Wallace tapped for West Point program

Meghan Ayanna Wallace, a junior at Whitewater High, has been selected to be among 1,000 attendees at West Point’s prestigious Summer Leaders Experience (SLE) this month.

More than 5,000 juniors nationwide applied to SLE, which offers outstanding high school juniors the opportunity to experience life at West Point. SLE attendees live in the cadet barracks (dormitories), eat in the Cadet Mess, and participate in academic, leadership, athletic, and military workshops.

The one-week seminars are designed to help juniors with their college-selection process while giving them an idea of the importance of leadership and sound decision-making in their education, careers, and lives in general.

All SLE attendees participate in virtual-reality war simulation, and military and physical fitness training, and, in addition, each student selects three of the 15 offered workshops.

Meghan Wallace’s father, Ricky Wallace, is a combat veteran and lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army with more than 30 years of service. He is currently serving on the Chairman’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, J7, directorate as an Army strategist.