Do You Know Anything About the National Youth Leadership Forum? (Vanity request for information)

November 15, 2002

[LurkedLongEnough]

My high-school daughter has been invited by the "National Youth Leadership Forum" (NYLF) to a seminar in Defense, Intelligence and Diplomacy (DID) in Washington DC.

Their name sounds noble, they have slick marketing collateral and website, and other graduates from the same high school have apparently attended; but I thought it would be wise to continue with the due diligence and see whether anyone has had experience with NYLF, especially the DID section.

[LurkedLongEnough]

Thanks for any info you can provide.

[CatoRenasci]

We got a solicitation from them last year. As you say, slick marketing materials, etc. Our take was that it was essentially just a variant on expensive trip camps. I think a friend of my daughter's went, and thought it was fun, but not necesarily worth the cost.

[HiJinx]

My son (AZ Flyboy) attended during his Senior year in high school. He was recommended by the Sr. Army Instructor in his JROTC class.

He had a blast, the seminars were great, the opportunity to interact with the Marines at Quantico was a plus, they did tours of almost all of the military monuments in the city...

If given the opportunity, he'd do it again in a heartbeat!
My advice? Go for it!