Lessons in teamwork, endurance and leadership
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Marshallberg, N.C. —Kamryn Boone and Jurnee Miller know all about being leaders in their homes. The 15-year-old Atlanta teenagers have younger siblings to tend to and set an example for.
What both girls learned after kayaking and camping in the Outer Banks for 11 days isn’t taught in school: patience.
More than 20 Atlanta public school students joined a handful of students from Montana in Outward Bound courses in the Blue Ridge Mountains and off the coast of Marshallberg, N.C. They were tested in a big way: no electronic devices, no doting parents, and no sleeping and eating inside their cozy confines.
