transportation, temporary lodging before and after RYLA, required CISI/Bouldoc health insurance or visa and other travel documents.  More information will be provided later on these additional costs and required information.

 

3) If a students is attending from outside the USA via one of our Rotary Youth Exchange (RYE) partners, they must complete a RYE Short Term (STEP) application.  This includes all required health information.

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4) The tentative schedule is to arrive in Iowa at an airport on a specific on a specific date shortly before RYLA and to return home on a specific date shortly after RYLA.  For logistics reasons, the dates of arrival and return along with the airport designation are non-negotiable.  Dates and airport has yet to be determined.

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5) All students are responsible for acquiring a USA Travel Visa.  Please contact your local Rotary Youth Exchange team for more information on obtaining the necessary travel documentation for attending Iowa RYLA.

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6) All international students must be very proficient in English.  This is unlike a typical RYE exchange where students have the opportunity to improve their English over the course of the academic year.  Students will be engaged with their peers during the entire week and they must be able to be fluent enough to participate and engage with others.

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7) All international students will be expected to participate in several Zoom sessions with team leads and other conference leaders as part of the application process.  This is to help understand an applicant's goals, service leadership experience and fluency in English.

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If our Rotarian partners have any questions, concerns or need additional information, please contact Greg Probst - greg.probst@iowaryla.org or via WhatsApp.

 

PLEASE READ:  Before you begin completing your application, please follow these suggestions and guidelines:

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Please use a personal e-mail address.  Sometimes, e-mail is accidentally filtered or blocked by school e-mail protections.  You will receive a great deal of important communication via e-mail, and we do not want you to miss out on those messages and deadlines.  Please ensure your spam filtering is configured to receive email from our iowaryla.org domain.   ​​

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You will complete your application via our online Google Form.  As you progress through it, please consider saving some of your longer answers in a separate document, such as a word processor or notes doc, if you encounter a problem and need to start again.​

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Google Form Application is not available at this time for Iowa RYLA 2026.