TEAMS
Raiders
The TKA Knights Battalion Raider team is an elite group of physically fit cadets who seek to defy odds and accomplish tasks using teamwork, physical fitness, leadership and camaraderie. Just a few years ago the Raider team placed 1st overall in the Best Raider competition in the Nation! Through prayer and determination the Raider team continually prove to successfully and honorably represent our Battalion. Through friendship, brotherhood, and teamwork the Raiders strive to be the best that they can be in performance, sportsmanship, and determination. Raiders don't quit and the skills learned by the cadets will stick with them forever.
Drill Team
The TKA Knights Battalion Drill Team is a well-trained team of cadets focused on representing the Battalion through discipline, teamwork, camaraderie and structure. In the past, our Drill Team has placed top 3 in our area in multiple categories including armed squad, unarmed squad, the Drill Team is for the cadets who want to enjoy the benefits of working as a team and performing to the best of their abilities.
Color Guard
The TKA Knights Battalion Color Guard is the elite flag branch of the drill team. The purpose of the Color Guard is to serve the community by presenting our nation's colors at events such as football games, parades, 9/11 ceremonies, and American Legion events. The Color Guard competes with the drill team against other schools in our area to prove who is the best team. Precision is key. In order to present our nation's colors well, we train, practice, and execute the movements with the most efficiency and expertise possible.
Marksmanship
The TKA Knights Battalion Marksmanship Team uses air rifles to compete against other schools in target shooting. After taking a course in gun safety, the cadets go to a shooting range, where they can practice their skills.
Cyber Patriot Team
The TKA Knights Battalion CyberPatriot team participates in The National Youth Cyber Defense Competition. This program puts teams in the position of newly hired IT professionals tasked with managing the network of a small company. Through a series of online competition rounds, teams are given a set of virtual operating systems and are tasked with finding and fixing cybersecurity vulnerabilities while maintaining critical services. As one of the top 25 teams in the world, we earned an all-expenses-paid trip to Maryland for the National Finals Competition and finished 9th!
VEX Robotics Team
The Knights Battalion at the King’s Academy is excited to be continuing its VEX Robotics team to compete internationally this coming school year. We are excited about continuing the Robo-Knights Special Team this year. We were able to qualify for and compete at the VEX World Robotics Competition this past year, and hope to do the same in the coming year.
Drones Team
The TKA Knights Battalion Drone Team competes in the REC Aerial Drone Competition. We learn about drones, flight principles, and how to fly them. We learn about sensors and how to program the drone to use sensors to fly autonomously. We learn how to communicate so that a pilot that cannot see the drone can fly missions guided by a forward observer that can see the drone. We learn, we fly, we program, we crash. Then we repeat and get better.
Orienteering
The TKA Knights Battalion Orienteering Team is a team that works on map reading and land navigation through the woods. Orienteering is one of the most adventurous special teams and consists of map and compass reading, forest navigation, and physical fitness. At the beginning of the season orienteering consists of classes teaching cadets how to read a topographical map and various other skills but once we get out of the classroom the real fun begins. Training will consist of lots of running and navigating on our campus course to prepare us for when we get to competitions. At competitions cadets will be given a map and a set of coordinates, the coordinates must then be translated onto the map and cadets will run off into the woods to search for those points while navigating obstacles such has hills, dense brush, and rivers.
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