The Challenge

(Ages 12-16)


What does leadership mean to you? How about teamwork, integrity, purpose, direction or motivation? You have heard these words thousands of times, but when have you actually had to prove you know them? The Challenge is your chance to show what you've got. You assume the roles of four unique students in a weeklong leadership training camp offered by your school: Sonia is a model student and a great leader - as long as everyone else is already willing to follow; Warren, a Jr. ROTC cadet, has been taught the finer points of leadership - but has problems when leadership and friendship collide; Mike has many hidden talents, and people skills are not one of them. Among these hidden talents is his ability to hide these talents from everyone; and Jamie has people skills galore. What she chooses to do with them is up to you.

You will work as a leader and a follower, as a team and as an individual. In this program, your choices have the power to win you respect, knowledge, satisfaction and a scholarship. You also have the power to lose - almost everything. But the ending isn't written yet. What happens next is up to you.