Building upon the Rotary Scholars Program, the Hopkinsville Rotary Club Tuesday announced the launch of Rotary Impact, which will identify high school students who intend to teach after college and pay their way through HCC and the Murray State Hopkinsville campus for four years.
Rotary President Andrew Wilson says the program has already begun with two cohorts of two students each in the junior and senior classes at Murray State who graduated from local high schools. Students will be identified while they are in high school in the future and Wilson says they will be able to complete their Bachelors Degree in education debt free.
Rotary Impact participants will then return to Christian County and must teach at least four years in the local school system or pay back all or some of the tuition to Murray State.
Wilson says Rotary Impact could include additional pathways into different fields in the near future.
Rotary has made a commitment over the next 10 years of $350,000 to help fund the program. Rotary is starting an impact endowment within the Rotary Foundation to continue the program into the future.
High school students in Christian County interested in applying for Rotary Impact should talk with their guidance counselor.