Students became the teachers at a cadet leadership training workshop held at North Vancouver’s JP Fell Armoury over the Family Day long weekend.
Teens from the 103 Thunderbird Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron in North Vancouver planned and executed the entire training weekend for more than 100 cadets from around the Lower Mainland with minimal input or advice from adult supervisors.
“When I took my first NCO training course it gave me extra opportunities to be a better leader,” said Christopher Hunt, a 17-year-old cadet warrant officer from North Vancouver. Hunt was one of the cadets who spent the past weeks and months planning last weekend’s workshop. The experience helped him develop new leadership skills that will help him as he gets set to enter the adult world, he said.
“Cadets has given me unique opportunities and shaped me into the person I am today. Now it is my turn to give back and help create leaders for tomorrow.”
