Welcome to Mountain & Plains District 5470 Rotary Youth Exchange
For High School Study Abroad
The application period to study abroad through Rotary in the 2025-26 school year is CLOSED. Please check back on August 1, 2025 if you are interested in a Long-Term (full school year) exchange for 2026-27.
Please view our most recent applicant information session here.- About our Long-Term Youth Exchange Program - The application period for the 2026-27 exchange year will open in August 2025.
- About our Short-Term Youth Exchange Program - Applications for the 2026-27 exchange year are due by March 1, 2026
- Learn about hosting a high school foreign exchange student!
- Interested in volunteering to help run our program? More information here.
" In the end your story will not only be about the beautiful memories, forever lasting relationships and endless freedom you have found in this world beyond imagination. But It will be a story of how you most importantly, found yourself. "
Click here to watch Keenan's Trovato Video
My year spent abroad in Savona, Italy was the most incredible year of my life. I got to see the world and all of the magic that it holds. Becoming and exchange student helped me discover my passions and how I want to spend my time on this beautiful planet. I have an immeasurable amount of gratitude for Rotary International for giving me this once in a lifetime experience. GRAZIE MILLE A ROTARY. ~ Keenan DesPlanques ~ Durango, Colorado
Rotary Youth Exchange is a worldwide program that provides more than 8,000 teenagers each year an adventure of a lifetime: a chance to live, learn and become a true part of a new family, culture and way of life as a high school foreign exchange student.
This program is a part of Rotary International, a worldwide service club that promotes peace, goodwill and understanding on local, national and international levels. Rotary members perform community services in their local communities (such as providing scholarships, maintaining parks or helping food banks) and around the world (such as clean water initiatives, polio eradication, and a myriad of youth projects).
The Rotary network includes 34,000 clubs in 200 countries with 1.2 million members.
