Florida's Youth Justice Project

 This meeting went over the Broward Sheriff's Community Justice Program in South Florida and their future plans with the community. The meeting can be found here ! Here is also a brief essay summary on what this meeting went over by an attendee: Essay on Seminar with Police Officers M. S. Today I joined a zoom meeting with other teens, police officers, lawyers to discuss some important topics related to misconceptions between the police and teenagers. We were broken up into three groups where we could talk and ask questions. The breakout session lasted about an hour.  Lots of people including some teens think that cops are “bad” and they’re just going to arrest them for no reason. Us teenagers asked questions about why there are random police pull overs and how often a police officer is on duty. The officer in my group explained that their main focus is to protect our community. Pulling over random cars is part of their job patrolling the community to be sure that everybody is...

 

 We had our second meeting with speaking to police officers and other law enforcement workers in Florida! Officers answer common questions over the nature of their job during this meeting.

A group of law enforcement officers answer questions that some of the youth have over their procedures, their thoughts on current events, and questions on laws that may confuse some people. The complete discussion is found here !

An attendee of the Career Fair provided a quick summary of what was discussed in the fair: I learned a lot from the Virtual Career Fair session that was held from Monday to Thursday last week. I was only able to attend 3 of the 4 days (Monday to Wednesday), but even so I learned a great deal. The fair went over many jobs and how different professions in different fields require you to know and what they really do. The first day included technical professionals, like a tuba player for the military, a pilot, and many others who provided their insight on how they got their job and their journey to that job. The second day was also very interesting, which was primarily people in healthcare (medical professionals). That day, there was a biomedical engineer who builds and flies drones that delivers medical supplies to poorer communities with no doctors or pharmacies in their vicinity. There was also a medical coder and a midwife who helps people with their newborn child. The third day, which...

Warrior Academy hosted a Virtual Career Fair from July 6th to the 9th. The Fair included mostly high school students and provided insight from multiple professionals in many different job fields and was held through video conference.