Ayaka Hurtado Ishinabe (9) carefully threaded a needle through her petticoat, painstakingly hand sewing 13 layers of ruffles. Slowly, she was bringing her dream quinceanera dress to life.
Hurtado...
Captains Valerie Hsu (12) and Serenity Calica (12) stood in a circle, hand-in-hand, right over left, with the other 12 members of Color Guard, their coach giving a pep talk in the middle. Preparing to...
Nearly 75 eager eyes watched Charisse Pang (10) and Chloe Ho (9) as they began the first of many English lessons over the course of a week, last July. Pang and Ho traveled almost 7,000 miles across the...
Leonardo Cano (11) serves as the recruitment officer of the Navy Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (NJROTC). Despite his recruitment efforts, enrollment in the program continues to decline. Now, Cano...
![[Left to right] Matteus Juza (11), Emerson Budde (12), Anuja Jayasundara (12), Michele Nuguid (12), Cory Nguyen (12), Maya Lopez (12), and Pierce McMurry (12) line up for the change of command ceremony outside the NJROTC classroom, Jan. 30. The program currently has 50 members.](https://wvnexus.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/rotc-color.jpg)