The National Youth Science Forum is a 12-day program for Year 11 students who are thinking about a career in science, engineering or technology. Three separate sessions of the fully residential program are hosted in January each year by the Australian National University in Canberra and by Curtin University and the University of Western Australia in Perth.

Students are introduced to research and researchers, encouraging excellence in all their undertakings and helping them to develop their communication and interpersonal skills.

Bowel cancer is Australia’s most damaging internal cancer, killing more than 4600 people every year. But bowel cancer is very curable if you catch it early.

In March each year, Rotary clubs throughout Western Australia support Bowelscan.

During that month, Bowelscan test kits can be purchased at a low cost from participating pharmacies. The returned test kits are tested by the participating pathology laboratory at no cost.

Handicamp is a unique Rotary program. Each year, up to 24 people aged from 18 to around 38 years old with mild to moderate intellectual or physical challenges are selected to take part in the week-long camp.

They enjoy fun and fellowship, grow through new experiences and involve themselves in a range of activities they might normally miss.

The National Youth Science Forum is a 12-day program for students who are thinking about a career in science, engineering or technology. The fully residential program is hosted in January each year by the Australian National University in Canberra.

Students are introduced to research and researchers, encouraging excellence in all their undertakings and helping them to develop their communication and interpersonal skills.

Polio is a crippling and potentially fatal disease that can strike at any age but mainly affects children under five years of age.

The PolioPlus campaign was created by Rotary International with the aim of immunising all the world’s children against polio. In 1988, when the Global Polio Eradication Initiative began, the disease was endemic in more than 125 countries and more than 350,000 children were paralysed each year.

ROMAC organises medical treatment in Australia for young people from developing countries suffering from life-threatening or disfiguring conditions that cannot be treated in their home countries.

Over 20 years, ROMAC has assisted more than 300 children from 20 countries in Asia and the Pacific region. These are children, usually from very remote areas, who have heart conditions, horrific burns, deformed limbs and herniated brains.

The  (RYLA) offers young men and women the opportunity to develop their leadership skills at a five-day residential training seminar.

Participants take part in activities such as abseiling, rock climbing, hiking, presentation skills, conflict resolution and discussions on social issues.

RYLA provides a rare opportunity to learn, grow, have fun and make new friends.

The  (RYPEN) provides young people aged between 14 and 17 years with the opportunity to develop their leadership potential.

The aim is to communicate to them a series of ideas, problem-solving techniques and social experiences which will assist them in forming their own values and moral standards and to broaden their horizons culturally, socially and academically.

The ShelterBox project is run by Rotary clubs around the world to provide shelter and beds to people made homeless in natural disasters.

After the disruption of civil conflict, storms and floods, earthquakes and other disasters, ShelterBoxes provide the immediate needs for shelter, cooking and other essential equipment.

A typical ShelterBox contains a 10-person dome tent, 10 thermal blankets, a multi-fuel stove, cooking pans, bowls, mugs and utensils, water purification tablets, collapsible water containers, spade, rope, tools and other basic equipment.

The Siemens Science Experience is a national activity established, managed and conducted by the Science Schools Foundation Inc, an independent non-profit association of educationists, Rotarians and industrialists.

For students who are in Year 9 (and heading to Year 10) and have an interest in science, the Siemens Science Experience is a fun three days of activities in participating universities and tertiary institutions.

Organisations such as Zonta do excellent work by providing emergency shelter and guidance for women and children who have been caught up in distressing and sometimes violent situations.

Frequently, women arrive at refuges with only the clothes they are wearing and without financial means to purchase urgently needed items.

In consultation with Zonta, the Rotary Club of Booragoon in 2007 launched an innovative program that provides support parcels of clothing, toiletries and hygienic items they are most likely to need.

The program has been dubbed “Just a Little Help Bag”. Rotary club members assemble the Help Bags with goods that have been purchased with Rotary charity funds or via donations of funds or goods from manufacturers and supporters.

Rotary is looking for bright, well-adjusted students able and ready to act as youth ambassadors for Australia. Each year, the Rotary Youth Exchange Program provides some 8000 young people in 60 different countries the opportunity to experience the cultures and accomplishments of people in other countries, promoting world understanding and peace.

Potential exchange countries for Western Australian students include Brazil, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland and Taiwan.

Rotary Books for Bubs, a program launched in 2008 by the Rotary Club of Booragoon, helps open children up to the magic of books by encouraging their parents to read to them from a very young age.