INTEGRATE TECHNOLOGY INTO YOUR CLASSROOM

This is the true story of Maggie Schmidt, an All-American kid who dreamt of attending the Naval Academy when her research into the typical Midshipman uncovered a profile alarmingly like herself. This book describes her background and academic interests, her focus, as well as her struggle to put together a winning admissions package. Along the way, you gain insight into the moral fiber that grounds everything she does and the decisions she must make that some consider impossible for an adolescent, but are achievable for thousands of like-minded teens.   

This workbook walks you through the long process, provides check lists of everything required, decision making matrices, goal-setting exercises to determine if USNA is a good fit for you, and a mix of motivation and academic advice to balance a decision that rightfully might be the biggest one most teens have ever made.

For the thousands of students who apply every year for one of the four military academies--and slog through the numbing concatenation of decisions preceding a nomination--there is no greater intimidation than the likely event that they will try and fail. But, for the USNA, that's an examination into the pithiness of their moral fiber, an important ingredient to the go/no go decision. In the words of James Stockdale, USNA '46 and Medal of Honor Winner:

"The test of character is not 'hanging in there' when you expect a light at the end of the tunnel, but performance of duty and persistence of example when you know that no light is coming."