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Saipan teen to explore role in US nat’l security
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Posted on Oct 04 2004
Brien Nicholas of Saipan was recently selected to participate in the National Youth Leadership Forum on Defense, Intelligence and Diplomacy that will be held Oct. 12-17 in Washington, D.C.
Having demonstrated academic achievement and an interest in a career related to national security, Nicholas will join approximately 400 outstanding high school juniors and seniors from across the United States at the forum.
“Imagine being 16 or 17 years old and the responsibility of securing the United States at home and abroad rests on your shoulders. Through specialized simulations, the National Youth Leadership Forum on Defense, Intelligence and Diplomacy strives to put students like Brien Nicholas in the driver’s seat of building a strategy that will uphold our national security,” said Donna Snyder, executive director of NYLF. “The combination of interacting with professionals and with other students in this setting ensures that leaders are being developed so the future of our country will remain very bright.”
The curriculum for the Forum on Defense, Intelligence and Diplomacy is based on actual world events, allowing participants to learn from the examples set by previous generations of leaders and encouraging them to develop a perspective and tenacity unique to upcoming generations of leaders. Throughout the forum, students will examine how the United States plans for peace and prepares for crisis. Students will meet with leaders from key agencies and institutions.
In the past, NYLF/DID has visited several government institutions and military installations, including the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Development Command at Quantico, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the U.S. Naval Academy, a variety of embassies and many others.
NYLF is a non-profit, educational organization committed to empowering young people to make well-informed career choices. For additional information, visit www.nylf.org.
