R24-167 Hudson High JROTC JLAB second place

1:47:32Ours can come later. You know, we're not doing all the Rs. Okay, we'll move on to uh res four.

1:47:42All right, if uh if you're here for the Hudson High School JR O T C Leadership and Academic Bowl team, please come to the podium.

1:47:56Yeah. I do have phone canceled.

1:48:00Wonderful. I'll go ahead and read the resolution. Resolution number 24-167, a resolution by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, congratulating the Hudson High School JR2 JR O T C Leadership and academic bowl team for winning second place in a national competition. Whereas the U.S. Army Junior Reserves Officers Training Corps, J R O T C, is one of the largest character development and citizenship programs for youth

1:48:30in the world. ANRAS JROTC Cadets learn the values of citizenship, leadership, academic competition, and college opportunity. NRAS JROTC teaches a curriculum that offers challenging academic content and real life experiences to help students develop a sense of personal responsibility as they move throughout the different stages of life.

1:48:55And Academic Bowl, J L A B, or is it JLAB? JLAB. Okay, much easier for me. JLab team was one of the only teams in Florida to qualify for the JLAB Nationals in 2024. ANRAS, the JR OTC, Leadership and Academic Bowl, JLAB, is a nationally recognized academic competition in which cadets test their knowledge and Leadership skills through com competing in a series of rounds against other JLAB teams. And whereas the JROTC

1:49:26leadership and academic bowl consist of hands-on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics activities, and a high-level trivia event, which ends in a service on service final event. ANRAS, the Hudson High School JROTC Leadership and Academic Bowl, JLAB team, won second place at the JLAB Nationals out of 1,600 schools and 314,000 cadets. And Raz, the team nep the team members of Hudson High School's JRTC

1:49:57Leadership and Academic Bowl are Eliza Jones, Gabriel Carpio, Victor Papadopoulos and Navia Nardone. Now therefore, be it resolved by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, that said board hereby congratulates the Hudson High JROTC Leadership Academic Bowl Team for winning second place at the JROTC Leadership and Academic Bowl Nationals. Done and resolved in regular session with a quorum present and voting this 21st day of August 2024.

1:50:25Move approval.

1:50:26Second.

1:50:27Got a motion of a second. All those in favor say aye.

1:50:29Aye.

1:50:30Aye.

1:50:31Okay. Um

1:50:33Mr. Mariano? Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Well congratulations. To think of only two schools out of Florida to go. And then you compete against sixteen hundred schools with three hundred and fourteen cadets. What an what an impressive thing to get to second place. So congratulations, I should be very proud.

1:50:49We are. Thank you. Mm-hmm.

1:50:52I I I didn't even know they had this going on, but um can I s can I say that your um uniforms are magnificent and I'm very curious what all those m all those medals are and that must be heavy. Uh yeah, they

1:51:05two of those medals they all got competing at the competition. So one's the Marshall Medal and one is the MacArthur Medal.

1:51:12Very cool. Well I have uh family in the military, so I appreciate you uh participating in the JR O T C. Did I say it right? Yes. And um congratulations on your wonderful uh accomplishment.

1:51:25Would you like to add a few words? I just would like to thank the the commission for recognizing the students. It means a lot. Uh the third place team is also from Florida, so the two Florida schools did represent. But uh unfortunately New York beat us. So we want to go back and beat them next year. Oh yeah. Oh

1:51:43yeah.

1:51:44Definitely. I think there's enough room

1:51:47for all of us to go down.

1:51:48Yeah, let's do

1:51:48it.

1:51:48Okay. That'd

1:51:49be great.

1:51:51Oh yes. We'll hurry down or take a picture.

1:51:54But

1:52:06Oh thank you.

1:52:07Yeah, we got a picture.

1:52:09Yeah, and I guess so instead of waiting for the end of the year when we have our award survey and then all the I think all the library.

1:52:17And then you can see like what you're doing. I'll join too. Uh the code. Yes.

1:52:25This is for being on the leadership injection.

1:52:30Thank you for the same question.

1:52:38Good job.

1:52:47And then one more for the commissioner's Facebook. Oops.

1:52:53I think I'm Miss Commissioner Weightman I'm always

1:53:00Anymore. Oh

1:53:02that's it.

1:53:09I like that we've got to do that.

1:53:16Thank

1:53:16you for our these two are also on our staff.

1:53:21Thank you for

1:53:22the staff. Okay,

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1:53:22what's the color just make

1:53:23it?

1:53:23Whether you realize or not,

1:53:26yourself. Yeah, thank you for taking pictures. I appreciate it.