skills and knowledge.
This skill, focused on guiding and motivating others, is learned during Years 2, 3, and 4.
What is Leadership Development?
This competition helps JROTC cadets build academic skills while learning the importance of leadership and teamwork.
What is the JROTC Leadership and Academic Bowl?
In this year, the National Defense Act was passed, allowing the federal government to loan military equipment to schools to support JROTC programs.
What is 1916?
This man founded the American Literary, Scientific and Military Academy in Norwich, Vermont, in 1818, which later became Norwich University.
Who is Captain Alden Partridge?
By engaging in community service, you help develop this trait, which is critical for good citizenship and includes being honest, responsible, and respectful.
What is Character?
This concept, learned every year, helps students grow emotionally and socially by improving their behavior, self-discipline, and confidence.
What is Personal Growth and Behaviors?
In this one-week residential program, JROTC cadets engage in STEM labs and interact with college-level professors and students.
What is the JROTC STEM Program?
In this year, female cadets were officially allowed to join JROTC.
What is 1973?
Captain Partridge believed that a good education wasn’t complete without learning how to do this – a skill that was a major focus at his academy.
What is Military Training?
One of the most rewarding aspects of community service is experiencing this feeling, which comes from helping others and making a positive impact.
What is Satisfaction (fulfillment)?
JROTC students practice this process in Years 1, 2, and 3 to help them make good choices and solve problems.
What is decision making?
In this competition, cadets demonstrate their precision and discipline in both regulation and exhibition drills.
What is the Drill Competition?
By this year, the number of JROTC units had grown to 1,709 across the country.
What is 2017?
In addition to military training and math, cadets at Captain Partridge’s academy also studied five types of this subject, which helps people understand laws and government.
What is Law?
Through JROTC and community service, cadets learn how to work together to achieve a common goal, developing this key skill.
What is Teamwork?
JROTC teaches students to work together and achieve common goals in this area, which is emphasized throughout all four years.
What is team building?
This program gives cadets a hands-on opportunity to practice leadership and teamwork skills in a real-world, leadership-focused setting.
What is the JROTC Cadet Leadership Challenge?
This act, passed in 1964, expanded the JROTC program to include branches of the military other than the Army.
What is the Revitalization Act of 1964?
Along with military training, cadets at Captain Partridge's academy studied ten different types of this subject.
What is Mathematics?
Participating in community service projects helps you develop this essential skill, which includes motivating and guiding others.
What is Leadership?
This is the focus of health and fitness in JROTC, which is taught throughout all four years to keep students strong and healthy.
What is Physical Fitness?
This competitive marksmanship program helps cadets build teamwork, self-confidence, and a strong sense of esprit de corps.
What is the Air Rifle Competition?
The passage of the National Defense Act of 1916 led to the establishment of this number of JROTC units across the United States.
What is 6?
Captain Partridge’s idea of combining military training with regular education was so successful that it spread to other schools across the U.S. This is the program that was influenced by his vision.
What is JROTC?
The life skills developed in JROTC, like problem-solving and responsibility, are often called this.
What are Core Abilities?