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JROTC Recognized With Distinguished Unit Award
Piedmont High School AFJROTC was recognized on May 24 as a Distinguished Unit Award winner for the 2021-22 school year by HQ AFJROTC.ย This is the 16th time the program has been recognized with this award in the 27 years since it began here in 1995.ย According to Col. McGonigal, Director of AFJROTC, "these units truly represent the best of our 870 AFJROTC units worldwide."ย Earning the award results in the cadets receiving the DUA ribbon and the unit being allocated an Air Force Academy nomination to bestow on a cadet the following year.ย Congratulations cadets!ย
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ROTC Participates in iFly Indoor Skydiving
HQ AFJROTC recently offered grant money for JROTC units to take a STEM field trip, and Piedmont JROTC dove in, literally.ย They organized a field trip to iFly, the indoor skydiving facility in Concord.ย At iFly, cadets got a STEM lesson in which they learned to calculate their own anticipated terminal velocity, the maximum speed obtainable by an object as it falls through the air, and then got to fly in the wind tunnel and compare their results.ย Most cadets reached terminal velocity and "floated" in the wind tunnel with the wind about 120 mph.ย Carter Oglesby said he was surprised by all the math behind the experience and once in the wind tunnel, he had trouble keeping his mouth shut because he was yelling with joy.ย ย
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Hunter Safety Team Competes in State Youth Hunter Education Tournament
The 44th Annual State Youth Hunter Education Tournament was held on Saturday, April 30 in Elbe, North Carolina. Congratulations to our Hunter Safety Team, who placed 3rd in the Hunter Skills competition and received the Sportsmanship Award. Josh Goodman placed 3rd individually in the Hunter Skills competition and was 1st place Overall Individual. Congratulations also to Sallie Parker, who placed 1st in the Hunter Skills event.
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Abigail Gracen Receives Scholarship to Attend Marine Ecology Camp
Piedmont 9th grader, Abigail Gracen, has been awarded a full scholarship to attend a Marine Lab STEM Camp in Key Largo, Florida this summer. The week-long camp focuses on marine ecology, which involves the study of living things in the ocean and how they interact with the environment. High school students snorkel coral reef sites, a mangrove forest, and through seagrass. The scholarship was awarded based on high academic achievement and teacher recommendations and is sponsored by the Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind, the Rochester Institute of Technology, and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. We are so proud of you, Abigail!ย
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Peachjar Digital Flyers
We have launched a new electronic flyer communication tool called Peachjar. To view school-approved digital flyers, simply click the Peachjar button on our website.
