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The Civil Air Patrol School Program is an educational outreach program of Civil Air Patrol's Cadet Program and Drug Demand
Reduction offices. The School Program is dedicated to exposing students to aerospace power, building leadership skills,
and encouraging a health lifestyle through physical fitness and understanding the evils of drugs.
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The first CAP sponsored middle school program was formed just outside the
gates of Kirtland AFB near Albuquerque, New Mexico. Initially formed with donated uniforms from the Navy, this concept was
later assimilated as a CAP DDR initiative to fill the leadership/citizenship training void. Starting with one school, Wilson
Middle School, the program expanded to 70 students in three middle schools. The school program was conducted as part of the
Social Studies class that incorporated the standard Cadet Programs curriculum into the process. Cadets wore the CAP uniform
to school one day a week, much like the JROTC program.
Indiana Schools Group was chartered by the Indiana Wing commander to create
school-based cadet units in Indiana's private and public schools in April 2006. Schools Group, working with teachers
at Lutheran High School of Indianapolis, opened Indiana's first school-based unit in July 2006. The Schools
Group long range vision is to open approximately 4 new units in central Indiana middle and high schools in 2006
and 2007.
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Program Resources
CAP National Headquarters has a variety of links that explain the CAP School
Program in detail and outline the curriculum, lesson plans and the practical "how to's" of the CAP School Program.
The School Program Administrator's Guide, which contains detailed information
for establishing a new program in your school is available here.
CAP has developed an extensive curriculum for the School Program that includes
lesson plans, slides, a semester by semester schedule and links to teaching resources at this site.
General teaching resources about Aerospace Education are available at CAP's
extensive Aerospace Education website.
Finally, CAP's manual for conducting the Cadet Program (CAP Regulation
52-16, "Cadet Program Management) is available here.
Copyright 2006, Civil Air Patrol
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