BY ABIGAIL RODRIGUEZ
The Police Explorers had their first competition at Somerset High School on October 25. Despite the fact that every other school had extremely professional uniforms and weapons from the Police Academy, Wagner's Explorers won two trophies and eight medals.
The team walked away with two bronze and two gold medals, one first place trophy for crisis interrogation, and third place in police searches and seizures.
There are four different judges for all four different assessments. All teams get random assessments. "We have only been training for competition for two weeks now, and it's fantastic that we still won two out of four assessments!" sponsor Thomas Sierra said.
Sierra was "completely proud and amazed that we won," even tearing up when awards were given out. "It was the best thing in the world!" team member Sam Aguilar said.
Now that the police explorers have won their first competition, according to Officers Mayfield and Martinez, there is more where that came from: "Wagner is going to need a new trophy case just for the justice program!"
The Police Explorers had their first competition at Somerset High School on October 25. Despite the fact that every other school had extremely professional uniforms and weapons from the Police Academy, Wagner's Explorers won two trophies and eight medals.
The team walked away with two bronze and two gold medals, one first place trophy for crisis interrogation, and third place in police searches and seizures.
There are four different judges for all four different assessments. All teams get random assessments. "We have only been training for competition for two weeks now, and it's fantastic that we still won two out of four assessments!" sponsor Thomas Sierra said.
Sierra was "completely proud and amazed that we won," even tearing up when awards were given out. "It was the best thing in the world!" team member Sam Aguilar said.
Now that the police explorers have won their first competition, according to Officers Mayfield and Martinez, there is more where that came from: "Wagner is going to need a new trophy case just for the justice program!"