For the third meeting of the month, the cadets participated in a physical training activity, a boot shining or interview class, then gathered together for a presentation on Raspberry Pi’s followed by Commander’s Call. The physical training activity included a game of wall ball, and everyone seemed to enjoy it. The new cadets were taught […]
The cadets at St. Croix Squadron met in Blues for the first meeting of the month. This meeting included an aerospace presentation, a leadership class, and a marching jody class. The aerospace presentation was about three Navy Seal astronauts: Bill Shepherd, Christ Cassidy, and Jonny Kim. Next, the leadership class brought light to distractions during […]
This week’s meeting was unique for St. Croix Squadron. It was a Blue Moon, a fun meeting we host for a fifth meeting in the month. Instead of meeting at Rockpoint Church as we normally do, we met at Stillwater Bowl to go bowling. A couple of cadets already owned a bowling ball and shoes, […]
For today’s meeting, we got our monthly Physical Training (PT) in followed by a Character Development class. For PT, we did the standard testing, so the cadets ran a mile and did some push-ups, sit-ups, and sit-and-reaches. It was a tough workout, but it was fun nonetheless. After that, the cadets went back inside for […]
This week was a special one since we hosted our Awards Ceremony. This only happens a few times every year, so it was an important event. The squadron’s uniform of the day was Blues, and the cadets had a brief Color Guard class before the Ceremony. During the Awards Ceremony, we recognized many promotions and […]
The cadets met for an Emergency Services class and some drill. The Emergency Services class included a presentation on interviewing followed by some mock interviews among the cadets as practice. To finish the meeting, we practiced some drill movements and held a drill competition. -C/CMSgt Menk
To start off the month of March, St. Croix Squadron met for an aerospace class. We started the meeting with Opening Formation, then proceeded back to the classroom to make some styrofoam airplanes. The cadets learned about airplane parts and concepts, then got to make their own airplane out of styrofoam and hot glue. We […]
This meeting included an aerospace briefing, a TLP (Team Leadership Problem), and Character Development. The aerospace briefing was all about the recent landing of NASA’s Mars rover named Perseverance. The cadets learned about its construction at NASA and its path to Mars. Next, the TLP included setting up a chair maze and marching between […]
Cadets at St. Croix Composite Squadron met this week for aerospace and a physical activity. The aerospace activity was a Jeopardy-themed game about Presidents and Aviation as a special President’s Day activity. The physical activity that followed the special holiday activity was a basketball game, and cadets had much fun throughout the meeting. -C/CMSgt Menk
St. Croix Squadron met at Rockpoint Church again this week for another meeting filled with activities. We started the meeting with opening formation, and then we proceeded on to an Emergency Services class. The class covered the basics of searching for a missing person. To follow up the class, the cadets had a line search […]