Following their successful competition against more than 5,000 teams from around the world, four cadets from Gig Harbor’s Peninsula School District’s Naval Junior ROTC Tidehawk Company will be attending the JROTC Leadership & Academic Bowl Championship at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C, June 12-16.
In order to qualify for the highly competitive championship, which is exclusive to JROTC, the four cadets — John McDaniel, Enrico Shein, Sydney Gardner, and Derek Liu — passed two fast-paced online rounds of testing.
The tests questioned cadets on subjects like math, science, language arts, current events, and financial literacy to challenge their critical-thinking skills…