Sunburst Youth Challenge Academy Class 30 Cadet Keezshanae Porter backflips as part of a hip-hop dance during a Beats Lyrics Leaders performance showcase, Oct. 21, 2022, at Joint Forces Training Base, Los Alamitos, California. Cadets spent the week immersed in arts education with visual art, music and dance mentors from Beats Lyrics Leaders. The program aimed to open students to the arts as a coping mechanism and path to self expression. Sunburst is a high school credit recovery program run in partnership between the California National Guard’s Task Force Torch youth and community programs dir

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Sunburst Youth Challenge Academy Class 30 Cadet Keezshanae Porter backflips as part of a hip-hop dance during a Beats Lyrics Leaders performance showcase, Oct. 21, 2022, at Joint Forces Training Base, Los Alamitos, California. Cadets spent the week immersed in arts education with visual art, music and dance mentors from Beats Lyrics Leaders. The program aimed to open students to the arts as a coping mechanism and path to self expression. Sunburst is a high school credit recovery program run in partnership between the California National Guard’s Task Force Torch youth and community programs directorate and the Orange County Department of Education. Sunburst is one of four National Guard Youth Challenge Programs in California.

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