Campus Spotlight

November 25, 2024

<p>Sixty cadets from the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps at RIT completed a four-hour capstone exercise on Nov. 23. The project required select cadets to combine their academic disciplines and leadership training to design, plan, and run the execution of a wargame scenario that would test their fellow cadets’ application of a semester’s worth of training. This simulation took place in the Cyber Range in the ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute.</p>

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Sixty cadets from the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps at RIT completed a four-hour capstone exercise on Nov. 23. The project required select cadets to combine their academic disciplines and leadership training to design, plan, and run the execution of a wargame scenario that would test their fellow cadets’ application of a semester’s worth of training. This simulation took place in the Cyber Range in the ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute.

An R O T C cadet sits at a control panel looking at a large screen in front of them.

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Cadets Nicholas Randall, a fourth-year robotics and manufacturing engineering technology student, left, and Lucas Slattery, a second-year physics student, oversee operations during a capstone exercise on Nov. 23 at Lewis P. Ross Hall. Randall and Slattery, among others, combined their academic disciplines and leadership skills to plan and execute the training exercise.
An R O T C cadet sits in a gaming chair with an A R device on their head.

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Cadet Kyle Kaczorowski, a fifth-year computer science and Chinese double major, operates a flight simulator on Nov. 23 at Lewis P. Ross Hall.
Two R O T C cadets sit in a small room. One has an A R device on their head while the other looks at them.

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Charles Hutson, an RIT computer science student, left, and Chloe Feathers, a first-year University of Rochester physics student, operate a flight simulator during a capstone exercise on Nov. 23 at Lewis P. Ross Hall.
An R O T C cadet looks out a window where a military plane is passing by.

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Cadet Lucas Slattery, a second-year physics student, oversees a capstone exercise on Nov. 23 at Lewis P. Ross Hall.
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