If members have guests or know of attending visitors, please share this meeting invite and zoom link with them to join the meeting.
Please be reminded, access to the meeting room will be available from 7:30am with the official meeting starting at 7:40am.
If you would like a more general discussion about attending a Rotary meeting, please contact the club secretary at rotaryclubcentralmelbourne@gmail.com.
2023 RMIT Vocational Education Student of the Year: Ian Angus Prize Winners
To honour our late member Ian Angus, OAM, and put his kind bequest to our club to effective use, the club has partnered with RMIT University to co-brand and co-fund these excellence awards.
The 2023 awards were our first awards and the agreement is in place for 2024 and 2025.
Ian was an RMIT student, teacher and senior manager for 35 years. These are the top RMIT Vocational Education (VE) sector awards, chosen from faculty level winners.
The four awards are: VE Student of the Year, Apprentice of the Year, Industry Excellence Award and Indigenous Student of the Year. The 2023 winners were:
Award Categories
Student Name
Discipline
VE Student of the Year
Samim Sultani
Social Care & Health
Apprentice of the Year
Lachlan Cannon
Built Environment & Sustainability
Industry Excellence award
Ruby Shields
Creative Industries
Indigenous Student of the Year
Destiny Harrison
Social Care & Health
Samim Sultani: An outstanding refugee from Afghanistan who overcame significant adversity to successfully complete the Certificate IV in Education Support and is on the road to becoming a primary teacher. He is an articulate spokesperson and a powerful role model for students who are facing challenges or barriers to learning.
Lachlan Cannon: Excelled in his Plumbing Apprenticeship, despite the many challenges of the Covid lockdown on practical training. Lachlan showed excellent academic and personal leadership.
Ruby Shields: Excelled in the Associate Degree of Interior Decoration & Design. Ruby built a robust portfolio of internal and many external industry briefs. She was recognised for her work in magazines like Grand Design, Home Design while also contributing to professional industry blogs & podcasts.
Destiny Harrison: Destiny was a standout student in the Dental Assisting program. She works in Bairnsdale in an Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation that provides free healthcare to the local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community in her area.
The Board has decided to continue the current meeting format on a trial basis, with the exception that evening Zoom meetings will now start at 7.30 pm.
The District Conference will be held shortly. It is assumed that Anne King has heard from everyone attending.
Alison Chan will be transferring to a Club in New Zealand, as she is returning home.
Iftar Dinner
The Iftar Dinner is booked for Friday, 5 April at the William Angliss Restaurant. Please RSVP ASAP using the instructions found later in the bulletin.
Guest Speaker - Stephanie Urchik
RI President-Elect Stephanie Urchik will speak on Wednesday 12th June to wrap up the Rotary Year 2023/24 and talk about what upcoming major changes to expect.
THE LUME Melbourne will open its latest experience Leonardo da Vinci – 500 years of Genius presented by Webuild on Saturday March 16. To celebrate its opening Rotary Central Melbourne has been provided a limited special offer of a 20% discount on all single entry tickets to the Lume Melbourne, valid until April 30, 2024.
When booking a ticket, please use the code ROTARYCMELB. Further details are contained in the flyer.
THE LUME Melbourne is now regarded as a highlight and must-see in Melbourne’s world-renowned arts cultural precinct. This latest experience is highly anticipated as visitors will have the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to step inside the world of Leonardo, featuring original drawings and writings from the Codex Atlanticus, penned by the master himself.
This is the first time in history the Codex Atlanticus has been in Australia, underscoring THE LUME Melbourne’s commitment to bringing this new extraordinary experience to Australia.
The showcase also features;
To scale machine inventions brought to life by Italian artisans
The only exact 360º replica of the Mona Lisa in the world,
A breathtaking immersive digital art experience featuring Leonardo’s artworks plus additional Renaissance art
Plus Caffé Medici where you can enjoy an Italian inspired culinary menu
District 9800 has produced 42 peace fellows since the program began in 2002. This is more than any other district in the world – a record of which we can all be proud. We are keen to maintain it.
Changes to the selection process this year mean that it is quite likely that candidates may contact your Rotary Club out of the blue. This is because they are now being asked to contact a local club to learn about Rotary and to seek guidance and mentoring during the application process.
If this happens, I urge you to contact me so that I, or someone from the district selection committee, can guide your club and the applicant through the process. Applications close on May 15.
We'd like to extend our invitation to each of your clubs to join the Rotary E-Club of Melbourne for a very special guest speaker, RI President-Elect Stephanie Urchik, who will be joining us on Wednesday 12th June at 9PM AEST.
Our meeting will be held on Zoom, with the details below, and also in the attached image.
Date & Time: Wednesday 12th June 2024 at 9PM AEST (Find Your Timezone)
With the Rotary E-Club of Melbourne transitioning to the new E-Clubs Community Group made up of clubs across Zone 8, we especially wanted to emphasise both links to our new collaborators across the Zone, and our close and continuing friendship with the clubs of the Batman Cluster, which has been our home for many years, and with whom we look forward to continuing to serve.
The combined Rotary Districts in Victoria are honoured to be hosting Rotary International President Gordon McInally at two different events in June.
RI President Gordon has been a strident advocate in promoting Mental Health initiatives that help communities and individuals rebuild their resilience.
We are also delighted to advise that Professor Pat McGorry AO a psychiatrist known worldwide for his development and scaling up of early intervention and youth mental health services, will be joining us to compliment RI President Gordon.
The first event is on Sunday 2 June, at the RACV in Cape Schanck, 12.00 noon for a 12.30pm start, tickets are: $95 pp (plus booking fee) incl GST for 2 course lunch, $1,200 for Rotary or Corporate Tables of 8 with naming rights.
This is an amazing opportunity to meet the RI President in person and to hear of his passion in helping our youth, individuals, and communities.
The second event is a Community and Leaders Breakfast on Monday 3 June at the Frankston Arts Centre with tickets costing $38 per person. The keynote speaker will be Professor Pat McGorry AO.
Several years ago, one of our members, Mawien Ariik created South Sudanese Health Matters to help with health, hygiene and education in his native South Sudanese village of Lou Ariik, RCM recently supported South Sudanese Health Matters Inc (SSHMI) with their menstrual hygiene project that provided 1,200 school girls with access to related education and materials which has helped improve their ability to attend school. SSHMI are conducting a fundraising event to highlight the work done so far and planned in the near future. There will be plenty of entertainment as well as Eastern African-inspired cuisine. Special items will be auctioned on the night and all funds will be used to support an isolated community that is water locked due to floods during the wet season. Details are in the flyer below.
