Students at JCLC. Courtesy Photo.
By Aly Miranda | Photo Courtesy Roosevelt JROTC |
From Aug. 9 to 12, 5:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., 10 Roosevelt students participated in Junior Cadet Leadership Camp.
“This camp is to help them (the students) become better leaders in their life and everywhere they are. It helps them in communication and gets them physically fit as well,” Col. Robert Foutz said.
JCLC is all about leadership. Students are chosen to attend the camp for four days and participate in the activities there. It is to build up students’ characters and personalities and helps them become better people.
“This camp was to train us to be better and effective leaders in our battalion and we learned all that in the leadership classes that were there,” junior, DATA student, Evan Pape said.
Students learn to become a leaders in communication as well. It also helps them with personal long term and short therm goals they have.
“It helps me, and others, conquer fears if anyone [has] any. It also teaches me to help other people get their stuff done, like school work, which leads back to being a good leader,” sophomore, ETA student, Miguel Avalos said.
Not only does this camp train them in leadership, it also helps them become physically fit. JCLC had activities for the campers/students to be doing throughout the 4 days that they were there.
“There were multiple courses, like canoeing and lots of leadership challenges, training and positions,” 11th grader, ETA student, Jerry Perez-Roach said. “I thought it was well planned and it taught me different aspects of leadership and how to command my peers, since I’m in JROTC,”
JCLC has been around as JROTC, which was founded about 40 years ago, in the North East school district. As each year/summer passes, students from every high school attend the camp and leave as leaders that have been helped and help others.