Teenagers at the Quality of Life Conference
Hi I’m Brannon Niblock and I am a first timer at the QoL Conference in Garmish. As a Teen Representative from MARFOREUR I am a part of the Youth Delegate Crew.
We have nicknamed ourselves the “Distractonators” because of our enthusiastic natures. When I first entered the conference room we had fun little trinkets setting the scene for the “youth” role and our views on school and teen activities Europe wide.
We kicked off the conference with some icebreakers to get to know one another with some random facts, one of which delegates were given a coin and stated something that happened to themselves that year. This morning we started with a mass conference to inform the attendees of certain policies and what key leaders would like to move towards.
In our focus groups we placed our topics on post-its and organized them under categories including DoDDEA, Youth Programs, Sports, and added the subject of transportation. After completing our top ten topics today our group will be enjoying a night at Edelweiss’s Zuggys and meeting the United States Ski team.
Brannon Niblock
Delegate MarForEur Teens
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Comments: 4
Thank you for being a role model and the voice of the youth throughout Europe. I look forward to assisting in getting your 'voice heard'.
Sounds like a mature, enthusiastic group of teens to look at the issues that can best provide improved quality of life for youths in EUCOM.
Brannon, great blog. Sounds like you and your team are having a good time. Looking forward to the issues you will present as a team. How cool that you teens "have a voice" in such an important conference that has a focus on what the families and service members face in Europe!
It was fun trying to get my point across because there were so many opionionated teens. I was happy that the end producted showed the best of ideas and hope that the others will also be recognized and acted upon.