Dear Parents,
All Stars is a life changing event for your son. All of the activities listed in the first paragraph are accurate and designed to develop leadership skills.
Leadership SKILLS AND MISSIONARY PREPARATION are taught and applied in a setting of activities that require FUNCTIONING as a leader. All Stars provides the training, then the young men plan and conduct high adventure activities.
It’s the ultimate fun learning experience for 14- to 17-year-old young men. They have fun while learning how to plan, do and lead AS A MISSIONARY. This is an atmosphere of activities that require young men to “learn and do”. Just one of many examples is, young men are given responsibility for an activity of a Squad Games event. He is mentored as to what resources are available, how much time is allotted for each activity, and how to instruct QUORUM members in the activity. He chooses and organizes the activity from a list of several possibilities.
One of those choices would be to make and launch a 2-liter root beer bottle rocket. The bottle must first be emptied by drinking the contents to empty the bottle, then fashioning it into a rocket and filling it with water. The rocket is then launched as part of the “start to finish” elapsed time competition. Later he reviews and evaluates the activity with a staff mentor as they discuss ways to improve the activity and what he learned AND HOW TO IMPLEMENT THE LESSONS LEARNED INTO HIS DAILY LIVING.
The whole week experience is designed to enhance youth’s self-confidence and leadership ABILITIES in many similar exciting activities.