North Point High School JROTC students recently spent a week introducing middle schoolers to the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps. JROTC has a program in each of the county’s high schools.
North Point’s Summer Leadership School (SLS) gives rising freshmen interested in JROTC the opportunity to learn about it before committing when they start high school in a couple of months.
At SLS, students are split into four groups — known as flights — where they learn more about teamwork and leadership. They also learn about drills, physical fitness, inspections and other facets of the JROTC program.
“There is an order to things and discipline in everything you do,” said Chandler Bell, a North Point senior in the school’s U.S. Air Force JROTC. There is also a bond built. “It’s a family,” she added.
At SLS, everything is framed as a competition between the four flights — or groups — of cadets in Alpha, Bravo, Charlie and Delta. A recent “re-mix” competition during which each flight wrote new lyrics to a song determined which group would get to eat first at lunch.
“Everybody will get to eat,” Bell said. “But only one flight gets to go first.”
“It’s a really competitive environment,” Qi Yong Wu, a North Point junior, said. “It’s an environment that encourages people and brings out their best.”
About CCPS
Charles County Public Schools provides 27,108 students in grades prekindergarten through 12 with an academically challenging education. Located in Southern Maryland, Charles County Public Schools has 37 schools that offer a technologically advanced, progressive and high quality education that builds character, equips for leadership and prepares students for life, careers and higher education.
The Charles County public school system does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age or disability in its programs, activities or employment practices. For inquiries, please contact Kathy Kiessling, Title IX/ADA/Section 504 Coordinator (students) or Nikial M. Majors, Title IX/ADA/Section 504 coordinator (employees/ adults), at Charles County Public Schools, Jesse L. Starkey Administration Building, P.O. Box 2770, La Plata, MD 20646; 301-932-6610/301-870-3814. For special accommodations call 301-934-7230 or TDD 1-800-735-2258 two weeks prior to the event.
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North Point’s Summer Leadership School (SLS) gives rising freshmen interested in JROTC the opportunity to learn about it before committing when they start high school in a couple of months.
At SLS, students are split into four groups — known as flights — where they learn more about teamwork and leadership. They also learn about drills, physical fitness, inspections and other facets of the JROTC program.
“There is an order to things and discipline in everything you do,” said Chandler Bell, a North Point senior in the school’s U.S. Air Force JROTC. There is also a bond built. “It’s a family,” she added.
At SLS, everything is framed as a competition between the four flights — or groups — of cadets in Alpha, Bravo, Charlie and Delta. A recent “re-mix” competition during which each flight wrote new lyrics to a song determined which group would get to eat first at lunch.
“Everybody will get to eat,” Bell said. “But only one flight gets to go first.”
“It’s a really competitive environment,” Qi Yong Wu, a North Point junior, said. “It’s an environment that encourages people and brings out their best.”
About CCPS
Charles County Public Schools provides 27,108 students in grades prekindergarten through 12 with an academically challenging education. Located in Southern Maryland, Charles County Public Schools has 37 schools that offer a technologically advanced, progressive and high quality education that builds character, equips for leadership and prepares students for life, careers and higher education.
The Charles County public school system does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age or disability in its programs, activities or employment practices. For inquiries, please contact Kathy Kiessling, Title IX/ADA/Section 504 Coordinator (students) or Nikial M. Majors, Title IX/ADA/Section 504 coordinator (employees/ adults), at Charles County Public Schools, Jesse L. Starkey Administration Building, P.O. Box 2770, La Plata, MD 20646; 301-932-6610/301-870-3814. For special accommodations call 301-934-7230 or TDD 1-800-735-2258 two weeks prior to the event.
[ This article originally appeared here ]