FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
O'CONNOR ACCEPTED FOR WEST POINT SUMMER LEADERS SEMINAR
Brendan O'Connor, a junior at Robinson Secondary School in Fairfax, Virginia, has been selected to be among 500 attendees at West Point's prestigious Summer Leaders Experience (SLE) in June.
More than 4,000 juniors nationwide applied to SLE, which offers outstanding high school juniors the opportunity to experience life at West Point. SLE attendees live in the cadet barracks (dormitories), eat in the Cadet Mess, and participate in academic, leadership, athletic, and military workshops. The one-week seminars are designed to help juniors with their college-selection process, while giving them an idea of the importance of leadership and sound decision-making in their education, careers, and lives in general.
All SLE attendees participate in virtual-reality war simulation, military and physical fitness training, and in addition, each student selects three of the 15 offered workshops.
The United States Military Academy at West Point is a four-year, co-educational, federally funded undergraduate college located 50 miles north of New York City. A preeminent leader-development institution, West Point was founded in 1802 as America's first college of engineering. Since then, West Point has grown in size and stature, but remains committed to the task of producing commissioned leaders of character for America's Army.
For more information about West Point, go to http://www.usma.edu/admissions.