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Photos courtesy of Francis Lewis High School
Fresh Meadows high schoolers
heading to D.C. to compete in national
JROTC bowls
BY JENNA BAGCAL
JBAGCAL@QNS.COM
@JENNA_BAGCAL
Two groups of Fresh Meadows high school students are
heading to the nation’s capital to flex their leadership and
academic skills this summer.
In April, Francis Lewis High School announced that
members of their Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
(JROTC) team qualified for the 2019 U.S. Army National
Leadership Bowl and Academic Bowl Championships.
From June 21 to 25, the students will go head-to-head
against dozens of other teams in Washington, D.C.
The high school’s JROTC Leadership Team advanced
through two levels of online competition to qualify for
the National Leadership Bowl in June. Members Syed
Abbas, Gregory Steward, Matthew Shinh and Alvin Ma
outranked 1,350 Army JROTC team from across the nation
with their knowledge of current events, leadership
values and leadership skills.
According to FLHS, the group is only one of 40 teams
in the U.S. to advance to the final competition, which includes
an all-expense paid trip to The Catholic University
of America campus in D.C.
2019 Academic Bowl team
Four Francis Lewis students also qualified for the
JROTC Academic Bowl Championship, which will also
be held in Washington, D.C. Ivy Zheng, Ethan Kim,
Christopher Li and Joyce Huang made it through two
preliminary rounds of competition, earning top scores
among 1,411 Army JROTC teams in the competition.
The team is one of 32 to make it through to the final
competition, which aims to prepare students for exit and
graduation exams as well as college entrance exams like
the SAT and ACT. Team members were tested on a range
of topics including the JROTC curriculum, English, math
and science.
Following the final competition, the winner of the U.S.
Army JROTC Academic Championship will advance to
the JROTC Join Service Academic Bowl Championship
where they will be pitted against the winners of the Marine
Corps and Navy JROTC Academic Bowls.
U.S. Army Cadet Command, JROTC Headquarters
sponsors the event, which is conducted by the College
Options Foundation. The nonprofit organization is dedicated
to enriching the academic development of high
schoolers and preparing them for higher education.
Both competitions are slated to take place from June
21-25 at the Catholic University of America in Washington,
D.C.
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