The effects of Sir David Attenborough’s “Blue Planet” series has certainly struck a chord with the young members of Plympton’s community with pollution and especially ocean pollution being a theme of several of the competing teams at the Plympton Rotary heat of the Rotary Youth Speaks Competition held at Boringdon Park Golf Club on the 17th January. As Head Judge Peter Reid remarked, the planet will be in safe hands when these children are in charge as adults!
But this was not the only topic with debates also being held on subjects such as “Are computers more intelligent than the people who use them?” and “Life is an Escape Room”, which were not only informative but very entertaining.
Linda Bertram was in charge in organising this local heat which is one of the many youth competitions run by Rotary in Great Britain & Ireland. She said that “this speaking competition in particular covers a wide range of skills, including performance, presentation, the gathering of their ideas on topical subjects and then delivering them within a time limit. This is no mean feat whatever your age and many of these youngsters put some of us Rotarians to shame”.
The winners of this local heat where: Boringdon “A” in the junior category who spoke on “Ocean Pollution”, Heles “A” on “Are Computers More Intelligent that the People who Use them?” in the Intermediate category and the winners of the Senior category where Heles “B” who spoke on “Life is an Escape Room”.
The teams now progress on to the Plymouth Area final due to take place in February and hopefully will then go on to the District and maybe National finals. Plympton Rotary know that all of the teams will do the club proud.
more Details of our Young Chef and Young Photographer competitions have been released
more Congratulations to Kelly from Marine Academy Plymouth in coming first in today's Plymouth area final of the Rotary Young Chef competition. She and Abigail from Plymouth High School for Girls who came second now go on to January's District Final at Petroc
more Congratulations to Milly who has been crowned the District's best young vocalist and Lewis who came second as an instrumentalist
more Our 2016 exhibition will be open from 5pm on the 16th March through to the 13th April in the Embarkation Lounge at Brittany Ferries, Plymouth. It will then move to the café at Sainsbury's Marsh Mills.
more Showcasing the great musical and performing acts talent we have among our young in Plymouth.
more Our Young Artist and Photographer exhibition opens soon. From the launch day you will be able to view the exhibits online as well as at the show.
more We have once again held our local heat of the RIBI Young Chef competition.
more Charity Concert Sunday 15th March 7.00pm Theatre 1, Roland Levinsky Building University of Plymouth Tickets £10 per person - (Children free) To Book call: 01752 774401
more Sunday 16th November saw the club host a local heat of the national Young Musician of the Year competition. The day was also used for auditions for the Celebration of Young Performers concert which takes place next April.
more Our 2013-14 Young Photographer competition was a great success with our senior winner coming second overall in the national RIBI competition.
more Details on the national Rotary Young Writer competition - in which we as a club have an interest.
more The Rotary Club of Plympton are looking to sponsor a young person aged 18 to 28 who is capable and possesses the potential to be a leader in their community but who may not yet have had the opportunity to develop their full potential.
more December 17th saw our local round of the RIBI (Rotary in Great Britain & Ireland) Young Chef competition take place at Eggbuckland Community College.
more The Plympton Rotary Club are sponsoring 2 young musician's in the Rotary in Great Britain & Ireland “Young Musician” competition following the successful local heat held at the Sherwell Centre.
more The Celebrating Young Performers Concert - jointly organised with the Plymouth & District Soroptimists was another outstanding success showcasing some great young talent.
more Once again we are teaming up with the Plymouth & District Soroptimists to organise a concert promoting young talent. Details on how you can book your tickets can be found here.
more Winner of this year's Ted Osmond award announced. This is an annual award we make to a young member of the local community.
more The Rotary Club of Plympton are pleased to announce the launch of their annual Young Artist Exhibition. This is the seventh year of the exhibition and this year, for the first time, incorporates a Young Photography competition.
more Rotary encourages speaking & presentation skills in young people and are pleased that schools seem to agree. The Rotary in Great Britain and Ireland (Rotary GB&I) Youth Speaks competition, as a result, continues to go from strength to strength each year.
more The Rotary Club of Plympton are once again running a local heat of the Rotary in Great Britain & Ireland "Young Photographer" competition.
more For their fourth Charity concert, Plymouth Soroptimists and the Rotarians of Plympton are looking forward to finding some fresh new talent for a Charity concert to be held on a date in September to be confirmed at the University of Plymouth.
more Our 2012-13 local heat of the Rotary in Great Britain & Ireland "Young Chef" Competition was another great success.
more Details of our 2012 Young Artist Exhibition
more The sixth annual Plympton Rotary Club "Young Artists Exhibition" launched on Thursday 7th April
more Young Photographer 2011
more The 2010 Young Artist Competition
more Read about our 2012 Young Chef competiton and the progress of our winner James.
more Celebrating Young Performers 2012