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Reporter: Hello everyone welcome to the 2006 Bands of America Summer Symposium
I'm Laura Donaldson and we're here at Illinois State University where nearly seven-hundred students
have gathered from twenty-eight states to kick off their BOA Camp with the Leadership Weeekend
Experience. Fran Kick and a team of leadership training experts have been taking the students
through large and small group sessions, hands-on and interactive activities that build
teamwork, and motivational sessions for both veteran and new leaders.
We spoke to Fran earlier about what the students did today and what they'll be doing tomorrow.
Fran Kick: We've taken this two-day leadership experience and split it up into seven different experiences
for the students. So they work with clinicians
from an experiential ropes course, that will happen tomorrow, to spider webs that you see here today,
to drum circles with Matt Savage, with band directors like Norm Logan and Frank Troyka, on how they
can bring this information back into their programs and contribute. We have Scott Lang here.
It's just an eclectic approach to try to give them an opportunity to figure this thing out
called leadership for themselves in different ways so they go back to their programs and do
more than just connect the dots for themselves but also help other students connect the dots.
Reporter: Hello everyone, I'm Laura Donaldson we're out here at Timber Pointe where I spoke
to some student leaders about what they took away from this Leadership Weekend Experience
Student: I took away that leadership is not about what's on your terms, but it's about what's on
everyone else's terms. That leadership is more cooperating with your peers rather than
competing with them and that you just get a lot
farther with it. It helped me deal when people are coping with problems, how to
really push them and to help them go beyond their boundaries, or their limits, if they really
don't wanna go. The sense of family that this place brings and
I now know most of the people here. We've done a lot of teamwork building activities
and we've learned how to spot each other and make sure that everybody feels safe and comfortable.
It's helped me to develop a lot of trust with other people
especially with strangers and people I don't even know and that's really helpful
to trust people.
Timber Pointe has been a lot of fun and the zip line was the best, that's awesome jumping
off the big platform
climbing everything, that was a blast,
just an amazing time here.
Reporter: Veteran leaders who have previously attended the BOA Leadership Experience spent the day
at the Timber Pointe Outdoor Center.
Such experiences included trust-building activities and a ropes course that challenged the leaders to conquer
their fears. We're forty feet up in the air with Jackie from South Carolina, Jackie how are
you feeling about this? "Scared." What made you decide to go ahead and do this?
"They were talking about stepping outside of your comfort zone, so I'm just trying to step out."
Reporter: I'm here with Ally forty feet in the air. Ally, how are you feeling about this? Afraid of heights?
"Yes!" Well, hopefully we'll see if you think this is a great experience. You're about to go down forty feet.
You can do this, alright, have fun.