In 2024 the Second Dragoons Firepit Foundation funded a scholarship to support a participant in the Shelton Red Hat Leadership Challenge. The Red Hat Challenge is part of the Shelton Leadership Center at NC State University and seeks to provide a week of practical leadership training during the summer to current high school students. One of the members of the Firepit National Security Seminar serves as a mentor for the program and testified to the benefits, and we were able to identify a participant in need of financial assistance whose father had served in the U.S. Army and received a medical discharge.