About the JROTC Program
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JROTC History
The United States Army Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) came into being with the passage of the National Defense Act 1916. Under the provisions of the Act, high schools were authorized to loan federal military equipment and the assignment of active-duty military personnel as instructors. In 1964, the Vitalization Act opened JROTC up to the other services and replaced most active duty instructors with retired members of the armed forces, who worked for and are cost-shared by the schools.
Title 10 of the U.S. Code declares that “the purpose of Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps is to instill in students in United States secondary educational institutions the value of citizenship, service to the United States, personal responsibility, and a sense of accomplishment.”
JROTC Curriculum
The JROTC curriculum, which fully or partially addresses a number of national academic standards – to include Common Core State Standards (CCSS) – includes course work on leadership, civics, geography and global awareness, health, and wellness, language arts, life skills, and U.S. history. The curriculum is based on the principles of performance-based, learner-centered education and promotes development of core abilities: capacity for life-long learning, communication, responsibility for actions and choices, good citizenship, respectful treatment of others, and critical thinking techniques.
More important than “what” is learned in JROTC is “how” it is learned. Every classroom is equipped with leading edge technologies to teach, assess, and report student progress. Teachers are trained to utilize a range of technologies and develop social/emotional skills, support academic content through gaming and simulations, and promote the role of social media. Thus, students engage in meaningful, purposeful activities that lead them to demonstrate success through a portfolio of accomplishments.
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Thank you for your interest in supporting AMOAA’s Scholarships and Family Support : The AMOAA Scholarship Fund. The AMOAA provides programs and support to everyone in the uniformed services and veteran community, no matter their rank, how long they served or branch of service. The Scholarship Fund has provided scholarship to high school student that are planning to attend college in the Atlanta Metropolitan area.
No matter the size, every donation makes a positive difference in the lives of uniformed servicemembers and their families across the country. Thank you in advance for your generosity.
We annually sponsor one scholarship for outstanding college bound fourth year cadets from each of the five service branches from the 100 local JROTC Programs in the AMOAA area of responsibility. Applications are sent to JROTC instructors in each school for distribution to interested cadets. A scholarship committee selects the scholarship winners and the scholarships are awarded at the cadets’ JROTC awards ceremony.
If you would like to contribute, as a sponsor of an event or make a corporate or personal donation to support the scholarship program, you can contact our JROTC Liaison
