Zion-Benton NJROTC

Teams

Club Sponsor: Chief Nelson

vincent.nelson@zb126.org

Drill team

The ZBTHS NJROTC Drill Team is a marching unit that performs routines based on military drill composed of armed/unarmed platoons and colorguard that perform basic and exhibition drills. They compete year round against other JROTC Drill teams nationwide.

All members are in the NJROTC program.

JV Practice: Right after school

Varsity Practice: 1545 - 1800

Drill Team CO

C/LTDR Maennena

Drill team xo

C/CDR Brand

Club Sponsor: Master Chief Hackstein

daniel.hackstein@zb126.org

Rifle team

The ZBTHS NJROTC Rifle Team is a marksmanship team that shoots air rifles at given targets in 3 positions: prone, standing and kneeling. They compete year round against other Rifle Teams nationwide.

All members are in the NJROTC program.

Varsity/JV - 1st relay 1500 - 1645

Beginners - 2nd relay 1645 - 1800

rifle Team CO

C/LTDR Rico

rifle team xo

C/LTJG Trevino

Club Sponsor: Captain Annexstad

paul.annexstad@zb126.org

Drone Team

The ZBTHS NJROTC Drone Team is a flight team that flies drones in 2 different types of competitions, COTS & REC. The COTS competitions tend to use 3 different course types, Relay, Obstalce, & Presision Landing. The REC competitions include 4 STEM based challenges: Teamwork, Autonomous Flight, Piloting, and Communications. The team competes year round against other JROTC and Club Drone teams nationwide.

All members are in the NJROTC program.

Practice: Wednesdays 1500-1630 (You can leave early if need be) on the Upper Mezzanine in the Main Gym

When join the Drone Team, you will most likely start by competing in the COTS competitions and will work your way up to competing in the REC competitions. If you decide you want to compete in the REC competitions, you will be put onto a 4 person team that you will compete with throughout the entire season. Joining the Drone Team is 100% free, unless you want to buy team merchandise.

The Drone Team is relatively new to ZBTHS and NJROTC as a whole, so the ZBTHS Drone team hasn't really completed enough to win championships like the other teams. Despite this, the Drone Team is back-to-back 1st place winners at the East Aurora Mega Meet

Competitions

There are two different types of competitions that the drone team competes in, COTS & REC

COTS stands for Commercial Off-The-Shelf, in these competitions the team flies drone that can be bought at stores like Walmart & Target. In these competitions, the hosting school will build their own obstacle course for other teams to fly. The courses tend to include a relay course, where the time doesn't stop between handing off the controller to your teammates. The courses also tend to include a obstacle course, which is a longer course that the team has to fly, but the time does stop between handing off the controller off to your teammates. The final thing the courses tend to include is a precision landing challenge, where the team has to land on many different targets scattered across the course area.

There are 4 different missions in the REC competitions, the challenges include a teamwork mission, where Drones are piloted by students. Two teams fly together on the same competition field to maximize their score. An autonomous flight mission where the drone is programmed by students to operate entirely autonomously. Each team competes alone to score as many points as possible. A piloting mission where the drone is piloted by students to fly through an obstacle course. Each team competes alone to score as many points as possible. And finally a communications mission, where teams are interviewed by judges about their drone, programming and competition logbook documentation.

Drone Team CO

C/MCPO Durbin

drone team xo

C/LTJG Brayden, S

PT (physical training) Team

PT competitions are open to anyone in the program. PT competitions consist of different sports, push ups/sit ups, and a relay race. There are competitions throughout the entire year.

Orienteering Team

Orienteering is an outdoor sport that combines land navigation with a treasure hunt. Popular in Europe, the Chicago Area Orienteering Club (CAOC) has many members who have competed nationally as well as internationally. The Orienteering team competes with CAOC on selected Sundays in the forest preserves in the south Chicago area. Although the CAOC courses are open to the public, all members of the NJROTC team are in the ROTC program.

Chicagoland Orienteering 2019 - 2nd Place

Chicago Orienteering Area Club

55 cadets qualified for orienteering ribbon

CO-Orienteering Team CO

C/LTJG Brayden, D

Co-orienteering team Co

C/LTJG Brayden, S

Academic Team

The academic team participates in Drill academic competitions that test your Naval knowledge and participates in JLAB (Junior Leadership & Academic Bowl). JLAB is an all-service national competition.