RYLA Aplications 2024

Personal Data

Rotary Club: Gothenburg

Name: Avery P Salomon

Gender: Female

School Grade: Junior

School – Gothenburg High School

Primary Phone Number – 308.529.3616

Address: 37 Wild Horse Road Gothenburg, NE 69138

Parent/Guardian Information:

Niki Salomon

Phone: 308.537.3651 Email: niki.aaron@gmail.com

Relationship – Mother

Vision

Please explain what you hope to gain by participating in RYLA.

Being part of Interact, I’ve had numerous opportunities to aid my community and its members in all kinds of events, ranging from basketball leagues to raking leaves in elderly community members’ backyards. I’m very grateful for the opportunity to be a part of this organization because it always shapes me to be a better person, community member, and volunteerist. These are qualities which aren’t always easy to find nowadays. With this knowledge of what I’ve gained from Rotary in the past, I’m seeking an opportunity to improve my leadership skills and a new perspective on leading groups intently through this camp.

Rotary’s motto is “service above self.” What does that mean to you?

This motto means the world to me. “Service above self” is a big deal in our community of Gothenburg and my family specifically. My parents, Niki and Aaron, are both healthcare providers (PA-C and Pharmacist, respectively) and have served our community members in their walk through life for twenty-two years and counting. They’ve taught me so many skills about putting others above myself, and I credit those lessons as one of the main reasons I’m where I’m at today. Although my parents have been a big influence for me in living out this motto, they are not the only people who accomplish this. Our community of Gothenburg has hundreds, if not thousands of community members that live this motto out each and every day. From paying for someone’s meal to donating at community events, our community does it all. Through these examples, I see this “service over self” as not just a motto, but as a way of life – the best way.

Past and Current Experience

Have you ever volunteered before? – Yes

List any past or present volunteer experiences including dates volunteered and position responsibilities.

In total, I’ve racked up about 57 hours of community service from the beginning of freshman year until the present.
Cleaning high school art room (ACT Test Day 2021-2023)
– Organized paints, cleaned off easels and art supplies, mopped floors while school was off due to juniors ACT test day
Flags and Crosses Cemetery Set-Up (Memorial Day 2020-2023)
– Helped find graves of our local veterans and placed flags in medallions along with hammering in wooden crosses
Cleaned Learning Adventures Daycare (9/12/22)
– Cleaned toys, vaccumed, disinfected, organized, washed windows in one of the daycare rooms
Livin Out Loud (Summer 2021-2023)
– Helped set up for our local concert by putting in parts of the outdoor stage, moving parts around, etc.
Senior Citizen Goody Bags (10/29/23 and 10/31/23)
– On these days we made Halloween goody bays for the nursing home patients of Hilltop and Stonehearth and delivered them to the residents
Easter Egg Hunt (4/8/23)
– Set up egg hunt sections in the baseball field and distributed eggs
Interstate/Highway Roadside Cleanup (5/3/23 and Summer 2021-2023)
– Collected trash and bottles north of town for our annual cleanups and collected trash with Interact members near our interstate exit
American Red Cross Blood Donor (February 2023-2024)
– Donated blood and assisted those donating by checking on them, grabbing snacks, and walking them out

Do you currently have a job? – Yes

List up to three past or current paid job experience including dates employed and responsibilities. Start with your most recent

Gothenburg Discount Pharmacy (November 2023-present)
– Work as a pharmacy clerk and answer the phone, ring up customers, clean cassets and other supplies, put away bottles, organize prescriptions, etc.
Frontier Family Pharmacy in Cozad (Summer 2023)
– Worked as a pharmacy clerk and answered the phone, rung up customers, cleaned and vaccumed, put away bottles, organized prescriptions, etc.
Tropical Sno (Summer 2023-remaining summers)
– Make sno cones and flavors, clean trailer and supplies, provide excellent customer service, etc.

Have you received any awards or honors? – Yes

List awards or recognition

State FFA Proficiency Finalist – Gothenburg Historical Audio Tour (2023, 2024)
District Speech Team Championship (2024)
Southwest Conference Speech Team Championship (2023, 2024)
Cross Country Letterwinner (2021-2023)
Track and Field Letterwinner (2022-2023)
Cross Country Academic All-State Recipient (2022, 2023)
4.0 Honor Roll (2019-present)
Renaissance Swede Scholar (2019-present)
Sigma Phi Beta (2024)
National Honor Society (2023-present)
Prostar Finalist/Gothenburg Improvement Committee Excellent Entrepreneur (2024)

that you received for academic, school, or community activities beginning in the 7th grade

Have you participated in extracurricular activities or organizations? – Yes

Please list, in order of importance to you, any school, religious, social, athletic, hobbies or other activities or organizations which you have participated in since the 7th grade

Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church
Interact
Owner of Gothenburg Historical Audio Tour podcast
FFA
Speech
National Honor Society
FCA
One-Act
Cross Country
Track and Field

applications

Rotary District 5630