Senior Project Option

• Students for this advanced leadership course serve as members of the JROTC cadet senior staff together with cadets approved for the standard Cadet Staff Leadership and Management course. This hands-on experience affords students the opportunity to apply leadership and management lessons from previous JROTC courses. Students are expected to maintain a high level of performance in personal fitness, military bearing, and uniform wear.

• Students are assigned specific functional areas of responsibility and are expected to perform their duties/responsibilities in addition to mentoring and leading other members of the organization. Students who are approved for this course are expected to occasionally be available at times in excess of daily classes (i.e. before/after school meetings, weekend trips/activities, etc.).

• Students will conduct long and short-range planning, exercise decision-making, coordination, control and execution of cadet organization activities during the school year. Students are expected to apply higher-level leadership, organizational, communication, and personal interaction skills in the performance of their duties.

• Students in this honors option are also required to establish a leadership journal or personal portfolio and accomplish a major research project with a written report and formal presentation to a panel of faculty/community team members. The project may be a research paper, scientific analysis or a major service project with a written summary and personal reflection.

• Minimum Prerequisites: Minimum 3.5 GPA in JROTC courses and minimum 3.0 GPA in all other courses; Senior Instructor permission/signature approval.

Course grading will be based on cadet performance in the following areas:

1. Uniform inspections

2. Physical Training performance/effort

3. Journal reviews

4. Counseling and observation of counseling

5. Observations

6. Self-evaluation essay/mid-term

7. Final exam

8. One of the following options:

a. Research Project:

• Topic proposal

• Outline

• Rough draft

• Bibliography

• Final Report

• Presentation

OR

b. Physical Project:

• Topic proposal

• Outline/timeline

• Progress Report

• Project portfolio to include written summary and personal reflection

• Presentation